Books written by Stephen Bann
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Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945
Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945 Duncan F. Kennedy, Stephen Bann, Valérie Huet, Javed Majeed, Norman Vance, Chloe Chard, John Lyon, Charles Martindale, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Frank M. Turner, Maria Wyke, Marla Stone, ...
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The True Vine: On Visual Representation and the Western Tradition
The purpose of the book, which contains discussions of Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio, Poussin, and Cezanne, among others, is to bring out the reciprocal connections between the art of the past and the art of our own period, and to ...
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The Inventions of History: Essays on the Representation of the Past
By contrast , Taylor is attempting a general history of the War , which is defined specifically as an ' illustrated history ' . In the Preface to his work , he describes his aim succinctly : ' In the First World War , the camera could ...
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Midway: Letters from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stephen Bann 1964-69
The revealing letters of probably the most significant Scottish public intellectual and artist of the late 20th century.
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The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874
This impressive volume is a captivating exploration of the impetus of early Impressionism along the coast of Normandy. Contains 130 color plates.
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Jannis Kounellis
Stephen Bann refers to Kounellis’s working practice as a process of "making strange". In all his installations, the material impact of the work sets off a trail of associations.
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The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe
'Ogni suono, ogni onda di suoni ha la virtù di chiamare il nostro spirito, di risvegliarlo e di fargli sentire la identità fra ... del nostro essere, e negli intervalli, vere isole nel mare dei suoni, ci fa sentire la voce del silenzio.
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Utopias and the Millennium
Utopias and the Millennium
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A History of the European Restorations: Culture, Society and Religion
As one reviewer remarked 'in Naples and Milan, the bookstalls bear witness that L'Ultimo dei Mohicani is still a popular work'. 'The works of James Fenimore Cooper', North American Review, 74 (1852), 147–61.
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The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe
This collection traces the fortunes of Pater's writings in these three major literatures and their reception in Spain, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
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The Coral Mind: Adrian Stokes's Engagement with Architecture, Art History, Criticism, and Psychoanalysis
Our view of modernism in the arts has been largely shaped by the prominence of painting and, in particular, by a succession of major painters working in Paris—from Courbet and...
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Art of the Garden: The Garden in British Art, 1800 to the Present Day
England has long been known as a land of gardeners. As such, the rich horticultural designs and and painterly experiments have proved to be of great inspiration for artists such...
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Scenes and Traces of the English Civil War
This book is the first attempt to portray the visual legacy of this period, as passed down, revisited, and periodically reworked over two and a half centuries of subsequent English history.
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Frankenstein, Creation, and Monstrosity
Deals with the place of the monster in Western
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Ways Around Modernism
... Master Narratives and Their Discontents.1 James Elkins began his inquiry by detecting four master narratives in a very broadly conceived, panoramic survey of the different modalities through which the history of Western painting has ...
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Paul Delaroche: History Painted
From his early historical paintings to experimental pieces influenced by photography, the book analyzes each stage of Delaroche's artistic development--as well as his major masterpieces such as The Execution of Lady Jane Grey and The ...
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The Tradition Of Constructivism
In this book, Stephen Bann has collected the most important constructivist documents, including the writings of EI Lissitzky, Theo Van Doesburg, Hans Richter, Victor Vasarely, and Charles Biederman—many of which have never before been ...