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Clifford S. Ackley: Holland on Paper in the Age of Art Nouveau

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From the 1890s through the turn of the century, there was a flourishing of imaginative art and craft throughout Europe that we now know as Art Nouveau. The Netherlands experienced an inventive variant of this art and design phenomenon, but until now it has been largely overshadowed by its counterparts in other countries, especially France. This richly illustrated book is the first in English to…

Kandinsky Wassily: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Скачать книгу (размер 697 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 138) Аннотация: Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective artistic forms, is universally recognized as an essential document of Modernist art theory. A brilliant philosophical treatise and an emphatic avant-garde tract, it provides the theoretical underpinnings…

Haas Karen E.: Photography

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This latest volume in the MFA Highlights series showcases over 100 stunning photographs from the museum's collection. An extensive introductory essay traces the aesthetic and technical history of photography as an art form, from the early days of the camera obscura through the invention of the daguerreotype and calotype and into the present digital age. In the selection of objects that compose…

Ilchman Frederick: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters — Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese — overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, and its plentiful commissions fostered an exceptionally fertile and innovative climate. In it, the three artists — brilliant,…

Kachurin Pamela Jill: Soviet Textiles: Designing the Modern Utopia

Скачать книгу (размер 473 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 94) Аннотация: Between 1927 and 1933, as the new Soviet Union emerged and the Communist party struggled to transform an agrarian country into an industrialized state, a group of young artists pitched in by designing fabrics depicting tractors, smokestacks and symbols of collective modernity, cloth with which to mold its buyers into ideal Soviet citizens. Few of these designs ever saw mass production, and the…

Klich Lynda: The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A: Lauder Collection

Скачать книгу (размер 1 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 295) Аннотация: In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures and enigmas of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting examples were made by artists whose names we…

Speed, Style, and Beauty

Скачать книгу (размер 1 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 210) Аннотация: With nearly 200 colour images plus rarely seen design sketches and period photographs of the cars in action, this elegant, informative book will delight both rampant car enthusiasts and afficionados of great design in any form.