Автор(ы): Octave Uzanne
Из серии: Temporis
Canaletto began his career as a theatrical scene painter, like his father, in the Baroque tradition. Influenced by Giovanni Panini, he is specialis...
Книги "Temporis"
Chinese Art
Автор(ы): Stephen W. Bushell
Из серии: Temporis
Dealing not only with architecture, sculpture, and painting, but also with bronze and ceramics, this text offers a complete panorama of Chinese art...
Icons
Автор(ы): Nikodim Kondakov
Из серии: Temporis
Icon painting has reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries. This art is appealing because of its great openness to other i...
Malevich
Автор(ы): Gerry Souter
Из серии: Temporis
Pioneer of geometric abstract art and one of the most important members of the Russian Avant-garde, Malevitch experimented with various modernist s...
Utamaro
Автор(ы): Edmond de Goncourt
Из серии: Temporis
If sensuality had a name, it would be without doubt Utamaro. Delicately underlining the Garden of Pleasures that once constituted Edo, Utamaro, by ...
American Graffiti
Автор(ы): Margo Thompson
Из серии: Temporis
The first appearances of graffiti “tags” (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or...
Bauhaus. 1919-1933
Автор(ы): Lutz Schöbe, Michael Siebenbrodt
Из серии: Temporis
The Bauhaus movement (meaning the “house of building”) developed in three German cities – it began in Weimar between 1919 and 1925, then continued ...
Bikini Story
Автор(ы): Patrik Alac
Из серии: Temporis
It was in 1946 that the world first came to hear of a coral atoll in the Marshall Islands called Bikini. The following year, French couturier Louis...
Bosch
Автор(ы): Virginia Pitts Rembert
Из серии: Temporis
Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of h...
The Art of the Shoe
Автор(ы): Marie-Josèphe Bossan
Из серии: Temporis
Abandoning a French look on the subject, Mrs. Bossan, the author, develops her study with a dichotomous vision: that of time that touches the histo...
The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
Автор(ы): Eric Shanes
Из серии: Temporis
At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Gir...
Bonnard and the Nabis
Автор(ы): Albert Kostenevitch
Из серии: Temporis
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of post-impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning ‘prophet’. Bo...
The Art of Champa
Автор(ы): Jean-François Hubert
Из серии: Temporis
From 12 October 2005 to 9 January 2006, the Musee Guimet in Paris will play host to an exceptional exhibition: ‘Treasures of Vietnamese Art… Champa...
The Encyclopedia of Erotica
Автор(ы): Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Из серии: Temporis
What happened to the insolence of the 18th-century libertines or to the carefree excesses of the Belle Époque and its legalized brothels? They have...
Antoni Gaudí
Автор(ы): Jeremy Roe
Из серии: Temporis
Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His us...
Lempicka
Автор(ы): Patrick Bade
Из серии: Temporis
The smoothly metallic portraits, nudes and still lifes of Tamara de Lempicka encapsulate the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age, and reflect the e...
The Story of Lingerie
Автор(ы): Muriel Barbier, Shazia Boucher
Из серии: Temporis
What is the social merit or purpose of all those bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines? ...
Michelangelo
Автор(ы): Eugène Müntz
Из серии: Temporis
Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which t...
