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Symbolism
Автор: Wolf Norbet Жанр: Taschen Год: 2005 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20082010-08-23
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May 1884 saw the publication in Paris of a fin de siecle novel that became a perverse sensation on the European cultural scene. A Rebours (translated both as Against the Grain and Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans was written as a seductive textbook of decadence, an antidote to the banality of the dominant literary styles, Naturalism and Realism. Symbolism, whose influence would endure well into the modernist era, was an artistic religion-substitute, a spiritually charged cult of beauty. A Symbolist picture or sculpture is deliberately mysterious. In place of intellectual comprehension, the work seeks to have the beholder experience its esoteric depths like a vision. It is no wonder that Symbolists created some of the most fascinating artworks of their age. Featured artists: Arnold Bocklin, Edward Burne-Jones, Puvis de Chavannes, Thomas Cole, Jean Delville, Maurice Denis, James Ensor, George Frampton, Paul Gauguin, Ferdinand Hodler, Ernst Josephson, Fernand Khnopff, Gustav Klimt, Max Klinger, Georg Kolbe, Frantisek Kupka, Frederick Lord Leighton, Jacek Malczewski, Hans von Marees, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Piet Mondrian, Gustave Moreau, Edvard Munch, Nestor, William Degouve de Nunques, Pablo Picasso, Odilon Redon, Felicien Rops, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Giovanni Segantini, Charles van der Stappen, Franz von Stuck, Felix Vallotton, Elihu Vedder, and Georg Frederick Watts.
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Modern Art 1870-2000: Impressionism to Today
Жанр: Taschen Год: 2005 Страниц: 680 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20082007-05-24
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Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism The modern art adventure began roughly 150 years ago in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, often impasto, strokes. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the establishment salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions. After this first assault on standard academic practice, there was no holding back. In a constant desire to challenge, innovate, and inspire, one modernist style supplanted the next: Symbolism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Abstract Art, renewed Realism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop, Minimal and Conceptual Art. This indispensable overview traces the restless energy of modern art with a year-by-year succession of the groundbreaking artworks that shook standards, and broke down barriers. Each of these stand-out pieces is accompanied by a text profiling the artist and discussing the importance of their work. Introductory essays, meanwhile, explain the most significant modernist movements.
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Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution
Автор: Ingels Bjarke Жанр: Taschen Год: 2009 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132011-05-22
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This is a tour de force on the essence of life, human nature, and how to live a good simple life — all distilled through the lens of the Three Creeds: Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Hung Ying-ming and many of the literati had an almost mystical concept of literature. Just as the patterns of a flight of birds express the underlying principles of nature, so the patterns of the best literature express the Tao, or the Way, in man. The Unencumbered Spirit is a handbook of the Way, its verses to be intuitively and spontaneously understood through contemplation and meditation. The great value of The Unencumbered Spirit is that so many of the vital seeds of contemplation have been set down in this single volume with inspired clarity. In Hung's poetic prose are expressed the infinite transformations of the world's opposites — what the Chinese called yin and yang — good and evil, honesty and deception, wisdom and foolishness, being and non-being. Wise, profound, spiritual, witty, and timeless, The Unencumbered Spirit is about rejecting desire and greed. It is a book about revealing clear Truth, stripping away all the extraneous layers of self-deception and phenomenal attachment. It is a book about living without stuff, whether material, psychological, or spiritual. It is about living with simplicity and awareness of ultimate truth.
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