Название: The Art of Southeast Asia (World of Art)
Автор: Philip Rawson
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Briefly discusses the history of styles of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the countries of Southeast Asia.

Название: Klimt (World of Art)
Автор: Frank Whitford
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Размер: 32 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Gustav Klimt's work brilliantly negotiates the borders between traditional and modern, figurative and non-figurative art. His subtly erotic portraits, richly patterned landscapes and enigmatic allegorical compositions are at once sensuous and refined, while his extravagant, ornamental style verges on abstraction. Obliged to go his own way when he was denied public commissions, Klimt became the leader of the modernists in Vienna, during the tragic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was perhaps the greatest portraitist of his age, a landscape painter of dazzling originality and above all the creator of extraordinary decorative schemes.

Название: Maya Art and Architecture (World of Art), 2nd edition
Автор: Mary Ellen Miller, Megan O'Neil
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 66 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Rewritten and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in color throughout. World expert Mary Miller and her co-author Megan O’Neil take the reader through the visual world of the Maya, explaining how and why they created the paintings, sculpture, and monuments that intrigue and compel people the world over. With an array of new material, including the newly found La Corona panels, Waka’ figurines, and the Dz’ibanche’ staircase; studies of the monuments at Palenque, Zotz, and elsewhere; and paintings discovered in recent years; this new edition will be essential reading for students and scholars―and for travelers to the cities of this mysterious civilization.

Название: The Painted Churches of Cyprus: Treasures of Byzantine Art, 2nd Edition
Автор: Andreas Stylianou, Judith A. Stylianou
Издательство: A.G. Leventis Foundation
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Размер: 152 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The volume commences with a historical introduction and a general discussion of Byzantine art and Cyprus. The first section concerned with monuments covers the churches with mosaics (three buildings at Lythrankomi, Kiti and Livadia). This is followed by the much longer list of painted churches under 42 locality headings (villages or towns), listing 58 buildings. Brief directions are provided under the heading of each village to facilitate access. The history of each monument is described in detail, together with extensive description of the preserved paintings. The majority of the illustrations are photographs of the monuments and their wall paintings; smaller numbers of architectural ground plans and sections are also included. The book ends with a list of Cypriot saints, glossary, bibliography and index.

Название: Naxos (Byzantine Art in Greece)
Автор: Nano Chatzidakis
Издательство: Melissa Publishing House
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Размер: 116 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This series on Byzantine monumental painting in Greece presents mosaics and wall-paintings from the 7th to the 15th century. It includes complete monographs on each monument, written by specialists in Byzantine art, plans and drawings, rich photographic material and bibliography. Table of Contents: Introductory Notes (Manolis Chatzidakis); Panagia Drosiani (Nicos Drandakis); Supplementary Note (Manolis Chatzidakis); Protothrone at Chalki (Nicos Zias Panagia); Hagios Ioannis Theologos at Adisarou (Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou); Hagia Kyriake - Hagios Artemios (Agapi Vasilaki-Karakatsani); Hagios Georgios Diasoritis (Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou); Hagios Nikolaos at Sangri (Nicos Zias); Hagios Ioannis at Kerami (Nicos Zias); Panagia at Yallou (Nicos Drandakis).

Название: Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals: Studies on Architecture, Stained Glass and Sculpture in Honor of Anne Prache
Автор: Kathleen Nolan, Dany Sandron
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 130 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache’s career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the medieval use of practical geometry in designing entire buildings and their components.

Название: Art Nouveau and the Classical Tradition
Автор: Richard Warren
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows how in expressing many of their most essential concerns – sexuality, death and the nature of art – its artists drew heavily upon classical literature and the iconography of classical art. It challenges the conventional view that Art Nouveau's adherents turned their backs on Classicism in their quest for new forms. Across Europe and North America, artists continued to turn back to the ancient world, and in particular to Greece, for the vitality with which they sought to infuse their creations. The works of many well-known artists are considered through this prism, including those of Gustav Klimt, Aubrey Beardsley and Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Название: Egyptian art, in the days of the pharaohs, 3100-320 BC
Автор: Cyril Aldred
Издательство: Thames and Hudson
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Размер: 34 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this authoritative and splendidly illustrated guide Cyril Aldred surveys nearly 3000 years of Egyptian architecture, painting and sculpture. His "eloquent ability to weave facts, insights and interpretations into a compulsively readable account sets his book far above the clogged texts that too frequently pass for art history. Aldred tells how Egyptian art was shaped by historical events, religious requirements, and environmental forces and also explains how artists and craftspeople developed their amazing technical mastery.

Название: Крылатые слова: Литературные цитаты. Образные выражения
Автор: Ашукин Н.С., Ашукина М.Г.
Издательство: М.: Художественная литература
Год: 1987 (1988) - 4-е изд., доп.
Cтраниц: 528
Формат: pdf
Размер: 13 мб
Язык: русский

В книгу вошло более полутора тысяч крылатых слов — цитат, образных выражений, изречений исторических лиц, а также ставших нарицательными имен мифологических и литературных персонажей, употребляющихся сейчас или употреблявшихся прежде в русской литературной речи XIX–XX вв.

Название: The Saga of Special Effects: The Complete History of Cinematic Illusion, From Edison's Kinetoscope to Dynamation, Sensurround...and Beyond
Автор: Ron Fry, Pamela Fourzon
Издательство: Prentice Hall
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Размер: 66 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The enthralling wizardry of special effects is well known to anyone who hos seen King Kong, War of the Worlds, or 2001. Although some devices ( breakaway furniture, double exposure, controlled conflagrations like those in Gone with the Wind and The Hellfighters) have become familiar standbys, each new picture presents a new challenge- and calls for wholly unique solutions. And because these special effects are meant to be convincing, the most ingenious of them often pass unnoticed. (How many film buffs realize that many of Citizen Kane's interiors were actually laborious composite matte shots?) Here, for the first time, The Saga of Special Effects presents the full story of the largely-unknown technicians, artists, and jacks-of-all-trades who, ever since pictures first began to move, hove been creating the impossible on screen.