Последние издания книг Инго Ф. Вальтера

It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work’s title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water to deride this new, impressionistic tendency in art. As with many seminal art movements, the critics got their comeuppance. Today, Impressionism is close contender for the world’s favorite period of painting. With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auction prices, and packed museums, the works once dismissed as unfinished or imprecise are now beloved for their atmospheric evocation of time…

The genius and the angst of an Expressionist master
Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of millions of dollars at auction. Yet as he was painting the canvases that would subsequently become these sell-out modern masterpieces, van Gogh was battling not only the disinterest of his contemporary audiences but also devastating bouts of mental illness, with episodes of depression and paralyzing anxiety which would eventually claim his life in 1890, when he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday.
This comprehensive study of Vincent van Gogh pairs a detailed monograph on his life and art with a complete catalogue of his 871 paintings.

From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio's Decameron and from the Vienna Genesis to Dante's Divine Comedy, to open Codices illustres is to open the door into a precious, private world. Now in a new format, this radiant book brings you face-to-face with 167 of the most exquisite and important manuscripts of the medieval age.
Presented in brilliant large-format reproductions, these paradigms of miniature painting and illumination from the 4th century to 1600 were once the property of some of the greatest power players in history. Now art-historical treasures, they are worth many millions and typically tucked away in private collections or closely-guarded archives - until now.
Although the focus of this collection is on European manuscripts, examples from Mexican, Persian, and Indian tradition illustrate the refinement and intricacy of manuscript illumination in non-European cultures. An informative synopsis for each manuscript orients the reader at a glance, while a 36 page appendix contains biographies of the artists, as well as an extensive bibliography, an index and a glossary for technical terms.

This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colourful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent under a southern sun in Arles. Here, at last, he found the light that produced the unmistakable van Gogh style. At Arles, Saint-Rеmy and Auvers-sur-Oise, in the feverish burst of creative energy that marked his last two-and-a-half years, he produced the 465 paintings on which his immortality rests.
Vincent van Gogh craved recognition during his lifetime but was denied it until after his self-inflicted death. Today he is universally seen as one of the great forerunners of painting of the 20th century, and one of the tragic masters of art.

Luscious dabs of color and light. Art history’s most delightful movement Impressionism continues to be one of the most fascinating movements in the history of modern art. It is also the most popular with the general public. Proof of this has been provided in recent years by blockbuster exhibitions of the works of Degas, Gauguin, van Gogh, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Monet, and by record sums realized from the sale of Impressionist paintings. Despite its popularity and a whole host of publications—the majority of them about the most famous names—many areas of Impressionism are still under-researched. Many “second rank” Impressionists have remained unknown or have sunk into oblivion. This monograph fills the gap, as it explores French Impressionism alongside related art movements that flourished simultaneously in the rest of Europe and North America. Part 1 deals with Impressionism in France, including Post- and Neo-Impressionism. As well as discussing the most renowned artists, its aim is to introduce others who are still little-known today. Among them are the long underrated Gustave Caillebotte, represented by 17 paintings, and artists such as Frederic Bazille, Marie Bracquemond, Henri-Edmond Cross, Jean-Louis Forain, Eva Gonzales, Armand Guillaumin, Albert Lebourg, Stanislas Lepine, Maximilien Luce, Berthe Morisot, Lucien Pissarro, Jean-Francois Raffaelli, Henri Rouart, and Victor Vignon. The eight chapters of part 2 focus on paintings inspired by French Impressionism and produced in parallel in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, the USA and Canada. Rarely did painters in these countries slavishly copy the ideas emerging from France. Instead, most non-French artists found astonishingly original ways of translating them into the artistic language of their native lands.

This richly illustrated and expert study follows the artist from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colourful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent under a southern sun in Arles. Here, at last, he found the light that produced the unmistakable van Gogh style. At Arles, Saint-Rеmy and Auvers-sur-Oise, in the feverish burst of creative energy that marked his last two-and-a-half years, he produced the 465 paintings on which his immortality rests. Vincent van Gogh craved recognition during his lifetime but was denied it until after…

Gauguin's search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature.
After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently-when private difficulties caused him to become restless-embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti.
The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the life style of the primitive island peoples, Gauguin was able to convey the magical effect that both the landscapes and life of the natives-their body language, charm and beauty-had on him. Wearying of his reputation as a South Sea painter, Gauguin finally determined to return to France, but died of syphilis on the Marquis Islands before his departure.

The Belarusian painter Marc Chagall is widely regarded as epitomizing the "painter as poet". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century.
Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning they evoke recall his native Vitebsk, and the great events that mark the life of ordinary people: birth, love, marriage and death. They tell of a world full of everyday miracles - in the room of lovers, on the streets of Vitebsk, beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Heaven and earth seem to meet in a topsy-turvy world in which whimsical figures of people and animals float through the air with gravity-defying serenity.

The quintessential roundup of art from 1900-2000.
Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings. Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, this is your be-all, end-all guide to art of the 20th century. An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves to be owned by everyone.

While Gauguin's paintings were in part a reaction against the naturalism of the Impressionists, they stand, most importantly, as the expression of a daring and original personality. He is considered a Post-Impressionist and one of the most important artists of all time.

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This monograph covers the full scope of Impressionist painting. It outlines the history of Impressionism in France, addressing not only the work of the acknowledged masters, but also that of such unjustly neglected artists as Frederic Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Berthe Morisot or Lucien Pissarro. The monograph also examines the Impressionist movements that emerged in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Eastern and South-East Europe, Italy, Spain, Britain and North America. A 64-page "Directory of Impressionism" is appended, containing bibliographies, portraits and biographical data on all 236 artists.

Картины Ван Гога значительны в своей простоте и непосредственности, в экспрессии эмоционального воздействия. Их сила проистекает из любви и открытости художника по отношению к каждому предмету, видимому им подле себя, по отношению к человеку и природе. Радость, которую испытывал Винсент, идентифицируя себя с окружающим миром, омрачалась в его сознании глубоким эсхатологическим прозрением, ощущением быстротечности жизни и мрачным предчувствием смерти. Прожив сложную и неупорядоченную жизнь, Ван Гаг много почерпнул из собственного опыта. Он был рожден в век, когда люди впервые в истории остро ощутили конечность своего существования, непреодолимое одиночество каждого в этом мире, утрату той трансцендентной силы, которая некогда была защитой и опорой.

Винсент Ван Гог в жизни был полным неудачником. Так считали его современники. Он не смог обзавестись семьей, не умел сохранять подле себя друзей и вечно нуждался в деньгах.
Несмотря на хаос, окружавший его в реальности, в своих картинах он выражал собственную идею соразмерности, которую ощущал во Вселенной во множественности ее проявлений и противоречий.
Его искусство было попыткой упорядочить мир, оно дало ему возможность примириться с враждебной действительностью и с раздирающими его внутренними противоречиями. Ван Гог противостоял его непостижимости со страстной убежденностью, с теоретически обоснованным взглядом на вещи, свойственным художнику. Он не ставил перед собой задачи укрыться от реальности и не стремился сознательно занять позицию страдальца в жизни, напротив, он был неистово увлечен идеей воплотить мир в ярких, осязаемых образах.

Книга о Марке Шагале: поэте, мечтателе, экзотическом создании. Шагал казался своего рода посредником между разными мирами. Сын бедняков, выросший в многодетной, вечно нуждающейся семье, занял благодаря своему таланту достойное место в изысканном мире элегантных художественных салонов. По своему внутреннему складу он был аутсайдером: то ли иудей, презревший древний запрет на создание образов, то ли русский, вырвавшийся из оков своей самодостаточности. Шагал всю жизнь сохранял особое, ни с чем не сравнимое обаяние аутсайдера. Обыденность была столь далека от жизни художника, что, появляясь в его картинах, принимала форму странных видений. Своим искусством и своей жизнью художник усиленно культивировал образ одинокого визионера, гражданина мира, так и оставшегося ребенком, пришельца, заблудившегося в мире чудес. Его картины, полные религиозности и глубокой любви к родному краю, - возможно, самый страстный призыв, который когда-либо звучал в современном мире, к терпимости и уважению ко всему непохожему, другому.

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Книга о французском живописце, скульпторе, мастере керамики и гравере Поле Гогене (1848-1903). Гоген сравнительно поздно открыл в себе склонность к художеству. В начале своего творческого пути Гоген находился под влиянием импрессионистов, особенно Камиля Писсарро, но в скором времени стал разрабатывать - в противовес импрессионизму - свой синтетический метод. Он был убежден в том, что живопись сродни музыке, а потому цветовой строй картины подчиняется принципам, сходным с законами музыкальной гармонии. Исследование Гогеном выразительного языка и символического значения линий, поверхностей, цвета способствовало развитию в искусстве стилистических тенденций, предвосхищавших экспрессионизм и абстрактную живопись. Первое время Гоген вел буржуазный образ жизни. В 1871 году он стал заниматься живописью и начал коллекционировать произведения Ренуара, Сезанна и Моне. Писсарро познакомил его с живописью импрессионистов. В 1885 году он оставил свою семью - жену и пятерых детей - и всецело посвятил себя живописи. Издание состоит из пяти глав, рассказывающих о жизни художника и об истории создания каждой картины, представленной в издании. В конце книги приводится хронология жизни и творчества мастера, проиллюстрированная документальными фотографиями.

Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "art" has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological meanings.

Ranging across the full spectrum of disciplines available, including photography and new media, and thematically chaptered to highlight relationships between works and movements, this readable and encyclopaedic masterwork does just what it says on the cover. Whether you want Surrealism or Land Art, Fluxus or Bauhaus, this is your be-all, end-all guide to art of the 20th century.

An undertaking as immensely ambitious as this one deserves to be owned by everyone, which is why we decided to make a special, more compact edition of this two-volume classic in celebration of our 25th anniversary.

Издание на английском языке. Формат: 19,5 см х 26 см.