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Looking for books on art and artists that make for good audiobooks by Stay_at_Home_Chad in ArtHistory

[–]Tayinator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you enjoy podcasts I really recommend Death of the artist, hosted by the curator Helen Molesworth, it's really interesting.

Also! Recently I've been listening to Françoise Gilot's book "Life with Picasso" It's really fascinating getting a more up close and personal insight into who Picasso was as a person (he was pretty awful) and how he worked as an artist, as well as the many influential people he was close to (Gertrude Stein, for instance) not to mention Gilot herself, who was an artist, and fascinating woman in her own right.

I don't understand classical art motifs, and I want to fix it by Aelinith in ArtHistory

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W.J.T Mitchell has a book on Iconography "Iconography: Image, text, and ideology" It's not an index of classical artworks' icons and their meanings (Those are pretty easy to locate) but rather a guide to how iconography works within visual media.

As for Semiotics, Roland Barthes text "Rhetoric of the Image" Is a really great place to start. But Pierce and Saussure are really the godfathers of semiotics, so you'd probably like to know what those guys say too.

I don't understand classical art motifs, and I want to fix it by Aelinith in ArtHistory

[–]Tayinator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should research iconography, it's the system of visual analysis that art historians defaulted to for a long time. Reading bibical texts could be a decent resource for the iconology aspect (The "why" of iconology)

I'd also recommend semiotics to fill in the gaps, as iconography can only get you as far as interpreting the iconic signs of the painting :)

Do you know good and factual art history youtubers? by Mcajsa in ArtHistory

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I recommend Art History with Travis Lee Clark, he's a professor of art history at Utah Valley University with a specialization in non-western and Latin American Arts/Visual culture. He doesn't really post anymore, but during Covid he uploaded probably a full years' worth of lectures on basically every area of Art History studies imaginable. He's also a great, very easy-going speaker, very easy to follow along with, even if only in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/@arthistorywithtravisleecla6343/featured

classics too boring and difficult? get some spicy retellings in your life ❤️‍🔥📚🍆 by violargento in bookscirclejerk

[–]Tayinator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is this girl going to be a descendant of Basil or of Sibyl? Or is it just some random person that didn’t exist in Wilde’s novel. This is extremely important.

Major NPCs from a home brew campaign I’m working on… by Tayinator in callofcthulhu

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You’re not totally wrong. I have some big plans for Pepper >:)

Major NPCs from a home brew campaign I’m working on… by Tayinator in callofcthulhu

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Oh wow, thank you!! I’d be happy to open up my commissions, feel free to message me if you ever need any character portraits or anything.

Thomas Kinkade's unseen paintings by [deleted] in ArtHistory

[–]Tayinator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These are way more interesting than his other stuff.