Книги о музеях мира

- Книга помещена в банку из-под сгущенного молока, увеличенную до размеров книги.
- Внутрь банки вложены четыре резиновых мяча с именами художников.
- Банка с альбомом продается в авоське советских времен.
- На обложке книги - одна из самых известных картин Энди Уорхола с изображением банок с томатным супом "Campbell".
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Эта книга об искусстве, которое долго не признавалось в нашей стране и о котором почти ничего не было известно широкой публике: лишь знатоки-искусствоведы знали его истинную ценность.
Современное западное искусство едва просматривалось за железным занавесом СССР. Когда Энди Уорхол иронизировал над обществом изобилия, в Советском Союзе царил тотальный дефицит. Жестянка с томатным супом "Campbell" в США была символом дешевизны, массовости, доступности, удобства... А жестянка со сгущенным молоком в СССР символизировала лакомство, удачу, беззаботную жизнь...
Американская идея - возведение обыденных предметов в ранг предметов искусства - для советского человека была чуждой: обыденные предметы имели собственную, жизненно необходимую смысловую ценность. Причем здесь искусство? Сама эта мысль показалась бы абсурдной. Мир западный и мир, в котором жил советский человек, существовали параллельно, но совершенно отдельно друг от друга много десятилетий.
Современность уравняла обе жестянки в своей ценности. Нынче и у нас сгущенка - дешевый, массовый, доступный продукт, над которым не грех иронизировать.
Теперь параллельно существовавшие миры пересеклись!

Авторы книги стремились дать общее представление об уникальном собрании нью-йоркского Музея современного искусства, насчитывающем сейчас более 100 000 произведений искусства. Основание Музея в 1929 г. позволило продемонстрировать широкой публике лучшие произведения современного искусства и стало событием в культурной жизни США. С огромным энтузиазмом сотрудники Музея пополняли и совершенствовали его коллекцию, так что сегодня музей обладает лучшим в мире собранием такого рода. По счастливому совпадению публикация альбома совпала с празднованием 75-летия Музея. В ожидании этого события Музей расширил и обновил свое помещение: новое здание стоимостью 425 миллионов долларов, сооруженное по проекту одного из самых передовых японских архитекторов Йосио Танигучи, - это практически новый музей.

Moscow, Splendours of the Romanovs recounts the history of three hundred years of rule by the Romanov dynasty through over six hundred works of great beauty, including the famous eggs made by the jeweller Carl Fabergé. An evocation of the Cathedral of the Dormition in the Kremlin brings back to life the splendid ceremonies of the coronation of the Czars, while examples of gold and silver work, tableware and cabinet-making illustrate the quintessence of the applied arts that underwent a revival in 19th-century Moscow: a capital that was never abandoned but whose centuries-old architecture, destroyed in the fire of 1812, lives on in its own way in engravings, drawings and paintings.
Like a phoenix, Moscow rose again from its ashes, as is demonstrated both by the engravings from the middle of the 19th century and by the creative energies of its painters, architects and craftsmen.
Photographs and early films immerse us in the family life of Nicholas II, the last of the Romanovs, while the Russian avant-garde, born in Moscow at the beginning of the 20th century, brought the house’s three hundred years of rule to an end.

As a carrier of human cultural information, the museum is a global cultural facility, which evolves into new functions and forms during the endless social development and gradually develops into a multi-functional cultural complex. The age of traditional collecting and exhibiting functions has passed by; the contemporary museum architecture needs to meet more requirements.

The book selects excellent competition entries and design proposals for art museums, science museums, history museums and local complex museums all over the world since 2007. The rich materials will present the readers a complete design process and reveal current museum development tendency, which have positive guidance and reference for museum design practitioners.

Museums are the mental park of cities. In the long period of social development they have been assembled with multi-functions and become an indispensable part of a city. Then as the complex of culture - how do they perfectly combine the architectural design and cultural contents together? In this book are selected 45 excellent projects of museum display all over the world. The book comprehensively introduces every key point of museum display design to the readers, including space division, internal structure, the use of materials, decorative elements and etc. We believe it would serve as a practical reference for the readers and provide them some brand new design inspirations.

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Volume 1:  288 pages, 325 illustrations.
Volume 2:  416 pages, 900 illustrations in colour and 342 signatures.

The Japanese belt accessories for men known as netsuke aroused great interest in Europe already at the end of the 19th century. Today they have become special, highly-prized collector’s items all over the world.

The main subjects are mythical creatures, gods of popular religion, and exotic animals and also depictions of Europeans, particularly Dutchmen, who fascinated the Japanese in the 18th and 19th century. The craftsmanship is of incomparable perfection, and the materials include boxwood, ivory, horn, coral, tortoise-shell and much else. Famous artists like Yoshimura Shûzan (1700–1773) and Ohara Mitsuhiro (1810–1878) created masterpieces which strongly influenced this art form.

The two volumes present more than 850 objects from the collection of Anne and Christian Trumpf, one of the most important netsuke collections worldwide, with in-depth commentary and lavish illustrations. The author, Dr. Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz, is a well-known scholar in this field. A new standard work on netsuke – an area of collecting that over the last few years has grown immensely on an international scale.

After The Erotic Museum of Berlin and The Temple of Venus in Amsterdam, a work on Paris was imperative. Rich of six centuries of gallantry and the world capital of fashion and love, Paris is the symbol of eroticism and joyful pleasures. As a matter of fact, Offenbach has written a hymn to the joy of the senses of the Parisian life. But this city still does not possess an erotic museum comparable to Berlin's or Amsterdam's. The author, with great liberty, uses a method comparable to André Malraux's by constructing an imaginary museum in this Paris where time and space is infinite, but desires are still present. The exceptional iconography comes from private collections and covers over five centuries of naughty Parisian history. This is accompanied by an academic text, which allows the reader to penetrate in a world that is never vulgar, always subtle and never-ending: eroticism.

If one aspect has identified the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) over these years, it is its political position and its desire to question institutional discursive mechanisms. This objective has been the guiding light in our work. Along general lines, the museum operates in four spheres: the Collection, public activities, the museum’s organizational structure and the creation of mediating spaces with social movements and actors.

The MACBA Collection has maintained constant growth. Once more, our effort has been collective, forged from the complicity between the museum and artists.

The structure of this volume is concordant with the museum’s logic. In one direction, the text by Manuel J. Borja-Villel, director of the MACBA from 1998 to 2007, reflects on the fundaments of what at some stage became defined as the MACBA model. Meanwhile Kaira M. Cabañas describes and details the works that make up the most significant core of art acquired from 2002 to 2007. Lastly, Jorge Ribalta analyzes how the area of public programs, education and political action has evolved over these years. 

The Sistine Chapel is the geographical and spiritual centre of the Vatican City, but it is also one of the most internationally famous artistic sites. The chapel's outstanding beauty lies above all in its vast cycle of paintings covering the entire vault, featuring stories from the Book of Genesis and the Last Judgement, the grandiose, bustling scene located on the back wall. Michelangelo's masterpieces are what make the Sistine Chapel the most visited place in the world, illustrated in this volume in the minutest detail, so the reader can not only appreciate the works as a whole, but also the artist's creative process. This can be observed in the preparatory marks on the plaster, the brush strokes and occasionally traces left by the painter's actual fingers. A graphic diagram of the vault is a guide to the different parts and scenes depicted. Biographies and an index of artists conclude the volume.

This is the perfect guidebook for all artlovers who visit or live in New York, and an essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of art.

Its unique approach draws on the cream of New York’s museums and galleries to create an easily navigable, narrative history of art and allows you to locate your favourite artist or style of art in any museum and follow it throughout the museums of New York.

Do you like, say, French art? This book will show you where to find it in New York, from great masterpieces of the genre on show in world-famous institutions to hidden gems housed in galleries off the beaten track.

Visit the Metropolitan Museum to take in Nicolas Poussin, Jacques-Louis David and Courbet; move on to the Frick Collection to see works by the Rococo painters Boucher and Fragonard, or take off to the Dahesh Museum, the only American institution devoted to the academic tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Art Guide also features concise histories and critical analyses of many important artists as well as key movements, showing you where to see, for example, Jackson Pollock’s iconic works and pinpointing his former New York homes and haunts.

• ‘Short tour’ and ‘also see’ sections allow you to trace your favourite period or style throughout the museums and galleries of New York
• ‘Artist in focus’ sections present a full tour of New York’s holdings of iconic artists
• Extensive reference sections and city maps enable you to use the book as an illustrated guide to every one of New York’s museums and galleries
• Individual chapters guide the reader through a thematic, narrative history of art
• Expert commentary on the movements and artists throughout

The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 992 oversized pages of nearly 2,700 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and visually spectacular history of world art ever published. Ten years in the making, this unique book was created with a global team of specialists in all fields of art, including museum curators and educators, who have collected together important works as they might be displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover.

Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, this luxurious book is organized by innovative color-coded "galleries," "rooms," "corridors" and "special exhibitions" which display hundreds of paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens, ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art.

This is the only museum to house Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, a collection of Rembrandt’s finest self-portraits, Velázquez’s Las Meninas and Picasso’s Guernica, as well as ceramics from China, Hokusai’s woodblock prints, gold artefacts from Peru, and works by Jackson Pollock in one place.

With intelligent in-depth text throughout, explanatory labels for each artwork, a comprehensive glossary and detailed location maps, The Art Museum, is accessible for everyone from casual art fans to experts in the field.

A revolutionary 'virtual' museum with easy-to-navigate, colour-coded galleries and rooms

Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this revised, reformatted edition offers the museum experience without the boundaries of space and time, taking the reader on a tour around the world and through the ages. Its rooms and galleries display some 1,600 artworks, selected from the original collection, including paintings, sculpture, photographs, textiles, installations, performances, videos, prints, ceramics, manuscripts, metalwork, and jewel-work.

Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book – from pre-historic times to the present, – over 1,600 artworks created with the expertise of 28 art world curators and historians.

"Unprecedented, unique, and vast in scope... a visually spectacular survey of world art. Destined to delight, inspire, and educate, as well as to become an invaluable, classic art-reference resource, it is very highly recommended." ―Library Journal

About the Authors:

Twenty-eight curators, critics, art historians, and artists contributed their expertise to create this art-lover's ideal museum. They come from such institutions as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the British Museum, London; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; the University of California, Berkeley; La Trobe University, Melbourne; the School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London; and The Courtauld Institute of Art, London.

What is more common than a pair of shoes? In a world where shoes have become an object of mass consumption, these accessories are now rid of any significance. Industry has accomplished its duty: producing large quantities at low prices. But there was a time when the shoe symbolised the strength of the Roman legion, the power of the medieval lords or the oppression of the Chinese woman. Its history is both vast and enthralling, as revealed by the author Marie-Josephe Bossan. Supporting her analysis with an outstanding iconography, the author gives these commonplace objects a universal quality that sheds light on the whole of civilisation and elevates them to the rank of a work of art.

The Barnes Foundation, established by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1922, is home to a legendary art collection. Barnes assembled one of the world’s largest and finest groups of post-impressionist and early modern paintings, with holdings by such luminaries as Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine, Manet, Monet, Seurat, Degas, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.

The Foundation’s collection also holds significant examples of American art, including works by Demuth, Glackens, and the Prendergasts; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings by El Greco, Rubens, Titian, and others; ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; and American and European decorative arts and metalwork.

The presentation of the collection reflects Barnes’s educational and aesthetic approach: symmetrical “ensembles,” or wall compositions, combine works of different periods, mediums, cultures, and styles for the purpose of comparison and study.