BOSCH-ANGLAIS - Couverture rigide

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Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3836559862 ISBN 13 : 9783836559867

Editeur : EVERGREEN, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Between Heaven and Hell
The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch
If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Netherlandish painter s work difficult to decipher and it still presents riddles to contemporary art historians.
Part of the problem in decoding his shocking and richly allegorical paintings is that virtually nothing is known of the artist himself, apart from his birthplace. There is no record of his life or training, no personal letters, diaries or notebooks, and no contemporary insights into his personality or thoughts on the meaning of his art. Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his death in 1516, which supposedly shows the artist in his late sixties. Bosch remains as mysterious as the worlds he painted.
Although rooted in the Old Netherlandish tradition, Bosch developed a highly subjective, richly suggestive formal language. With a mixture of religious humility and satanic wit, he illustrated both the joys of heaven and the cruelly imaginative tortures of hell. In his pictorial world teeming with surrealistic nightmares, the medieval imagination catches fire in a moment of final brilliance before succumbing to humanism and modern rationalism. Though the man himself remains a mystery, this book pulls together the elusive threads of Bosch s entire oeuvre into a cohesive and comprehensive analysis of his visionary work and methods.
About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
a concise biography
approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Las obras maestras de Jerónimo Bosch (hacia 1450-1516), tan crípticas como fascinantes, continúan siendo uno de los enigmas más duraderos del mundo del arte. Su contenido intrincado, alegórico y a menudo sorprendente ha cautivado no solo a historiadores del arte, sino también a diseñadores de moda, estrellas del rock, escritores y músicos punk, así como a innumerables discípulos artísticos contemporáneos y modernos.

Aunque arraigado en la antigua tradición holandesa, El Bosco desarrolló un estilo muy sugerente y sumamente subjetivo con el que plasmaba en sus obras el celestial júbilo del cielo y las grotescas torturas del averno. Su obra más famosa y ejecutada con mayor detalle es El jardín de las delicias. En esta obra, así como en otros trabajos suyos también conocidos, su lenguaje artístico combinaba la humildad religiosa con un perspicaz ingenio, al representar versiones pictóricas de proverbios o frases hechas contemporáneas.

Este libro hilvana los escurridizos hilos de la obra de El Bosco para ofrecer una breve visión de un mundo pictórico inquietante y evocador al mismo tiempo.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: EVERGREEN
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3836559862
• ISBN 13: 9783836559867
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 95