Название: The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre
Автор: Prudence Oliver Harper, Joan Aruz
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 1993
Формат: PDF
Размер: 45 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The ancient city of Susa (biblical Shushan) lay at the edge of the Iranian plateau, not far from the great cities of Mesopotamia. A strategically located and vital center, Susa absorbed diverse influences and underwent great political fluctuations during the several thousand years of its history. When French archaeologists began to excavate its site in the nineteenth century, the astonishing abundance of finds greatly expanded our understanding of the ancient Near East. The artifacts were taken to Paris through diplomatic agreement and became a centerpiece of the Louvre's great collection of Near Eastern antiquities. These works are rarely loaned, but a remarkable selection that includes many undisputed masterpieces, brought to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for exhibition, is presented in this comprehensive publication.

Название: Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500
Автор: Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 90 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This first comprehensive study in English devoted to Sienese painting to be published in four decades centers on the fifteenth century, a fascinating but frequently neglected period when Sienese artists confronted the innovations of Renaissance painting in Florence. The painters of Siena, without betraying their heritage of the previous century―which had produced some of the greatest artists of all time, including Duccio, Simone Martini, and Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti―succeeded in adapting their artistic traditions to a new and completely original vision, rejecting many of the norms by which subsequent generations have come to define Renaissance art. These later Sienese artists frequently took a nonrational approach, seeking not to replicate nature, but to explore a more subjective world―one that in some respects is akin to that of twentieth-century art. The result is one of the most singular schools of Italian painting, which must be viewed on its own terms and understood within the religious and social framework of fifteenth-century Siena.

Название: David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back
Автор: Helen Park Bigelow
Издательство: Counterpoint
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 33 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A half century after his death, David Park (1911-1960) is recognized as one of America's most important twentieth-century painters. He was the first of the brilliant post-World War II generation of artists to break with Abstract Expressionism's hegemony and return to painting recognizable subjects, most powerfully the human figure. Park's original cohorts of Bay Area Figurative painters were his close friends Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Hassel Smith. All outlived him—Smith by nearly fifty years—and enjoyed recognition and fame during their lifetimes. Park's reputation is just now fully coming into its own.

Название: Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
Автор: Andrew Maynard
Издательство: Mango
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Science and technology are radically changing our world. Films from the Future is an essential guide to navigating a future dominated by complex and powerful new technologies. The jump from room-filling processors to pocket-size super computers is just the beginning. Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and inter-planet travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibility is very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? As Maynard explains, “Viewed in the right way―and with a good dose of critical thinking―science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine.”

Название: Предприятие Рембрандта. Мастерская и рынок
Автор: Светлана Алперс
Язык: русский
Издательство: Ад Маргинем Пресс
Год: 2022
Страниц: 312
Формат: pdf
Размер: 86,8 Мб

Выдающийся американский историк искусства Светлана Алперс (род. 1936), дочь экономиста, нобелевского лауреата Василия Леонтьева, предприняла в этой работе, опубликованной на английском языке в 1988 году, смелую попытку взглянуть на Рембрандта, гения голландской живописи «золотого века», как на художника-предпринимателя, создавшего в XVII веке, когда Республика Соединенных Провинций была не только одним из центров западноевропейского искусства, но и колыбелью рыночной экономики.

Название: Модернисты и бунтари : Бэкон, Фрейд, Хокни и Лондонская школа
Автор: Мартин Гейфорд
Язык: русский
Издательство: Ад Маргинем Пресс
Год: 2022
Страниц: 352
Формат: docx
Размер: 46,6 Мб

Историко-искусствоведческое исследование Мартина Гейфорда (род. 1952), автора сборников интервью с Дэвидом Хокни и Люсьеном Фрейдом, книг о британском искусстве, Ван Гоге и Микеланджело, посвящено лондонской живописи 1950–1970-х годов, в которой причудливо переплелись новшества поп-арта с его одержимостью массовой культурой общества потребления, экзистенциально ориентированный неоэкспрессионизм и традиционный для Англии интерес к красочной материи.

Название: Hieronymus Bosch´s The Garden Of Earthly Delights: The Senses and the Soul in Dream and Awakening
Автор: Meinhard Michael
Издательство: PubliQation
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Размер: 87 Мб
Язык: английский / English

It is wonderful: you will be able to understand The Garden of Earthly Delights! Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting is explained here as an enjoyable theological essay. The painter did not create a ‘Find the Hidden Objects’ puzzle at all, because even the smallest detail has its function and its precisely appropriate placement. The emphasis will be on a dream and what can be learnt from it; on the senses and on perception, and on imagination and on the commandment to control the senses. The soul and its mystical marriage to God are integral to the discussion as well as human sexuality both within marriage and for its own sake. Furthermore, we will explore self-knowledge, humility and pride, free will and grace, and God’s love. Its converse can be found in Hell in an ugly polemic employing a catalogue of anti-Jewish motifs. To unravel the meaning of the Garden of Earthly Delights is not to detract from the painting’s enchantment. Its aesthetic and intellectual beauty will, in fact, fascinate even more than before because of the ambition of its discovered allegorical meaning.

Название: Мифозои: история и биология мифических животных
Автор: Олег Ивик
Язык: русский
Издательство: Альпина Диджитал
Год: 2022
Страниц: 370
Формат: pdf
Размер: 12,3 Мб

Под псевдонимом Олег Ивик работает группа авторов – культурологов, историков и других специалистов. Они посвящают читателя в самые разные тайны человечества, опираясь на масштабные исследования, многочисленные документы, свидетельства и другие авторитетные источники. Среди наиболее популярных книг – «О брачной и внебрачной жизни», «Вокруг того света. История и география загробного мира», «История свадеб», «История разводов». Новое издание ученых «Мифозои. История и биология мифических животных» вопросу фантастических тварей.

Название: British Portraits in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Автор: Katharine Baetjer
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Размер: 27 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From about I900 until 1930 eighteenth-century British portraits were in vogue among American collectors. The market for the pictures was fostered by the art-dealing firms of Duveen Brothers and M. Knoedler and Company. The elegance of the sitters, relatively large scale of the canvases, and undemanding iconography suited the houses of the new moneyed classes. The Frick Collection embodies the style of the era. Perhaps for this reason it has long been general museum practice to hang British portraits in period rooms-the public equivalent of private dining or drawing rooms. Such installations also suggest the habits of the original owners, who lived surrounded by images of their spouses, offspring, and ancestors. At the Metropolitan Museum British portraits are displayed not only in the main galleries and in period rooms but also in other areas, some of which are not open to the public. This Bulletin, which includes paintings from the sixteenth century through the Georgian era, affords an opportunity to appreciate a collection that is widely dispersed throughout the building.

Название: Concerning the Spiritual and the Concrete in Kandinsky’s Art
Автор: Lisa Florman
Издательство: Stanford University Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 29 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book examines the art and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, who is widely regarded as one of the first artists to produce non-representational paintings. Crucial to an understanding of Kandinsky's intentions is On the Spiritual in Art, the celebrated essay he published in 1911. Where most scholars have taken its repeated references to "spirit" as signaling quasi-religious or mystical concerns, Florman argues instead that Kandinsky's primary frame of reference was G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics, in which art had similarly been presented as a vehicle for the developing self-consciousness of spirit (or Geist, in German).