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Le premier siècle de notre ère fut marqué par des événements marquants : la fin de l'empire romain, la montée du christianisme dans toute l'Europe occidentale et la disparition de la Perse du Proche-Orient ; une époque où les institutions anciennes les plus profondément enracinées ont disparu à jamais, créant des héritages divergents qui sont toujours présents. Dans ce volume de la série World of Art l'historien de renom Peter Brown examine ces changements et leurs réactions pour montrer que la période de l'Antiquité tardive a été marquée par de nouveaux départs remarquables et des impacts de grande envergure.
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The sources of modern architecture and design
Nikolaus Pevsner
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 25 Avril 2024
- 9780500297698
Le tournant du XIXe siècle a vu une extraordinaire floraison d'inventions en matière d'architecture et de design, conduisant à l'émergence de deux styles contrastés : l'Art Nouveau et le Style International. Le professeur Nikolaus Pevsner apporte de la clarté à cette période de changement dynamique en retraçant les origines des idées du XXe siècle dans l'architecture et les arts appliqués. Cette réédition mise à jour comprend un nouvel avant-propos de l'historien de l'architecture Kenneth Frampton ainsi que des images en couleur.
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Modern painting : a concise history
Simon Morley
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 30 Août 2023
- 9780500204894
This new concise history of modern painting offers an indispensable reference to the complexities and characteristics of this medium, which now exists alongside many other contemporary practices that embrace radically expanded ideas about art.
While acknowledging the legacy of Herbert Read's classic 1959 study A Concise History of Modern Painting in the World of Art series, academic and artist Simon Morley places the foundation of modern art much earlier than Read, at the emergence of Romanticism and the dawn of the industrial age. Structured loosely chronologically by period, the focus is as much on individual artists as movements, with works discussed within a broader context?stylistic, historical, geographic, and gender and ethnic frames?themes which recur throughout the chapters. Generously illustrated, the global and diverse range of artists featured include William Blake, Édouard Manet, Hilma af Klint, Kazimir Malevich, Willem de Kooning, Amrita Sher-Gil, Faith Ringgold, and Kehinde Wiley.
This guide also includes an appendix in the form of questions the reader might like to ask about the artists and ideas discussed?in order to reconsider the works from a contemporary perspective.
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The classical language of architecture
Summerson John/Power
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 23 Août 2023
- 9780500297346
Dérivé des principes de l'architecture grecque et romaine de l'Antiquité, le style classique a longtemps dominé l'histoire de l'architecture occidentale, de la Renaissance à nos jours. Le texte intemporel de Sir John Summersons, aussi pertinent aujourd'hui qu'il l'était lors de sa première publication, distille le langage visuel de l'architecture dans ses éléments classiques fondamentaux et montre comment, à travers les âges, les bâtiments expriment une conscience de la grammaire du style et de ses règles, parfois les modifiant considérablement. Des édifices originaux de la Grèce et de Rome aux innovations de la Renaissance, de la rhétorique explosive du baroque aux néoclassicisme et enfin, de l'éclectisme exubérant des Victoriens et des Édouardiens au « néoclassicisme dépouillé » moderne, Summerson explique comment chaque période a utilisé le langage classique pour donner forme à l'esprit de son époque. Avec une nouvelle introduction de l'historien de l'architecture Alan Powers, cet ouvrage continue d'être l'un des textes déterminants sur le sujet et constitue une lecture essentielle pour tous les étudiants en architecture.
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An in-depth overview of Ukrainian art from the dawn of modernism in the late nineteenth century to the start of the Russian invasion in winter 2022.
This new volume in the World of Art series provides an overview of Ukrainian art, artists, and art movements from the dawn of modernism and the 1900s to the Soviet period, to post-Soviet times and the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022. Ukrainian art and artists are discussed within historical and political contexts as well as how they have -
The impressionists at first hand
Bernard Denvir
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 30 Août 2023
- 9780500297322
An updated edition of this classic collection of letters, critical reviews, and reminiscences by impressionist artists and their contemporaries.
The impressionists?Claude Monet, Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, and others?are probably the most popular of all artistic schools. Their struggle to impose a new vision is one of the most absorbing stories in the whole history of art. With imagination and insight, art historian Bernard Denvir brings impressionism into focus by showing it through the eyes of the artists themselves and their contemporaries, against the background of the time. Through letters, critical reviews, statements, and reminiscences of the people who were there, the story of this groundbreaking art movement comes alive. This was the age of innovation, political liberalization, emergent photography, and modern ideas about perception. The impressionists had new ways of painting, but they also had a new world to paint.
This revised edition now features full-color reproductions of art throughout and an updated bibliography.
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Photomontage 3rd ed (world of art)
Dawn Ades
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 16 Septembre 2021
- 9780500204672
La manipulation de la photographie est aussi ancienne que la photographie elle-même. Elle a incarné et animé la propagande politique, la satire, la publicité et les créations commerciales, et évoqué des mondes futurs à travers des visions surréalistes et fantastiques. Des photomontages ont été réalisés, entre autres, par les dadaïstes, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Hannah Hoch et Alexander Rodchenko, et nombre de leurs oeuvres ont été reproduites pour la première fois sur papier lors de la publication de cette étude fondamentale, désormais publiée dans la troisième édition.
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Réédition pour ce grand classique de John Gage consacré à la couleur dans l'art.
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Modern architecture : a critical history 5rth ed
Kenneth Frampton
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 20 Août 2020
- 9780500204443
Nouvelle édition pour ce classique de la collection World of Art remise au goût du jour, et qui n'existe plus en français. Pour ce volume, le célèbre Kenneth Frampton retrace l'histoire de la modernité architecturale.
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From prehistory to postmodernism, the arts in Spain have occupied a powerful and influential role in the development of Western art. This wide-ranging and incisive overview traces the history of painting, sculpture, the decorative arts and architecture whilst situating them within their contexts.
It investigates Iberian and Roman beginnings and examines the splendour of the Islamic and Christian foundations at Córdoba and the Escorial, before concentrating on the masterworks of El Greco, the Golden Age of Zurbaran and Velázquez, and the creations of Goya. After discussing the brilliant innovations of Picasso, Dali and Miró, it concludes by considering the most recent developments in Spanish art.
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Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects of the twentieth century. The richness and variety of his work combined with his passionately expressed philosophy of architecture have had an oversized impact on the urban fabric and the way we live. Weaving through his long and prolific life are certain recurrent themes--his perennial drive toward new types of dwelling, from the early white villas to the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles; his evolving concepts of urban form, including the Plan Voisin of 1925, with its cruciform towers imposed on the city of Paris, and his work at Chandigarh in India; and his belief in a new technocratic order.
The distinguished critic and architecture historian Kenneth Frampton reexamines all facets of the architect's artistic and philosophical worldview in light of recent thinking and presents us with a Le Corbusier whose work is still relevant for the twenty-first century. This revised edition features a new introduction and color illustrations. -
The third edition of this classic study, a thorough introduction to one of the most popular and recognizable artists of the 20th century.
Salvador Dali was, and remains, among the most universally recognizable artists of the twentieth century. What accounts for this popularity? His excellence as an artist? Or his genius as a self-publicist? In this searching text, partly based on interviews with the artist and fully revised, extended and updated for this edition, Dawn Ades considers the Dali phenomenon. From his early years, his artistic friendships and the development of his technique and style, to his relationship with the Surrealists and exploitation of Freudian ideas, and on to his post-war paintings, this essential study places Dali in social, historical and artistic context, and casts new light on the full range of his creativity.
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An updated edition of this classic survey, a thorough overview of Paul Cezanne's life and work.
For Picasso he was 'like our father'; for Matisse, 'a god of painting'. Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) is widely regarded as the father of modern art. In this authoritative and accessible study, Richard Verdi traces the evolution of Cezanne's landscape, still-life and figure compositions, from the turbulently romantic creations of his youth to the visionary masterpieces of his final years. The painter's biography - his fluctuating reputation and strained relations with his parents, wife and close friend Emile Zola - is vividly evoked using excerpts from his own letters and from contemporary accounts of the artist.
Cezanne was torn between the desires to create art and to seek inspiration - to master the themes of the past, through his copying sessions in the Louvre, and to explore the eternal qualities of nature in the countryside of his native Provence. In this way the artist sought 'to make of Impressionism something solid and durable, like the art of the museums'. In this richly illustrated overview Verdi explores the strength, vitality and magnitude of Cezanne's achievement.
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A new edition of this classic survey on the life and work of Spanish surrealist, Joan Miro, by his close friend, historian and fellow artist Roland Penrose.
Among the great 20th-century masters, the surrealist painter Joan Miro stands out for the atmosphere of wit and spontaneity that pervades his work. Miro's art went through many phases, and its major features - his signs and symbols, his series of anguished peintures sauvages in the 1930s, his lyrical, poetic gouaches, his monumental sculptures and ceramics, his unprecedented use of poetic titles, and his attachment to nature and to the night - are discussed here by Roland Penrose, a friend of the artist for almost five decades. A brief epilogue by Eduardo de Benito, London correspondent of the Spanish art periodical Lapiz, illustrates the developments of Miro's last years. This new revised edition, now illustrated in colour throughout, includes a foreword by Antony Penrose, outlining the relationship between his father and the artist, as well as updates to the Bibliography.
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A classic monograph in the World of Art series, offering a a detailed insight into Rembrandt's life and work.
Rembrandt is among the few Old Master artists to retain universal appeal among art lovers today, his striking self-portraits lauded the world over - yet he remains an elusive, enigmatic figure.
Here, the distinguished art historian Christopher White carefully considers the known facts to build a sensitive and thorough account of the artist's life and work. He describes the radiant happiness of Rembrandt's marriage, tragically cut short by the death of his wife, and discusses the catastrophe of his bankruptcy. The psychological factors that may have awakened Rembrandt's sudden interest in landscape are also explored, as is the artist's final decade, when he retreated into the private world of his imagination.
This comprehensive introduction has now been revised and updated to reflect recent scholarship, and the bibliography has been expanded; Rembrandt's artworks are now faithfully reproduced in colour throughout.
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Architecture after modernism (world of art)
Diane Ghirardo
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 11 Novembre 1996
- 9780500202944
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Aboriginal art 4rth ed (world of art) /anglais
Wally Caruana
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 6 Mars 2025
- 9780500204658
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Expressionism (world of art) /anglais
Colin Rhodes
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 6 Mars 2025
- 9780500297759
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Illustration: a concise history (world of art) /anglais
Andrew Hall
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 6 Mars 2025
- 9780500297728
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Mary Cassatt : painter of modern women
Griselda Pollock
- Thames & Hudson
- World Of Art
- 6 Avril 2022
- 9780500204818
A close ally of Camille Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt was the only American painter at the heart of the Impressionist group in Paris. Highly respected on both sides of the Atlantic, Cassatt was a forthright advocate for women's intellectual, creative and political emancipation. She brought her discerning gaze and compositional inventiveness across many media to the subtle social interactions of women in public and private spaces, such as at the theatre, and in moments of intimacy with children, where she was one of the most attentive and unsentimental analysts of the infant body and the child's emerging personality.
Tracing key moments in Cassatt's long career, art historian Griselda Pollock highlights Cassatt's extensive artistic training across Europe, analysing her profound study of Old Masters while revealing her intelligent understanding of both Manet and Courbet. Pollock also provides close readings of Cassatt's paintings and her singular vision of women in modernity. Now revised with a new preface, updates to the bibliography and colour illustrations throughout, this book offers a rich perspective on the core concerns of a major Impressionist artist through the frames of class, gender, space and difference.
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A revised edition of this classic survey that presents a thorough overview of Georgia O'Keeffe's life and work.
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art for seven decades. Throughout that long and prolific career she remained true to her unique artistic vision, creating a highly individual style that synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and the themes of traditional American pictorialism. The main subjects to which she returned again and again were the flowers, animal bones and the landscapes around her studios in Lake George, New York, and finally New Mexico, with which she has been ultimately identified.
This comprehensive and illuminating book by a noted scholar on O'Keeffe and her work, surveys the complete oeuvre - drawings, watercolours and paintings from all periods - and explains her life in the context of her artistic output. Now revised with updated bibliography, this edition features colour reproductions of artworks throughout. -