Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This beautiful monograph explores the life and work of one of the most important artists in the history of the West, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520). Its scope covers Raphael's origins, his early influences, his important Urbino period and subsequently the extraordinary series of frescoes and portraits of his last phase in Rome. Over two hundred of Raphael's finest paintings and drawings…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Tiziano Vecellio (c.1488/90-1576) — known in English simply as Titian — was a remarkably versatile painter, equally comfortable with a wide range of genres and subjects. Unlike many artists from history whose work has been appreciated only after their death, Titian enjoyed fame and success throughout his career, which spanned over seven decades. Based in Venice, Titian received commissions from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (c. 1390/95-1455), known as Fra Angelico, was possibly the most celebrated religious painter of the Italian Early Renaisance. Adhering to the austere life of a Dominican monastery despite his huge success, Fra Angelico's contemporary biographer Giorgio Vasari said of him 'it is impossible to bestow too much praise on this holy father, who was so humble and modest in all…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Danny Lyon emerged as a courageous participant and recorder of the civil rights movement in America in the early 1960s. He has long been considered one of the most popular and influential American photographers and pioneered the style of photographic 'New Journalism' — immersing himself and becoming a participant in his subjects' lives and leading the way in a style of photography that has…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In a survey of Californian-based artist Mike Kelly, the author of this volume discusses with the artist his various aesthetic and symbolic strategies in both the American and In European contexts. Kelly's work is considered in the context of his anti-art predecessors since Dada and chronicles all of Kelly's work, from his earliest performances in the late 1970s to his large sculptural…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Francois Truffaut (1932-1984), French motion-picture director and critic, a leader of the nouvelle vague movement of filmmakers who rejected the slick, impersonal style of studio filmmaking for a more personal approach, in which the director has sole creative authority and is recognized as the author of a film. Truffaut was born in Paris. After a troubled childhood, he left school at the age of…
Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: The Three Robbers has been translated into sixteen languages and has sold millions of copies in the 45 years since it was first published. However, it has been unavailable in English for years, depriving English-speaking children around the world of one of the most memorable, entertaining, and beautiful storybooks ever published, in which good triumphs over evil in a delightfully unexpected way.…
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: «Cartoonist and illstrator Jean-Jacques Sempe has been delighting readers in France and beyond with his witty drawing and cunning eye for the finer amusements of the human condition for over 40 years. This most recent body of his work from 2003, is now available in English. In «Mixed Messages», Sempe turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, mobile phones, designer water, as well as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word 'Pop' described any example of art, film, photography and architectural design that engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. In addition to key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton and many others, this book includes works of photography and avant-garde film, as well as what the critic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by Andre Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon. During World War II Surrealism's exiled artists and writers had a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: For more than a thousand years, until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire, the Christian successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, stretched across large areas of Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Under successive emperors, the artists, architects and craftsmen of Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) worked within a long-established tradition to produce superb…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Magnum photographer Steve McCurry has beautifully and evocatively photographed the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, among the world’s most impressive monuments. Published for the first time in paperback, over one hundred of his images of the site are collected in this stunning book, which documents a magical world of carved gods, weathered masonry, tangled vegetation and orange-robed monks.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: This new monograph explores the life and works of Theodore Gericault (1791-1824), whose compelling career and legacy continue to captivate audiences, artists, and critics alike. In her comprehensive survey, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer pays tribute to established Gericault scholarship while reassessing the career of an artist too easily miscast as the archetypal 'tortured soul' of art-historical…
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: «Francis Ford Coppola (USA, b. 1939) is the oldest of the generation of 'movie brats', including Scorsese and Spielberg, who breathed new life into the Hollywood of the 1970s. He revived the glory of the studio age with the legendary «Godfather» saga (1972-90), explored the soul of America at war in Vietnam with «Apocalypse Now» (1979) and has directed some of the greatest actors, including…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: R. B. Kitaj (1932-) is recognized as a modern master whose powerful, controversial and highly personal paintings, pastels and drawings reflect his unfashionable commitment to the human figure as a subject, and his complex involvement with the art of the past, with political and social issues, and with his own Jewish identity. Marco Livingstone's definitive and much praised monograph on Kitaj is…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «Marina Abramovic is a widely revered artist whose courageous performance works have revolutionized visual arts. A pivotal figure for several generations, Abramovic has been enthusiastically embraced by the newest crop of artists, critics and art historians. Her iconic endurance works have featured prominently in virtually every comprehensive survey of performance art. With a career that spans…
Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: «Alfred Hitchcock (UK, 1899-1980) is undeniably the world's most famous film director. His name has become synonymous with the cinema, and each new generation takes the same pleasure in rediscovering his films, which are now treasures of our artistic heritage. Hitchcock started out in the British silent cinema of the 1920s, which reached its peak with successful thrillers such as «The Man Who…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This book brings together the finest collection available of star clusters, galaxies, nebulae and other such spectacular phenomena caught on film. Each beautiful image, made from a series of delicate yet rich platinum prints, is accompanied by a clear and engaging caption. Malin's short texts (approximately 100 words) describe the depicted phenomena and some of the mythology surrounding them. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Beginning with 'Gilles de Binche' (Antwerp, 2005) and concluding with 'Against the Day' (Brussels, Moscow and Malmo, 2009-10), acclaimed painter Luc Tuymans produced a landmark suite of seven thematically linked bodies of work. Their meta-narrative, which traces the philosophical and psychic roots of contemporary civilization, weaves together a range of photographic source images, from St Peter's…