A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso

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A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso

Name: A Brief History of the Artist from God to Picasso
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780271036762
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By Paul Barolsky
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: March 16, 2011
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Explores art history and imaginative literature to show how fiction and history inform each other. Traces the modern idea of the artist to the epic tradition from Homer and Ovid to Dante, leading to Michelangelo. Examines how Vasari shaped Balzac's idea of the artist, and Balzac influenced Picasso's.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Art of God from the Beginning of the World till the End of Time

Homer, Hephaistos, and the Poetic Origins of Art History

Ovid’s Protean Epic and Artistic Personae

Dante and the Modern Cult of the Artist

Vasari and the Quixotic Painter

Leonardo, Vasari, and the Historical Imagination

Vasari and the Autobiography of Michelangelo

Balzac and the Fable of Failure in Modern Art

Myths and Mysteries of Modern Art

Towards a Mock-Heroic History of Art

The Metamorphoses of Picasso

Coda

Bibliographical Note

Selected Bibliography

Index

“As Barolsky acknowledges, the book represents “a synthesis of a lifetime of thinking about the idea of the artist.””

—Catherine M. Soussloff, CAA Reviews

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