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Stratton-Pruitt Suzanne L.: Journeys to New Worlds

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This beautifully illustrated catalogue showcases 126 Spanish and Portuguese artworks from the 17th and 18th centuries, all highlights from the dazzling collection of Roberta and Richard Huber. Featuring works in a variety of media and from far-flung places, including paintings, silver, and furniture from South America and sculptures in ivory from the Spanish Philippines and from Portuguese…

Trumble Angus: Edwardian Opulence

Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: The Edwardian age was as brief as the Victorian era that preceded it was long. It has been depicted as an indolent summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency, but also as a period of rapid political, economic, and artistic change, culminating in the First World War. This magnificent book explores themes of power, nostalgia, and a contrasting lightness of touch that characterized the…

Danto Arthur C.: What Art is

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of…

Richard Daniel de Puma: Etruscan Art: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This informative and engaging book on the Museum's outstanding collection of Etruscan art also provides an introduction to the fascinating and diverse culture of ancient Etruria, which thrived in central Italy from about 900 to 100 B.C. Masterpieces of the collection include seventh-century B.C. objects from the Monteleone di Spoleto tomb group (including the famous, remarkably well-preserved,…

Hopkins Andrew: Baldassare Longhena and Venetian Baroque Architecture

Скачать книгу (размер 1 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 372) Аннотация: This fascinating book offers the first comprehensive study in English of Baldassare Longhena (1598-1682), the indispensable architect of the Venetian Baroque. While Longhena's legacy is most visible in his iconic Madonna della Salute, the 17th-century basilica devoted to the Virgin Mary in gratitude for Venice's deliverance from the plague, and in the Pesaro and Rezzonico palaces along the Grand…

McCullagh Suzanne Folds: Capturing the Sublime: Italian Drawings of the Renaissance and Baroque

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: This handsome volume brings together an impressive array of scholars, who analyze an outstanding private collection of 175 Old Master drawings that date from the 16th through the 18th century. The collection vibrantly revealed here includes a wide variety of drawings — from sketches and figure drawings to copies after masters and preliminary studies for major compositions — and features the work…

Rubinfien Leo: Garry Winogrand

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) did much of his best-known work in Manhattan during the 1960s, becoming an epic chronicler of that tumultuous decade. But Winogrand was also an avid traveller and roamed extensively around the United States, bringing exquisite work out of nearly every region of the country. This landmark…

Bolton Andrew: Punk: Chaos to Couture

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Since its origins in the 1970s, punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. As a style, punk was about chaos, anarchy, and rebellion. This title examines the impact of punk's aesthetic of brutality on high fashion, focusing especially on its do-it-yourself, rip-it-to-shreds ethos, the antithesis of couture's made-to-measure exactitude.

Wieseman Marjorie: Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is one of the worlds most captivating artists. Renowned for his sublimely beautiful depictions of everyday Dutch life, Vermeer created exquisite paintings that are sought out by any art lover. Music was a key facet of 17th-century Dutch life, in both public and private. Of Vermeers 36 surviving paintings, twelve depict musical themes or a musical instrument. These…

Wilton Andrew: Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: The American painter Frederic Church (1826-1900) rose to fame as a member of the Hudson River School, which inaugurated the great tradition of American landscape painting. He was also a leading proponent of the landscape oil sketch made rapidly out-of-doors, in front of the subject. Such informal and spontaneous works often served as preparatory studies for large-scale paintings, and played a…

Foster Carter E.: Hopper Drawing

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Edward Hopper (1882 — 1967) is recognized as one of the most well-known American artists of the 20th century. His distinctive style, combining subtle observations of the world with his imagination, has not only influenced other artists but also photographers, filmmakers, and popular culture. Although Hopper is primarily known for his oil paintings, including such iconic works as Nighthawks (1942)…

Van Grieken Joris: Hieronymus Cock: The Renaissance in Print

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Hieronymus Cock (1518-1570) was an Antwerp painter and printmaker. Together with his wife, he was one of the first to establish a publishing house for prints. From 1548 their firm At the Sign of the Four Winds issued hundreds of important etchings and engravings. Prints after frescoes and paintings by Italian artists Raphael and Bronzino, the first series of classical ruins, antique sculpture, as…

Carvalho Rosa de: Printmaking in Paris: The Rage for Prints at the Fin De Siecle

Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: In the years between 1890 and 1905, Paris witnessed a revolution in printmaking. Before this time, prints had primarily served reproductive or political ends, but, as the century came to a close, artistic quality became paramount, and printmaking blossomed into an autonomous art form. This gorgeously illustrated and accessibly written book looks at the circumstances in which this terrific new…

Flores Tatiana: Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: In December 1921, the poet Manuel Maples Arce (1898 — 1981) papered the walls of Mexico City with his manifesto Actual No. 1, sparking the movement Estridentismo (Stridentism). It is inspired by Mexico's rapid modernization following the Mexican Revolution, the Estridentistas attempted to overturn the status quo in Mexican culture, taking inspiration from contemporary European movements and…

Amanda Reeser Lawrence: James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: James Stirling was one of the most influential architects of the late 20th century. His formally inventive yet historically informed designs inspired a generation of architects in his native England and throughout the world. James Stirling: Revisionary Modernist is the first in-depth, book-length analysis of the architect's work. Amanda Reeser Lawrence focuses on six of Stirling's projects from…

Sarah Blake McHam: Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the Natural History

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Pliny's «Natural History» (AD 77-79) served as a guide to and exemplar of the ideals of art for Renaissance artists, patrons, and theorists. This title charts the historiography of Latin and Italian manuscripts and early printed copies of the «Natural History» to trace the dissemination of its contents to artists from Donatello to Michelangelo.

Simpson Marc: Winslow Homer: The Clark Collection

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is one of the core figures of 19th-century American art. The Clark Art Institute holds one of the greatest collections of Homer's work across all media. The collection was assembled predominately by Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956). This book examines Clark as a collector of Homer and the Clark's extensive holdings.

Vellekoop Marije: Van Gogh at Work

Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is often considered to be a genius in a class of his own, an exceptional self-taught artist who paid little attention to the art world around him. In reality, Van Gogh learned extensively from others, exchanged ideas with his contemporaries, and often made use of prevailing methods and techniques to hone his skills. This extraordinary book explores the workmanship…

William Merritt Chase

Скачать книгу (размер 738 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 146) Аннотация: A perennial favourite of museum visitors, the works of William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) embody the quintessential characteristics of American Impressionism: outdoor landscapes, a colourful palette, and an energetic brush stroke. He was also a portrait painter of the first rank, a master of still life, a renowned teacher, and a leader of artists' societies. This gorgeous book, the first of a…

Bremner G.A.: Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870

Скачать книгу (размер 1 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 364) Аннотация: The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with 18th — and 19th — century British cultural politics. By the middle of the 19th century, architects and theorists had transformed the movement into a serious scholarly endeavour, connecting it to notions of propriety and truth, particularly in the domain of religious architecture. Simultaneously, reform within the Church of…