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Beschreibung
This incandescent book charts the many ways artists have represented the fierce bonds that shape human life-from sacred devotion to erotic desire.

Transporting readers across centuries and cultures, the volume pairs fifty artworks with brief, incisive essays that consider how love has been pictured, interpreted, and expressed in different mediums. Each entry examines a single work-ranging from early religious icons and Renaissance portraits to Rococo seductions, modernist experimentations, and contemporary provocations-and reflects on its atmosphere, symbolism, and cultural setting. Moving through many registers of affection-fidelity, enchantment, longing, sensual pleasure, heartbreak, and transcendence-the selections unfold as a sequence of intimate encounters. Readers are invited to consider a garden scene by Renoir, a Rococo tableau from Fragonard's Progress of Love series, Bronzino's charged allegory of Venus and Cupid, and Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, alongside masterpieces by Rodin, Klimt, Picasso, Chagall, Kahlo, and Abramovi-as well as many other artists whose works deepen and complicate the book's exploration of intimacy. Impeccably produced and extensively illustrated, this exquisite volume offers a layered study of love's complexity, revealing how artists working in many forms have given shape to an emotion that is universal, elusive, and continually reinterpreted.
This incandescent book charts the many ways artists have represented the fierce bonds that shape human life-from sacred devotion to erotic desire.

Transporting readers across centuries and cultures, the volume pairs fifty artworks with brief, incisive essays that consider how love has been pictured, interpreted, and expressed in different mediums. Each entry examines a single work-ranging from early religious icons and Renaissance portraits to Rococo seductions, modernist experimentations, and contemporary provocations-and reflects on its atmosphere, symbolism, and cultural setting. Moving through many registers of affection-fidelity, enchantment, longing, sensual pleasure, heartbreak, and transcendence-the selections unfold as a sequence of intimate encounters. Readers are invited to consider a garden scene by Renoir, a Rococo tableau from Fragonard's Progress of Love series, Bronzino's charged allegory of Venus and Cupid, and Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, alongside masterpieces by Rodin, Klimt, Picasso, Chagall, Kahlo, and Abramovi-as well as many other artists whose works deepen and complicate the book's exploration of intimacy. Impeccably produced and extensively illustrated, this exquisite volume offers a layered study of love's complexity, revealing how artists working in many forms have given shape to an emotion that is universal, elusive, and continually reinterpreted.
Über den Autor
Der amerikanische Kunsthistoriker Brad Finger lebt in Evanston bei Chicago. Er arbeitet als Autor und Lektor von Büchern für Kinder und Erwachsene, darunter 13 moderne Künstler, die du kennen solltest und Meilensteine - Wie große Ideen die Moderne Kunst veränderten.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Große Themen der Kunst
Inhalt: 128 S.
57 farbige Illustr.
ISBN-13: 9783791394671
ISBN-10: 3791394673
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Finger, Brad
Hersteller: Prestel Verlag
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, Neumarkter Str. 28, D-81673 München, produktsicherheit@penguinrandomhouse.de
Abbildungen: 60 farbige Abbildungen
Maße: 247 x 180 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Brad Finger
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.10.2026
Gewicht: 0,652 kg
Artikel-ID: 138041821

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