Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: One of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists and a founding figure of modern art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) incorporated the influences of many cultures into his work. He pioneered an appreciation of the simple and primitive, traveling to Martinique, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands for inspiration. The artist's legacy is recalled in this excellent collection of 16 Gauguin masterpieces,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 295) Аннотация: Dan Graham's body of art and theory — which dates from shortly after he moved to New York in 1964 — has become a key part of the Conceptual art canon. He is a highly influential figure in the field of Contemporary art, both as a practitioner and as a well-respected critic and theorist. Best known for his large-scale installations incorporating mirrors — in which viewers become lost in a maze of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Color in architecture must be intense, logical and fertile, wrote Catalan architect and designer Antoni Gaudi in his diary in the late 1870s. Known for his sensuous, curving, almost surreal Art Nouveau buildings, Gaudi (1852-1926) is today one of the best known architects in the world. Over the course of four decades, he designed an incredible variety of architectural structures, including…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Willem de Kooning arrived in the United States in 1926 as a 22-year-old stowaway from Holland--soon to become a leading figure in the emergence of Abstract Expressionist painting in New York. This volume presents over 100 illustrations from each phase of de Kooning's career, and describes the personal and art historical background behind his work and its critical reception. Sally Yard, author of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The work of Vito Acconci is among the most influential of the last 30 years. His experiments with performance, audio and video, sculpture, and architecture from the late 1960s through the present have become points of reference for younger artists. The overriding concerns throughout his work have been self-analysis and interpersonal relationships, themes he has explored in many different ways.…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Alberto Giacometti's early Surrealist and Cubist forms, compact volumes inspired by Africa and the Cyclades, eventually led this seminal twentieth-century Swiss artist to acknowledge a formal void that he would spend the balance of his career filling with the human figure. In the mid-1930s, influenced by the terrible social and political changes that were taking place across Europe, Giacometti…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Henri Matisse (1869-1954) is without doubt the most important twentieth-century French artist, and one of the great colorists of art history. His work utterly refutes the cliché that the great discoveries of Modernism were attained by a heroic and violent abandonment of the past: he was firmly grounded in tradition (albeit in a much less restless and ironic approach than Picasso's). In the…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Antoni Tapies was born in 1923 to a Barcelona family of publishers and booksellers. He began drawing and painting as a young man, during a convalescence, and in the end gave up studying law to concentrate on art. By the 1940s, in his 20s, Tapies was already exhibiting widely. As an early Matter painter, he added dirt and other solids to his canvases, transmuting them into art and reminding…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The career of French artist Yves Klein lasted just eight years (from 1954 to 1962), but in that short span he took Europe by storm. Working in Paris at the height of geometric abstraction and Art Informel, in an intellectual climate dominated by Existentialism, Klein presaged many developments in the postwar avant garde: performance art, Minimalism and Conceptualism (one of his mottoes…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Widely considered one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most mysterious and erotically daring, painters of the twentieth century, Balthus, or Balthazar Klossowski, the French/Polish Count de Rola, died in his adopted Switzerland in 2001 at the age of 93. Descended from Polish aristocracy and raised among important European intellectuals like Rainer Maria Rilke, Andre Gide and Jean…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Goya--the name alone evokes countless masterpieces, both painted and printed: the raw and brutal «Third of May 1808» the nightmarish Caprichos etchings (with the famous motto, «The sleep of reason produces monsters»), the compellingly erotic «Nude Maja» and «Clothed Maja» the savage Disasters of War series and, of course, the late black paintings, with their murky forebodings of public unrest and…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is without doubt one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century. Dead at the age of 44, he nonetheless bequeathed a substantial body of pioneering work to countless subsequent artists for whom he stood as a model of fearlessness, courageous improvisation and balletic grace. Throughout his life, Pollock wrote very little about his own art or that…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Perhaps no other figure exerted a greater influence on the urban transformation of Barcelona during the first third of the 20th century than Josep Puig i Cadafalch. If as an architect he constituted a perfect example of the tension posed between Modernism and Noucentisme, as a historian and archeologist he contributed to the recuperation of a significant part of Catalonia's historical and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Close Distance is both an exhibition and a collaborative artist's book by Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento and British writer Adrian Searle. Searle reviews Sarmento's output in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and film, which for Searle «speaks of sex, violence, the repressed, the unconscionable and the deliberately--provocatively--inexplicable.»
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From Edvard Munch to Chris Ofili, French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) has exerted a profound influence on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gauguin began as an Impressionist, contributing major works to the movement's groundbreaking exhibitions between 1879 and 1886. This concise, beautifully illustrated monograph collects Gauguin's most important works. In addition to his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Stage director Robert Wilson has devoted the greatest of efforts toward integrating multidisciplinary elements from a range of creative fields into the realm of theater. Light and movement have played an especially central role in his productions, not only as compositional elements but as symbolic features. In this publication, his wildly creative, discipline-crossing oeuvre is approached through…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Like his Dutch contemporary Vermeer, Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) had little reputation outside of his native land until the nineteenth century, when the Spanish royal painting collections became state property and were installed in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The year was in 1819, and several private and official collections in London and Paris also benefited. Unlike Vermeer, however, Velazquez…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Gaudi fu una delle menti piu brillanti del periodo a cavallo tra il XIX e il XX secolo.