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Warwick Genevieve: Bernini: Art as Theatre

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: While Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) is celebrated as a sculptor, architect, and painter, it is less known that he also was a playwright, scenographer, actor, and director. The Baroque period saw the rise of opera and ballet, as well as increasingly elaborate scenographic technologies for court and religious theatre. Bernini drew from this lexicon of theatrical effects, deploying…

Majer Michele: Staging Fashion, 1880-1920: Jane Hading, Lily Elsie, Billie Burke

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Although Jane Hading (1859-1940), Lily Elsie (1886-1962), and Billie Burke (1884-1970) gained fame as stage actresses, their popular appeal also rested on their ability to cultivate a glamorous appearance. Their careers illustrate the early transformation of actresses into marketable commodities whose celebrity status depended on the consumption of their images. This celebrity, in turn, was used…

Rabinow Rebecca A.: Matisse: In Search of True Painting

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, push further and deeper into true painting. In a fresh approach to this giant of 20th-century art, Matisse: In Search of True Painting examines sixty works and more than five decades in a series of concise chapters by prominent…

Bills Mark: Dickens and the Artists

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A remarkably visual writer, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) emerged from a tradition where illustrations formed a significant part of both serial and book publishing. At the centenary of his birth, Dickens and the Artists explores the novelist's artistic opinions and connections. His tastes are manifest in his novels, his magazine Household Words and his journalism. Dickens engaged with the art of…

Brunner Bernd: Inventing the Christmas Tree

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A colourfully decorated Christmas tree, lit with twinkling lights, provokes awe and delight. We understand the lighted tree as a central symbol of the Christmas season, but what are the roots of the tradition? Who first thought to bedeck a tree, to bring it inside? How and where did the local activity grow into a widespread tradition, and how has the Christmas tree traveled across time and…

Harold Koda: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: From Wonder Woman's satin stars and golden bracelets to Batman's brooding cape and mask, the style of superheroes' dress has influenced both street wear and high fashion. This richly illustrated book explores how radical couture, avant-garde sportswear, and state-of-the-art military garments — as seen through the lens of the superhero — can be metaphors for sex, power, and politics. Beginning…

Richard Rand: Eye to Eye: European Portraits, 1450-1850

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Portraiture is an enduring genre that has captivated artists and viewers for hundreds of years. From the late 15th through the early 19th century, artists continued to find new ways of approaching the portrait by exploring a range of styles, strategies, and themes. In this beautiful book, noted scholars discuss these various approaches and explain how they apply to specific examples, focusing on…

Andrew Bolton: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most influential, imaginative and inspirational designers at the turn of the millennium. His fashions both challenged and expanded the conventional parameters of clothing beyond utility to a compelling expression of culture, politics and identity. Focusing on the most iconic and acclaimed designs of his prolific career, this stunning book examines…

John House: The Genius of Renoir: Paintings from the Clark

Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: With a consuming enthusiasm for the paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), art collector Sterling Clark assembled one of the greatest private collections of Renoir's work during the first half of the twentieth century. Today the masterpieces he so admired form a vital part of the Impressionist holdings of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. «The Genius of Renoir: Paintings…

Susan Frances Jones: Van Eyck to Gossaert: Towards a Northern Renaissance

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Objects of beauty and prestige with their rich colour and fine detail, early Netherlandish oil paintings were among the most sought-after works of the Renaissance. Beginning in the early fifteenth century with Jan van Eyck, and ending in the early sixteenth century with the career of Pieter Bruegel, Susan Frances Jones explores the roles played by paintings in political, domestic, religious and…

Elsa Smithgall: Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Russian artist and theoretician Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a significant figure in 20th-century abstraction. His masterwork Painting with White Border (1913; Guggenheim Museum), inspired by his native Moscow, emerged during an intensely creative period in his artistic development. Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence presents a rare, in-depth examination of the painting and more than…

Martin Postle: Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The 18th-century painter Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was an astute observer of the many social circles in which he functioned as an artist over the course of his long career. This catalogue investigates his sharp wit, shrewd political appraisal, and perceptive social commentary (including subtle allusions to illicit relationships) — all achieved while presenting his subjects as delightful and…

Judy Egerton: Hogarth's Marriage A-La-Mode (+ DVD)

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Directing his pointed wit at the upper echelons of 18th-century British society, William Hogarth, a painter, printmaker, and social critic, mocked the politics and customs of his day. His series of satirical paintings and engravings, which still absorb viewers after nearly three centuries, record human vice and folly with a sharp eye and cutting intelligence. This compelling book, with an…

David Elliott: Bye Bye Kitty!!!

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: In recent decades Japanese art has achieved immense popularity in the West while being little understood. Critics have focused on the superficiality and infantilism they find prevalent in much of the work, while many Westerners are familiar with the country's artistic side solely through manga and anime. «Bye Bye Kitty!!!» offers a more incisive and wide-ranging view of the contemporary Japanese…

Christiansen Keith: The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: In the words of the historian Jacob Burkhardt, 15th-century Italy was 'the place where the notion of the individual was born'. In keeping with this notion, early Renaissance Italy also hosted the first great age of portraiture in Europe. Artists working in Florence, Venice, and the courts of Italy created magnificent portrayals of the people around them — heads of state and church, patrons,…

Liedtke Walter: Frans Hals: Style and Substance

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Portraits and genre scenes by the great Dutch painter Frans Hals (1582/83–1666) are celebrated for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. His dramatic compositions and bold technique brought his subjects to life in an unprecedented way. This book focuses upon eleven major works by Hals from the Metropolitan Museum's collection, supplemented by two Hals paintings from private collections and a…

Diba Layla: Turkmen Silver

Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: The Turkmen people of Central Asia and Iran are revered for their carpets and textiles. Less well known, but equally stunning, is the extraordinary silver jewelry created by Turkmen tribal craftsmen and urban silversmiths throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. This catalogue presents nearly two hundred pieces in glorious detail, ranging from crowns and headdresses to armbands and rings,…

Mathews Thomas F.: Византия от античности до Ренессанса (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: With images culled from eleven hundred years of history, this comprehensive survey explores the Byzantine empire's vast range of artistic splendors that indelibly informed the art of modern Europe. Renowned scholar Thomas Mathews emphasizes that the Byzantines' interest in humanism and painting the human figure became the essential bridge between classical and renaissance Europe. Starting with a…

Siken Richard: Краш: поэтический сборник юных дарований (на английском языке)

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Richard Siken's Crush, selected as this year's winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional, gay, savage, and charged with violent eroticism. In her introduction to the book, competition judge Louise Gluck hails the cumulative, driving, apocalyptic…

Kahng Eik: Picasso and Braque

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Picasso and Braque offers an intimate look at one of the most pivotal exchanges in the history of Western art: the culminating two years (1910-12) of Analytic Cubism. While the Cubist experiment has long been a requisite chapter in the history of modernism, this is the first publication to delve deeply into these two intense years of productivity, revealing the intriguing pictorial game being…