Getting away with it: artists and reasons for making art
by Gabriel Furmuzachi
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Vasari: Lives of the Artists
by Gabriel Furmuzachi
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Asta Gröting. Lentos. Linz.
Most contemporary art is conceptual art. Seeing Gröting’s work in Lentos I had to think about it again. Today’s art comes from language and words and, to see it and understand it, you have to make the effort to put it back into language, to drape it up with words...
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Restoring paintings / Hurt Locker / This is Modern Art / The Tipping Point
I have discovered a book by an English painter on The knowledge and restoration of paintings. Theodore Henry Fielding. Published in 1847. I find it quite interesting – reading about how restorations were carried on at that time and how they had regarded painters and paintings in the second half...
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