Сборники работ по искусству

By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring`s original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colours, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures won him the appreciation of both the art world and the general public; his work appeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals. In 1986, Haring founded Pop Shop, a boutique in New York`s SoHo selling Haring-designed memorabilia, to benefit charities and help bring his work closer to the public and especially street kids, with whom he never lost contact.

Bursting with colour and featuring Keith Haring’s powerful messages, this collection of posters includes insightful commentary and dazzling reproductions

Whether Keith Haring was raising awareness of the AIDS epidemic and apartheid or celebrating life, music, and dance, his signature illustrations became part of the cultural landscape of the 1980s. Posters were central to Haring’s oeuvre and the perfect medium for his inclusive, accessible, and figurative style. Author Jurgen Doring offers fascinating insights into Haring’s work, providing commentary on each of the exquisitely reproduced posters. Important reference work and a vibrant celebration of a world-renowned artist, this book will delight Haring’s many fans throughout the world.

Geometrical figures and hieroglyphic elements

The delightfully unclassifiable work of a master painter

Designated as "degenerate" by the Nazis, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is today considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century. His works stand out for the variety in their forms of artistic expression.

His Tunisian water-colours depicting landscape, architecture and, above all, the North African light of this Mediterranean land constitute the true beginning of Klee’s painting career. Although these paintings still fall under the heading of ’objective,’ they already exhibit indications of his tendency toward abstraction and a language of forms.

Geometrical figures and hieroglyphic elements characterize the majority of these works, which for this reason seem reminiscent of ’naive’ and playful children’s painting. In reality, however, Klee’s paintings have their roots in theoretical considerations, their recurrent symbols conveying personal and at times political content.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

• a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
• approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
• a concise biography

Since the 1950s, German painter Konrad Klapheck has been producing a rigorous body of work. The bulk of his extraordinarily focused artistic career comprises a continued painterly investigation of technological machines and everyday objects such as typewriters, sewing machines, and ventilators. The artist’s canvases, however, are not mere depictions; the objects Klapheck presents are subtly anthropomorphized and charged with psychological, social, and political meaning. A telephone, for example, takes on a playful, eroticized quality in one canvas, while a typewriter becomes a menacing object evocative of brute power in another. An artist’s artist, Klapheck has never painted according to fashions dictated by the art world; he is a painter guided by his own obsessions. However, his work bears a number of crucial relationships to the history of painting and to the artistic and intellectual concerns of postwar art. In its unexpected combination of deadpan depiction and evocative playfulness, Klapheck’s canvases forge an important link in twentieth-century art, melding elements from Surrealism and Pop Art with a singular painterly sensibility to create a uniquely influential body of work.

This long-overdue English-language monograph comprises an in-depth examination of Klapheck’s work, bringing together an extensive group of paintings that span the continued course of his career. The publication provides an overview of important paintings of technological devices and machinery, while also presenting examples of more recent evocative, figurative work.

Konrad Witz (c. 1400 – c. 1446) counts among the most radical revivalists of painting in the first half of the fifteenth century. While his achievements testify to his knowledge of the Old Netherlandish painting of his time, they also constitute Witz’s extraordinarily original signature. The uncontested highlight of his work is the Geneva Altar (1444), which features the Biblical scene of Peter fishing embedded in a veduta-like view of Lake Geneva - the first topographically accurate, identifiable landscape in the history of German painting.

There is hardly any doubt among researchers that the approximately twenty panels for four commissioned altars were made by Witz himself. All the more diverse, then, are the opinions about his education, career, sphere of influence, and successors. This publication discusses new theses with respect to Witz’s artistic background.

В творческой среде современных московских художников живописная манера Константина Батынкова не имеет аналога. Соединяя каллиграфическую точность рисунка с зыбкостью акварели, он «строит» монохромный мир своих полотен из мегаобъектов и микромножеств. На первый взгляд воспринимаемые как безобидные натурные этюды, его работы имеют отношение скорее к социальному пейзажу России. Немного мрачные депрессивные полотна притягивают особой эстетикой письма – живым мазком и потеками туши. Открывая экзистенциальную неустроенность жизни, являя зрителю фантомы коллективного бессознательного, Константин Батынков остается одним из самых востребованных персонажей культурной жизни российской столицы.

"Hortus Eystettensis, "Le Jardin d'Eichstätt" demeure sans doute, pour les plus anciens exemplaires connus (1613), l'un des plus somptueux parmi les ouvrages représentant des fleurs.
(...) Le Florilège de Basilius Besler (1561-1629) nécessita une quinzaine d'années de travail. Il vise à décrire les végétaux qui ornaient le jardin épiscopal occupant, autour d'un château, le sommet de la colline de Willibadsburg, au nord-ouest d'Eichstätt.
(...) Ainsi se perpétue jusqu'à nous une horticulture réduite au précieux florilège dont quelques planches sont réunies ici, issues de l'exemplaire de la Bibliothèque nationale de France."
Gérard G. Aymonin

Avec 75 reproductions à pleine page représentant 208 espèces
Noms français et familles précisés
Bibliographie
Préface de Gérard AYMONIN du laboratoire de phanérogamie, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle de Paris.

Throughout his career Moholy-Nagy produced brilliant works in painting, film, photography, sculpture, set design and typography. A leading proponent of the Bauhaus School, he strove to apply artistic principles to every aspect of daily life.

This companion volume to a retrospective features 170 works from all phases of Moholy-Nagy s career. Essays on his involvement with the Bauhaus School; his late paintings; his photographs, photograms, and photosculptures; and his accomplishments in the field of graphic art are complemented by numerous colour illustrations.

The book also documents the reconstruction of a never completed work,

The Room of Today, which incorporates the most important themes Moholy-Nagy brought to his art. Readers viewing his work for the first time, along with those already possessing a deep appreciation for his art, will celebrate this long-overdue volume.

"Derrière moi, à Edo Je laisse mon pinceau
En route pour un nouveau voyage
Laissez-moi admirer
Toutes les vues célèbres du Paradis"
Utagawa Hiroshige, Poème d'adieu, 1858

(...) Son oeuvre d'une originalité surprenante, fascinera les japonais et influencera les occidentaux (Whistler, Pissarro, van Gogh, Monet, Bonnard). L'une des suites d'estampes les plus évocatrices offertes aux amateurs de paysages et de voyages, Les Cinquante-trois relais du Tôkaido, publiée en 1833-34, lui valut une célébrité immédiate et universelle."
Giséle Lambert
Ces 53 estampes (55 avec le départ et l'arrivée) reproduites en couleurs, à pleine page, exécutées par Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) en 1832 le long de la route du Tôkaidô (Edo-Kyoto).

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Leonardo: from art and anatomy to helicopters and submarines

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world's most famous painting, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era. And yet, so wide-ranging and prolific were his interests that he brought hardly any major undertaking to a final end.

If Leonardo seems so modern, it is perhaps because of his non-speciality, his magpie mind and curiosity, and his thousands of notes and sketches. In these pages, he would anticipate some of the great discoveries and inventions that would follow him, from key points in anatomy - such as the principles behind blood circulation - through to plans for armoured military vehicles, planes, helicopters and submarines.

Leonardo also advanced numerous artistic techniques, and implicated a complex psychology into his paintings of The Last Supper and the enigmatic La Gioconda, or Mona Lisa. Famous horseman, rival to Michelangelo, military engineer to the Borgias, he died in 1519 in a chateau given to him by Francis I, King of France. Not bad for the illegitimate son of a Florentine notary.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

* a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
* approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions
* a concise biography

Посмотреть русскоязычное издание книги Leonardo - Леонардо да Винчи

Da Vinci in detail. Leonardo's life and work - the definitive edition

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This two-volume, midsize format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo’s masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.

 - Part I explores Leonardo’s life and work in ten chapters. All of his paintings are interpreted in depth, with The Annunciation and The Last Supper featured on large double-spreads.
 - Part II comprises a catalogue raisonné of Leonardo’s paintings, which covers all of his surviving and lost painted works and includes texts describing their states of preservation.
 - Part III contains an extensive catalogue of his drawings (numbering in the thousands, they cannot all be reproduced in one book); 663 are presented, arranged by category (architecture, technical, anatomical, figures, proportion, cartography, etc).

Пятьсот лет назад Леонардо да Винчи (1452–1519) не только произвел переворот в искусстве, но и предвосхитил открытия грядущих эпох в самых разных областях науки. Данное издание отражает широту и разнообразие интересов художника и предлагает новую оценку достижений этого гения Ренессанса. Основываясь на письмах, контрактах, поэтических произведениях и дневниковых записях того времени, авторы книги рассматривают творения Леонардо, и в первую очередь его живопись, в совершенно новом свете.

В подробной биографии да Винчи, сопровождаемой каталогом из 34 картин, обсуждаются все основные аспекты сохранившихся и утраченных живописных работ мастера. Это первый каталог, в котором на основании новейших исследований приводятся сведения о состоянии, техниках, процессе написания, биографии, атрибуции и предпосылок создания картин Леонардо. В раздел из 430 страниц, посвященный графике да Винчи, вошли не только его рисунки, но также и менее известные листы из записных книжек и научных манускриптов. Каталог графики, включающий 633 рисунка, воспроизведенных в цвете и крупном масштабе, является наиболее полным собранием такого рода на настоящий момент.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes. Part I explores Leonardo's life and work in ten chapters. All of his paintings are interpreted in-depth, with The Annunciation and The Last Supper featured on large double-spreads. Part II comprises a catalogue raisonne of Leonardo's paintings, which covers all of his surviving and lost painted works and includes texts describing their states of preservation. Part III contains an extensive catalogue of his drawings (numbering in the thousands, they cannot all be reproduced in one book); 663 are presented, arranged by category (architecture, technical, anatomical, figures, proportion, cartography, etc).

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This XXL-format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.

* Part I explores Leonardo's life and work in ten chapters, drawing upon his letters, contracts, diary entries, and writings. All of his paintings are presented and interpreted in depth, with The Annunciation and The Last Supper featured on large double-spreads.
* Part II comprises a catalogue raisonné of Leonardo's paintings, which covers all of his surviving and lost painted works and includes texts describing their states of preservation. Each and every painting that can be justifiably attributed to Leonardo is included here; thanks to new findings and scientific research, this is the first time his definitive painting oeuvre is being published.
* Part III contains an extensive catalogue of his drawings (numbering in the thousands, they cannot all be reproduced in one book); 663 are presented, arranged by category (architecture, technical, anatomical, figures, proportion, cartography, etc). Over half of the drawings included were provided by Windsor Castle, marking the first time that the Castle has allowed a publisher to reproduce so many of their drawings.