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Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A richly illustrated and extremely enjoyable reference book on the historical evolution of the nude. From the Paleolithic great mothers to the Greek athletes, from the Venus of Urbino by Titian to Leonardo's Vitruvian Man, from the Odalisque by Boucher to those by Ingres, to the Amazons of Helmut Newton and the desolate, lifeless bodies of Andres Serrano, the nude is the theme of artistic…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Still life is an art form which gives us valuable insights into changes of mentality and philosophy. Each still life is emblematic of a specific time and place and of a certain metaphysical perspective. This overview features sixty works from antiquity to the present and analyzes the history and significance of each.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Mass culture, popular taste, and kitsch were the inspiration for and provocative themes of pop art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. This super-condensed book shows the development of pop art, from its roots to its rise in popularity as an art form that celebrated the glamour and hedonism of the newly commercialized Western world.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: This book on the art of the twentieth century is published almost ten years after the end of the so-called «short century»—which, in terms of art, was anything but short—and is a valuable tool for reflection. The author has placed a series of works in sequence, accompanied by easy to understand critical commentary. With concise introductions devoted to every significant art movement and more than…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: During the 1870s and 1880s, a group of French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subjects that challenged the art of the Academie Francaise where «official» assumptions about the meaning of painting prevailed. This compact, well-priced survey of the movement features sixty reproductions of some of the most renowned works, and a highly readable…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From the classical ideal to contemporary icons, the male body is a symbol of perfection in art. This pocket-size volume, which offers a fascinating visual survey of the nude, features nearly sixty paintings, sculptures, and photographs spanning classic to contemporary art.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Paris, February 1909. An article by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Martinetti appears in Le Figaro. It is the Manifesto of Futurism, the movement that expressed concepts of movement and speed through simultaneous visions and dynamic lines and interpreted in an all-embracing way the new collective myth of modernity.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Mass culture, popular taste, and kitsch were the inspiration for and provocative themes of Pop Art, a movement that enjoyed great prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. This super-condensed book shows the development of Pop Art, from its roots to its rise in popularity as an art form that celebrated the glamour and hedonism of the newly commercialized Western world.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A revolutionary movement, founded in 1924 by André Breton, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams. The surrealist circle was made up of many great artists, including Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Joan Miró, René Magritte, and Salvador Dalí.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Post-Impressionism is a movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that styles inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. Most of these painters…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Trompe-l'oeil, a French term meaning to trick, the eye, describes a painting that deceives the spectator into thinking that the objects in it are real, not merely represented. To successfully fool the eye of the viewer, trompe-l'oeil artists choose objects, situations and compositional devices using as little depth as possible. A heightened form of illusionism, the art of trompe-l'oeil flourished…