{"product_id":"a-new-way-of-seeing-9780500295564","title":"A New Way of Seeing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new way of appreciating art that puts the artwork front and centre, brought to us by one of the freshest and most exciting voices in cultural criticism.       What makes great art great? Why do some works pulse in the imagination, generation after generation, century after century? From Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Picasso's Guernica, some paintings and sculptures have become so famous, so much a part of who we are, that we no longer really look at them. We take their greatness for granted; our eyes have become near-obsolete. We need a new way of seeing.       Unsatisfied with traditional interpretations of masterpieces, which are so often interested only in learning about art, and not from it, Kelly Grovier combed the surface of revered works from the Terracotta Army to Frida Kahlo's self-portraits, in a quest to find the key to their lasting power to move and delight us. He discovered that every truly great work is hardwired with an underappreciated detail that ignites it from de\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Finally, a book that asks, with a restless and sensitive eye, what it is that makes masterpieces sing across the centuries. A highly enjoyable history of art that is also a fascinating meditation on excellence' - Jonathan Jones, art critic\u003cbr\u003e'Grovier makes the case for the endless depths of interpretative potential in any great work of art. There is, indeed, always more to see' - Times Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Touch of Strangeness\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions (c. 645–635 BC)\u003cbr\u003e  Parthenon Sculptures (c. 444 BC)\u003cbr\u003e  Terracotta Army of the First Qin Emperor (c. 210 BC)\u003cbr\u003e  Villa of the Mysteries murals (c. 60–50 BC)\u003cbr\u003e  Laocoön and his Sons (c. 27 BC–AD 68)\u003cbr\u003e  Trajan’s Column (AD 113), Apollodorus of Damascus \u003cbr\u003e  The Book of Kells (c. AD 800)\u003cbr\u003e  Travellers among Mountains and Streams (c. 1000), Fan K’uan\u003cbr\u003e   Bayeux Tapestry (c. 1077 or after)\u003cbr\u003e  The Universal Man (c. 1165), Hildegard of Bingen \u003cbr\u003e  The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1427), Masaccio \u003cbr\u003e  Ghent Altarpiece (1430–32), Jan van Eyck \u003cbr\u003e  The Descent from the Cross (1430–32), Rogier van der Weyden \u003cbr\u003e  The Annunciation (c. 1438–47), Fra Angelico \u003cbr\u003e  The Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c. 1480), Andrea Mantegna \u003cbr\u003e  The Birth of Venus (c. 1482–85), Sandro Botticelli \u003cbr\u003e  Mona Lisa (c. 1503–6), Leonardo da Vinci \u003cbr\u003e  The Garden of Earthly Delights (1505–10), Hieronymus Bosch \u003cbr\u003e  Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes (1508–12), Michelangelo \u003cbr\u003e  The School of Athens (1510–11), Raphael \u003cbr\u003e  Isenheim Altarpiece (1512–16), Matthias Grünewald \u003cbr\u003e  Bacchus and Ariadne (1520–23), Titian \u003cbr\u003e  Self-Portrait (1548), Catharina van Hemessen \u003cbr\u003e  Crucifixion (1565–87), Tintoretto \u003cbr\u003e  The Supper at Emmaus (1601), Caravaggio \u003cbr\u003e  The Ecstasy of St Teresa (1647–52), Gian Lorenzo Bernini \u003cbr\u003e   Las Meninas (1656), Diego Velázquez \u003cbr\u003e  Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), Johannes Vermeer \u003cbr\u003e  Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665–69), Rembrandt van Rijn \u003cbr\u003e  An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), Joseph Wright of Derby \u003cbr\u003e  The Nightmare (1781), Henry Fuseli \u003cbr\u003e  The Third of May 1808 (1814), Francisco Goya \u003cbr\u003e  The Hay Wain (1821), John Constable \u003cbr\u003e  Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844), J. M. W. Turner \u003cbr\u003e  Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother) (1871), James Abbott \u003cbr\u003e  McNeill Whistler \u003cbr\u003e  The Thinker (1880–1904), Auguste Rodin \u003cbr\u003e  A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Édouard Manet \u003cbr\u003e  Bathers at Asnières (1884), Georges Seurat \u003cbr\u003e  The Scream (1893), Edvard Munch \u003cbr\u003e  The Large Bathers (1900–6), Paul Cézanne \u003cbr\u003e  Group IV, No. 7, Adulthood (1907), Hilma af Klint \u003cbr\u003e  The Kiss (1907), Gustav Klimt \u003cbr\u003e  Dance (1909–10), Henri Matisse \u003cbr\u003e  Water Lilies (1914–26), Claude Monet \u003cbr\u003e  Fountain (1917), Marcel Duchamp \u003cbr\u003e  American Gothic (1930), Grant Wood \u003cbr\u003e  The Persistence of Memory (1931), Salvador Dalí \u003cbr\u003e  Guernica (1937), Pablo Picasso \u003cbr\u003e  L’Égypte de Mlle Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d’histoire naturelle (1940), Joseph Cornell \u003cbr\u003e  Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940), Frida Kahlo \u003cbr\u003e  One: Number 31 (1950), Jackson Pollock \u003cbr\u003e  Study after Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X (1953), Francis Bacon \u003cbr\u003e  Brillo Boxes (1964), Andy Warhol \u003cbr\u003e  Backs and Fronts (1981), Sean Scully \u003cbr\u003e  Betty (1988), Gerhard Richter \u003cbr\u003e  Maman (1999), Louise Bourgeois \u003cbr\u003e  The Artist is Present (2010), Marina Abramovic \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Sources and Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Picture Credits\u003cbr\u003e  Index","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49083519926615,"sku":"9780500295564","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500295564.jpg?v=1725549203","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-new-way-of-seeing-9780500295564","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}