Рублев, Веронезе, Гойя, Ван Гог, Дюрер, Кандинский, Матисс, Рембрандт - это художники разных времен и разного стиля... Но их всех, как истинных мастеров, объединяет вечное горение, вечное вдохновение, вечно одержимая любовь к искусству. Среди великих художников мира, представленных в данной книге, нет двух одинаковых мастеров. Все они очень различаются по манере письма, творческому подходу, колориту и темпераменту. Но каждое из великих имен с благодарностью и любовью вспоминают подлинные поклонники живописи. Благодаря им живо искусство мастеров прошлого и настоящего. Именно им, любителям и ценителям мировой живописи, предназначена новая книга из серии "100 великих".

«Энциклопедия запрещенного кино» повествует о 125 известных фильмах, которые в той или иной степени подвергались цензуре в США. В ней содержится анализ наиболее заметных кинокартин, а также тех менявшихся на протяжении более чем столетней истории кинематографа мер и механизмов, которые применялись для полного или частичного запрета фильмов. Политические, общественные, религиозные организации, представители секс-меньшинств и маргинальных группировок и просто добропорядочные граждане — все они считают себя вправе диктовать художникам. Советским гражданам, выросшим в условиях цензуры, будет любопытно узнать, как запрещали, кромсали и уродовали такие фильмы, как «Эммануэль» и «Прощай, оружие!», «Великий диктатор» и «Сладкая жизнь».

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as “poetry pregnant with thought.”

Замечательный альбом, содержащий рисунки цветов, птиц и животных, выполненные в традиционной китайской технике художниками 17-18 вв. Китайская национальная живопись появилась в глубокой древности. Она отличается большим своеобразием и отлична по материалу, технике и художественным средствам от европейской живописи. Китайские картины пишутся тушью, минеральными и растительными красками. Одной из отличительных черт китайской живописи является то, что образы в ней создаются посредством линейного рисунка, в то время как в европейской живописи образы выражаются с помощью объёмов и форм, цветом и светотенью.

This guide to conceptual art traces the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, with an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s, namely the modernist theory of Clement Greenberg and his disciples, and the influence of conceptual art on today's art and cultural climate. Artists featured include: Vito Acconci, Art & Language, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Marcel Duchamp, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Louise Lawler, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper, Edward Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson. Taschen's Basic Art movement and genre series: each book includes a detailed introduction with approximately 30 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, sporting, etc.) that took place during the time period. The body of the book contains a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work, a reference work, portrait of the artist, quotes, and biographical information.

Здесь представлены 150 работ архитектора в рисунках. Ниже под каждым рисунком можно прочесть описание.

From "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), a landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind. Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation. All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten? Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.

Книга представляет собой первое подробное описание униформы, знаков и иных внешних отличий моряков Кригсмарине - военно-морского флота Германии на русском языке. Это иллюстрированное издание не оставит равнодушным и художников, и кинематографистов, историков техники, а также всех, кто интересуется униформистикой и историей военно-морского флота. " Достаточно подробный обзор униформы и знаков отличия Кригсмарине сопровождается фотографиями и цветными рисунками автора.

Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane; his listening obsessively to Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters records, learning guitar and forming a band with Mick Jagger and Brian Jones, the Rolling Stones' first fame and the notorious drug busts that led to his enduring image as outlaw folk hero, creating immortal riffs like the ones in "Jumping Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women." He discusses falling in love with Anita Pallenberg and the death of Brian Jones, his tax exile in France, wildfire tours of the U.S., isolation and addiction, as well as falling in lovewith Patti Hansen, and his bitter estrangement from Jagger and subsequent reconciliation. He talks about his marriage, family, solo albums and Xpensive Winos; the road that goes on forever.

Kazimir Malevich (1878 - 1935) was a painter and a great art theorist but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism (pure abstraction), a style based on geometrical forms. "Suprematism," he wrote, "has led me to discover something that had not been understood until then there is in human consciousness an imperious desire of space and the will to escape from Earth." This new publication presents the brilliant works of Malevich, the original painter, who until the age of twentyseven had no professional background as a painter, and who learned to draw out of curiosity and out of his will to learn. Gerry Souter once more offers us the works of a brilliant artist as well as a new perspective on the artist's personality.