Leonardo Da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design - Rilegato

Kemp, Martin

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ISBN 10: 0691129053 ISBN 13: 9780691129051

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2006

Riassunto

The mystery of how Leonardo da Vinci thought graphically, on paper, is critically analyzed through an insight into the workings of the artist's visual mind, as revealed in the artist's approach to modeling, engineering feats, and his inventions in the field of warfare.

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"Leonardo is a glimpse into the mind of an almost mythical genius. Kemp offers us a way of considering how artists and scientists have intuited visual truths in the past, reminds us that the past and the present are connected, and warns us against the potential tyranny of the newest digitized images that, though often beautiful and beguiling, are still man-made and not infallible." --Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles, Scientific American

"A landmark in Leonardo scholarship. To leaf through it is to succumb gradually to deepening degrees of astonishment." --Sebastian Smee, The Australian

" Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design by Martin Kemp . . . explores the boundary between art and science. . . . Kemp, a leading scholar, analyzes how the artist thought on paper, arguing that the drawings reveal how his mind worked. The book gives an infinitely . . . convincing account of Leonardo's secrets." --Martin Gayford, Bloomberg.com

"A handsome and fascinating book. . . . Here, Martin Kemp, the world's leading authority on Leonardo, reveals the intimate relationship between art and science that was at the core of the master's genius." --Sasha Roeder Mah, Edmonton Journal

"A strong addition to any collection and a proper tribute to one of history's most visually inventive minds. . . . Highly recommended." --Choice

"Kemp orders Leonardo's thoughts in a way that, plausibly, Leonardo himself would have favored, had the artist ever settled for one way to organize them. In fact, it is thanks to Kemp's discerning mind and scholarly ingenuity that Leonardo's thoughts reach the general public with the order, clarity, and coherency that has always eluded them." --Francesca Fiorani, Renaissance Quarterly

"A renowned Leonardo authority, Kemp expands on his familiar theses about the artist's preference for experience over theory and his conviction that function determines form. Kemp's deciphering of Leonardo's infamous backward script leads to fascinating conclusions." --Victor Swoboda, Montreal Gazette

L'autore:

Martin Kemp is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford. His numerous books include the biography Leonardo and The Oxford History of Western Art, and he is the originator of the Universal Leonardo project, which is generating exhibitions and events across Europe in 2006.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0691129053
• ISBN 13: 9780691129051
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 213