Elkins, James
What Heaven Looks Like
- ISBN 13:
- 9781946053022
- author:
- Elkins, James
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- Laboratory Books
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 128
- Dimensions:
- 23.11 x 16 x 1.52 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Arts & Photography, Art, Criticism,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
What Heaven Looks Like: Comments on a Strange Wordless Book is an extraordinary work of visionary art that challenges conventional understanding. Reproduced in full color, this enigmatic masterpiece invites reflection and contemplation.
Created around 1700, the artist's inspiration for these fifty-two small watercolor paintings is shrouded in mystery. However, art historian James Elkins offers a thought-provoking commentary on the artist's use of sources from Baroque religious art, genre painting, mythology, and alchemical manuscripts.
Elkins' insightful analysis reveals an artist who rejects familiar stories and clear-cut meanings, instead embracing a daring refusal to make sense. This book presents the entire sequence of paintings in full color, alongside Elkins' meditative commentary, offering a unique encounter between art historian and master conjurer of images.
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