Michael Bird (2)
Autore di Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories: A Children's History of Art
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Opere di Michael Bird
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- male
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 13
- Utenti
- 290
- Popolarità
- #80,656
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 53
- Lingue
- 8
I guess, the most frustrating thing I found with this book was the constant referral to examples which are not illustrated. We seem to have about three images per page but the text typically refers to about five other works that are not illustrated. Some of them I knew but many of them were just references for me to look up. (And, of course, I didn't).
I'm not sure that "the densely scrolled, interlocking, vegetal and bodily forms of Aztec relief sculpture echo the hallucinatory visual effects described by users of mescaline" (p181)...as Bird claims or that they are just rather stylised drawings that evolved into those patterns. And a fair proportion of the relief forms is actually hieroglyphic writing and symbols. But that's arguable I guess. Generally, I found his descriptions and deductions authoritative and reasonable. Did it make me think? Maybe a few times as in "Art does not reproduce the visible...rather it makes visible"...Paul Klee 1920. (p 169). Also I hadn't thought about Picasso and Braque's development of collage to incorporate the actual objects. Nor had I thought about the "frame" as a transformative idea ...but I guess it was. So yes. It has made me think.
Overall, quite a nice book despite being straightjacketed into 100 ideas (no more no less) ....and 2 pages each...including illustrations. I give it four stars.… (altro)