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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If ever there was a Venetian artist that deserved a book about him to be written Titian is it. Unfortunately this book doesn’t live up to its subject. The author has at least two books here, one about Titian and another about his search for information on Titian. Unfortunately he combines it in such a way as to make it less than compelling. The author jumps from Titian’s old age to his being discovered as an artist to his old age again with the occasional interspersing of his own story. The author also has the irritating habit of asking the reader questions at just the time you start falling into the narrative. The information (if not nearly enough pictures) is all there but it could have been written better. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Can you imagine attending an entire semester’s worth of art history classes only to have the professor discuss in excess of fifty paintings while showing you reproductions of only 5? Then you’ve already experienced the droning that is Titian: The Last Days. That characterization is overly harsh since the writing is actually quite good in some places. The lack of color pictures, or the less expensive but also less expressive alternative of black whites, is probably more the fault of the publisher than the writer, but the outcome for the reader is the same: Mark Hudson’s book is not nearly as captivating as it could be. The title misleads since the book isn't just about Titian's last days, as the book merely starts and ends with them.Ample amounts of navel gazing by Hudson make me doubt some of his analysis and makes the fact that so few reproductions of the paintings being included even more irksome. For instance, he portrays Marsyas in the The Flaying of Marsyas as being in the shape of an upside down cross and analogizes the mythical death of Marsyas with the death and crucifixion of Jesus. That's quite a stretch. The Flaying of Marsyas is one of the scant reproductions tucked into the book's center. I held the book upside down in one hand, peered at the reproduction, squinted my eyes all while holding a vodka martini in my other hand--I just couldn’t see it. For me, the most interesting portions are those about Phillip V. Hudson obviously adores Titian and knows his works well, but that takes the book only so far. I do appreciate the approach that Mark Hudson takes to Art History. He writes for a wider audience than just art critics and professors. He makes no bones about the fact that he isn't writing just for them. I'd be interested in reading some of his other books that don't rely so heavily on critique of either books I haven't read or paintings I haven't seen and can't find. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. This book is called Titian's Last Days, and yet its subject matter is not confined to the days immediately before and after the artist's death during an outbreak of the plague—it's a full-length biography the scope of which also encompasses the world, artistic and otherwise, which Titian inhabited. For someone like me, who knows almost nothing about later Renaissance painting, this biography was interesting and informative, but I imagine that for anyone more than the curious novice, Hudson is not saying anything new. I also found it frustrating that at least my copy—which is an ARC—had no illustrations, which meant that I was constantly having to Google in order to know what the painting being described looked like. I appreciated the way in which Hudson grounded Titian's work in the mundanity of being a jobbing artist—the entrepreneurship, the searching for contracts, the network of connections and patronage—but often found his analysis of the paintings themselves disappointing, if not a little sexist. His description of 'Diana and Actaeon' in particular, with its unquestioning presumption of a male gaze, made me roll my eyes. Esta reseña ha sido escrita por los Primeros Reseñadores de LibraryThing. Not sure how to categorize this book. There's interesting material here but unless you're already familiar with the history of Renaissance Art and working on a post graduate thesis, this material may seem scattered and lacking any clear direction. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Towards the end of his life Titian didn't finish his paintings. The elderly artist kept them in his studio, never quite completing them, as though wanting to endlessly postpone the moment of closure. Created with the fingers as much as the brush, Titian's last paintings are imbued with a sense of final, desperate effort - a rawness and immediacy that weren't to be seen again in art for centuries. But what did Titian, who experienced as much in the way of material success as any artist before or since, mean by these works? Are they a harrowing, final testament or simply a collection of unfinished paintings? In the outbreak of plague that finally killed him, Titian's studio was looted, and many paintings taken. What happened to them is not known. This book is a quest - a journey through Titian's life and work, towards the physical and spiritual landscape of his last paintings. Looking at Titian's relationships with his artistic rivals, his patrons - including popes, kings and emperors - and his troubled dealings with his own family, the narrative moves from the artist's hometown in the Dolomites to the greatest churches and palaces of the age. Parallel with these physical travels is a journey through the paintings, following the glittering trajectory of Titian's life and career, the remorseless formal development that led to the breakthroughs of his last days. Titian- The Last Days is an exploratory history of the artist and his world that vividly recreates the atmosphere of sixteenth-century Venice and Europe, a narrative in which the search for the subject becomes part of the subject itself. The result is a brilliant and compelling study of one of Europe's greatest artists that is at once passionate, engaging and deeply personal. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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