I blame Duchamp
Capon, Edmund (2009) I blame Duchamp: my life’s adventures in art. Victoria, Australia: Lantern.
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Contents
THE HUMAN PROJECT
The Inspired Individual, or a Celebration of the Ego
‘A Gentleman Is Not a Pot’
Lorenzo Lotto
Serial Cranach
Caravaggio: A Talent for Our Times
Bill Henson
Henry Moore
Sidney Nolan
NEW PERSPECTIVES
Masaccio: A Very Modem Master
The Bellini and Venice
The Puzzle of Giorgione’ s The Tempest
Piero della Francesca: Master of Light and Reason
Raphael’s The Entombment: A Monument to Immortality
Antonello da Messina: Small but Perfectly Formed
Scattering Ink Among the Mountains:
The Art of Dao Ji
Whistler, Wilde and the Peacock Room
Cy Twombly and His Three Studies from the Temeraire
I Blame Duchamp
On Cezanne: A Founding Father of the Modern Imagination
Jeffrey Smart: A Man of Great Composure
PROCESS, PRACTICE AND PERFECTION
Ghirlandaio and a Bad Nose: The Case for Imperfection
Making Marks: The Fine Art of Drawing
The Three Perfections: Painting, Poetty and Calligraphy
Giacometti
Jade: The Stone of Five Virtues
On Bonnard
Giorgio Morandi, Master of the Silent Bottle
PATRONAGE,POWER AND FAITH
Big Brother Is Watching: The Growth of the Art Institution
Piety, Prestige and Pleasure: Art and Patronage in Renaissance Italy
Buddhist Art Along the Silk Roads
Subtleties of Song: The Art and Aesthetics of Song China
Qingzhou: The Art of Contemplation
John Bull and the Little Boy at Manly
A PERSONAL VIEW
On Guilt, or Not My Fault Guv
On Football
China in the 1970s
The True Eccentric
Recollections of’the Pope’
Ten Favourite Museums
Index A-C
A
Alberti, Leon Battista 4, 5-7, 69, 72, 108
Antonello da Messina 129-35; Portrait of a Man 129-30, 131,371
architecture 6, 7, 10-11
art; for art’s sake 148, 149; duty of 48
‘readyrnade’ 167, 168,170,171; role of i65
Art Gallery of New South Wales 204-5, 253-4, 263-4, 330
Australia: cultural imagination 324, 326; cultural landscape 322, 323-4
Australian art 326-33
B
Beccafumi, Domenico, Madonna and Child with Infant John the Baptist 8, 9-10
Bellini, Gentile 82, 84
Bellini, Giovanni 81-2, 84-7, 88-9, 92-3; altarpiece at San Zaccaria 81, 83, 93; Madonna and Child with Saints 81, 83, 93; Young Woman at Her Toilet 90-1, 91
Bellini,J acopo 82,8 5
Berenson,B ernard 17,1 8-19,3 68
Beyeler, Ernst 257,369,371
Beyeler Museum {Basel) 257,369,370,371
Bonnard, Pierre 240-3; Bust in Profile 241
Borghese Gallery (Rome) 368-9
Boyd, Arthur 329,332
British art 330-2
British Museum 264
Brooklyn Museum {New York) 264
Brunelleschi, Filippo 7, 10-n, 72, 76, 78-9, 108, 268,271
Buddhism 284-6, 296-7, 314,315,317,319
Buddhist art: Chinese aesthetic 287,291,296,317; evolution of style 318; Gandharan aesthetic 284,317; Indo-Iranian aesthetic 284-5, 287,290,291; major sites along Silk Roads 285; ownership of 294; removal of wall paintings 294-5; themes 286-7; see also Chinese Buddhist sculpture
Buddhist cave temples: Bezeklik cave temples 295-6; Khara :Khoto site 286-7; Mazhabohe cave temples 291; Senmusaimu (or Subashi) cave temples 291; Toyuk cave temples 297; Yungang cave temples 317-18
Buddhist sculpture at Qjngzhou; characteristics 312-13, 319-20; deliberate breaking and storage 314; discovery 312-13; evolution of style 312-13; formalism 317-18, 319; Gandharan aesthetic 317; Longxing temple site 319; Standing Buddha 316; Yungang Imperial cave temples 318
Bunny, Rupert 328
Burckhard!, Jacob 97,123
Byzantine art 72-3, 82, 84
C
Caravaggio 3 -42, 371; Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness 41
ceramics 302-3, 304,305
Cezanne, Paul 55, 173-5, 177-8, 184; Still Life with Apples 176, 177
China 349-50, 353-4, 357
Chinese art: influence of Buddhism and Dao ism 301-2; Song Dynasty aesthetic 302,303,305, 310-11; tradition of’three perfections’ 217; see also Buddhist art; Buddhist sculpture at Qjngzhou; jade carving
Chinese ceramics 302-3, 304,305
Chinese landscape painting: annotating paintings 219, 220-1; calligraphy 213-14; colophons 218-19; composition 214, 216-17, 218, 220-1; individuality within traditions 136-7, 224-5, 305-6; ‘literati’ tradition 218,220,221,224,307; mountain theme 224-5, 307; origins of 307; the ‘three perfections’ 217; traditions of 136, 138, 139-40
Clark, Kenneth 6, 7, 94, 105
Confucianism 12-14, 317
Confucius 12-14, 15, 16, 233-4
Corporazione delle Arti Florentine 279-80
Cossington Smith, Grace 329
Craig-Martin, Michael 203-4
Cranach, Lucas (the elder) 32-3, 35-7, 42; Martyrdom of St Catherine 32, 33, 34
Cullen, Adam 39,213,342,362
D-H
D
Dadaism 168, 170
Daoism 301-2, 317
Delacroix, Eugene 376
drawing: characteristics of 205, 208; compared to paintings 208; and sensory experience 205
Drysdale, Russell 332
Duchamp, Marcel 165-8, 171-2; Fountain 168, 169, 170-1
Dunhuang Buddhist cave temples 58, 285, 286, 287,294
Durer, Albrecht 96
E
Enlightenment 13-14
Epstein,Jacob 54
Eyck, Jan van 130, 133
F
Flaubert, Gustave 340,342
Flemish art 130, 132-3, 134
Forbidden City {Palace Museum, Beijing) 376-8
Franchi, Raffaello 244
Frater, William 178
Freer, Charles Lang 156-7
Freer Gallery of Art 157
Frick Collection {New York) 256,376
Frick, Henry Clay 376
G
Gallery of Modern Art (Queensland) 253
Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri 54
Gehry, Frank 371
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 268-9
Ghirlandaio, Domenico 77, 200-2, 270-1, 278; Birth of the Virgin 272-3; An Old Man and a Boy 199,200
Giacometti, Alberto 228-32
Gibbs-Smith, Charles 359-60
Giorgione 17, 19, 90, 94-5, 103-5; The Tempest 94, 95, 96-7, 98-103, 104, 274-5
Giotto 69, 72-3, 269,270
Giovanni, Matteo di 114
Glover, John 328
Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao) 251, 371-2
Guggenheim Museum {New York) 251
Guo Xi 307,310
Guo Zhongshou 144
H
Henson, Bill 43-4, 46-7
Paris Opera series 43, 44, 45
Hirst, Damien 204
human figure, depiction of
humanism
I-P
I
Impressionism 173, 174
individualism 3-7, 10-11, 280, 282
International Gothic 82
Italian Renaissance: abstract values in art 266-7; Arcadian visions in poetry 97-8; context for 7-9; legacy of 266; material culture legacy 3, 5; Paduan Aristotelianism 99; painting in Florence compared to Venice 90, 96; patronage of artists 267-9, 270-1, 278-80, 282
J
jade carving: evolution of 236,238; symbolic or ritualistic objects 235-6; symbolic value of jade 234, 238, 239; technique of 235,238; Brush Washer in the Shape of a Lotus Leaf 237
Jing Hao 139
K
Klein, Yves 171, 172
Anthropometries 171
Klepac, Lou 244
Koons, Jeff, Puppy 371
L
Lambert, George W, Holiday in Essex 323-4, 326
Le Coq, Albert von 283,285,287,290, 291, 294,295, 296, 297
Lenbauchhaus (Munich) 257
Leonardo da Vinci 6-7, 10, 96
Leyland, Frederick 149,156
Lorenzo, Bicci di 116
Lotto, Lorenzo 17-21, 19, 24-31; Annunciation 29, 30, 31; Christ and the Adulteress 21, 22-3, 279; Portrait of Andrea Odoni 18, 21, 25, 26-7
M
Mccubbin, Frederick 328
Manichaeism 286, 296
Mannerists 39
Mantegna, Andrea 85-6
Manzoni, Piero 171, 204
Mao Zedong 329,347,348,356
Masaccio, Tommaso 69-80; The Tribute Money 69, 70-1, 74; The Trinity 69, 75, 77-9
Matisse, Henri 50
Mazdaism (Zoroastrianism) 285
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) 258-9, 262
Mi Fei 310,350
Michelangelo 3-4, 5, 124,128,208; Tityus 208, 210-11
Montefeltro, Frederico da 114, 116, 120
Moore, Henry 48-51, 53-7; King and Q)teen 48, 49, 52, 55, 56-7
Morandi, Giorgio 244, 246-7; Still Life 245
Musee Delacroix (Paris) 378,379,380
Museum of Australia 265
Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney) 251
Museum Rietberg (Zurich) 367-8
museums see names of specific museums
N
National Gallery (London) 255-6, 258,374
naturalism 4, 10, 39, 73, 76, 87,107
Nestorian Christianity 285-6, 296
Neuville, Alphonse Marie de 330
Newman, Barnett 197-8, 204,209; Untitled 206
Ni Zan 220
Nolan, Sidney 59, 61-2, 64-5, 329,332; Chinese Mountain Landscape with Three Boats 63
Ned Kelly 60, 62
Norton Simon Museum 256-7, 375
O
Odoni, Andrea 25, 28
Olley, Margaret 25, 164, 189-90, 240,341, 361-3
Olsen,John 209
Owen, Robert, Apposition 337, 338-9
P
painting: Alberti’s Della Pittura ( On Painting) 6, 69, 72, 108; Dao Ji’s Huayu Lu (Notes on Painting) 139, 140, 142-3, 166; and drawing 179,204; perfection and imperfection 197-8; Vasari’s Lives of the Artists 17-18, 20-1, 77, 78, 79, 90
Palma Vecchio 98,278
Parr, Mike 208, 209
Perugino 120, 124-5
Philadelphia Museum of Art 264
photography, and painting 44
Piano, Renzo 257,367,369
Piero della Francesca 20, 87, 106-7, 108-16, 117-18, 120,180,184,190,203; Baptism of Christ 106,112,115,116, 118, 255-6; The Resurrection 108-9, 110
Pinturicchio 280; Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini Presents Eleonora of Aragon to Frederick III 281
Pontormo 275; Study for the Angel Gabriel 207,208
Pope-Hennessy, John 364-6
Post-Impressionism 173
Poynter,E dward John 330,3 32
Q-Z
Q
Qjanlong (Emperor, Qjan Dynasty) 214,216
Qjn Shi Huang, pottery warriors 354-5
R
Raphael 11, 90, 119-27, 128,208, 270; The Entombment 20, 119, 121-7, 126,128,371
realism 10, 39, 76,107,146,181,183,190,275, 278-9
Rees, Lloyd 330
Rembrandt 82
Renaissance 3-4; see also Italian Renaissance
Roberts, Tom 328
Roberts,William 331
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 149, 152
S
sculpture 49, 50-1, 54-6; see also Budddhist sculpture at Qjngzhou
secularisation 9-10, 270-80, 275
Settis, Salvatore 103
Shanghai Museum (Shanghai) 372-3
Shitao see Dao Ji
Signorelli, Luca 36, 208-9
Smart, Jeffrey 106, 108,114, 179-85, 188-90, 192-3, 208,209; Matisse at Ashford 183, 186-7; Portrait of Clive James 188-9, 191
Stein, Aurel 283,285,294
Streeton, Arthur 328,329
Struth, Thomas 258,261
Su Shi (Su Dongpo) 219,306,307
Sydney Football Club 344, 345-6
T
Tate Modern (London) 252,262
Tintoretto 85
Titian 17-18, 90, 98,371; The Vendramin Family 276-7
Turner,J MW 162-3
Twombly, Cy 158-9, 162,164; Three Studies from the Temeraire 160-1, 162-4, 280
U
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V
Vasari, Giorgio 17-18, 20-1, 77, 78, 79, 90,267
Victoria and Albert Museum 251, 359-60, 364
Viola, Bill 208-9
W
Whistler, James McNeill 33, 145-8, 149-50, 155-6, 376; the Peacock Room 153-7; LaPrincesse du Pays de la Porcelaine, 152, 153,156,157; The Six Projects, 149-50
White, Patrick 62
Whiteley, Brett 106
Williams, Fred 332
Wootton, Barbara 348,349
Wu Zhen, Fisherman by a Wooded Bank 221, 222-3
XYZ
XuWei 218
Flowers in Four Seasons 214,215, 216-17
Xuan Zang 296
Zhao Mengfu 216,220
Zheng Qjan 217
Zheng Sixiao 139
