Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 178 mm
Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 111 mm x 178 mm
ISBN: 978-0-19-280546-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Over 500 years on, Leonardo continues to inspire and enlighten twenty-first century man.
* Using a unique approach, Kemp reveals the 'real' meaning of the paintings, showing how Leonardo spoke through his work; he highlights contradictions, and explains Leonardo's unfulfilled dreams
* Gives the best analysis of how Leonardo's mind worked, his innovative ideas, and the link between visual curiosity and his creativity
* Martin Kemp is the leading international authority on Leonardo; he has carried out extensive research into the art, science, and technology of Leonardo, resulting in his first monograph, Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (1981 and 1989, winner of the Mitchell Prize), and in the major exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci, at the Hayward gallery, London, in 1989
* Fully illustrated, with a 'thumbnail museum', conveying the intensity and brilliance of the way he worked
* 'It is impossible to think of anyone better qualified to write this' Francis Ames-Lewis, Birkbeck College
* 'There is no-one who is more knowledgeable or who writes better about the relationship between the visual arts and the science' Lewis Wolpert, Chair of Aventis Prize for Science Books
DESCRIPTION:
This fascinating new look at the world's leading artist, explores the essential nature of Leonardo, both as an individual and as an historical phenomenon. Who was Leonardo? How can we explain his surviving legacy, and how can we evaluate his incredible career, and the many myths surrounding his life and work? Kemp's new and vivid approach conveys Leonardo's apparent diversities as symptoms of an inner unity, a desire to explain the functioning of everything in the observable world. For Leonardo, every act of looking and drawing was an act of analysis, and he used these analyses to re-make and re-interpret the world.
The reader is taken on an absorbing journey through the astounding life and work of Leonardo. Chapters are organized thematically and explore both Leonardo's career and mythic history.
Zielgruppe
Students of history and art history, and their lecturers. All those interested in Leonardo da Vinci and Renaissance art
