Kenyon Cox (1856–1919)
Auteur de Mixed Beasts
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photographer unknown. From the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, Charles Scribner's Sons Art Reference Department Records, c. 1865-1957
Œuvres de Kenyon Cox
The Classic Point of View Rev (Cloth) (The Classical America series in art and architecture) (1980) 3 exemplaires
Artist and Public 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1856-10-27
- Date de décès
- 1919-03-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Warren, Ohio, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA - Relations
- Louise Howland King (spouse)
- Organisations
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (Art, 1898)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Art, 1908)
Membres
Critiques
Mildly entertaining series of lectures by a justly-forgotten muralist. I had hoped he would talk about the qualities of classical art, but the book really was just a diatribe for conservative painting. Cox loves Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt, but has harsh things to say about everyone else, from Velazquez to Matisse. Barely a mention of Greek art to be found.
Stunning whimsical hybrid animal illustrations accompanying century-old versus from Kenyon Cox (1904).
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Membres
- 126
- Popularité
- #159,216
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 24
This one... hm... the beasts themselves actually, to be honest, nauseate me. Even though it's out of character for me to say this, I must: they're abominations.
Otoh the details in the pictures are wonderful. Just on the first few pages I already adore the King Crab, the Dandy-lion, the Tiger Lily....
The verses bore me.
Be sure to follow Professor Julius Duckworth O'Hare, Esq." (who happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to Alice's White Rabbit) from picture to picture.
Spend time with it. See if you can spot all the extra details in the pictures. The other 'mixed beasts' (like the King Crab etc.) are in an appendix, so you can go back and find the ones you missed. But there are other details in the pix, too. For example, I'm confident the ducks crossing the road in front of the the Flamingocart (which, btw, is a fail, as the Flamingo is mixed with nothing but is just riding a pair of wheels) are an homage to Make Way for Ducklings. In any case, despite all the flaws of this book, I have to rate it highly. I want posters from the other books so I can view them every day, but even this book is worth buying to pull of the shelf for several rereads."… (plus d'informations)