Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: One of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists and a founding figure of modern art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) incorporated the influences of many cultures into his work. He pioneered an appreciation of the simple and primitive, traveling to Martinique, Tahiti, and the Marquesas Islands for inspiration. The artist's legacy is recalled in this excellent collection of 16 Gauguin masterpieces,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 498 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 295) Аннотация: Dan Graham's body of art and theory — which dates from shortly after he moved to New York in 1964 — has become a key part of the Conceptual art canon. He is a highly influential figure in the field of Contemporary art, both as a practitioner and as a well-respected critic and theorist. Best known for his large-scale installations incorporating mirrors — in which viewers become lost in a maze of…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Widely considered one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most mysterious and erotically daring, painters of the twentieth century, Balthus, or Balthazar Klossowski, the French/Polish Count de Rola, died in his adopted Switzerland in 2001 at the age of 93. Descended from Polish aristocracy and raised among important European intellectuals like Rainer Maria Rilke, Andre Gide and Jean…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Perhaps no other figure exerted a greater influence on the urban transformation of Barcelona during the first third of the 20th century than Josep Puig i Cadafalch. If as an architect he constituted a perfect example of the tension posed between Modernism and Noucentisme, as a historian and archeologist he contributed to the recuperation of a significant part of Catalonia's historical and…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is without doubt one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century. Dead at the age of 44, he nonetheless bequeathed a substantial body of pioneering work to countless subsequent artists for whom he stood as a model of fearlessness, courageous improvisation and balletic grace. Throughout his life, Pollock wrote very little about his own art or that…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Close Distance is both an exhibition and a collaborative artist's book by Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento and British writer Adrian Searle. Searle reviews Sarmento's output in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and film, which for Searle «speaks of sex, violence, the repressed, the unconscionable and the deliberately--provocatively--inexplicable.»
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From Edvard Munch to Chris Ofili, French painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) has exerted a profound influence on artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Gauguin began as an Impressionist, contributing major works to the movement's groundbreaking exhibitions between 1879 and 1886. This concise, beautifully illustrated monograph collects Gauguin's most important works. In addition to his…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Antoni Tapies was born in 1923 to a Barcelona family of publishers and booksellers. He began drawing and painting as a young man, during a convalescence, and in the end gave up studying law to concentrate on art. By the 1940s, in his 20s, Tapies was already exhibiting widely. As an early Matter painter, he added dirt and other solids to his canvases, transmuting them into art and reminding…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Like his Dutch contemporary Vermeer, Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) had little reputation outside of his native land until the nineteenth century, when the Spanish royal painting collections became state property and were installed in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The year was in 1819, and several private and official collections in London and Paris also benefited. Unlike Vermeer, however, Velazquez…