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NEW: The Complete Visual History of the World






 

HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION & CULTURE

HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION & CULTURE (S I T E   M A P)

PART ONE
From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art
Gothic Art
Renaissance  Art
Baroque and Rococo Art
The Art of Asia
Neoclassicism, Romanticism  Art
Art Styles in 19th century
PART TWO
Art of the 20th century
PART THREE
Artists and Paintings that Changed the World
PART FOUR
A Brief History of Design and Posters
PART FIVE
A Brief History of Photography

PART SIX
A Brief History of Classical Music
PART SEVEN
A Brief History of Literature, Philosophy and Religions

PART EIGHT


Encyclopedia of Mass-Culture
PART NINE
Dictionary of Art and Artists



PART ONE





 

PREHISTORIC & ANCIENT ART
HELENIC & ITALIC CIVILIZATIONS

(From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art Map)

INTRODUCTION ART THROUGH THE AGES. What is Art?

From the Paleolithic Age to the Pre-Classical Civilizations

Prehistoric Art

The Art of the Ancient Kingdoms

The Art of the Ancient East

Ancient  Aegean Art

 
 
Hellenic and Italic Civilizations

The Art of the Greeks

Italic Art

 

 

THE ANCIENT WORLD FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE FOURTH CRUSADE

(From Prehistoric to Romanesque  Art Map)

An Art for Europe, Asia and Africa

 
Art of the Roman Empire
 
 
 
From Late Antiquity to the Romanesque


The Early Christians and their Art

Barbarian Art

Byzantine Art


Collection: Russian Architecture and Russian Icons

From Carolingian to Romanesque Art

 

 

GOTHIC ERA

(Gothic Art Map)

Gothic Art

EXPLORATION:
Revelations. Art of the Apocalypse (by Nancy Grubb)

EXPLORATION: Gothic Era ("Painting of the Gothic Era" by R. Suckale, M. Weniger)

EXPLORATION: Albrecht Durer
("Durer" by Wolfram Prinz)

Collection:
Giotto
Collection:
Rogier van der Weyden
Collection: Hubert & Jan van Eyck
Collection: Hans Holbein the Younger
Collection:
The Bayeux Tapestry 
"Propaganda on cloth"
Collection: Illuminated Manuscripts
Collection:
Limbourg brothers ("Tres Riches Heures...")
Collection:
Masters of the Gothic Art

 

 

RENAISSANCE & MANNERISM

(Renaissance  Art Map)

The Early Renaissance  
 

EXPLORATION: Sandro Botticelli "Visual Poetry"
Collection:
Venus - The Evening Star

The High Renaissance and Mannerism
   
EXPLORATION: Leonardo da Vinci ("The Genius of the Renaissance" by J. Gilbert)
Collection: Monalisamania
Collection: Leda and the Swan - myth in art

EXPLORATION: Michelangelo

Collection:
Raphael
Collection:
Titian
Collection:
Giorgione
Collection:
El Greco
Collection:
Lucas Cranach the Elder

EXPLORATION: Hieronymus Bosch ("Between Heaven and Hell" by W. Bosing; "Life and Works " by T. Copplestone)

EXPLORATION: Pieter Bruegel the Elder ("Peasants, Fools and Demons" by R-M. and R.Hagen)

EXPLORATION: Arcimboldo ("Giuseppe Arcimboldo" by Werner Kriegeskorte)

EXPLORATION: Giorgio Vasari "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects"
(selections)

Collection: Theodore De Bry Indians of North America

School of Fontainebleau

 

 

BAROQUE & ROCOCO

(Baroque and Rococo Art Map)

Baroque and Rococo 

The 17th Century: the Age of Spectacle

EXPLORATION:
Rembrandt ("The Mustery of the Revealed Form")

EXPLORATION:
Vermeer ("Veiled Emotions")

EXPLORATION:
Velazquez ("The Face of Spain" )

EXPLORATION:
The Art of the Portrait ("Masterpieces of European Portrait ")

Collection:
Caravaggio
Collection: Peter Paul Rubens
Collection:
Marie de' Medici cycle by Peter Paul Rubens
Collection: Jacques Callot "Miseries of War"
Collection:
William Hogarth "A Harlot's Progress"
Collection:
Francois Boucher

 

 

ARTISTIC CULTURES OF ASIA & THE AMERICAS


Artistic Cultures of Asia and the Americas

The Art of Asia

EXPLORATION:
Indian Court Painting ("Indian Court Painting" by S.Kossak)

EXPLORATION:
Japanese Ukiyo-e ("Ukiyo-e. Origins and History" by M. Sato)

Japanese Prints

Hiroshige's
"Tokaido"

Hokusai's
"Views of Mt. Fuji" and "Panoramic View of Sumidagawa River"

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi "Tsuki hyakushi" - 100 Aspects of the Moon

Sesshu's Long Scrolll (commentary by Reiko Chiba)
"East and West" ("Cherry-Wood-Blossom" by T. Zacharias)

Pre-Columbian Art
Collection: African Masks

 

 

NEOCLASSICISM & ROMANTIC ERA

(Neoclassicism, Romanticism  Art Map)

Neoclassicism and Romanticism

Collection: Jacques-Louis David
Collection:
Between Two Revolutions (From David to Delacroix)
Collection: Napoleon Bonaparte
Collection: Thomas Rowlandson
(comic images of familiar social types)

EXPLORATION:
Francisco de Goya ("Life and Work")
                     "CAPRICHOS", "DISASTERS OF WAR", "DISPARATES", "TAUROMAQUIA"

Orientalism
Collection: David Roberts "A Journey in the Holy Land" (Commentary by E. Nistri)
Collection: Jean-Leon Gerome
Collection:
The Harem

A Return to the Past

Nazarenes
Pre-Raphaelites

EXPLORATION: Romantic Era ("Painting of the Romantic Era" )

Official Art (Academic Art)

Collection: Adolphe William Bouguereau
Collection: Lord Frederic Leighton
Collection: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Collection:
John William Godward

Art Styles in the Industrial 19th Century

The Creation of the Metropolis
Art, Technology and Industry

Collection:
Dore (Bible, Dante, Ariosto, Rabelais, Milton, Cervantes, Tennyson, Poe)

Furnishings and Fashions
The European Influence

 

 

IMPRESSIONISM &
POST-IMPRESSIONISM

(Art Styles in 19th century Art Map)

Realism

Barbizon School

The Impressionism
 
Collection: Claude Monet
Collection:
Edouard Manet
Collection:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Collection:
Edgar Degas

New Trends in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Post-Impressionism

Collection: Paul Cezanne
Pointillism
EXPLORATION:
Vincent van Gogh ("Fields and Flowers" )
EXPLORATION: The Chronicle of Impressionism

 

 

A CRISIS OF TRADITION & THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART

(Art Styles in 19th century Art Map)

Symbolism

EXPLORATION:
Henri Rousseau  

Nabis

EXPLORATION:
Matisse ("Cut-Outs"
)

Fauvism

Collection:
Odilon Redon "The Unconscious"
Collection:
Aubrey Beardsley "Beardsley's Vision"
Collection:
Paul Gauguin
Collection: Tahiti women
Collection: Auguste Rodin

EXPLORATION: Gustav Klimt

The Modern Style

Art Nouveau


EXPLORATION: Alphonse Mucha  Master of Art Nouveau



PART
TWO







 

ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

(Art of the 20th century Art Map)

Folk Art, Naive Art

EXPLORATION: Naive Art
EXPLORATION: Grandma Moses


Year by Year - 1900 -1916

Russian  Silver Age 
World of Art (Mir iskusstva) - 1898
Blue Rose - 1904

Expressionism - 1905
Die Brucke - 1905

EXPLORATION:
Edvard Munch

EXPLORATION:
Amedeo Modigliani ("The Poetry of Seeing" )

EXPLORATION:
Francis Bacon ("The Theater of the Body")

Cubism - 1907

EXPLORATION:
Pablo Picasso


The Eight. The Ashcan school - 1908

Futurism - 1909

Jack of Diamonds - 1910
Der Blaue Reiter - 1911
Section d'Or (Golden Section) - 1912
Orphism - 1912
Rayonism - 1912
Constructivism - 1913
Vorticism - 1914
Suprematism - 1915

 

 

ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

(Art of the 20th century Art Map)

Year by Year - 1916 -1924

Dadaism - 1916

De Stijl - 1917
Pittura Metafisica (Metaphysical Art) - 1917
Purism - 1918
Neo-plasticism - 1919

The Bauhaus school -
1919

Art Deco
- 1920
Collection: Charles Dana Gibson
Collection:
Tamara de Lempicka
Collection:
d'Erte
Collection: Norman Lindsay
"Love on Earth"
Collection: Franz von Bayros

Precisionism - 1920

The Mexican Muralists - 1921

EXPLORATION:
Diego Rivera ("A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art" )

New Objectivity - 1924
Novecento group - 1924

EXPLORATION:
Marc Chagall ("Painting as Poetry")
                     (Marc Chagall "Tapestries")

 
 

ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

(Art of the 20th century Art Map)

Year by Year - 1924 -1929

Surrealism - 1924

EXPLORATION:
Surrealist Art

EXPLORATION: Salvador Dali

Max Ernst "A Week of Kindness" (A surrealistic novel in collage)

EXPLORATION:
Rene Magritte ("Thought rendered visible" )

EXPLORATION:
Surrealism ("The Dream of Revolution" )

Collection: Frida Kahlo "Frida - The Life in Self-Portraits"

Addition:
From Surrealism to Fantastic Art 
(
Dream art, Visionary art, Neo-surrealism, Magic realism, Psychedelic art, Visual art, Fantastic realism)

 
 

ART OF THE 20TH CENTURY

(Art of the 20th century Art Map)

Year by Year - 1930 -1999


The New Architecture

The Harlem Renaissance
American Scene Painting


Art and Politics

Socialist Realism - 1932

Art in the Postwar Period

Abstract Expressionism - 1943

Art brut - 1945
COBRA - 1948
Art Informel -1948
Tachism - 1954

The New Avant-garde and Postmodernism
Soviet Nonconformist Art

Fernando Botero ("The Praise of Opulence" )
Collection: Balthus "Intimate Eroticism"

Nouveau Realisme - 1960

Kinetic Art
- 1961
Optical Art - 1965

Pop Art
- 1965

see also: Pin-Up Art

Conceptual Art
Happening & Performance Art
Body Art - 1965
Visual Poetry - 1965
Minimalism - 1965
Arte Povera - 1967
Land art
Graffiti

Photo & Hyperrealism
Art Now (Artists at the Rise of the New Millennium)



PART
THREE





 

ARTISTS & PAINTIGS THAT CHANGED
THE WORLD



Artists and Paintings that Changed the World (contents)


Paintings that Changed the World
FROM LASCAUX TO WARHOL

The Modern Mind. Modern Art.
FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO POST-MODERNISM.

Abstract Art.
PICTURES OF NOTHING (by Kirk Varnedoe)
ABSTRACT ART SINCE POLLOCK

100 Greatest Artists of the World
FROM ALMA-TADEMA TO WATTEAU

Alma-Tadema
Altdorfer
Angelico, Fra
Arcimboldo
Bacon
Bosch

Botticelli
Boucher
Bouguereau
Bruegel
Burne-Jones
Canaletto
Caravaggio
Cezanne
Chagall
Chirico
Claude Lorrain
Constable
Corot
Correggio
Courbet
Cranach

Dali
Daumier
David

Degas
Delacroix
Delvaux
Dore
Durer
Dyck, van
El Greco
Ernst
Jan van Eyck
Fragonard
Friedrich
Gainsborough
Gauguin
Gericault
Giorgione

Giotto
Van Gogh
Goya
Gros
Grunewald
Hiroshige
Hogarth
Hokusai
Holbein
Hopper

Ingres
Jordaens
Kahlo
Kandinsky
Klee

Klimt
Leighton
Leonardo da Vinci
Limbourg brothers
Lorenzetti
Magritte
Manet 
Mantegna
Massys
Matisse
Michelangelo
Millet
Miro
Modigliani

Monet
Moreau
Moses Grandma
Munch
Murillo
Orozco

Picasso
Pissarro
Poussin
Raphael
Redon
Rembrandt
Renoir
Rivera
Rodin
Rossetti
Rousseau
Rubens
Seurat
Tiepolo
Tintoretto
Titian

Tolouse-Lautrec
Turner
Uccello
Velazquez
Vermeer
Veronese
Warhol
Waterhouse
Watteau




PART FOUR






 

DESIGN & POSTERS


A Brief History of Design and Posters
















History of Posters
 




PART
FIVE






 

PHOTOGRAPHY


A Brief History of Photography


Introduction
History of Photography (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

A World History of Photography

The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991


Dictionary of Photographers


see also:
Vintage Photography Gallery (Retro)
Fine Art Photography
HOLLYWOOD (The Golden Age)


PART
SIX


CLASSICAL MUSIC


A Brief History of Classical Music  (by John Stanley)

(Classical Music Map)

Introduction Classical Music
The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
The Baroque Era
The Classical Era
The Romantic Era
The Romantic Legacy
The Modern Age


The great composers and their masterworks in MP3 format

Albeniz Borodin Donizetti Hindemith Prokofiev Schutz
Albinoni Brahms Dowland Janacek Puccini Scriabin
Allegri Britten Dvorak Kodaly Purcell Sibelius
Arne Bruckner Falla Leoncavallo Rachmaninov Smetana
Auber Busoni Field Liszt Rameau Strauss J.S.
Bach Byrd Gabrieli Lully Ravel Strauss R.
Barber Carissimi Gershwin Mahler Respighi Stravinsky
Bartok Charpentier Gesualdo Mendelssohn Rimsky-Korsakov Tallis
Beethoven Cherubini Glinka Meyerbeer Rossini Tchaikovsky
Bellini Chopin Gluck Monteverdi Saint-Saens Telemann
Bernstein Clementi Gounod Mozart Scarlatti Verdi
Berwald Corelli Grieg Mussorgsky Schoenberg Victoria
Berlioz Couperin Handel Pachelbel Shostakovich Villa-Lobos
Bizet Debussy Haydn Paganini Schubert Vivaldi
Boccherini Delibes Hildegard Palestrina Schumann Wagner
Orff "Carmina Burana"


A Brief History of Jazz




PART
SEVEN







 

LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY & RELIGIONS


History of Literature, Fhilosophy and Religions (contents)

I. A Brief History of Western Literature
Introduction Western Literature
The Foundations of Western Literature
The Bible
Classical  Literature
The Middle Ages and the Renaissance
The 17-18th Century
The 18-19th Century 
Modernism


II. Masterpieces of World Literature
BIOGRAPHIES of Writers and Philosophers
TEXTS
(more than 115 CLASSIC TEXTS in English)
MASTERPIECES
(editor Frank N. Magill)
ILLUSTRATIONS
(by G. Dore, W. Blake, S. Dali, A. Beardsley, M. Chagall, etc)


III. A Brief History of Western Philosophy
Introduction Phylosophy
The nature of Western philosophy
Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
Medieval philosophy
Renaissance philosophy
Modern philosophy
Contemporary philosophy


IV. A Brief History of Religions
Greek religion; Buddhism Judaism; Christianity; Islam, etc
Philosophy of Religion

Ethics
Metaphysics
Philosophy of Science


Dictionary of Writers and Philosophers


EXPLORATION (in Russian): THE SECRETS OF THE CRAFT
Homer  "Iliad "and "Odyssey"
Aleksandr Pushkin "Yevgeny Onegin"
Osip Mandelshtam - Marina Tsvetaeva - Anna Achmatova - Joseph Brodsky

 




PART
EIGHT







 

VISUAL HISTORY
















History of Europe
United Nations member states



PART NINE






 

SUBCULTURE
& MULTICULTURE


Encyclopedia of Mass-Culture

A-Alchemy & Mysticism. The Hermetic Cabinet (by Alexander Roob)
B-Body art
(Youri Messen-Jaschin)
C-Cats Encyclopedia
E-
Erotica in Art
I -Idols (Elvisiana. Elvis Presley-Pop Idol. Marilyn Monroe "American symbol")
F-Faeries by H. Johnson,
"Good faeries & bad faeries" by B. Froud
F-Fantasy Art
F-Fine Art Photography
G-Graffiti
H-
HOLLYWOOD (The Golden Age)
K-
Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana
K-
Kitsch
M-Manga! Japanese Comics. Antology of Modern Manga. Dreamland Japan.
M-
Monalisamania
N-
Nude in Art of the 20th century
P-Pin-Up Art
P-Provocative art
P-Psychedelic art (H. R. Giger)
R-Remix Art (
Cedric  Tanguy. Yasumasa Morimura)
R-
"Rubenesque" proportions
S-
Sexual revolution
T-Tarot. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot (by Arthur Edward Waite)
T-Tattoo
V-
Velvet painting





PART TEN






 

ARTISTS INDEX


Dictionary of Art and Artists


Entries on all the major artists
Short, incisive biographies of over 3500 artists, including many new entries on modern artists
Evaluations of the works of the greatest artists and their location
Expositions of the best-known groups or schools of artists
Descriptions of artistic techniques and styles
Definitions of artistic movements

(based on "The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists",
"The Yale Dictionaryof Art and Artists", Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia, Macmillan Encyclopedia, etc)
 

Dictionary of Art and Artists  
     
Dictionary of Photographers  
     
Dictionary of Writers and Philosophers  

 




APPENDIX

LIBRARY OF CLASSIC LITERATURE, EXPLORATIONS & MONOGRAPHS

 

   

 TEXTS OF CLASSIC LITERATURE

  LIBRARY OF CLASSIC LITERATURE (texts in English)
 
ABELARD "The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise"
AKHMATOVA "Requiem"
ANDERSEN  HANS CHRISTIAN "The Fairy Tales"
APOLLONIUS
"Argonautica", "Jason and the Golden Fleece"
"The Arabian Nights"
ARETINO PIETRO
"Dialogues", "Sonetti lussuriosi"
ARIOSTO  LUDOVICO
"Orlando Enraged" canto 1-4
ARISTOPHANES
"Lysistrata"
ARISTOTLE
"Poetics"
AUGUSTINE SAINT
"Confessions"
AUSTEN  JANE "Pride and Prejudice"
BACON FRANCIS
"New Atlantis"
BASHO MATSUO
"Basho's Haiku"
BASILE GIAMBATTISTA
"Stories from Il Pentamerone"
BAUDELAIRE  CHARLES
"The Flowers of Evil"
"Beowulf"
BLAKE
"Songs of Innocence", "Songs of Experience"
BOCCACCIO  GIOVANNI
"The Decameron"
BROWNING  ELIZABETH
"Sonnets from the Portuguese"
"Bulfinch's Mythology"
BULGAKOV MIHAIL "The Master and Margarita"
BUNYAN  JOHN "The Pilgrim’s Progress "
BYRON  GEORGE "Don Juan"
CARROLL  LEWIS "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
"The Lay of the Cid"
CLELAND JOHN "Fanny Hill"
COLERIDGE  SAMUEL "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
CONAN-DOYLE "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
DANTE ALIGHIERI "The Divine Comedy"
DEFOE  DANIEL "Robinson Crusoe"
DE SADE "Justine"
DONNE  JOHN "Songs and Sonnets", "Elegies"
"The Poetic Edda"
ELIOT T. S. "The Waste Land"
EMERSON RALPH "Nature"
EURIPIDES "Electra", "Medea"
"Everyman"
FREUD  SIGMUND "The Interpretation of Dreams"
"The Epic of Gilgamesh"
GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG "Faust"
GRIMM BROTHERS "Grimms Fairy Tales"
HAMILTON EDITH "Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes"
HESIOD "Works And Days"
HOMER "Iliad", "Odyssey"
HORACE "Ars Poetica"
HUME DAVID "The Natural History of Religion"
"Jason and the Golden Fleece"
JONSON BEN "Volpone"
JUVENAL "Satires"

"Kama Sutra"
KEATS JOHN "The Eve of St. Agnes"
KNOWLES JAMES "The Legends of King Arthur"
LONGFELLOW HENRY "The Song of Hiawatha"
LONGUS "Daphnis and Chloe"
MACHIAVELLI NICCOLO "The Prince"
MALORY THOMAS
"King Arthur and of his Noble Knights"
MILTON JOHN
"Paradise Lost"
MONTAIGNE MICHEL
"The Essays"
MORE THOMAS
"Utopia"
MURASAKI SHIKIBU
"The Tale of Genji"
"The Nibelungenlied"
NIETZSCHE FRIEDRICH
"Thus Spake Zarathustra"
ORWELL GEORGE "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
OVID "Metamorphoses"
PERRAULT CHARLES "The Tales of Mother Goose"
PETRARCH "Song Book"
PETRONIUS "Satyricon"
PLUTARCH "Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans"
РОЕ EDGAR "Ligea", "The Raven"
POPE ALEXANDER "The Rape of the Lock"
PREVOST ABBE "Manon Lescaut"
PUSHKIN ALEXANDER "Eugene Onegin","The Bronze Horseman"
"The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood"
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM "Sonnets"
SHELLEY MARY "Frankenstein"
SHELLEY PERCY "Prometheus Unbound"
SOLOMON "Song of Songs"
"Song of Roland"
SOPHOCLES "Antigone"
STOKER  BRAM "Dracula"
SWIFT JONATHAN "Gulliver's Travels"
TASSO TORQUATO  "Jerusalem Delivered"
TENNYSON ALFRED "Idylls of the King"
VERGIL "The Aeneid"
VOLTAIRE "Candide", "Age of Louis XIV"
ZARATHUSTRA "Zoroaster Hymns of the Zend Avesta"
 
     
     

EXPLORATIONS
&
MONOGRAPHS

  Explorations and monographs used in the "HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION & CULTURE"

ART - A WORLD HISTORY 
(Dorling Kindersley Book)

Revelations. Art of the Apocalypse (by Nancy Grubb)
Gothic Era ("Painting of the Gothic Era" by R. Suckale, M. Weniger)
Albrecht Durer
("Durer" by Wolfram Prinz)
Sandro Botticelli "Visual Poetry"
Leonardo da Vinci ("The Genius of the Renaissance" by J. Gilbert)
Hieronymus Bosch ("Between Heaven and Hell" by W. Bosing)
Hieronymus Bosch ("The Life and works of H. Bosch" by T. Copplestone)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder ("Peasants, Fools and Demons" by R-M. and R.Hagen)
Arcimboldo ("Giuseppe Arcimboldo" by Werner Kriegeskorte)
Giorgio Vasari "Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects"
(selections)
Rembrandt ("The Mustery of the Revealed Form" by M. Bockemuhl)
Vermeer ("Veiled Emotions" by Norbert Schneider)
Velazquez ("The Face of Spain" by Norbert Wolf)
The Art of the Portrait ("Masterpieces of European Portrait " by N. Schneider)
Indian Court Painting ("Indian Court Painting" by S.Kossak)
Japanese Ukiyo-e ("Ukiyo-e. Origins and History" by M. Sato)
Francisco de Goya ("Life and Work" by E. L. Buchholz)
Romantic Era ("Painting of the Romantic Era"  by Norbert Wolf)
Vincent van Gogh ("Fields and Flowers" by Debra N. Mancoff)
The Chronicle of Impressionism (by Bernard Denvir)
Henri Rousseau  (by Cornelia Stabenow)
Matisse ("Cut-Outs"
by Gilles Neret)
Gustav Klimt (by Gilles Neret)
Alphonse Mucha  ("Master of Art Nouveau" by Renate Ulmer)
Naive Art (by Natalia Brodskaia)

Grandma Moses (by Jane Kallir)
Edvard Munch (by Jean Selz)
Amedeo Modigliani ("The Poetry of Seeing" by Doris Krystof)
Francis Bacon ("The Theater of the Body" by Jose Maria Faerna)
Pablo Picasso
(by Carsten-Peter Warncke)
Diego Rivera ("A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art" by A.Kettenmann)
Marc Chagall ("Painting as Poetry" by Ingo F.Walther, Rainer Metzger)
Marc Chagall (Marc Chagall "Tapestries" by Jacob Baal-Teshuna)
Surrealist Art (by Sarane Alexandrian)
Salvador Dali (by Robert Descharnes & Gilles Neret)
Rene Magritte ("Thought rendered visible" by Marcel Paquet)
Surrealism ("The Dream of Revolution" by Richard Leslie)
Paintings that Changed the World. FROM LASCAUX TO WARHOL
Modern Art.
FROM IMPRESSIONISM TO POST-MODERNISM.
Abstract Art. PICTURES OF NOTHING

History of Posters (by John Barnicoat)
A World History of Photography
The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991 br>
Classical Music  (by John Stanley)
History of Western Literature
Masterpieces of World Literature
Dreamland Japan. Writings on Modern Manga
Alchemy & Mysticism. The Hermetic Cabinet
Tarot. The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Dictionary of Art and Artists
Visual History of the World
 
 

 

 
 
 

 


HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION & CULTURE
14.09.2005 - 25.11.2009