Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Pia Fries: Merian's Surinam

Christine Buci-Glucksmann

0/5 ( ratings)

For the 14 diptychs that comprise the Merian's Surinam series, Swiss painter Pia Fries uses reproductions by the painter and botanical illustrator Maria Sybilla Merian . Merian's images of plants, flowers, animals and insects are elaborated upon with oil paint, from thin to thick impasto, and with varying degrees of obscuration, to establish an open and playful dialogue between the two women.

Language: English

Pages: 100

Format: Hardcover

Release: March 31, 2010

ISBN 13: 9783865606952

Pia Fries: Merian's Surinam

Christine Buci-Glucksmann

0/5 ( ratings)

For the 14 diptychs that comprise the Merian's Surinam series, Swiss painter Pia Fries uses reproductions by the painter and botanical illustrator Maria Sybilla Merian . Merian's images of plants, flowers, animals and insects are elaborated upon with oil paint, from thin to thick impasto, and with varying degrees of obscuration, to establish an open and playful dialogue between the two women.

Language: English

Pages: 100

Format: Hardcover

Release: March 31, 2010

ISBN 13: 9783865606952

More books from Christine Buci-Glucksmann

Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Gramsci And The State

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Orlan: Carnal Art

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics

Filosofia dell'ornamento

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur

3.5/5 ( ratings)

PHILOSOPHIE DE L'ORNEMENT : D'ORIENT EN OCCIDENT

LA FOLIE DU VOIR : DE L'ESTHETIQUE BAROQUE

Rate this book!

Write a review?