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Daniels Robert V.: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia

Скачать книгу (размер 2 513 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 494) Аннотация: «Distinguished historian of the Soviet period Robert V. Daniels offers a penetrating survey of the evolution of the Soviet system and its ideology. In a tightly woven series of analyses written during his career-long inquiry into the Soviet Union, Daniels explores the Soviet experience from Karl Marx to Boris Yeltsin and shows how key ideological notions were altered as Soviet history unfolded.…

Dawson Carr: Velazquez

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (1599-1660) was born in Seville, Spain, the oldest of six children. He has come to be recognised as one of the very greatest painters, with an extraordinary ability to observe and record visual experience, whether rendering genre paintings, history scenes or portraits. Velazquez's career can be characterised as a lifelong examination of the relationship of…

Steele Valerie: Ralph Rucci: The Art of Weightlessness

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Working quietly and without much public attention for more than 20 years, American fashion designer Ralph Rucci suddenly became a headline topic in 2002, when he was invited to show his collection at the haute couture in Paris — the first American to receive such an invitation since Mainbocher in the 1930s. This sumptuously illustrated book is the first to explore in depth Rucci's life and work,…

Alpers Svetlana: Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence

Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: Tiepolo is a brilliant example of the specifically pictorial intelligence. This book is both a study of his art and an argument for fuller recognition of the peculiarities of the painter's representational medium. Alpers and Baxandall locate distinctive modes of Tiepolo's representation of the world and human action; follow his process of invention from first pen drawings, through small oil…

Hughes Lindsey: Peter the Great: A Biography

Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Lindsey Hughes, author of the classic account of Russia during the reign of Peter the Great, here provides the definitive shorter biography of this dramatic, appealing and unconventional character. The book tells the story of Peter the Great (1672-1725) from birth to death in twelve chapters, including two final chapters on his legacy and posthumous reputation with the aim of providing a vivid…

Penny N.: National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: This substantial and beautifully illustrated volume documents the National Gallery’s unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian, Tintoretto, and the Bassano family. The collection is so rich and varied that the book serves as an introduction to all the major types of painting…

Clark Kenneth: One Hundred Details from the National Gallery

Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: One Hundred Details offers Kenneth Clark's personal choice of details of paintings in the National Gallery, London, and his responses to them. First published in 1938, when he was Director of the Gallery, Clark chose the pictures he liked best, in the hope that we will come to like them too. The details are arranged in pairs, enabling us to see analogies and contrasts between paintings that are…

Alexander Vatlin: Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution: Bolshevik Self-Portraits

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «What did the rulers of the Soviet Union truly think about each other? «Piggy Foxy and the Sword of Revolution» provides a window onto the soul of Bolshevism no other set of materials has ever offered. Sketching on notebook pages, official letterheads, and the margins of draft documents, prominent Soviet leaders in the 1920s and 1930s amused themselves and their colleagues with drawings of one…

Sewell Darrel: Thomas Eakins

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) is one of the most fascinating and important personalities in the history of American art. His memorable and much-loved scenes of rowing, sailing, and boxing as well as his deeply moving portraits are renowned for their vibrant realism and dramatic intensity. This beautiful and insightful book, published in conjunction with a major exhibition on the life and career of…

Madariaga Isabel: Catherine the Great

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Ivan IV, 'the Terrible' (1533-1584) is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror — and for killing his own son — he has been credited with establishing autocracy in Russia. This is the first attempt to write a biography of Ivan from birth to death, to study his policies, his marriages, his…

Speth James Gustave: Red Sky at Morning

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In this powerful book, a renowned environmental leader warns that despite all the international negotiations of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth's environment are not succeeding. He explains why this is so and presents eight specific steps that governments and citizens can take to achieve a sustainable future. For this new paperback edition the author has added an Afterword that…

Cavallo Adolfo Salvatore: The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: The unicorn tapestries are one of the most popular attractions at The Cloisters, the medieval branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Traditionally known as The Hunt of the Unicorn, this set of seven exquisite and enigmatic tapestries was likely completed between 1495 and 1505. The imaginatively conceived scenes, displaying individualized faces of the hunters and naturalistically depicting the…

Brian Allen: Paul Mellon's Legacy: A Passion for British Art

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Paul Mellon (1906-1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study centre he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain's national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five…

Butler Susan: My Dear Mr Stalin

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: My Dear Mr. Stalin is the first publication that contains the complete correspondence between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. This collection of more than three hundred hot-war messages, never before fully available in any language, is an invaluable primary source for understanding the relationship that developed between these two great world leaders during a time of supreme world…

Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: This beautiful book focuses on Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany's extraordinary country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Beginning in 1902, Tiffany (1848-1933) designed every aspect of the immense home, which had eighty-four rooms and eight levels, and extensive grounds into which the house was carefully integrated. Tiffany's residential masterpiece was also a quasi-museum, for…

Ormond Richard: John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882 v: 4

Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: From 1874 to 1882, John Singer Sargent produced more than 200 paintings and water-colours aside from portraiture, including figures in landscape settings, architectural studies, seascapes, subject paintings, and studies after old masters. This book discusses these pictures. Each painting is documented with exhibition history and bibliography.

Bronkhurst Judith: William Holman Hunt: A Catalogue Raisonne

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: William Holman Hunt was one of the three major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. Hunt’s work was always characterized by great seriousness of purpose, and his paintings include many of the most beautiful and powerful images of that midcentury explosion of creativity. This catalogue raisonée gives him the attention he deserves. The book includes an introduction that assesses…

Finamore Daniel: America and the Sea: Treasures from the Collections of Mystic Seaport

Скачать книгу (размер 804 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 159) Аннотация: «The history of America is largely a history of the sea. This marvelous book features a selection of more than two hundred of the finest objects from Mystic Seaport that tell the history of America and its maritime heritage. Presented with accessible texts and beautiful reproductions are masterpieces of maritime painting, exquisite photographs of classic yachts and powerboat races, and diverse…

Agee William: Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s

Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: From the 1850s to the 1950s, American art and culture progressed from provincial status to international prominence, and American art transitioned from figurative depictions of the particular to abstract interpretations of universal ideals. This beautiful book chronicles this complex century of maturation through a selection of paintings from the extraordinary collection of the Addison Gallery of…

Walker Myra: Balenciaga and His Legacy

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Born in 1895 in a remote fishing village in Spain, Cristobal Balenciaga learned sewing and tailoring at his mother's knee. By 1937, the talented and persistent young man had opened his own design salon in Paris, and in the years following World War II, he emerged as a designer to be reckoned with in the world of haute couture. The House of Balenciaga grew to serve an international clientele from…