Full-color reproductions of the Spaniard's major works dramatically reveal the dimensions of his career

Domenicos Theotocopoulos El Greco (English and Spanish Edition)

Bronstein, Léo

Arts & Photography

Abrams

Covers the full range of El Greco's work, examining his unique style, the mood of his paintings, and his use of space and color

El Greco (Masters of Art)

Individual Artists

Easton

Told as a series of reflections, this study traces links between cultures as diverse as pre-Vedic India and late 19th-century France. An array of unrelated artists are all in fact linked by the Kabbalah and the correlation between art and this mystic Jewish thought.

Kabbalah and Art

History

World

Brandeis University Press

How does space in Persian painting differ from space in other arts? Leo Bronstein's answer is an astonishing feat: world history neither summarized nor abbreviated but seen - in the plates themselves and in the kinds of space they illustrate. Into the arts, from the Paleolithic to Miro, the author's insights are as unpredictable as they are rewarding. Among many surprises are: the crucial historic relevance of the escapement mechanism in clocks; the significance to art of the Greek "awareness of 'my body' as a separate being, separated from me"; the reasons why the West discovered the machine and the East did not. Basic to the entire book is the distinction between "art-mobility" and "art stability," the one "based on an object-block, object-'monster,'" the other on "clear, seriated, visually observable space." "The artistic destiny of both Europe and Asia," Leo Bronstein shows us, "is made of the interaction of the two basal and formative currents: 'mobile' art-mimic and 'stable' art-narration." "His remarkable vision of space 'inward' and 'mobile,'" writes Talat S. Halman in his foreword to the book, "is likely to stimulate debate in art historical circles for a very long time.""Space in Persian Painting," Halman continues, "as may be expected from the author's overarching intellect, extends far beyond the scope of its title. It treats 'space' not as a mere element or dimension, but as the terra firma of visual creativity. By the same token, 'Persian' functions as a synecdoche for Islamic art in general. 'Painting' is to be understood as a metaphor for the venture of all art."

Space in Persian Painting

Architecture

Transaction Pub

To students of Leo Bronstein, this second edition of a classic text, first published in 1953, is a welcome and long-awaited event. To those unfamiliar with Bronstein's work, Fragments of life, Metaphysics and Art will be a fascinating introduction to the philosophic and aesthetic concerns of a subtle and supremely sensitive artistic mind.  A series of imaginary letters from various individuals—prisoner, soldier, philosopher, mathematician, and teacher—the book challenges the man-made distinction between spirit and matter, yet embraces the two-fold pattern of history and consciousness. Through a "fissure or tear in the accustomed," as one letter puts it, one sees the relationships of the fragment to the whole. Each of the writers yearns for the whole and seeks to find it in the fragment that has meaning for him. And it is chiefly in art that Leo Bronstein finds both the fragment and the whole of life, "material and moral," to be seized and probed and prized. Indeed, in synthesizing the ideas expressed therein, Bronstein presents a brief but brilliantly illustrated history of the worlds of Western art.  This work, a book "of space" conceived amid the horrors of the Second World War, remains remarkably, unexpectedly, illuminatively contemporary. Prior to the contentious debates on multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural studies, Leo Bronstein's approach to life, metaphysics, and art was absolutely interdisciplinary, pluralistic in its themes and insights. A scholar who foresaw the globalization of our concerns, he provides the tools for an empathic understanding of the contributions of a myriad of cultures to the constellation of what has become a global consciousness.  The great Arthur Upham Pope, this century's foremost authority on the history and culture of Persia and Chancellor of the Asia Institute, termed Bronstein "original, penetrating, and poetic." "He spoke," says Meyer Schapiro, "with the confidence of a man who, when he referred to freedom and art, spoke like a prophet—without making predictions."

Fragments of Life, Metaphysics and Art

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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Domenicos Theotocopoulos El Greco (English and Spanish Edition)

El Greco (Masters of Art)

Kabbalah and Art

Space in Persian Painting

Fragments of Life, Metaphysics and Art

Kabbalah and Art

Kabbalah and Art