Название: A World of Art, 8th Edition
Автор: Henry M. Sayre
Издательство: Pearson
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 159 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A World of Art fosters the critical thinking and visual literacy skills students need to understand art from around the globe. Noted author and educator Henry Sayre teaches students how to ask the right questions about the visual world that surrounds us, and to then respond meaningfully to the complexity of that world. New to the eighth edition, seven thematic chapters help students better identify and understand major themes of art—such as “the cycle of life” and “the body, gender, and identity”—that transcend different eras and regions.

Название: The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art
Автор: Peggy Wang
Издательство: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

During the 1980s and 1990s, a group of Chinese artists (Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guangyi, Sui Jianguo, Zhang Peili, and Lin Tianmiao) ascended to new heights of international renown. Even as their fame increased, they came to be circumscribed by simplistic Western interpretations of their artworks as social and political critiques, a perspective that privileged stories of dissidence over deep engagement with the art itself. Through in-depth case studies of these five artists, Peggy Wang offers a corrective to previous appraisals, demonstrating how their works address fundamental questions about the forms, meanings, and possibilities of art.

Название: Pompeii in the Visual and Performing Arts: Its Reception in Spain and Latin America
Автор: Mirella Romero Recio
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Год: 2023
Формат: PDF
Размер: 101 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This volume examines the influence that Pompeii and, to a lesser extent, Herculaneum had on the visual and performing arts in Spain and countries across South America. Covering topics from architecture, painting and decorative arts to theatre, dance and photography, the reader will gain insight into the reception of classical antiquity through the analysis of the close cultural ties between both sides of the Atlantic, in the past and the present. Pompeii in the Visual and Performing Arts begins by examining the influence of Pompeiian architecture in Spain in paintings that depict scenes inspired by Roman scenes and also buildings modelled on those of Pompeii.

Название: Art and Religion in Africa
Автор: Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Издательство: UNKNO
Год: 1996
Формат: PDF
Размер: 22 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The artistic and religious traditions of Africa constitute a primary expression of the intellectual and cultural vitality of this vast and fascinating continent. Art plays a vital role - especially when oral traditions dominate - in expressing and communicating ideas about the relationships between the human, spiritual and natural worlds. However, despite the ritual and symbolic significance of many artistic works, the interactive and interdependent relationship between art and religion in the African context remains understudied and misunderstood. This book draws on the methodologies of several disciplines to provide a greater understanding of the philosophical and religious aspects of artistic works and to challenge Western perceptions of what is "important." Case studies and examples reflect the geographical, material and gendered diversity of Africa's visual and performing arts and highlight the changes imposed by Christianity, Islam and the newer religious movements in post-colonial Africa.

Название: The Art of Southeast Asia (World of Art)
Автор: Philip Rawson
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Briefly discusses the history of styles of painting, sculpture, and architecture in the countries of Southeast Asia.

Название: Klimt (World of Art)
Автор: Frank Whitford
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 1990
Формат: PDF
Размер: 32 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Gustav Klimt's work brilliantly negotiates the borders between traditional and modern, figurative and non-figurative art. His subtly erotic portraits, richly patterned landscapes and enigmatic allegorical compositions are at once sensuous and refined, while his extravagant, ornamental style verges on abstraction. Obliged to go his own way when he was denied public commissions, Klimt became the leader of the modernists in Vienna, during the tragic final years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was perhaps the greatest portraitist of his age, a landscape painter of dazzling originality and above all the creator of extraordinary decorative schemes.

Название: Maya Art and Architecture (World of Art), 2nd edition
Автор: Mary Ellen Miller, Megan O'Neil
Издательство: Thames & Hudson
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Размер: 66 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Rewritten and updated to include the discoveries and new theories from the past decade and a half, this classic guide to the art of the ancient Maya is now illustrated in color throughout. World expert Mary Miller and her co-author Megan O’Neil take the reader through the visual world of the Maya, explaining how and why they created the paintings, sculpture, and monuments that intrigue and compel people the world over. With an array of new material, including the newly found La Corona panels, Waka’ figurines, and the Dz’ibanche’ staircase; studies of the monuments at Palenque, Zotz, and elsewhere; and paintings discovered in recent years; this new edition will be essential reading for students and scholars―and for travelers to the cities of this mysterious civilization.

Название: The Painted Churches of Cyprus: Treasures of Byzantine Art, 2nd Edition
Автор: Andreas Stylianou, Judith A. Stylianou
Издательство: A.G. Leventis Foundation
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Размер: 152 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The volume commences with a historical introduction and a general discussion of Byzantine art and Cyprus. The first section concerned with monuments covers the churches with mosaics (three buildings at Lythrankomi, Kiti and Livadia). This is followed by the much longer list of painted churches under 42 locality headings (villages or towns), listing 58 buildings. Brief directions are provided under the heading of each village to facilitate access. The history of each monument is described in detail, together with extensive description of the preserved paintings. The majority of the illustrations are photographs of the monuments and their wall paintings; smaller numbers of architectural ground plans and sections are also included. The book ends with a list of Cypriot saints, glossary, bibliography and index.

Название: Naxos (Byzantine Art in Greece)
Автор: Nano Chatzidakis
Издательство: Melissa Publishing House
Год: 1999
Формат: PDF
Размер: 116 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This series on Byzantine monumental painting in Greece presents mosaics and wall-paintings from the 7th to the 15th century. It includes complete monographs on each monument, written by specialists in Byzantine art, plans and drawings, rich photographic material and bibliography. Table of Contents: Introductory Notes (Manolis Chatzidakis); Panagia Drosiani (Nicos Drandakis); Supplementary Note (Manolis Chatzidakis); Protothrone at Chalki (Nicos Zias Panagia); Hagios Ioannis Theologos at Adisarou (Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou); Hagia Kyriake - Hagios Artemios (Agapi Vasilaki-Karakatsani); Hagios Georgios Diasoritis (Myrtali Acheimastou-Potamianou); Hagios Nikolaos at Sangri (Nicos Zias); Hagios Ioannis at Kerami (Nicos Zias); Panagia at Yallou (Nicos Drandakis).

Название: Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals: Studies on Architecture, Stained Glass and Sculpture in Honor of Anne Prache
Автор: Kathleen Nolan, Dany Sandron
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Размер: 130 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, and Bourges - form the core of this collection dedicated to the memory of Anne Prache. The essays reflect the impact of Prache’s career, both as a scholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridges between the French and American academic communities. Thus the authors include scholars in France and the United States, both academics and museum professionals, while the thematic matrix of the book, divided into architecture, stained glass, and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored by Prache during her long career. The essays employ a varied range of methodologies to explore Gothic monuments. The chapters in the architectural section include an intensive archeological analysis of the foundations of Reims Cathedral, the close reading of a late medieval literary text for a symbolic understanding of Paris, and essays that explore the medieval use of practical geometry in designing entire buildings and their components.