This incandescent book charts the many ways artists have represented the fierce bonds that shape human lifefrom sacred devotion to erotic desire.

Transporting readers across centuries and cultures, the volume pairs fifty artworks with brief, incisive essays that consider how love has been pictured, interpreted, and expressed in different mediums. Each entry examines a single workranging from early religious icons and Renaissance portraits to Rococo seductions, modernist experimentations, and contemporary provocationsand reflects on its atmosphere, symbolism, and cultural setting. Moving through many registers of affectionfidelity, enchantment, longing, sensual pleasure, heartbreak, and transcendencethe selections unfold as a sequence of intimate encounters. Readers are invited to consider a garden scene by Renoir, a Rococo tableau from Fragonard's Progress of Love series, Bronzino's charged allegory of Venus and Cupid, and Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, alongside masterpieces by Rodin, Klimt, Picasso, Chagall, Kahlo, and Abramovias well as many other artists whose works deepen and complicate the book's exploration of intimacy. Impeccably produced and extensively illustrated, this exquisite volume offers a layered study of love's complexity, revealing how artists working in many forms have given shape to an emotion that is universal, elusive, and continually reinterpreted.

High-quality finish with sprayed edges, embossing and half-linen binding

Autorentext
Der amerikanische Kunsthistoriker Brad Finger lebt in Evanston bei Chicago. Er arbeitet als Autor und Lektor von Büchern für Kinder und Erwachsene, darunter 13 moderne Künstler, die du kennen solltest und Meilensteine - Wie große Ideen die Moderne Kunst veränderten.