Название: Мифология: Энциклопедический справочник. Северная, Античная, Кельтская
Автор: Котерелл А.
Издательство: Белфакс
Год: 1997
Cтраниц: 256, цвет.ил.
Формат: djvu
Размер: 66 мб
Язык: русский

Настоящее издание посвящено мифологиям трех выдающихся европейских культур - античной, кельтской и северной (германо-скандинавской), чьи традиции составляют основу европейской мифологической мысли, древних идей и понятий, т. е. фундамент мировоззрения современного человека. Более 500 алфавитных статей с характеристиками центральных мифологических фигур каждой из культур с перекрестными ссылками. Великолепные иллюстративные тематические развороты по основным темам и символике каждой из культур.

Название: Vladimir Markov and Russian Primitivism
Автор: Jeremy Howard, Irina Bužinska, Z. S. Strother
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemars Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia, 1910-14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich, Tatlin, and the Constructivists before it was censored during the era of Soviet realism. This volume introduces Markov as an innovative and pioneering art photographer and assembles for the first time five of his most important essays. The translations of these hard-to-find texts are fresh, unabridged, and authentically poetic.

Название: Art and Myth of the Ancient Maya
Автор: Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos
Издательство: Yale University Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 32 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This nuanced account explores Maya mythology through the lens of art, text, and culture. It offers an important reexamination of the mid-16th-century Popol Vuh, long considered an authoritative text, which is better understood as one among many crucial sources for the interpretation of ancient Maya art and myth. Using materials gathered across Mesoamerica, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos bridges the gap between written texts and artistic representations, identifying key mythical subjects and uncovering their variations in narratives and visual depictions. Central characters—including a secluded young goddess, a malevolent grandmother, a dead father, and the young gods who became the sun and the moon—are identified in pottery, sculpture, mural painting, and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Highlighting such previously overlooked topics as sexuality and generational struggles, this beautifully illustrated book paves the way for a new understanding of Maya myths and their lavish expression in ancient art.

Название: Зримая сущность (визуальное мышление в изобразительном искусстве)
Автор: Жуковский В.И., Пивоваров Д.В.
Издательство: Издательство Уральского университета
Год: 1991
Cтраниц: 284
Формат: djvu
Размер: 93 мб
Язык: русский

В монографии впервые в советской философской литературе исследуются особенности визуального мышления в изобразительном искусстве. Анализ художественно воплощаемой зримой сущности позволяет авторам по-новому осветить проблемы природы шедевра, открытости художественного произведения, проникновения зрителя в замысел художника. Анализ работ Мирона, Леонардо да Винчи, Рафаэля, Рублёва, Иванова, Сурикова с помощью разработанного авторами метода дал интересные, но не бесспорные результаты.

Название: Exhibitionist: Writing about Art in a Daily Newspaper
Автор: Richard Dorment
Издательство: Wilmington Square
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 127 Мб
Язык: английский / English

100 sumptuously produced essays by Britain’s leading art critic, US born, Richard Dorment. They cover exhibitions of historic and contemporary art world-wide, interpreting and critiquing many of the most important shows of the last 30 years. They offer, in a highly accessible form, the fundamental elements of a history of art, and a beguiling review of recent cultural trends.

Название: The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre
Автор: Prudence Oliver Harper, Joan Aruz
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 1993
Формат: PDF
Размер: 45 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The ancient city of Susa (biblical Shushan) lay at the edge of the Iranian plateau, not far from the great cities of Mesopotamia. A strategically located and vital center, Susa absorbed diverse influences and underwent great political fluctuations during the several thousand years of its history. When French archaeologists began to excavate its site in the nineteenth century, the astonishing abundance of finds greatly expanded our understanding of the ancient Near East. The artifacts were taken to Paris through diplomatic agreement and became a centerpiece of the Louvre's great collection of Near Eastern antiquities. These works are rarely loaned, but a remarkable selection that includes many undisputed masterpieces, brought to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for exhibition, is presented in this comprehensive publication.

Название: Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500
Автор: Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter
Издательство: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 2013
Формат: PDF
Размер: 90 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This first comprehensive study in English devoted to Sienese painting to be published in four decades centers on the fifteenth century, a fascinating but frequently neglected period when Sienese artists confronted the innovations of Renaissance painting in Florence. The painters of Siena, without betraying their heritage of the previous century―which had produced some of the greatest artists of all time, including Duccio, Simone Martini, and Ambrogio and Pietro Lorenzetti―succeeded in adapting their artistic traditions to a new and completely original vision, rejecting many of the norms by which subsequent generations have come to define Renaissance art. These later Sienese artists frequently took a nonrational approach, seeking not to replicate nature, but to explore a more subjective world―one that in some respects is akin to that of twentieth-century art. The result is one of the most singular schools of Italian painting, which must be viewed on its own terms and understood within the religious and social framework of fifteenth-century Siena.

Название: David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back
Автор: Helen Park Bigelow
Издательство: Counterpoint
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 33 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A half century after his death, David Park (1911-1960) is recognized as one of America's most important twentieth-century painters. He was the first of the brilliant post-World War II generation of artists to break with Abstract Expressionism's hegemony and return to painting recognizable subjects, most powerfully the human figure. Park's original cohorts of Bay Area Figurative painters were his close friends Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, and Hassel Smith. All outlived him—Smith by nearly fifty years—and enjoyed recognition and fame during their lifetimes. Park's reputation is just now fully coming into its own.

Название: Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
Автор: Andrew Maynard
Издательство: Mango
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Science and technology are radically changing our world. Films from the Future is an essential guide to navigating a future dominated by complex and powerful new technologies. The jump from room-filling processors to pocket-size super computers is just the beginning. Artificial intelligence, gene manipulation, cloning, and inter-planet travel are all ideas that seemed like fairy tales but a few years ago. And now their possibility is very much here. But are we ready to handle these advances? As Maynard explains, “Viewed in the right way―and with a good dose of critical thinking―science fiction movies can help us think about and prepare for the social consequences of technologies we don’t yet have, but that are coming faster than we imagine.”

Название: Предприятие Рембрандта. Мастерская и рынок
Автор: Светлана Алперс
Язык: русский
Издательство: Ад Маргинем Пресс
Год: 2022
Страниц: 312
Формат: pdf
Размер: 86,8 Мб

Выдающийся американский историк искусства Светлана Алперс (род. 1936), дочь экономиста, нобелевского лауреата Василия Леонтьева, предприняла в этой работе, опубликованной на английском языке в 1988 году, смелую попытку взглянуть на Рембрандта, гения голландской живописи «золотого века», как на художника-предпринимателя, создавшего в XVII веке, когда Республика Соединенных Провинций была не только одним из центров западноевропейского искусства, но и колыбелью рыночной экономики.