Книги з історії мистецтва

Місто Флоренція є домом для десятків музеїв і палаців, які містять багато найвідоміших у світі творів мистецтва. Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes – це багата та чудова колекція з тисяч картин і фресок, яку щороку відвідують мільйони мандрівників, включно з мистецтвом Джотто, Леонардо да Вінчі, Мікеланджело, Гірландайо, Корреджо, Боттічеллі, Караваджо, Тиціана, Рембрандта, ван Дейка, Ель Греко та сотень інших.

Досліджуйте історію мистецтва у Флоренції за допомогою семи есе Росса Кінга, автора бестселерів «Купол Брунеллескі» та «Мікеланджело та стеля Папи», у яких розповідається про те, як картини, політика та повсякденне життя флорентійців впливали одне на одне. Історик мистецтва Аня Гребе, автор книги The Louvre та The Vatican, також висвітлює 250 найбільш знакових і значущих картин і фресок в історичному місті з детальною інформацією про атрибути робіт, біографічні подробиці художників тощо.

Ця вражаюча колекція з майже 2000 картин і фресок є обов’язковою для будь-якого любителя мистецтва, студента чи мандрівника у кріслі.

Про автора:

Росс Кінг є автором бестселерів «Купол Брунеллескі» та «Мікеланджело та стеля Папи», а також романів «Екслібрис» і «Доміно». Живе в Англії, поблизу Оксфорда.

A new selection of letters, statements and interviews reveal the preoccupations, thoughts and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s most influential and important artists.

The documents selected for Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words illustrate Bacon’s sharp wit and ability to express complex ideas in highly personal, memorable language. Included here are not only letters to friends, patrons and fellow artists, but also intriguing notes and lists of paintings. They often come with a sketch as an aide-mémoire or an injunction to himself as he worked in the studio, and many have only come to light since his death.

Bacon’s letters mirror and reveal his dominant preoccupations at different points throughout his long career. Most of Bacon’s letters have never been published and include several that he wrote to the author. Particularly intriguing is the record of a dream that he jotted down, outlining impossibly beautiful paintings he had conjured up in his sleep. Together with photographs, archive material and works by the artist are numerous reproductions of Bacon’s characteristic handwriting, from the briefest jottings and notes to more extensive letters and statements.

Bacon frequently came up with memorable epithets and definitions. He delighted in doing with words what he set out to do in painting: 'I like phrases that cut me.' Michael Peppiatt explores the personal legacy of one of the 20th century’s most important painters and presents a compelling verbal self-portrait that reveals both man and artist.

Contents List:

Introduction
Statements and Quotations (1949 – 1989)
Letters (1943 – 1992)
Studio Notes (1954 – 1990)
Selected Interviews (1958 – 1986)
Chronology

About the Author:

Michael Peppiatt is a well-known writer and curator, who began his career as an art critic in London and Paris in the 1960s. Described by The Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’, his previous books include Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma and Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait. He was guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts’ exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Man and Beast’ (London, 2022).

George Barbier (1882–1932) is one of the great French illustrators of the early twentieth century. He is famous for his elegant art deco works that were heavily influenced by orientalism and Parisian couture. Born in Nantes, France in 1882, he skyrocketed to fame and notoriety after his first exhibition in 1911. Known as one of “the knights of the bracelet” for his luxurious and glamorous lifestyle and work, George Barbier also received renown for costumes and set designs he did for theater, film, and ballet. Even today, his modern and stylish illustrations are popular all over the world.

With critical essays on such topics as coloration and composition, this volume is a complete compendium of Barbier’s work. This valuable reference book is categorized by Barbier’s major projects in fashion, book illustration, theater art, and editorial design and is perfect for illustrators and graphic designers as well as a beautiful gift for someone very special.

About the Author:

Hiroshi Unno was born in 1939 in Tokyo. Unno writes on art, cinema, music, urbanism, novels, flower arranging and more. Unno recent titles released by PIE International - Avant-Garde Graphics in Russia, The Art of Fantasy, Sci-fi and Steampunk, Harry Clarke, William Morris: Master of Modern Design, The World of Mucha, A Thousand and One Nights - have gained recognition worldwide.

This book explores how Georgia O’Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle.

Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O’Keeffe’s clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O’Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today’s fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O’Keeffe “never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another.” This fresh and carefully researched study brings O’Keeffe’s style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber.

This beautiful book accompanies the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O’Keeffe’s unified modernist aesthetic.

About the Author:

Wanda M. Corn is Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Her publications include Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision, The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity, and Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories.

Історія готики, від ранньої архітектури та літератури до сучасного жанру жахів, ілюстрована прекрасним, моторошним та дивним.

Розвалювані руїни, нежить, темні провулки та ліси, що кишать жахами бачними та небаченими: зачатки готики виповзли з архітектури церков, мечетей та величних будинків у приміські торгові центри, переповнені міста, безлюдні куточки світу та за їх межі, набуваючи форми монстрів від Беовульфа до Годжіри, Ктулху чи вендіго до наших власних жахливих, спотворених відображень. Крізь час, форму та засоби масової інформації ця книга простежує переплетений шлях готики від тіней історії до самого серця сучасної популярної культури.

Зміст:

Вступ
I. Архітектура та форма
Голова арка • Руїни • Фрагмент • Лабіринт • Будинок
II. Рельєф місцевості
Сільська місцевість та місто • Село • Ліс • Дика місцевість • Окраїни
III. Готичний компас
Північ • Південь • Схід • Захід • Планетарний та космічний жах
IV. Монстри
Масштаб • Зрощення • Щупальце • Безформне • Ми
Додаткова інформація

Про автора:

Роджер Лакхерст є автором книг The Invention of Telepathy, 1870–1901 (2002), The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (2012), та Zombies: A Cultural History (2015), а також є редактором кількох класичних готичних романів Брема Стокера, Роберта Луїса Стівенсона та Г. Ф. Лавкрафта. Він є професором досліджень дев'ятнадцятого століття імені Джеффрі Тіллотсона в Біркбек-коледжі Лондонського університету.

On the Baroque painter's early years in Rome and the origins of his vision of landscape painting

The impetus behind this volume was the Italian state's 2020 acquisition of the painting Landscape with a Country Dance (1601-02) by the Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni (1575-1642). The artwork's return to its native land at the Galleria Borghese marked a prime opportunity to rediscover the artist and his oeuvre, particularly the landscapes and rural scenes he created during his early years in Rome.

Nature and Devotion tracks the new vision of nature-a fusion of science and poetry-that Reni developed alongside his contemporaries (who included Niccolò dell'Abate, Annibale Carracci, Domenichino and Giovanni Battista Viola). Following the artist's course up until his breakthrough fresco for the Casino of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, Aurora (1613-14), the volume conveys how the impressions he gathered during his early years in Rome established a robust foundation upon which he built his later masterpieces.

The first critical illustrated biography of this much-loved artist, locating her firmly in the art worlds of late 19th- and early 20th-century London and Paris

One of the most significant British artists of the twentieth century, Gwen John (1867-1939) made her life and work within the heady art worlds of London and Paris.

This critical biography demolishes the myth of Gwen John as a recluse and situates her, brilliant, singular and assured, amid a rich cultural milieu that included James McNeill Whistler, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maude Gonne. Art historian, curator and novelist Alicia Foster draws on previously unpublished archival sources to explore John’s many relationships with artists and writers, including her affair with Auguste Rodin, passionate friendships with Jeanne Robert Foster and Véra Oumançoff, and correspondence with, among others, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke and her Slade compatriot and fellow painter Ursula Tyrwhitt. John’s library, ranging from writing by her friends Rilke and Arthur Symonds to French philosophy and religious thought, is considered, as is her part in the increasing presence and visibility of women artists in the early-twentieth-century art world. From the life rooms of the Slade to the Paris salons, this is the story of an artist both devoted to her craft and deeply involved in the life and creativity of her era.

With over 120 illustrations, Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris offers a lively, meticulously researched portrait of Gwen John as a vital and utterly compelling figure in twentieth-century art history.

Contents List:

Introduction
1. London 1895
2. Slade Revolution
3. Whistler and After
4. Paris 1904
5. Rodin/Rilke
6. Lettres à Julie
7. A Library
8. Faith
9. From the Left Bank to the New World
10. The Convalescent and the Generals
11. Salon Life
12. A Parisian in London
13. The Modern Interior
14. The Pilgrim
15. After

About the Author:

Alicia Foster is an art historian, curator and novelist. Her publications include Tate Women Artists (2004), Gwen John (2015), Nina Hamnett (2021) and the novel Warpaint (2013), and in 2019 she curated ‘Radical Women: Jessica Dismorr and Her Contemporaries’, the first-ever museum show to focus on Dismorr, for which she also wrote the highly praised catalogue.

Дивовижна мистецька книга, яка розкриває невідоме обличчя Відродження та захоплення монстрами

Ієронім Босх відомий у всьому світі як художник, який малює жахливих створінь і фантастичні сцени, що здаються результатом мрійливих видінь. Його слава почалася не в Нідерландах, де народився художник, а в південній Європі XVI століття, де в мистецтві домінували теми та стилі, типові для ренесансного класицизму, дуже далекі від тих фламандського художника.

Ця книга, окрім представлення Босха, має на меті проілюструвати успіх його мистецтва у вищих суспільствах Італії, Іспанії та Америки в період між 16-м і початком 17-го століть, особливо звертаючись до тенденцій колекціонування того часу в цих двох країнах, де роботи Босха та його послідовників користувалися великим попитом (іспанські Габсбурги, Грімані у Венеції тощо). Ці роботи, у свою чергу, надихнули велику кількість художників, креслярів, граверів та інших видатних митців, у тому числі його наступника, відомого Брейгеля Старшого.

Таким чином книга проливає нове та дивовижне світло на особливий «Ренесанс», який завжди залишався в тіні порівняно з класицизмом Рафаеля, Тиціана та Парміджаніно, але який насправді мав сильний мистецький і культурний вплив у різних частинах Європи, часто з гротескними або «антикласичними» виразами, такими як цикл гобеленів Босха в Ескоріалі, картини таких майстрів, як Тіціан та Ель. Греко, роботи таких граверів, як Джорджо Гізі, скульпторів і декораторів, як-от Бернардо Буонталенті, і, нарешті, культура Вундеркамери.

Про авторів:

Бернард Айкема, автор і співредактор, є професором історії сучасного мистецтва в Університеті Верони та великим знавцем мистецьких відносин між європейськими країнами в сучасну епоху.Фернандо Чека Кремадес, автор і співредактор, історик мистецтва та колишній директор музею Прадо в Мадриді. Нариси написали Жоакім Олівейра Каетано (Португалія), Джульєтт Фердинанд (Італія), Томас Далла Коста (Італія), Джулія Занон (Італія), Клаудіо Салсі (Італія), Паула Фіндлен (Сполучені Штати), Ральф Деконінк (Бельгія), Девід Загурі (Швейцарія), Флоріке Егмонд (Нідерланди), Даан ван Хіш (Бельгія), Конча Ерреро (Іспанія), Ноелія Гарсіа Перес (Іспанія) і Бертрам Кашек (Німеччина).

The first monograph on the achievements of Hiro of EXILE, one of the most influential figures in contemporary music and pop culture in Asia.

With tours that pack 50,000-seat stadiums, the J-Pop band EXILE is one of the most popular bands on the planet. Founded as a six-man group in 1999 by Hiro Igarashi, now EXILE and its associated boy bands and singer-songwriters are platinum acts many times over, having sold more than twenty-five million records in Japan alone, and count Pharrell, A$AP Rocky, and Afrojack as collaborators.

This lavishly illustrated book documents Hiro’s empire, one of the most unique media and entertainment companies in Japan. Images of EXILE’s innovative stadium tours, stage designs, and fashion photography will draw in Western readers, and offer a unique collectible for fans in Asia. The book emphasizes the engagement with fashion and its links to pop music, as it describes the rise of Hiro and EXILE as a force in streetwear—with collaborations with NIGO®, Mastermind, Adidas Originals, and Dr. Romanelli.

About the Author:

Hiro is a founding member of the bands J-Soul Brothers and EXILE and the president of LDH, an independent J-pop artist management and media company. VERBAL is the founding member of the multiplatinum electronic group M-FLO and the fashion brand AMBUSH. NIGO® is the founder of *A Bathing Ape® and Human Made.

Chatsworth has been home to the Cavendish family and the hereditary dukes of Devonshire since the original Elizabethan house was built on the site purchased by Sir William Cavendish in 1549. A famous historic house in England, Chatsworth is renowned as much for its fashionable history—its majestic dresses and tiaras, its magnificent lace and splendid uniforms—as its unrivaled collection of art, its palatial gardens, and its celebrated family dynasty.

House Style takes the reader through images of show-stopping ensembles by the most celebrated designers of the day, from the Victorian era’s Jean–Philippe Worth to Alexander McQueen, and also features historic examples of ceremonial, military, court costume, fancy dress, and estate liveries, as well as clothing worn by members of the family to ride, hunt, shoot, and fish. New images of the rare surviving garments and gorgeous contemporary photographs are accompanied by new essays from leading historians and fashion critics. An exclusive invitation into the glamorous world of Chatsworth, this book is a true collectible for Anglophiles, fashion-history aficionados, and those fascinated by aristocratic style.

About the Author:

The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire reside at Chatsworth, home to the family since 1549. The Countess of Burlington is an editor, and wife of William Burlington, heir to the Duke of Devonshire. Hamish Bowles is the international editor-at-large at Vogue.

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Пролистать книгу House Style: Five Centuries of Fashion at Chatsworth

A new take on the history of art as parodied, reinterpreted and ultimately reinforced by the international phenomenon that is Banksy.

Few would dispute that Banksy is the most famous urban artist in the world today. That he is also one of the most perceptive art historians of our age might come as a surprise to many. Taken together, the myriad memorable works the street artist has created over the course of the past thirty years, since his emergence in the Bristol underground scene in the early 1990s, constitute an audacious commentary on the history of image-making – a captivating critique waiting to be pieced together.

Armed with little more than stencils, spray paint and an anonymizing cloak of after-hours darkness, Banksy has forged an alluring identity for himself as an incorrigible prankster who doesn’t embrace tradition, but shreds it. Consider Banksy and you think of grubby city walls far removed from elite galleries and privileged museums where art is conventionally shown. What actually illuminates Banksy’s audacious murals, impromptu urban sculptures and vandalized paintings, however, is a profound understanding of the story of art. He wields this secret knowledge like a weapon against our senses.

Through the dark satirical lens of Banksy’s mischievous reimagined masterpieces, art history is viewed afresh and brought into unexpected focus. From his droll lampooning of the Lascaux cave paintings to his reinvention of Monet’s enchanting water-lily pond, a reboot of Géricault’s tragic gut-wrenching vision to Vermeer's girl now instilled with street cred, everyone’s genius is grist for his unmerciful mill. Far from being diminished in their significance, however, the works that Banksy ruthlessly parodies are ultimately refurbished by the ordeal. Banksy’s iconoclastic works force us to rethink our affection for, and appreciation of, great works of art that define cultural history.

About the Author:

Kelly Grovier is a columnist and feature writer for BBC Culture and his writings on art have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, the Independent, The Sunday Times, the Observer, RA Magazine and Wired. He is the author of several books, including A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works (2018), On the Line: Conversations with Sean Scully (2021) and The Art of Colour (2023), published by Thames & Hudson. He is co-founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review.

Winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History, I Too Sing America offers a major survey on the visual art and material culture of the groundbreaking movement one hundred years after the Harlem Renaissance emerged as a creative force at the close of World War I.

It illuminates multiple facets of the era--the lives of its people, the art, the literature, the music, and the social history -- through paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, and contemporary documents and ephemera. The lushly illustrated chronicle includes work by cherished artists such as Romare Bearden, Allan Rohan Crite, Palmer Hayden, William Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley, and James Van Der Zee.

The project is the culmination of decades of reflection, research, and scholarship by Wil Haygood, acclaimed biographer and preeminent historian on Harlem and its cultural roots. In thematic chapters, the author captures the range and breadth of the Harlem Reniassance, a sweeping movement which saw an astonishing array of black writers and artists and musicians gather over a period of a few intense years, expanding far beyond its roots in Harlem to unleashing a myriad of talents upon the nation. The book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art.

About the Author:

Wil Haygood, guest curator for the Columbus Museum of Art's I Too Sing America: Harlem Renaissance at 100, is a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow. Haygood has written 4 biographies of major Harlem figures who were all touched by the Harlem Renaissance. His King of the Cats: The Life and Times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., won the Richard Wright-Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award, the Deems Taylor Biography Award, and the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the Black Caucus of the ALA His Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson, was a PEN/ESPN Book Award Finalist. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination that Changed America received the Scribes Book Award, the Ohioana Book Award, and the Honor Book Award from the Black Caucus of the ALA.
At the Columbus Museum of Art, Carole Genshaft is Curator at Large, Anastasia Kinigopoulo is Assistant Curator, Nannette V. Maciejunes is the Executive Director, Drew Sawyer is Head of Exhibitions and William J. and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography.

The bible of indie culture. index A to Z celebrates the uncompromising personalities, humor, and DIY brilliance of the indie generation and captures the spirit of the era with sections like F for Fashion, featuring designers Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs; I for Indie with Harmony Korine and John Waters; and others such as Royalty, Vanished, and X-Rated. Paying homage to Generation X's "It" glossy, this volume is packed with index's most memorable interviews and greatest photographs of the time, including previously unpublished outtakes and party pictures.

Beginning as a low-budget, oversized fanzine in 1996, index magazine quickly became one of the most influential small publications in the United States. With a smart and irreverent voice that epitomized the late '90s indie ethos, the magazine brought together some of the most relevant cultural figures who were at that time young and often unknown, and who have since become cultural icons or celebrities, including Bjork, Scarlett Johansson, Alexander McQueen, and Ryan McGinley, to name just a few. New interviews with founders Peter Halley and Bob Nickas, a reminiscence by Bruce LaBruce, and a historical overview by Wendy Vogel offer further looks behind the scenes.

About the Author:

New York City-based artist Peter Halley published index magazine from 1996 to 2005. Bob Nickas is a critic and curator based in New York. Bruce LaBruce is a Toronto-based filmmaker, writer, director, photographer, and artist. Wendy Vogel is a New York-based writer and curator.

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Пролистать книгу index A to Z: Art, Design, Fashion, Film, and Music in the Indie Era

Візуально приголомшлива, інтимна фотоекскурсія просторами Помпеїв, включаючи багато з тих, що ніколи не були бачені публікою

Помпеї, одне з найдивовижніших та найдобре збереженіших місць класичної античності, також є одним з найбільш відвідуваних архітектурних об'єктів світу. Цей розкішний том пропонує читачам екскурсію Помпеями через низку візуально привабливих та оригінальних фотографій італійського художника Луїджі Спіни. Підготовлений у партнерстві з Археологічним парком Помпеїв, читачі професійно проведуть дев'ятьма районами римського міста, включаючи багато прихованих куточків, недоступних для більшості відвідувачів.

Архітектура Помпеїв є центральною особливістю зображень, які були зняті в будь-який час доби, в усі пори року та при природному освітленні. Мереживні перистилі та ряди фрагментів колон поступаються місцем інтимним, атмосферним внутрішнім просторам. Мозаїчні підлоги та красиві, хоч і фрагментарні, настінні розписи відтворені з приголомшливою точністю та чутливістю. Книга також містить есе Габріеля Цухтрігеля, директора археологічного парку Помпеїв, та кілька роздумів про історію, архітектуру та природну красу міста. «Всередині Помпеїв» пропонує чудовий досвід блукання цим визначним місцем, не виходячи з дому.

Про автора:

Луїджі Спіна — італійський фотограф. Він опублікував понад двадцять книг і створив фотокампанії для установ та музеїв по всій Європі.

This fascinating exploration will appeal to anyone interested in art history, fashion and style, textile design and world history

The golden age of European navigation brought a breathtaking variety of textile designs to travel across the globe. These textiles blended the traditional designs, skills and tastes of the cultures that produced them with those of their destinations, resulting in objects that are both beautiful and historically intriguing.

While previous studies have focused on this story from the viewpoint of trade, Interwoven Globe is the first book to investigate it as a history of design — and to approach it from a universal perspective. Richly illustrated texts examine the interrelationship of textiles, commerce and taste from the Age of Discovery to the 19th century, providing detailed discussions of more than 120 works.

From India, with its renowned mastery of dyed-and-painted cotton, to the sumptuous silks of Japan and China, Turkey and Iran, the paths of influence are traced westward to Europe and the Americas. Shaped by an emerging worldwide visual culture, the fashion for the ‘exotic’ in textiles, as well as in other goods and art forms, gave rise to what can be called the first global style.