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: Культура и экономика древнего Ирана
Автор: М. А. Дандамаев, В. Г. Луконин
Издательство: Наука
Год: 1980
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 419
Размер: 39.1 Мб
Язык: русский

Монография охватывает период XI - IV вв. до н. э.; авторы ставят перед собой задачу проанализировать в свете новейших открытий археологии и эпиграфики совокупность проблем истории культуры и экономики древних государств Ирана.

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.

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.