Название: Hieronymus Bosch and the Lisbon Temptation: a View from the Third Millennium
Автор(ы): Virginia Pitts Rembert
Издательство: Parkstone
Год: 2012
ISBN: 1906981418
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 63 MB

Long before computer games were invented, Hieronymus Bosch was painting terrifying yet strangely likable monsters, often with a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental dangers that befall those who abandon the teachings of Christ. With a life that spanned 1450 to 1516, Bosch was born at the height of the Renaissance and witnessed its religious wars. Medieval traditions and values were crumbling, paving the way for a new universe where faith had lost its power and much of its magic. Bosch set out to warn doubters of the perils awaiting all and any who lost their faith in God. Believing that everyone had to make their own moral choices, he focused on themes of hell, heaven and lust, brilliantly exploiting the symbolism of a wide range of fruits and plants which lent his imagery strong sexual overtones.

Название: Expressionism
Автор(ы): Ashley Bassie
Издательство: Parkstone International
Серия: Art of Century
Год: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-78042-814-7
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 63 MB

Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E. L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany and Austria: Expressionism. This publication introduces their work and places it within the cultural contexts and wider movements of the period. The author, independent art historian Ashley Bassie, explains how Expressionist art led the way to a new, intense, evocative treatment of psychological, emotional and social themes in the early twentieth century. The book examines the developments of Expressionism and its key works, highlighting the often intensely subjective imagery and the aspirations and conflicts from which it emerged while focusing precisely on the artists of the movement.

Название: Мусей в культурном наследии античности
Автор: Валерий Поршнев
Издательство: М.: Новый Акрополь
Год: 2012
Страниц: 336
Формат: pdf
Размер: 18.11 Мб


Книга рассказывает о феномене античного Мусея - святилища Муз. Автор дает сравнительный анализ всех известных по археологическим изысканиям и памятникам письменности Мусеев античного мира. Мусей в Древней Греции никогда не был просто хранилищем. Античный мусей - это святилище, храм Муз, место творческих соревнований, сохранения исторической памяти, передачи опыта через обучение. Возникнув в ранней античности, Мусей получил новую жизнь в эпоху Возрождения, а в Новое время дал начало таким явлениям, как музей, библиотека, университет, музыкальный конкурс.

Название: Romanesque Art
Автор(ы): Victoria Charles
Издательство: Parkstone International
Серия: Art of Century
Год: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-78042-813-0
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 8 MB

In art history, the term Romanesque art distinguishes the period between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by its raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.

Название: Gustav Klimt
Автор(ы): Jane Rogoyska, Patrick Bade
Издательство: Parkstone Press
Серия: Best Of Collection
Год: 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1844849048
Страниц: 200
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 47 MB

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), was one of the most influential artists at the end of the 19th century and was the founder of the Viennese Secession movement. He used the movement to express his criticism of traditional art, which was characterised by its opposition to change and the refusal to countenance a certain vision of Modernism. Klimt took his inspiration from the slow but unstoppable decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the multitude of cultures from which it was composed.
Klimt was an artist of great eroticism and sensuality and together with Kokoschka and Schiele, he is one of the great masters of Expressionism. This book brings together Klimt’s finest paintings, along with a text that demonstrates the extraordinary eclecticism of this great artist.

Название: Технология и исследование произведений станковой и настенной живописи
Автор: Гренберг Ю.И. (ред.).
Издательство: М.: ГОСНИИР
Год: 2000
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 179
Размер: 42 mb
Язык: Русский

Предлагаемая вниманию читателей книга, подготовленная в основном сотрудниками Всесоюзного научно-исследовательского института реставрации, не переиздание, и лишь в некоторой части — переработка первой публикации. Посвященная тем же вопросам, она не только в главных своих частях написана заново, но и значительно расширена. Прежде всего в сферу рассмотрения всех затрагиваемых в книге проблем — технологического исследования, борьбы с биологическими вредителями и хранения — помимо станковой включена настенная живопись, изучение, консервация и реставрация которой приобрели в настоящее время особую актуальность.

Название: Claude Monet
Автор(ы): Nathalia Brodskaia, Nina Kalitina
Издательство: Parkstone
Год: 2011
ISBN: 190698123X
Страниц: 160
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 54 MB

For Claude Monet the designation 'impressionist' always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the end of his very long life. He was so by deep conviction, and for his Impressionism he may have sacrificed many other opportunities that his enormous talent held out to him. Monet did not paint classical compositions with figures, and he did not become a portraitist, although his professional training included those skills. He chose a single genre for himself, landscape painting, and in that he achieved a degree of perfection none of his contemporaries managed to attain. Yet the little boy began by drawing caricatures...

Название: Chinese Porcelain
Автор(ы): Collective
Издательство: Parkstone Press
Серия: Mega Square Collection
Год: 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1844847853
Страниц: 256
Язык: English
Формат: PDF True
Размер: 29 MB

First appearing in the 7th century, porcelain art in China quickly became enormously important as a symbol of royalty or high status. The masterpieces of this genre featured in this book range from simple tea bowls to fantastic vases, hair ornaments, figurines and snuff boxes with intricate, multi-coloured designs. This delicate material attracted and continues to attract the attention of art-lovers throughout the world, making Mega Square Chinese Porcelain an ideal gift.

Название: Central Asian Art (Temporis Collection)
Автор(ы): Vladimir Lukonin, Anthony Ivanov
Издательство: Parkstone
Год: 2012
ISBN: 1780420188
Страниц: 256
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 104 MB

The strict prohibition on the representation of the human form has channeled artistic creation into architecture and architectural decoration. This book is a magical tour through Central Asia - Khirgizia, Tadjikistan, Turkmenia, and Uzbekistan - a cradle of Ancient civilisations and a repository of the Oriental arts inspired by Buddhism and Islam. There are magnificent, full-colour photographs of the abandoned cities of Mervand Urgench, Khiva, the capital of the Kharezm, with its mausoleum of Sheikh Seid Allahuddin, and the Golden Road to Samarkand , the Blue City, a center of civilisation for 2,500 years.

Название: African Art
Автор(ы): Maurice Delafosse
Издательство: Parkstone International
Серия: Temporis Collection
Год: 2012
ISBN: 978-1-78042-883-3
Страниц: 256
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 50 MB

African Art invites you to explore the dynamic origins of the vast artistic expressions arising from the exotic and mystifying African continent. Since the discovery of African art at the end of the nineteenth century during the colonial expositions it has been a limitless source of inspiration for artists who, over time, have perpetually recreated these artworks. The power of Sub-Saharan African art lies within its visual diversity, demonstrating the creativity of the artists who are continuing to conceptualise new stylistic forms. From Mauritania to South Africa and from the Ivory Coast to Somalia, statues, masks, jewellery, pottery and tapestries compose a variety of daily and ritual objects springing from these richly varied societies.