Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art
Editorial Reviews Virginia Quarterly Review "Concerned with the nature of the sacred in a time so resolutely profane, Di Piero offers a series of personal and evocative readings of paintings, photos, and sculptures that reflects not an academic bias or a rigid thesis, but a refreshing openness to the particularities of the artists' individual challenges and achievements." --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Book Description Out of Eden presents the rigorous investigations and musings of a poet-essayist on the ways in which modern artists have confronted and transfigured the realist tradition of representation. Di Piero pursues his theme with an autobiographical force and immediacy. He fixes his attention on painters and photographers as disparate as Cezanne, Boccioni, Pollock, Warhol, Edward Weston, and Robert Frank. There is indeed a satisfying sweep to this collection: Matisse, Giacometti, Morandi, Bacon, the Tuscan Macchiaioli of the late nineteenth century, the Futurists of the early modern period, and the American pop painters. Di Piero's analysis of modern images also probes the relation between new kinds of image making and transcendence. The author argues that Matisse and Giacometti, for example, continued to exercise the religious imagination even in a desacralized age. And because Di Piero believes that the visual arts and poetry live intimate, coordinate lives, his essays speak of the relation of poetry to forms in art. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art
Out of Eden: Essays on Modern Art,W. S. Di Piero,University of California Press,0520084322,Art & Art Instruction,Essays,General,History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945),Literary Collections,Literary Criticism
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