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The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles
ISBN: 9781854442079 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. This sought-after publication is the newest in the Ashmolean Handbook series. The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles have fascinated the cognoscenti for generations. Michael Vickers brings the dramatic story together, tracking the eventful history of these works of classical antiquities before they came to rest in the University of
This sought-after publication is the newest in the Ashmolean Handbook series. The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles have fascinated the cognoscenti for gene...
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51,61 zł |
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(NON)Conform
ISBN: 9783791338330 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 14-16 dni roboczych. Tento obsáhlý svazek poprvé přináší v jedné publikaci oficiální a non-konformní ruské umění post-stalinské doby. Příznivci ruského umění jistě přivítají vydání tohoto obsáhlého katalogu, který obsahuje stovky uměleckých prací, životopisy umělců a odborné zhodnocení jejich práce. Zahrnuje umělecká díla z obou směrů – jak těch, které se stavěly režimu na odpor, tak těch, které se pevně držely striktní politiky Sovětské Svazu co do stylu i obsahu. Tím, že jsou koncipovány dle mezinárodně uznávané Ludwigovy sbírky, jsou umělecká...
Tento obsáhlý svazek poprvé přináší v jedné publikaci oficiální a non-konformní ruské umění post-stalinské doby. Příznivci ruského u...
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366,87 zł |
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Past Imperfect : 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist
ISBN: 9780815609018 / Angielski / Twarda / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As a soviet underground artist, Grisha Bruskin was propelled to prominence after the unprecedented success of his paintings at the Sotheby Moscow auction of 1988. Since then his work has been exhibited all over the world at the Guggenheim, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the Jewish Museum in New York."Past Imperfect" deftly captures the artist's experiences as a Jew in Russia, the reality of life in an empire permeated by ideology, and the centrality of family. Saturated with insight and irony, each story offers a small vignette of Bruskin's life. Photographs...
As a soviet underground artist, Grisha Bruskin was propelled to prominence after the unprecedented success of his paintings at the Sotheby Moscow auct...
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144,18 zł |
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Red Star over Russia : A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin
ISBN: 9781854379351 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, Red Star Over Russia is a breathtaking visual history, using posters, photographs, paintings, magazine covers, advertisements, and ephemera to illustrate the dramatic birth and eventual decline of the Soviet Union. The book plunges the reader into the shattering events that brought hope, chaos, heroism, and horror to the citizens of the world s first workers state. The Russian Revolution produced some of the most important advances in art, photography, and graphic design in the 20th century. More than 550 of these widely influential materials are reproduced here,...
Now in paperback, Red Star Over Russia is a breathtaking visual history, using posters, photographs, paintings, magazine covers, advertisements...
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153,52 zł |
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Lot's Wife and the Venus of Milo : Conflicting Attitudes to the Cultural Heritage in Modern Russia
ISBN: 9780521157902 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Professor Thompson's subject is the uneasy position of art within Marxist ideology: what part can the arts of the past play in the new society? On the one hand there was the sense of a continuing cultural tradition, more or less independent of ideological change symbolized in the image of the Venus of Milo, and on the other, the iconoclastic demands for a complete break with the past in all its forms made by revolutionary artists, who found in the myth of Lot's wife a symbol of the attractions of the past. Originally published in 1978, the book discusses the problems and paradoxes involved...
Professor Thompson's subject is the uneasy position of art within Marxist ideology: what part can the arts of the past play in the new society? On the...
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142,87 zł |
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Red Cavalry: Creation and Power in Soviet Russia Between 1917 and 1945
ISBN: 9788461534432 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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164,65 zł |
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The Aesthetics of Anarchy : Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde
ISBN: 9780520268760 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking study, Nina Gurianova identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. Gurianova identifies what she terms an aesthetics of anarchy art-making without rulesthat greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists. Setting the early Russian avant-garde movement firmly within a broader European context, Gurianova draws on a wealth of primary and archival sources by individual writers and artists, Russian theorists, theorizing artists, and German philosophers....
In this groundbreaking study, Nina Gurianova identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a...
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356,94 zł |
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Aleksandr Zhitomirsky: Photomontage as a Weapon of World War II and the Cold War
ISBN: 9780300219180 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontages as a political weapon
The leading Russian propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky (1907-1993) made photomontages that were airdropped on German troops during World War II. He later worked for Pravda and other leading publications, satirizing American politics and finance from the Truman through the Reagan eras and educating his public about Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam, and Nicaragua as well. Zhitomirsky favored the grotesque... The first comprehensive study in English of the Soviet propaganda artist Aleksandr Zhitomirsky, who conceived and deployed his striking photomontag...
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229,83 zł |
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Russian Folk Art
ISBN: 9780253223357 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects within the settings in which folk artists worked-the peasant household, the village, and the local market-Alison Hilton discusses the principal media artists employed and the items they produced, from dippers and goblets to clothing and window frames. Emphasizing the balance between time-honored forms and techniques and the creativity of individual artists, the book explores how images and designs helped to form a Russian aesthetic identity in...
Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the objects w...
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113,98 zł |
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Grigor's Obsession: The Screenplay
ISBN: 9781492324768 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. GRIGOR SIDOROV is a young Russian fine artist who, after perestroika, works for the State in the restoration of Russia's art and architectural treasures. Grigor deludes himself that he alone has inherited the burden of the loss of the family's dignity, the blurring of their lineage back to the time of Tzar Peter the Great, and the dispossession of their wealth by the Bolsheviks. In the Peterhof Palace in St Petersburg, the 18th C paintings by a famous Italian artist, Pietro Rotari, provide a compelling link with his family's claims of their noble descendancy. In Grigor's obsession to own the...
GRIGOR SIDOROV is a young Russian fine artist who, after perestroika, works for the State in the restoration of Russia's art and architectural treasur...
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31,15 zł |
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The Russian Cinema Reader: Volume II, the Thaw to the Present
ISBN: 9781618113214 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume consists of newly commissioned essays, excerpts from English language criticism and translations of Russian language essays on subtitled films which are widely taught in American and British courses on Russian film and culture. The arrangement is chronological: Volume one covers twelve films from the beginning of Russian film through the Stalin era; volume two covers twenty films from the Thaw era to the present. General introductions to each...
This two-volume reader is intended to accompany undergraduate courses in the history of Russian cinema and Russian culture through film. Each volume c...
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119,81 zł |
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Soviets
ISBN: 9780956896278 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Soviets features unpublished drawings from the archive of Danzig Baldaev. Made in secret, they satirize the Communist Party system and expose the absurdities of Soviet life. Baldaev touches on a wide range of subjects, from drinking (Alcoholics and Shirkers) to the Afghan war (The Shady Enterprise), via dissent (Censorship, Paranoia and Suspicion) and religion (Atheism as an Ideology). He reveals the cracks in the crumbling socialist structure, describing the realities of living in a country whose leaders are in pursuit of an ideal that will never arrive. The drawings date from the...
Soviets features unpublished drawings from the archive of Danzig Baldaev. Made in secret, they satirize the Communist Party system and expose t...
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97,40 zł |
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The Bronze Horseman: Falconet's Monument to Peter the Great
ISBN: 9780300212235 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia-the equestrian monument to Peter the Great, or The Bronze Horseman, as it has come to be known since it appeared in Alexander Pushkin's poem bearing that title. The author deals with the cultural setting that prepared the ground for the monument and provides life stories of those who were involved in its creation: the sculptors Etienne-Maurice Falconet and Marie-Anne Collot, the engineer Marin Carburi, the diplomat Dmitry Golitsyn, and Catherine's "commissar" for...
This book is the first comprehensive treatment in any language of the most consequential work of art ever to be executed in Russia-the equestrian monu...
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230,94 zł |
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The Yellow Van: Sketches of My Journey in the Hunt for Russian Art
ISBN: 9781500905996 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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134,35 zł |
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"The Hunting Sketches" by I. S. Turgenev: Seminaries
ISBN: 9781514185728 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The tutorial examines the conceptual and methodological foundations of studying The Hunting Sketches by I.S. Turgenev in institutions of higher education. The objective of the book is to assist students in studying the series The Hunting Sketches, recommend the basic bibliography, help students to work independently when they prepare for the seminars or write a coursework and a diploma. The book contains the following sections: I. The problems of studying The Hunting Sketches cycle by I.S. Turgenev (attention is paid to ethical and religious problematics of the sketches, the image of a human...
The tutorial examines the conceptual and methodological foundations of studying The Hunting Sketches by I.S. Turgenev in institutions of higher educat...
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44,05 zł |
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Grammar of Freedom/Five Lessons: Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection
ISBN: 9785905110511 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the summer of 2013, the curators of Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Ljubljana's Moderna Galerija began to discuss mounting an exhibition in Moscow of the Arteast 2000+ Collection, the first museum collection focused on Eastern European postwar avant-garde artists. As Kate Fowle writes in her introduction, -Never before in Russia had there been an exhibition dedicated to presenting art from Eastern Europe in a way that integrated Russian artists into the story.- Grammar of Freedom/Five Lessons begins an inquiry into the network of artistic influences in the -former...
In the summer of 2013, the curators of Moscow's Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and Ljubljana's Moderna Galerija began to discuss mounting an exhibi...
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123,70 zł |
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Iconically Speaking: Andrei Rublev, the Old Testiment Trinity, Icons, and Cathedrals
ISBN: 9781514356975 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Iconically Speaking" brings religious art and history in Russia together. Read about the famous icon artist, Andrei Rublev, and his amazing icon, "The Old Testament Trinity." Additionally, the history of icons and how to read them is explored, plus there is a cursory overview of the history of the Russian Orthodox Church since its inception in AD 988. Five Russian churches/cathedrals filled with art and a rich history bring "Iconically Speaking" full circle. A fascinating study of a truly fascinating subject.
"Iconically Speaking" brings religious art and history in Russia together. Read about the famous icon artist, Andrei Rublev, and his amazing icon, "Th...
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116,07 zł |
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Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky
ISBN: 9781855145375 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky explores the history of Russian portraiture between 1867 and 1914, a time of great cultural vibrancy in the country and a golden age of the Russian portrait. While Tolstoy and Dostoevsky were publishing masterpieces such as Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov and Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov were taking Russian music to new heights, Russian art was developing a new self-confidence. The penetrating Realism of the 1870s and 1880s was later complemented by the brighter hues of Russian Impressionism...
Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky explores the history of Russian portraiture between 1867 and 1914, a time of great cult...
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185,33 zł |
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Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky
ISBN: 9789963221400 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky is a vibrant and critically informed exploration of one of the giants of twentieth century film. Despite Tarkovsky's almost canonized position in the pantheon of great directors and his substantial influence on European Art Cinema, writings on him are surprisingly scarce. Compared to his peers like Ingmar Bergman, who described Tarkovsky as "the greatest, the one who invented a new language," or Akira Kurosawa, who once said about Tarkovsky, "Probably there is no equal among film directors alive," there are considerably fewer...
Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky is a vibrant and critically informed exploration of one of the giants of twentieth cen...
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104,94 zł |
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Russian Art Coloring Book: Russian Masterpieces from Shishkin to Vasnetsov
ISBN: 9781619494824 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This coloring book presents the greatest masterpieces inof Russian art for your or your child's coloring pleasure. From Vasnetsov's mighty Bogatyrs to Shishkin's famous bears, this collection of 23 paintings for coloring includes most Russian masterpieces famous within Russia as well as outside of it. Makovsky, Bilibin, Polenov, Aivazovsky, and Repin are just some of the other artists included. Each painting comes with a short description and title on the back. Titles are labeled in both English and Russian. All paintings are displayed in original colors on the back cover. This book will take...
This coloring book presents the greatest masterpieces inof Russian art for your or your child's coloring pleasure. From Vasnetsov's mighty Bogatyrs to...
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39,70 zł |