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內容簡介 超現實主義先驅畫家波希逝世五百周年紀念畫集，全新翻拍的圖集配上史家導讀，帶你一窺畫家作品中奇詭怪誕的世界及其背後曖昧幽深的象徵意義。荷蘭畫家波希（Hieronymus Bosch）（1450-1516），又譯「博斯」。歌德主義晚期與文藝復興主義早期，藝壇傾向寫實作風，波希卻獨樹一格，畫中景象怪誕，繪滿想像的人、獸，除了有傳統的奇幻生物如：人馬、獨角獸、惡魔、龍、獅鷲之外，還有畫家隨心創造的混種生物，半人半獸，造型奇詭，意象幽微晦澀，代表了人類的貪慾、癡迷、嗔怒。波希的畫風引發許多後人擬作或仿效，這些作品的數量比波希本人的畫作要多出十倍，目前確定出自波希手筆的只有寥寥二十件畫作及八件素描。後世認為波希的風格走在時代之先，以種種象徵手法，將夢境及夢魘描繪得絲絲入扣，尤其擅長地獄及群魔景象。本書為紀念波希逝世五百週年而出版，收錄了波希所有的畫作。全新拍攝近期修復的畫作，細膩的畫質搭配長幅摺頁，讓畫中細節一覽無遺。賞畫之餘，專門研究波希的藝術史學家Stefan Fischer也將帶領讀者一同探究畫家的身世及其畫作的影響。In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch's paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch's day. In his Temptation of St Anthony triptych, for example, the artist shows a messenger devil wearing ice skates, evoking the popular expression that the world was "skating on ice"-meaning it had gone astray. In his pictorial translation of proverbs, in particular, Bosch was very much an innovator. Bosch-whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken-was widely copied and imitated: the number of surviving works by Bosch's followers exceeds the master's own production by more than tenfold. Today only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Bosch's oeuvre. He continues to be seen as a visionary, a portrayer of dreams and nightmares, and the painter par excellence of hell and its demons.Featuring brand new photography of recently restored paintings, this book covers the artist's complete works. Discover Bosch's pictorial inventions in splendid reproductions with copious details. Art historian and acknowledged Bosch expert Stefan Fischer examines just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential.
