Narrative / Erika Langmuir.
By: Langmuir, Erika
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Contributor(s): National Gallery (Great Britain).
Material type:
BookSeries: Pocket guides (National Gallery (Great Britain)): Publisher: London : National Gallery, 2003Description: 80 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1857092570.Subject(s): National Gallery (Great Britain) -- Guidebooks | Narrative painting, European -- Guidebooks | Narrative painting -- England -- London -- GuidebooksDDC classification: 754.07442132
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 754.07442132 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00061343 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As any eavesdropper in a gallery knows, it's not pictures that tell stories but people: every picture evokes as many stories as it has spectators. Yet the stories we hear in front of pictures are not necessarily those the artists meant to tell. The stories and messages that the artists wished to convey became harder for viewers to understand when pictures began to be shown out of their original context, in galleries and museums; when viewers became less familiar with the literature and artistic conventions of the past; and when painters started to draw on more wide-ranging and obscure sources.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 80).
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. 5)
- Introduction (p. 6)
- Defining Narrative Painting (p. 11)
- Two Paintings, One Story (p. 15)
- Timeless Images and Recurrent Scenes (p. 22)
- Narrative Images and Texts (p. 30)
- Narrative as the Painter's 'Greatest work': Istoria (p. 51)
- Narrative Paintings Without Texts (p. 69)
- Further Reading (p. 80)