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American Impressionism American Impressionism
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2000 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 12 апреля 2009
   Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 paintings by 125 different atrists, this luscious book will thoroughly satisfy the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. The fascinating text — written by Dr. William H. Gerdts, the preeminent scholar in the field — is the definitive study of the subject, filled with many years of far-ranging research. Documentary photographs of the artists and quotations from their private letters and journals complement the text and provide a vivid sense of their lives and times.
 
Norman Rockwell Norman Rockwell
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 1997 Страниц: 376 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 2009
   This full-sized album of Saturday Evening Post covers captures everyday events and historic moments in American history. Although technically Norman Rockwell was an academic painter, he had the eye of a photographer and, as he became a mature artist, he used this eye to give us a picture of America that was famliar — astonishingly so — and at the same time unique. Rockwell best expressed this vision of America in his justly famous cover illustrations for magazines like The Saturday Evening Post. 332 of these cover paintings, from beloved classics like «Marbles Champion» to lesser-known gems like «Feeding Time», are reproduced in stunning full color in this large-format volume, which is sure to be treasured by art lovers everywhere.
 
80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards 80 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 439 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 2011
   With hundreds of photographs and an informative text, 80 Years of the Oscar takes readers behind the scenes, from the first awards show in 1928 to this year's 80th anniversary.
 
Italian Frescoes 5: The Baroque Era Italian Frescoes 5: The Baroque Era
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 484 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 2009
   Features 25 frescoe cycles including works by Domenichino, Ricci, Guercino and Tiepolo. This work presents such celebrated sights as the Barberini Palace in Rome and the Pitti Palace in Florence, as well as lesser known gems. Each chapter offers a descriptive and interpretive essay on various aspects of the frescoe cycle.
 
The Horse The Horse
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 2013
   From the caves at Lascaux to the European race tracks of Degas to the American West of Frederic Remington, the horse has never ceased to inspire the human imagination. Once omnipresent — on the battlefield, in agricultural work, and in transport — horses have little by little disappeared from our immediate environment, but they remain fixtures throughout our museums, atop pedestals in our town squares, and in the landscapes of memory. Transcending genres, places, and eras, specialists on the history of the horse and its representation in art create an ideal panorama on the subject, guiding us through the rich legacy of The Horse: From Cave Paintings to Modern Art. With these scholars we cross the principal continents from east to west and from prehistory to the present day, examining an ever-surprising gallery of images that illustrate how dearly horses have been prized by all human societies fortunate enough to encounter them. The artistic styles represented in this book offer something for every taste. There are cave paintings and sculptures, medieval illuminated manuscripts and photographs, depictions of battle, and scenes of leisure. Uccello, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velasquez, Gericault, Stubbs, David, and Picasso are among the 137 artists featured in this in-depth study. As the more than 300 images in The Horse diversely illustrate, the horse is as beautiful an animal as it has been useful — indeed, central — to the development of human society.
 
Philip Guston Philip Guston
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 1991 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 2009
   With more than 100 illustrations — approximately 48 in full color — this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era. Modern Masters form a perfect reference set for home, school, or library.
 
Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2006 Страниц: 424 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 2011
   Hieronymus Bosch is a stunningly illustrated, groundbreaking exploration of the work of Hieronymus Bosch, the Low Countries great visionary painter. Four hundred little people frolic au naturel with overgrown songbirds and raspberries; a pudgy blue demon serenades a fashionable young couple with a tune piped through his own elongated nose; a knife-wielding set of disembodied ears stalks the damned through hell. The phantasmagoric imagery of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) has been the source of widespread interest ever since the painter's lifetime, and is still so enigmatic that scholars have theorized that it contains hidden astrological, alchemical, or even heretical meanings. Yet none of these theories has ever seemed to provide an adequate understanding of Bosch's work. Moreover, the considerable professional success that the artist enjoyed in his native Hertogenbosch, not to mention his membership in a traditional religious organization, suggests that he pursued not a sinister secret agenda but simply his personal artistic vision. Hieronymus Bosch, an intriguing new book by noted art historian Larry Silver, interprets that artistic vision with admirable lucidity: it explains how Bosch's understanding of human sin, morality, and punishment, which was conceived in an era of powerful apocalyptic expectation, shaped his dramatic visualizations of hell and of the temptations of even the most steadfast saints. Silver's account of Bosch's artistic development is one of the first to benefit from recent technical investigations of the paintings, as well as from the reexamination of the artist's drawings in relation to his paintings. Hieronymus Bosch is also unique in how securely it places its subject's work in the broader history of painting in the Low Countries: Silver identifies sources of Bosch's iconography in a wide range of fifteenth century panel paintings, manuscript illuminations, and prints, and describes how, despite their own religiousness, Bosch's pictures helped inspire the secular landscape and genre scenes of later Netherlandish painters. Augmented by 310 illustrations, most in colour, including many dramatic close-ups of Bosch's intricately imagined nightmare scenes, Hieronymus Bosch is the definitive art book on a perennially fascinating Dutch painter.
 
Artists' Self-Portraits Artists' Self-Portraits
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2006 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 2010
   Offers a way to appreciate the history of art and to understand that a self-portrait is more than merely a portrait of the artist. Presenting a definition of the self-portrait genre, this book focuses on the turning point for the establishment of the genre during the Renaissance when the status of the painter was raised from artisan to artist.
 
The Lure of Gold The Lure of Gold
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2006 Страниц: 280 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 2011
   When Hesiod, the Greek poet of the eighth century B.C., recounted the history of the world as he understood it, he described the legendary first generation of mortal men, who lived in peace and ease, as the «people of gold». Nearly three millennia later, we still refer to a particularly happy or prosperous era as a «golden age». The reason Hesiod’s metaphor translates so perfectly into our own idiom is that the mystique of gold, the quintessential precious metal, is truly universal. The very scarcity of gold accounts for part of its allure and much of its monetary value: the total volume of gold ever mined, from prehistory to the present day, would probably fit inside a cube with sides just twenty yards (18 m) long. Yet gold’s incredible material properties also contribute to its appeal. Gold does not corrode, so it never loses its brilliant luster, and it can be chased, embossed, punched, drawn into wires, hammered foil-thin, and shaped in countless other ways. This engaging book reveals that the ways in which gold, in turn, has shaped humanity are no less numerous. Since prehistory, for example, artisans have fashioned gold into ritual objects and high-status ornaments; beginning in the sixth century B.C., gold served as currency; and even in the modern era it has encouraged wars of conquest and triggered frantic gold rushes. Each chapter is devoted to one historical epoch, explaining how people of that time mined and refined gold, and how they used it for cultural and economic purposes. Two hundred gorgeous color photographs illustrate golden objets d’art as diverse as the funerary masks of Tutankhamen; intricate Celtic jewelry; a figurine of «El Dorado», a pre-Columbian chief said to ritualistically cover his entire body in gold dust; bejeweled medieval reliquaries and crucifixes; and even Gustav Klimt’s gold-drenched canvas The Kiss. With its authoritative yet lively text and these arresting illustrations, The Lure of Gold sets, as it were, the gold standard for books on material culture.
 
Courbet Courbet
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 2012
   Rejecting the historical and literary subjects of the prevailing styles as too remote from actual experience, Courbet depicted scenes from everyday life, almost the peasants and the working class, with a naturalism then considered shocking. This monograph provides an understanding of how Courbet`s life and and mileau shaped his vast ouevre.
 
Egyptian Wall Painting Egyptian Wall Painting
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 392 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 2011
   Ancient Egyptian civilization developed its own highly individual manner of expressing visible and invisible worlds — earth and the domain of the gods — through distinctive «languages». This book presents an art, language, and culture of extraordinary richness.
 
How to Photograph Children How to Photograph Children
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2007 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 2009
   Few parents can resist the urge to photograph every adorable stage of their children's lives, but most do it more lovingly than well. No matter how doting they are, too often the results are blurry, overexposed, and uninspired snapshots. Guide to Photographing Children offers practical, detailed, unintimidating advice to help transform parents' enthusiasm into memorable photographs that capture the child's own distinctive spirit (and involve the child in the process). After gently guiding the amateur photographer through such technical basics as which camera, film, and exposure to use, the authors offer specific suggestions for shooting indoors and out, as well as invaluable advice on working with children at each age (useful words of wisdom: respect the child's moods and don't always demand a smile). The book concludes with handy information about how to get the best work out of the photofinisher, even if it's just the local one-hour mini-lab, plus ideas for scrapbooks and other projects geared to putting the photos to good use. Throughout, sidebars offer additional help on everything from film speeds to smile getters, and the 200 photographs provide clear examples of what — and what not — to do when photographing children of every age and temperament.
 
The Loggia of Raphael The Loggia of Raphael
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2008 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 2010
   This groundbreaking study of Raphael's loggia has four parts. The first and second concern the grotesques and the Bible illustrations, respectively, while the third examines the lives and artistic styles of the members of Raphael's workshop — then the largest operation of its kind — who worked with him on the loggia. The fourth part traces the loggia's enduring influence: the grotesque ornamental style elaborated by Raphael has been widely imitated, even as far afield as the corridors of the United States Capitol, and the frescoed scenes from the Bible served as influential models for popular prints.
 
Starstruck: Vintage Posters from Classic Hollywood Films Starstruck: Vintage Posters from Classic Hollywood Films
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 2013
   For four decades film historian Ira M.Resnick has been amassing a superb collection of 2,000 vintage movie posters and 1,500 stills, which has never before been published. In Starstruck he has selected forty stills and some two hundred of his best posters, organized in five sections: celebrated actresses and actors; renowned directors; classic films; and unremarkable movies with great graphic posters. Resnick's witty text includes anecdotes about how he managed to acquire such stellar film artwork, as well as information about the stars and films shown on the pieces he collected. The back matter includes 'Advice for the Collector'. Starstruck is a must-have book for collectors and film buffs.
 
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968 Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 248 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 2013
   Pop Art was one of the most important artistic movements of the late twentieth century. Its adaptation of mediated, popular-culture imagery continues to influence artists, but until now, little attention has been paid to the important contributions that women made to the movement. Pop Art by women dealt less with direct consumerist critiques, instead subversively combating the stereotypical perceptions of women via advertising and film cliches. Work by women Pop artists ranges from Rosalyn Drexler's surreal film-noir riffs, Idelle Weber's New Realism office workers, and Niki de Saint Phalle's exuberant Nanas to the more controversial and blatantly political statements of Faith Ringgold and Martha Rosler. Pauline Boty and Axell explored female desire, while the innovative soft structures stitched by Yayoi Kusama, Jann Haworth, Patty Mucha, and others form an important contribution to the history of sculpture. Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958-1968 is the catalogue of the first exhibition to expand Pop Art's narrow critical definition to reflect the significant role of these women artists. The culmination of six years of research by Sid Sachs, this exhibition, organized by the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery of the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, is touring nationally. The essays in this catalogue span from London's Independent Group in the early 1950s to the end of classic Pop in 1968. Written by the art historians Linda Nochlin, Sid Sachs, Kalliopi Minioudaki, Bradford R. Collins, Annika Ohrner, and Sue Tate and the artists Martha Rosler and Patty Mucha, these texts will be revelations and will remain a vital reference for artists, art and cultural historians, and feminists alike. Artworks by more than twenty artists are reproduced, including Pauline Boty, Chryssa, Rosalyn Drexler, Jann Haworth, Yayoi Kusama, and Marisol, as well as now lesser-known figures such as Barbro Ostlihn and Dorothy Grebenak. Numerous works are discussed in depth from a number of vantage points.
 
Wristwatch Annual 2011 Wristwatch Annual 2011
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 2011
   Each year brings hundreds of new wristwatch designs, with aesthetic and mechanical changes and improvements, limited edition watches, and new producers, keeping this field exciting for collectors. This thirteenth edition of what has become a watch industry classic features over 1,400 of the world's most luxurious wristwatches and provides color photographs and complete specifications for each watch. With Wristwatch Annual 2010, collectors have a wealth of information close at hand: the book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and within each producer's section are specifications and materials for each watch, including price, movement, special features, complications, case, dial, band, and available variations of a particular model. A glossary and pronunciation guide help acclimate the reader to the world of fine timepieces, and, for prospective buyers, the addresses of all featured producers are listed together. The elegant photography and layout will encourage people to peruse the year's offerings for aesthetic appeal as well. The range of styles, from classic to modern, reflects the inclusive nature of this book, which watch collectors the world over will find both a handy reference and required reading.
 
The History of Rome in Painting The History of Rome in Painting
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2011 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 16 апреля 2015
   From its ancient status as the jewel of an empire to its modern incarnation as a troubled, yet culturally vibrant European capital, Rome has compelled the imagination of artists for over two thousand years. This title guides the reader through the history of the Eternal City, from its humble origins to the cultural explosion of the Renaissance.
 
The Human Figure and Jewish Culture The Human Figure and Jewish Culture
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2011 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 2013
   Investigates why so many modern artists of Jewish descent continued to paint the human form even as the avant-garde movement vigorously promoted abstraction. This title analyses the work of a range of Jewish artists, including the painters of the Ecole de Paris; the American social realists; and, the masters of the postwar School of London.
 
Pieter Bruegel Pieter Bruegel
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2011 Страниц: 424 Дата загрузки: 12 мая 2014
   The exciting recent rediscovery in Spain of a missing canvas by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (ca. 1525-69) has jolted a revived public awareness of the great Flemish painter and his work. Best known for his amusing depictions of peasants, landscapes, and Bosch-like fantasies, Bruegel also created a wide range of highly original interpretations of religious themes in an era marked by religious controversies. Over a career of two decades as both a printmaker and a painter, he found his artistic niche in Europe's leading center of international trade, the emerging capital of capitalism, Antwerp. All of Bruegel's drawings, prints, and paintings on both canvas and panel — including the new Madrid canvas — are examined for form and content with comprehensive analysis. In addition, interpretation of the full range of Flemish paintings and prints during his generation is presented through the lens of Hieronymus Cock, Bruegel's own print publisher, At the Sign of the Four Winds . Within this spectrum Bruegel's uniqueness and mastery emerges clearly. While scholars will appreciate the novel insights of this comprehensive re-examination of Pieter Bruegel, its highly accessible text will introduce newcomers and the general public to the delights of this inventive, trenchant, yet often amusing visual commentator on the human condition. All readers will relish the large-scale reproductions and frequent details in full color of his entire oeuvre in all media. This handsome, largescale volume will form the definitive study and accessible introduction to the life and art of Pieter Bruegel.
 
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Автор: Жанр: Abbeville Press Издательство: Abbeville Press Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 2015
   One of Victorian England's most charismatic figures, Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted and wrote with equal passion. This volume chronicles Rossetti's life and career from his early achievements as a founder of the influential Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, through his involvement with William Morris's design firm, to the unorthodox images of his final years.
 

 

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