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The Story of Art: Pocket Edition The Story of Art: Pocket Edition
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 1064 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 2012
   »The Story of Art», one of the best-known and best-loved books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over half a century. Professor Gombrich's clear and engaging text combines with hundreds of full-colour illustrations to trace the history of art in an unfolding narrative, from primitive cave paintings to controversial art works of the present day.
 
The Story of Art, The Story of Art,
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 688 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 2013
   This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art, from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, de Chirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence of new «endings» have been added, and the captions are now fuller, including the medium and dimension of the works illustrated. Six fold-outs present selected large-scale works. They are: Van Eyck's «Ghent Altarpiece», Leonardo's «Last Supper», Botticelli's «Birth of Venus», Jackson Pollock's «One (Number 31, 1950)», Van der Weyden's «Descent from the Cross» and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.
 
Egon Schiele Egon Schiele
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 270 Дата загрузки: 25 апреля 2014
   The series has always been highly regarded for its insight and authority, providing an invaluable introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each volume contains an introductory essay, forty-eight full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white.
 
Rossetti Rossetti
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2011 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2013
   Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and is renowned both for his paintings and his poetry. This text introduces his artistic vision, showing how he took his inspiration from Dante, Shakespeare and Malory.
 
Sightwalk Sightwalk
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 40 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 2011
   This is more than just a book of photographs. It is a modernist Japanese photograph album created from Oriental fabrics and papers, and bound by hand. It contains the work of Gueorgui Pinkhassov, a highly-acclaimed photographic artist, innovator and member of Magnum. The sense of innovation and artistry is carried through in the photographs which explore how singular details, plays of light and reflection can capture a spirit and shape an atmosphere. The artist's haiku texts accompany the images.
 
South Southeast South Southeast
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 2012
   This is a portfolio of the best of Steve McCurry's photography: classical, magical and powerful images from South and Southeast Asia. McCurry takes photographs all over the world, for National Geographic magazine and his own projects, but it is the people, places, colours and forms of Afghanistan, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) that have inspired his most sublime images — photographs which transcend their original editorial purpose to become classics of photography. South Southeast features sixty-seven photographs with brief captions. A short text about McCurry introduces the book and he has written commentaries to accompany eight of the images, telling the stories behind them.
 
Francesca Woodman Francesca Woodman
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 2014
   »Prodigies in photography are singularly rare; women prodigies virtually unheard of.» — Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Francesca Woodman (1958-1981) has become one of the most talked about, most studied, and most influential of late twentieth century photographers. She started taking photographs when she was barely thirteen and in less than a decade created a body of work that has now secured her a reputation as one of the most original American artists of the 1970s. Woodman brought an understanding of Baroque painting, Modernist art and contemporary post-minimalist practice to her haunting, sensual images. Both in her work with models, and in sometimes disturbing self-portraits, Woodman made a thoroughgoing challenge to the certainties of photography. Interested in how people relate to space, and how the three-dimensional world can be reconciled with the two dimensions of the photographic image, Woodman played complex games of hide-and-seek with her camera. One of the enduring appeals of her work is the way in which she constructs enigmas that trap our gaze. She depicts herself seemingly fading into a flat plane, merging with the wall under the wallpaper, dissolving into the floor, or flattening herself behind glass. But is this disappearing act really the artist putting in an appearance? That we are never completely sure what we are looking at means that we keep looking. Woodman constantly compares the fragility of her own body with the physical environment around her. Fascinated by transformation and the permeability of seemingly fixed boundaries, Woodman's work conjures the precarious moment between adolescence and adulthood, between presence and absence. This comprehensive monograph includes over 250 of Woodman's works — some of which have never been exhibited or published before — as well as extracts from her journals selected by her father George Woodman. There are examples of her large-scale blueprints and reproductions of her photobooks, including «Some Disordered Interior Geometries», which was published in 1981, the year she took her own life. An extensive text by Chris Townsend examines the influences of gothic literature, surrealism, feminism and post-minimalist art on Woodman's photographs. Townsend places Woodman in relation to her contemporaries, such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. This book confirms Woodman's position as one of America's most talented photographers and important artists since 1970, with an influence lasting well beyond her own time. Interested in how people relate to space, and how the three-dimensional world can be reconciled with the two dimensions of the photographic image, Woodman played complex games of hide-and-seek with her camera. One of the enduring appeals of her work is the way in which she constructs enigmas that trap our gaze. She depicts herself seemingly fading into a flat plane, merging with the wall under the wallpaper, dissolving into the floor, or flattening herself behind glass. But is this disappearing act really the artist putting in an appearance? That we are never completely sure what we are looking at means that we keep looking. Woodman constantly compares the fragility of her own body with the physical environment around her. Fascinated by transformation and the permeability of seemingly fixed boundaries, Woodman's work conjures the precarious moment between adolescence and adulthood, between presence and absence.
 
Roman Signer Roman Signer
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 2012
   Since the mid 1970s Roman Signer's work has examined the forces of the elements — air, fire, earth and water — in a combination of performance (documented by photography and video) and sculpture (the physical remains of his acts). With a Dadaist love for the absurd, his artworks include «Race» (1981), a video performance in which the artist races a lit fuse across a field (hopelessly behind from the outset, the artist loses by nearly the entire length); «Action at Hotel Weissbad» (1992), in which an ordinary table is shot out a hotel window, the resulting photographs showing a table flying incongruously over a sleepy, snowy Swiss village; «Falling from a Bridge» (1980), in which wooden boxes are dropped from a great height into a rushing river, bursting into fragments with a thunderous crash; and «Bicycle with Rockets» (1991), the photographs of which show a fiery bicycle flying through the gallery like a demon comet. Often Signer will exhibit in the gallery the remains of an event not witnessed by the public, such as four empty barrels and a violently splattered wall, the remains of an explosion of paint in the gallery space («Portrait Gallery», 1993), or four sand piles with perfectly round craters on each, the neat results of four fuse explosions at their top («Cones of Sand», 1988). Roman Signer is an extremely respected artist worldwide. He represented Switzerland at the 1999 Venice Biennale and was included in Documenta 8 (1987) and Skulptur Projekte Munster (1997), among many other group exhibitions. Over the course of the past 25 years he has shown at nearly all the key European museums and kunsthalles. American venues have included the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1998) and the Renaissance Society in Chicago (1991).
 
Van Gogh's Flowers Van Gogh's Flowers
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 80 Дата загрузки: 14 февраля 2012
   Towards the end of Van Gogh's short life, when he lived in Provence, his pictures of flowers and plants acquired a singular beauty and intensity. Nature and the countryside provided him with the inspiration, restorative power and freshness of subject matter for which he seems to have yearned. The sight of trees in blossom, flowery meadows, sunflowers and irises prompted endless experiments in colour and movement and resulted in a wealth of vibrant and beautiful paintings. This gorgeous book celebrates Van Gogh's great love of flowers. It contains a broad selection of ravishing colour illustrations, together with a number of the artist's very attractive pen and ink drawings, which demonstrate the vigorous and individual calligraphy of his work. The text draws upon Van Gogh's own moving and descriptive letters to show the great importance to him of nature and flowers.
 
Art Deco Painting Art Deco Painting
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 2012
   The Art Deco style was all pervasive during the 1920s and 1930s affecting the decorative arts, fine arts and fashion. This text specifically examines Art Deco painting and defines it as a genre. The author analyzes the characteristics of the style, period and history of the movement, explaining its relationship to Classicism, the Symbolists, the Precisionists, photography and Cubism. It discusses the frequent use of classical imagery, the importance of society portraiture, the portrayal of the «demi-monde» and the lure of decorative exoticism. French, American, Russian, British and Italian Art Deco painters, who are all represented here, were attracted as much to the skyscraper and the automobile as they were to the classical nude. The result was a remarkable mix of traditional and modern: the sleek, seductive portraits by the Polish emigre Tamara de Lempicka, the fantastical classical allegories of Jean Dupas, the elegant high-style compositions of Australia by Charles Meere and the evocative «real-life» scenes of Glyn Philpot.
 
The Essential Gombrich The Essential Gombrich
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 624 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 2012
   Professor E.H. Gombrich is acknowledged as one of the most influential scholars and thinkers of the 20th century. His writings include three major narrative works — «The Story of Art», «Art and Illusion» and «The Sense of Order» — and ten volumes of collected essays and reviews. This anthology presents a selection from all these books, as well as six pieces which have previously not been published by Phaidon. This work contains discussions on the nature of representation, the psychology of perception, the interpretation of images and the problems of theory and method. Other topics include social and cultural history, connoisseurship, iconography, symbolism and meaning in art, relativism, tradition, conservatism, and the idea of progress.
 
Ballet Dancers Fold and Send Stationary Ballet Dancers Fold and Send Stationary
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 40 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 2011
   - All-in-one fold-and-send writing pad featuring images from the secret world of young ballerinas — No envelopes required — simply write your letter on the stationery, fold up each sheet, seal, stamp and post — A perfect gift for the ballet-obsessed of every age
 
Pop Art Pop Art
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2012
   Pop Art was one of the most revolutionary art movements of the 20th century. In the 1950s, a group of artists in Great Britain and the USA, rather than despising popular culture, gladly embraced both its imagery and its methods, using photographs, advertisements, posters, cartoons and everyday objects to form the basis of their art. Their audacity at first scandalized the Establishment, but by the mid-1960s their work dominated the world art scene and names such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg were familiar to many. This book examines the formation and growth of the movement with selected examples from the style's most important exponents.
 
Rodin Rodin
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 126 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 2013
   Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is the only sculptor who is of equal rank to the French painters of the «Great Generation» from Monet to Cezanne. But while he has been considered an early modernist among sculptors, he drew on a rich variety of artistic traditions, including those of ancient Greece, the Renaissance, Egypt and the Far East. He was the creator of a new form in sculpture, the fragment as a finished work, usually a head or a trunk, sometimes a pair of heads only. Rodin is renowned for his expression of emotion and movement and his use of symbolism and distortion. In 1913 the artist described his pictorial approach to sculpting saying: «I place the model in such a way it stands out against the background and so that the light falls on this profile. Then I turn them again and gradually work my way round the figure». Gathered in this work is a collection of photographs of Rodin's masterpieces — from the impressive shape of «The Thinker», to the powerfully melancholy group of «The Burghers of Calais» and some of the most outstanding portrait busts of this century, among them Rose Beuret, Madame de Goloubeff, Victor Hugo and Gustav Mahler.
 
Fruits Fruits
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 2012
   This is a collection of 45 Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier fanzine. «Fruits» was established in 1994, by photographer Shoich Aoki, initially as a project to document the growing explosion in street fashion within the suburbs of Tokyo. The magazine has since grown to cult status and is now avidly followed by thousands of Japanese teenagers who also use the magazine as an opportunity to check out the latest styles and trends. The average age of the kids featured in the magazine is between 12 and 18 years and the clothes they wear are a mixture of high fashion — Vivienne Westwood is a keen favourite — and home-made ensembles which, when combined, create a novel, if not hysterical, effect. This collection of postcards represents a documentation of the changing face of street fashion throughout the 1990s.
 
Japanese Colour Prints Japanese Colour Prints
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2012
   This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
 
500 Self-Portraits 500 Self-Portraits
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 548 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 2011
   A new version of a Phaidon classic published in 1937, this evocative and fascinating book, now issued as a paperback, presents 500 of the world's greatest self-portraits, arranged in a simple chronological sequence from ancient times to the late twentieth century. 'The mirror, above all the mirror is our teacher' wrote Leonardo da Vinci. Portraits are an endless source of fascination, responding as they do to the basic human impulse to look at faces and try to see into the character behind them. Self-portraits have the added fascination that comes from looking into the mirror and trying to study one's own face. Taking its inspiration from the classic Phaidon volume published in 1937 with the same title, this book presents an uninterrupted sequence of 500 self-portraits, in chronological order from ancient Egypt to the late twentieth century. The challenge of creating their own likeness has proved irresistible to artists, and included here are powerful and evocative works by many of the world's greatest painters and sculptors, including Durer, Rembrandt, Picasso and Andy Warhol. Each image is both a work of art and a study in psychology and self-perception.. Presented without commentary, these works speak for themselves — a compelling collection for every student of art and human nature.
 
Klimt Klimt
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2012
   Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) is one of the most popular artists of the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. A founding member of the Viennese Secession and a leader of the Art Nouveau movement, Klimt was an innovator who achieved success with large decorative schemes as well as smaller portraits and paintings. He is admired for his sensuous images of women and for his original vision, producing images such as «Love», «The Three Ages of Man» and «The Kiss».
 
Magritte Magritte
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2012
   This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
 
Caravaggio Caravaggio
Автор: Жанр: Phaidon Press Издательство: Phaidon Press Год: 2010 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 2012
   Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original painter who led a short and violent life. The powerful realism of his figures upset many of his contemporaries, and their power to shock remains undiminished. This book, providing a biography, presents all his most famous masterpieces, each with a commentary. The introduction gives an account of his wayward life and his artistic development. Controversial in his own lifetime, and neglected after his death, Caravaggio has re-emerged both as a great master and as something of a cult figure, the subject of a notable film by Derek Jarman.
 

 

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