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Freedberg, David Adrian was born on June 1, 1948 in Capetown, South Africa. Son of William and Eleonore (Kupfer) Freedberg.
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"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."—Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin "Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book."—T. J. Jackson Lears, Wilson Quarterly "Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
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The first volume to appear in the Natural History series catalogues a group of spectacular drawings of citrus fruit in watercolour and gouache, most of which were commissioned to illustrate Giovanni Battista Ferrari's Hesperides, an ambitious attempt at a complete taxonomy and classification of the entire citrolgical world, which was published in Rome in 1646. Cassiano dal Pozzo played a fundamental role in this project: it was he who commissioned and supplied most of the drawings and then arranged for them to be engraved for Ferrari's projected work. The citrus drawings - grouped in the Catalogue under the headings of citrons, lemons, oranges, pummelos, hybrids, monstrosities and unidentified citrus fruit - are reproduced in full colour and are accompanied by a wealth of comparative material which includes the Hesperides engravings, additional drawings and photographs of actual specimens, mainly of the monstrous kind. In addition to detailed scientific descriptions of the specimens themselves, the catalogue also gives art historical information on watermarks, annotations, types of mount, provenance and literature. The introductory essays explain Cassiano's method of gathering information from a network of correspondents around Europe and consider the relationship between these drawings and other natural history subjects commissioned by Cassiano. The authors discuss the work of the artists involved in the project and assess the major contribution made the classification of citrus fruit by the collaborative efforts of Cassiano of Ferrari.
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The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of Response by David Freedberg. Univ of Chicago Pr,1991
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At the height of the controversy over government funding for "obscene" works of art, internationally renowned conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth created "The Brooklyn Museum Collection: The Play of the Unmentionable," an exhibit about censorship. His installation, one of the best-attended, most widely reviewed of the year, juxtaposed works of art from throughout history that had been deemed politically, religiously, or sexually objectionable, with statements about the role of art in society by writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, Adolf Hitler, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This handsome book documents the exhibit with twenty-one pages of color and more than a hundred duotone photographs along with a major essay by art historian David Freedberg.
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Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of drawings by the little-known Academy of Linceans, a seventeenth-century Italian group that took as its task nothing less than the pictorial documentation of all of nature. Moving across Europe, he encountered thousands of such drawings—of fossils, the species of the New World, or the heavenly bodies studied by the group's most famous member, Galileo Galilei. Profusely illustrated and engagingly written, this book reveals this crucial moment in the development of natural history.
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"This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."-Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin
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Cátedra. Madrid. 2009. 25 cm. 496 p. il. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Grandes temas'. Freedberg, David 1948-. Traducción, Purificación Jiménez y Jerónima Gª Bonafé. Bibliografía: p. 489-496. Traducción de: The power of images. Signos y símbolos. En el arte. Percepción visual .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 978-84-376-2554-6
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Freedberg, David Adrian was born on June 1, 1948 in Capetown, South Africa. Son of William and Eleonore (Kupfer) Freedberg.
Bachelor, Yale University., 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 1973. Lecturer art Westfield College, U. London, 1973-1976, Courtauld Institute Art, U. London, 1976-1984.
Professor Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City, 1984-1986, Columbia University, 1986.
Slade professor fine art U. Oxford, 1983-1984. Director Print Quarterly, London, 1983.
Andrew West. Mellon professor National Gallery Art, 1996-1998.
Lecturer art Westfield College, University London, 1973-1976, Courtauld Institute Art, University London, 1976-1984. Professor Barnard College, Columbia University, New York City, 1984-1986, Columbia University, since 1986, director Italian Academy Advanced Studies in American, since 2000. Slade professor fine art University Oxford, 1983-1984.
Director Print Quarterly, London, since 1983. Andrew W. Mellon professor National Gallery Art, 1996-1998.
(The first volume to appear in the Natural History series ...)
(At the height of the controversy over government funding ...)
( Years ago, David Freedberg stumbled across a group of d...)
("This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with ...)
( "This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the ...)
(The Power of Images: Studies in the History and Theory of...)
(Dutch Landscape Prints : Of The Seventeenth Century)
(softcover)
(Cátedra. Madrid. 2009. 25 cm. 496 p. il. Encuadernación e...)
Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society.
Children: Hannah, William.
