What Is A Masterpiece?
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What elevates a work of art from mere craft to timeless masterpiece? In What is a Masterpiece?, Kenneth Clark — one of the twentieth century's most celebrated art historians and critics — confronts one of aesthetics' most enduring and contested questions with characteristic elegance and authority. Drawing on a lifetime of intimate engagement with the world's greatest paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Clark presents a rigorous yet accessible argument for what distinguishes the truly sublime from the merely accomplished, guiding the reader through a gallery of iconic works to illustrate his thesis. Clark's prose is luminous and precise, reflecting the same cultivated sensibility that made his landmark television series Civilisation a global phenomenon. His argument transcends simple connoisseurship, reaching into the deeper currents of human creativity, historical moment, and spiritual intensity that conspire to produce works of enduring greatness. Published by Thames and Hudson as part of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture series, this slim but intellectually formidable volume challenges the reader to reconsider everything they thought they knew about artistic genius — and leaves one wondering whether a masterpiece is ever truly finished, or merely abandoned to posterity's judgment.
Author: Kenneth Clark
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
What elevates a work of art from mere craft to timeless masterpiece? In What is a Masterpiece?, Kenneth Clark — one of the twentieth century's most celebrated art historians and critics — confronts one of aesthetics' most enduring and contested questions with characteristic elegance and authority. Drawing on a lifetime of intimate engagement with the world's greatest paintings, sculptures, and drawings, Clark presents a rigorous yet accessible argument for what distinguishes the truly sublime from the merely accomplished, guiding the reader through a gallery of iconic works to illustrate his thesis. Clark's prose is luminous and precise, reflecting the same cultivated sensibility that made his landmark television series Civilisation a global phenomenon. His argument transcends simple connoisseurship, reaching into the deeper currents of human creativity, historical moment, and spiritual intensity that conspire to produce works of enduring greatness. Published by Thames and Hudson as part of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture series, this slim but intellectually formidable volume challenges the reader to reconsider everything they thought they knew about artistic genius — and leaves one wondering whether a masterpiece is ever truly finished, or merely abandoned to posterity's judgment.