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De Chirico fu forse l'artista più controverso del secolo scorso, ma il suo percorso personale appare oggi di una coerenza inflessibile. Inventore delle avanguardie a Parigi nei primissimi anni Dieci, agli attacchi dei suoi contemporanei rispose con un'autonomia intellettuale orgogliosa e rabbiosa, che lo rese un outsider del mondo dell'arte. Questa monografia, rigorosa e lucida, ci restituisce un ritratto chiaro, agile ed essenziale dell'arte di de Chirico, e si presenta come il contributo fondamentale alla comprensione della sua opera.

Selvatico. Avido. Fragile. Ossessionato dall'arte, nella quale convogliava tutta la sua straripante energia, Michelangelo fu segnato dal fuoco della genialità e attraversò la magnifica stagione del Rinascimento italiano. Con raro talento letterario, Forcellino fa rivivere l'uomo e i suoi anni. Antonio Forcellino è tra i maggiori studiosi europei di arte rinascimentale. Ha realizzato restauri di opere di valore assoluto, come il Mosè di Michelangelo e l'Arco di Traiano.

Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986): als Künstler von Weltruhm gefeiert und zugleich als "Scharlatan" angefeindet und verkannt. Wie kaum ein anderer prägte und polarisierte er die zeitgenössische Kunst. Welche Rolle aber spielt der Mann aus Kleve, der zum Inbegriff der Gegenwartskunst geworden ist, heute?

In Mission with...Giambattista Tiepolo is an adventurous journey through the life and art of Giambattista Tiepolo, a journey you can go on by listening to the audiobook. With him by your side, you will chart the most important stages of his life and work, get to grips with techniques and themes, and become fast friends.

A mix of narrative, music, poems, reflections, and historic interviews narrated by me about all the influences that led to the ultimate recording of my 1978 album Mugs Game.

The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men who were responsible for that achievement. Opening in the 1640s, as the city was gripped in tumult leading up to the English Civil War, The Phoenix charts the lives and works of five extraordinary men who would grow up in the chaos of a world turned upside down: the architect, Sir Christopher Wren; gardener and virtuosi, John Evelyn; the scientist, Robert Hooke; the radical philosopher, John Locke; and the builder, Nicholas Barbon.

Vincent van Gogh’s paintings look utterly unique - his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him. Now, drawing on Van Gogh’s own thoughtful and often profound comments about the painters he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of the artist’s deep engagement with their work.

In this thought-provoking life of René Magritte (1898-1967), Alex Danchev makes a compelling case for Magritte as the single most significant purveyor of images to the modern world. Magritte’s surreal sensibility, deadpan melodrama, and fine-tuned outrageousness have become an inescapable part of our visual landscape, through such legendary works as The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), and his celebrated iterations of Man in a Bowler Hat.

With this collection of more than 50 pieces on politics, photography, travel, history, and literature, Teju Cole solidifies his place as one of today’s most powerful and original voices. Moment after moment, deploying prose dense with beauty and ideas, he finds fresh and potent ways to interpret art, people, and historical moments, taking in subjects from Virginia Woolf, Shakespeare, and W. G. Sebald to Instagram, Barack Obama, and Boko Haram.

Once a close associate of Mao Zedong and the nation’s most celebrated poet, Ai Weiwei’s father, Ai Qing, was branded a rightist during the Cultural Revolution, and he and his family were banished to a desolate place known as “Little Siberia,” where Ai Qing was sentenced to hard labor cleaning public toilets. Ai Weiwei recounts his childhood in exile, and his difficult decision to leave his family to study art in America, where he befriended Allen Ginsberg and was inspired by Andy Warhol and the artworks of Marcel Duchamp.

The son of one of the greatest writers of our time - Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquez - remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.

Cieli, occhi, corvi, girasoli: dovunque giri lo sguardo, Johanna vede dipinti di Van Gogh. Splendono nel buio, la svegliano all'alba; prima del canto degli uccelli, prima dei rumori di Parigi che riparte. La gente non li capisce, non li ama. Li usa come fondi d'armadio, per tappare i buchi del pollaio. Van Gogh si spara al petto e con lui se ne va il fratello Theo, inseparabile anche nella morte Johanna resta sola con un piccolino nella culla: si chiama Vincent come suo zio. Lui e i dipinti illuminano il nero che l'ha avvolta.

So much is surprising and captivating about this coming-of-age story of a culture-rich, pre-and-proto-’60s upper class girl with rebellion and independence wired in. Lale’s early decades were a complex mixture of innocence, sophistication, doubt, passion, adventure, and brutal self-criticism. They live in a small East Side walk-up, but her mother orders custom-made clothes from Christian Dior in Paris. Finally finding focus for her passion, she powers her way into her chosen profession: architecture.

Un hombre verdaderamente vive incluso después de su muerte si deja un legado que lo transcienda durante años. Albert Einstein, Harriet Tubman, Karl Marx, Mozart, Marie Curie, Van Gogh, Marsha Johnson - hay tantos ejemplos de hombres y mujeres cuyas acciones revolucionaron la historia y allanaron el camino para que las generaciones futuras prosperaran. Un nombre que destaca en este sentido en el mundo del entretenimiento es el de Walt Disney.

Неоклассицизм - термин, применяемый в искусствоведении для обозначения художественных явлений последней трети XIX и первой четверти XX веков, которым присуще обращение к традициям искусства античности, искусства эпохи Возрождения или классицизма.

Настоящий художник никогда не копирует действительность, а по-своему воспроизводит ее и толкует. Для этого он прибегает к различным приемам, условным по своей сути.

Леонардо да Винчи назвал живопись "немой поэзией". Картина безмолвна. Звуки и слова лишь предполагаются зрителем. Картина неподвижна. Люди, события, предметы предстают в определенном, раз и навсегда данном состоянии и виде.

Тарас Григорьевич Шевченко. Национальный герой Украины. Поэт, писатель, художник, этнограф и революционер. Во всем лучший, во всем первый.

Классицизм (от лат. classicus - образцовый) - художественный стиль европейского искусства XVII-XIX вв., одной из важнейших черт которого было обращение к античному искусству как высшему образцу и опора на традиции высокого Возрождения.

To understand how the macabre death of Francis Mawson Rattenbury could have happened, you have to study his life. He was a murdered genius. A victim of love. He was an architectural virtuoso who designed some of Canada's most memorable structures. Rattenbury dreamed on the grandest of scales and created edifices that remain incredible sonnets in wood and stone a century after his blueprints were penned. His buildings remain landmarks, but he was truly a forgotten Canadian hero.