Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Long before there were such terms as Op art or Kinetic art, Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) was making abstractions that dazzled the eye with their chromatic boldness and energetic geometries. His painting Zebra, of 1930, is widely considered the first work of Op art. The Hungarian-born Vasarely settled in Paris in 1930, working as a graphic designer (a calling whose requirement for clarity and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Widely considered the central figure of fifteenth-century painting, Piero della Francesca is also the most modern of all Renaissance painters. To our post-Cubist eyes, Piero's most famous work, his fresco cycle The Legend of the True Cross at Arezzo in Tuscany, conjures nothing so much as Cezanne's Mont Sainte-Victoire paintings; his serene articulations of architecture and perspective bring…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Russian Avant-Garde offers a single-volume overview of an avant-garde that can legitimately claim to have reinvented everyday life in the Soviet era. Bringing together more than 80 Russian masterpieces from museums in Ivanovo, Kostroma, Yaroslavl and Tula, the emphasis of this book's previously unpublished and untranslated essays is on new perspectives and interpretations, with a focus on the…
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Jan Veermer is today considered, by full rights, one of the great masters of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. And yet his figure remains indistinct, entrusted to a few securely-attributed works and even scarcer biographical information. We know little about his birth – he was baptized on 31 October 1632 in the protestant church in Delft – and training. When he died in 1676 – during a period of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: The complete oeuvre of the dark genius who revolutionized European painting — and remains as controversial 400 years after his death. Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, was a legend even in his own lifetime.
Скачать книгу (размер 764 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 151) Аннотация: The visual rhetoric of charisma and power in photographic portraiture renews itself endlessly, and this volume assesses its recent expressions — both propagandistic and deconstructed — in the works of Tina Barney, Clegg & Guttman, Nick Danziger, Rineke Dijkstra, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Trevor Paglen, Martin Parr, Daniela Rossell, Jules Spinatsch, Hiroshi Sugimoto and The Yes Men among…