Название: And Picasso Painted Guernica
Автор: Alain Serres
Издательство: Allen & Unwin
Год: 2010
Формат: PDF
Размер: 16 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Readers can come face to face with an astonishing creative spirit in this beautiful book for children about Picasso, his journey as an artist, and how he painted his iconic work, Guernica. Picasso's artistic genius was clear from childhood. This outstanding book begins with the doves young Pablo painted with his father when he was only seven, then highlights his later passions for harlequins and street people, bulls and minotaurs, new ways of seeing, and new ways of rendering life. All of these contributed to the massive work 1937 Guernica, painted as a protest against the bombing of defenseless civilians and against the brutality of war everywhere. It is a biography of both an epoch-making artist and a unique painting that resonated with the outrage of people around the world. Not just a beautiful book, with many working drawings, photographs, and full-color paintings, this is also a fascinating insight into the creative process. At the heart of the book is the complete work, spread across an eight-page gatefold.

Название: Marcel Duchamp (World of Art)
Автор: Dawn Ades, Neil Cox, David Hopkins
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 156 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A revised and expanded edition of one of the most original books ever written on the enigmatic artist Marcel Duchamp. Genius, anti-artist, charlatan, guru, impostor? Since he arrived on the scene in 1914, Marcel Duchamp has been called all of these. Almost no other artist of the twentieth century has inspired more passion and controversy, nor exerted a greater influence on art. At the same time, Duchamp continually challenged the very nature of art and strove to redefine it as conceptual rather than as product by questioning why the medium was mostly a "retinal" experience. Always the provocateur, Duchamp never ceased to be engaged, openly or secretly, in activities and works that transformed traditional artmaking. Through his works like Fountain; Bicycle Wheel; L.H.O.O.Q.; and Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Duchamp played with the idea of what art can be, opening new possibilities for future generations.

Название: Mary Cassatt: Painter of Modern Women (World of Art)
Автор: Griselda Pollock
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 183 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This groundbreaking study, the definitive introduction to the work of artist Mary Cassatt, places her work in the wider context of nineteenth-century feminism and art theory and is now updated with color illustrations. This groundbreaking study redefines the status of the beloved American artist Mary Cassatt, placing her work in the wider context of nineteenth- century feminism and art theory. Mary Cassatt looks at the artist’s work in light of her time as an advocate for women’s intellectual life and political emancipation. Esteemed by her contemporaries for her commitment to what she and her radical colleagues in Paris termed “the new art”―now called impressionism―Cassatt brought her discerning gaze and compositional inventiveness to the study of the subtle, often psychological, social interactions of women in public and private spaces.

Название: Contemporary African Art (World of Art)
Автор: Sidney Littlefield Kasfir
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 289 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A revised edition of this seminal title, surveying the diverse, ever-evolving field of contemporary African art from the 1950s to today, illustrated in color throughout. Contemporary African art has grown out of the diverse histories and cultural heritage of the African continent and its diaspora. It is not characterized by one particular style, technique, or theme, but by a bricolage-like attitude toward art making, incorporating and building upon the structures from which older, pre- colonial and colonial genres were made. In this revised and updated edition of Contemporary African Art, Sidney Littlefield Kasfir examines the major themes, developments, and accomplishments in African art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Organized thematically, the book includes new chapters on the history of African photography and the growth of the global art market, alongside significant discussions of patronage, mediation, artistic training, and national and diaspora identities.

Название: Latin American Art Since 1900 (World of Art)
Автор: Edward Lucie-Smith
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 369 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An extraordinary synthesis of more than a century’s worth of art across Central and South America, Latin American Art Since 1900 covers everyone from popular figures such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, to a wide range of other artists who are less well-known outside Latin America. In this classic survey, now updated with full-color images throughout, Edward Lucie-Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day. Lucie-Smith examines major artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens of less familiar Latin American artists and exiled artists from Europe and the United States who spent their lives in South America, such as Leonora Carrington. The author explains the political context for artistic development and sets the works in national, cultural, and international frameworks.

Название: Нагоми. Японский путь к счастью, здоровью и благополучию
Автор: Кен Моги
Язык: русский
Издательство: КоЛибри
Год: 2022
Страниц: 208
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,1 Мб

Ученый и писатель Кен Моги, знакомит с оригинальной жизненной философией, глубоко укоренившейся в истории, традициях и культуре Страны восходящего солнца. Нагоми можно рассматривать как первооснову многих хорошо известных японских концептов — ваби-саби (философии принятия недолговечности и временной природы всего, что нас окружает, способности замечать прелесть мимолетного и незаконченного), кинцуги (искусства видеть прекрасное в нарушенной целостности формы и воздавать должное тем трудностям и испытаниям, которые оставляют на нас свой след), дзен (умения восстанавливать внутренний баланс, не подверженный влиянию извне)…

Название: Сущность искусства
Автор: Тард Г.
Издательство: ЛКИ
Год: 2007 - Изд. 2-е
Cтраниц: 120
Формат: pdf
Размер: 13 мб
Язык: русский

Предлагаемая читателю книга известного французского мыслителя Г. Тарда (1843-1904), одного из родоначальников социальной психологии, поднимает и решает один из самых интересных вопросов философии XIX века: самостоятельно ли искусство или оно является только случайным орудием общества и человечества для достижения других, высших, общественных целей?

Название: Scottish Art (World of Art)
Автор: Murdo MacDonald
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 252 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Accessible, extensively researched, and beautifully illustrated, this updated volume by renowned scholar and author Murdo Macdonald sheds light on the history and cultural significance of Scottish art. At a time when issues of Scottish identity are the subject of fierce debate, Murdo Macdonald illuminates Scotland’s artistic past and present in this classic text in the World of Art series. Ranging from Neolithic standing stones and the art of the Picts and Gaels to Reformation and Enlightenment art and major figures in the contemporary art scene, Scottish Art explores the distinctive characteristics of Scottish art through the centuries.

Название: Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (World of Art)
Автор: Thomas H. Carpenter
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 191 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An essential visual handbook for anyone interested in Greek myth written by T. H. Carpenter, one of the world’s leading experts on myth in ancient art. The ancient Greeks recorded their mythology on vase paintings, engraved gems, and bronze and stone sculptures, offering depictions that often predate any references to the myths in literature or recount alternative, unfamiliar versions of these tales. In some cases, visual art provides our only evidence of these myths, as there are no surviving accounts in ancient Greek literature of stories such as the Fall of Troy or Theseus and the Minotaur.

Название: Art and Climate Change (World of Art)
Автор: Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 107 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that responds to today’s environmental crisis, from species extinction to climate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threatened, creative production for its own sake is not enough. Through contemporary artworks, artists are calling for an active, collective engagement with the planet in order to illuminate some of the structures that threaten biological survival. Exploring the meeting point of decolonial reparation and ecological restoration, artists are remaking history by drawing on the latest ecological theories, scientific achievements, and indigenous worldviews to engage with the climate crisis.