{"product_id":"the-world-created-in-the-image-of-man-9781433107795","title":"The World Created in the Image of Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe World Created in the Image of Man\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the development of the third dimension in painting from the dramatic moment when spatial construction becomes charged with an external force antagonistic to the effort of forms, or human figures, to preserve their permanence. The competitive contact between the external and internal worlds represented in the picture brings a vital element to the unfolding of art as it occurs in both the West and the East. As the analysis of masterpieces from different historical periods and cultures demonstrates here, this vital impulse becomes a necessary part of pictorial composition and the measure of the quality of the work of art. It can reveal itself in a limitless and disparate variety of subject matter: a scene from Japanese court life, as depicted in the illustrations of the early twelfth century to the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/i\u003e; a representation of the maternal feeling of the Virgin anticipating the fate of her child in Byzantine","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039518261591,"sku":"9781433107795","price":59.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433107795.jpg?v=1750943942","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-world-created-in-the-image-of-man-9781433107795","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}