Michelangelo and His Drawings
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Michelangelo and His Drawings Details
From Library Journal This valuable study explores Michelangelo's working methods and mental processes. The book's ten chapters analyze half the surviving drawings, some of which are referenced in more than one context. The text is organized by type of drawing: initial sketches, life studies, compositional drawings, architectural designs, and finished drawings used as gifts. It is followed by a thematically arranged index of drawings and a section of some 220 illustrations. In examining the artist's draughtsmanship (including media, attitude towards his work, and efforts made to procure the drawings once he was famous), Hirst clarifies the purpose of the works and why they look as they do. For academic collections.- Robin Kaplan. Los Angeles, The Information GroupCopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more
Reviews
The writing I found interesting but frankly as an artist I buy an art book for the reproductions. I am glad that they are not surrounded or buried in text but are 95% b&w. The few color plates are over saturated. Still looking for one with good color 'large' reproductions. The catalogue from the Met show is a contender but they felt the need to bury most of the images with text and make many of them too small to be of use to an artist.