Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolor was unconventional. His confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow practitioners alike. Enhanced by biographical and technical essays, and lavishly illustrated with 175 color reproductions, this publication introduces readers to the full sweep of Sargent's accomplishments in this medium.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. The original edition of «American Photographs» was a carefully prepared letterpress production, published by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938 to accompany an…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: In 1900, Swedish design reformer and social theorist Ellen Key published The Century of the Child, presaging the coming century as a period of intensified focus and progressive thinking around the rights, development and well-being of children. Taking inspiration from Key-and looking back through the twentieth century-this volume, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 340 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 264) Аннотация: Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde explores the extraordinary convergence of artists, intellectuals, and creators in Japans capital city during the radically transformative postwar period. Examining works from a range of media paintings, sculpture, photographs, drawings, prints, videos and films, as well as graphics, architecture, musical compositions and dance this is the first publication in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, in 1867, was the subject of a quartet of paintings by the French Impressionist and early Modernist Edouard Manet. These works are rarely shown together, and in fact cannot be seen in their entirety, since one of them exists only in fragments, but the three intact paintings and the surviving elements of the fourth are reproduced in this publication,…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with colour photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 55 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 12) Аннотация: A lady checks her luggage for a train ride: a couch, a suitcase, a traveling bag, a picture, a basket, a hat-box, and a little dog. Will they all make it to her destination? During the 1920s in Russia, many authors, poets, and talented visual artists worked with fervent dedication and the support of the government to create a new type of childrens literature, one that drew on both the aesthetic…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Throughout his career, Douglas Gordon has engaged in an ongoing reflection on the motion picture, examining the relationship between cinema and our common knowledge and perception of it. In altering, monumentalizing and alienating our collective understandings of film, he has visualized, pictured and 'sculpted' time. Motion/Pictures, the book accompanying an exhibition that focuses on Gordon's…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Dutch artist Aernout Mik's moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling and unsettling, irrational yet plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer's physical relationship to the piece a critical component of the overall experience. By interrogating the most…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: Since its birth in the first half of the 19th century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of isolating works of art for study and pleasure. Through cropping, focus, angle of view, distance and lighting as well as the ex post facto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and assemblage, photographers not only interpret the artworks they record but create stunning…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Roy Lichtenstein made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Pop art, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important artists and favorite works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, guides readers through a dozen of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple…
Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: «The Photographer's Eye by John Szarkowski is a twentieth-century classic--an indispensable introduction to the visual language of photography. Based on a landmark exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 1964, and originally published in 1966, the book has long been out of print. It is now available again to a new generation of photographers and lovers of photography in this duotone printing…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Gauguin: Metamorphoses at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguins rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several discreet bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Published in conjunction with a major exhibition organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with the Menil Collection, Houston, and the Art Institute of Chicago, Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 19261938 focuses on the breakthrough surrealist years of Ren? Magritte, creator of some of the 20th centurys most extraordinary images. Bringing together nearly 80 paintings,…