{"id":26903,"date":"2020-10-10T13:19:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26903"},"modified":"2020-10-10T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T17:26:16","slug":"book-report-at-the-sea-by-jennifer-bright-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/10\/book-report-at-the-sea-by-jennifer-bright-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>At The Sea<\/i> by Jennifer Bright (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/atthesea.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">Instead of a single artist&#8217;s monograph, this book collects a number of paintings of the sea from Pieter Brueghel the Elder&#8217;s &#8220;Fall of Icarus&#8221; to modernist twaddle like Jackson Pollock&#8217;s &#8220;Blue (Moby Dick)&#8221;.  So you can take one subject like this and kind of chart the evolution of painting through the depiction of sea-side scenes.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re not sure of whose art you might like, or if you can&#8217;t buy complete artist monographs for a buck each at a sale and don&#8217;t want to gamble, this might be the survey course to get you started.  You can get a flavor of some old masters, some Impressionists, and some of those damned twentieth-century artists who made everything look like rubbish, and you can be reasonably sure that the blue somewhere on the canvas is supposed to be water.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed most of it.  I was familiar with some, like &#8220;Fall of Icarus&#8221;.  It reinforced a bit of my taste and perhaps nationalism in that I think early twentieth century American artists were able to resist some of the continental foolishness for a while, but eventually succombed to the modern tastemakers, unfortunately.<\/p>\n<p>So a nice browser between deeper readings or deep throws down the field.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of a single artist&#8217;s monograph, this book collects a number of paintings of the sea from Pieter Brueghel the Elder&#8217;s &#8220;Fall of Icarus&#8221; to modernist twaddle like Jackson Pollock&#8217;s &#8220;Blue (Moby Dick)&#8221;. So you can take one subject like this and kind of chart the evolution of painting through the depiction of sea-side scenes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26904,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions\/26904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}