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.

Название: Michelangelo: A Life on Paper
Автор: Leonard Barkan
Издательство: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691147663
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 384
Размер: 66,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

Michelangelo is best known for great artistic achievements such as the Sistine ceiling, the David, the Pietà , and the dome of St. Peter's. Yet throughout his seventy-five year career, he was engaged in another artistic act that until now has been largely overlooked: he not only filled hundreds of sheets of paper with exquisite drawings, sketches, and doodles, but also, on fully a third of these sheets, composed his own words.

Название: Abstract Art (World of Art)
Автор: Anna Moszynska
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 216 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An exceptionally clear, thorough, and well- illustrated introduction to abstract art since 1900. Since the early years of the twentieth century, Western abstract art has fascinated, outraged, and bewildered audiences. Its path to acceptance within the artistic mainstream was slow. This revised edition traces the origins and evolution of abstract art, placing it in broad cultural context. Well-respected scholar Anna Moszynska examines the pioneering work of Hilma af Klint, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, and Piet Mondrian alongside the Russian Constructivists, the De Stijl group, and the Bauhaus artists, contrasting European geometric abstraction in the 1930s and ’40s with the emphasis on personal expression after World War II.

Название: The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art)
Автор: Jiang Jiehong
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 134 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Contemporary Chinese art is a subject of sustained and growing significance in present-day culture across the globe. This new volume in the World of Art series reframes Chinese art since the end of China’s Cultural Revolution more than four decades ago, placing it in the context of the nation’s unprecedented cultural, political, and urban transformation. Based on original research by writer, curator, and leading scholar in the field of contemporary Chinese art, Jiang Jiehong, this volume explores the area through firsthand materials and in-depth interviews with more than thirty artists.

Название: Dali (World of Art)
Автор: Dawn Ades
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 334 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This authoritative account of the life and work of Salvador Dalí, one of the most recognizable artists of the twentieth century, is revised and updated with color illustrations throughout. In this revised and updated edition of art historian Dawn Ades’s seminal study of Salvador Dalí, based on interviews with the artist, Ades examines what accounts for Dalí’s popularity, exploring such issues as the accessibility of his imagery and his talent as a self-publicist. This book reconsiders the Dali´ phenomenon, from his early years and the development of his technique and style to his relationship with the Surrealists, his exploitation of Freudian ideas, and the image that he created of himself as the mad genius artist.

Название: Hogarth (World of Art)
Автор: David Bindman
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 186 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A new, updated edition of this illuminating study on William Hogarth, one of the eighteenth century’s most famous artists and satirists. William Hogarth (1697–1764) was one of the great eighteenth-century painters, a marvelous colorist, and an innovator at all levels of artistic expression. In this updated volume, art historian and Hogarth scholar David Bindman surveys the works of this artist whose wry humor and sharp wit was reflected in his prolific paintings and prints, including The Rake’s Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Hogarth was also a master of pictorial satire, highlighting the moral and political issues of the day with delightful detail and comedy—themes that resonate deeply with our times. This new edition has been specially updated to include a discussion of Hogarth’s representation of Black people in eighteenth-century Britain, a subject that has long been overlooked in his many works.

Название: Gauguin (World of Art)
Автор: Belinda Thomson
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 240 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Artist Paul Gauguin achieved a high public profile during his lifetime and was one of the first artists of his generation to achieve international recognition. But his prominence has always been tangled up with the dramatic and problematic events of his life—his self-imposed exile on a remote South Sea island and his turbulent relationships with his peers—as with the appeal of his art. In this revised and updated edition, art historian Belinda Thomson gives a comprehensive and accessible account of the life and work of one of the most complicated artists of the late nineteenth century.

Название: Central and Eastern European Art Since 1950 (World of Art)
Автор: Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 107 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A groundbreaking introduction to the contemporary art of central and Eastern Europe, this wide-ranging study explores painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and conceptual work. In this pathbreaking new history, Maja and Reuben Fowkes introduce outstanding artworks and major figures from across central and Eastern Europe to reveal the movements, theories, and styles that have shaped artistic practice since 1950. They emphasize the particularly rich and varied art scenes of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia, extending their gaze at intervals to East Germany, Romania, the Baltic states, and the rest of the Balkans.