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Dictionary of Art
and Artists
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HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION &
CULTURE
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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 Western Literature
and Philosophy
PART EIGHT
Visual History of the World
PART NINE
The Encyclopedia of
Bad Taste
PART TEN
Dictionary of Art
and Artists
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PART ONE
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PREHISTORIC
&
ANCIENT ART
HELENIC & ITALIC CIVILIZATIONS
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(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
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THE ANCIENT
WORLD FROM THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO THE FOURTH
CRUSADE
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(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
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GOTHIC ERA
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(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
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RENAISSANCE & MANNERISM
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(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
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BAROQUE &
ROCOCO
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(Baroque and Rococo
Art Map)
Baroque and Rococo
The 17th Century: the Age of
Spectacle
EXPLORATION:
Rembrandt
("The Mustery of the Revealed Form" by M. Bockemuhl)
EXPLORATION:
Vermeer
("Veiled Emotions" by Norbert
Schneider)
EXPLORATION:
Velazquez
("The Face
of Spain"
by
Norbert Wolf)
EXPLORATION:
The Art of the Portrait
("Masterpieces
of European Portrait " by N.
Schneider)
Collection:
Caravaggio
Collection:
Peter Paul Rubens
Collection:
Jacques
Callot
"Miseries of War"
Collection:
William Hogarth
"A Harlot's Progress"
Collection:
Francois Boucher
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NEOCLASSICISM
& ROMANTIC ERA
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(Neoclassicism,
Romanticism Art Map)
Neoclassicism
and
Romanticism
Collection:
Jacques-Louis David
Collection:
Between Two
Revolutions
(From David to Delacroix)
Collection:
Thomas Rowlandson
(comic images of familiar social types)
EXPLORATION:
Francisco de Goya
("Life and
Work" by E. L. Buchholz)
"CAPRICHOS",
"DISASTERS OF WAR",
"DISPARATES",
"TAUROMAQUIA"
Orientalism
Collection:
David Roberts
"A Journey in the Holy Land" (Commentary by E. Nistri)
Collection:
Jean-Leon Gerome
A Return to the Past
Nazarenes
Pre-Raphaelites
EXPLORATION:
Romantic Era
("Painting
of the Romantic Era" by
Norbert Wolf)
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
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IMPRESSIONISM &
POST-IMPRESSIONISM
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(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"
by Debra N. Mancoff)
EXPLORATION:
The Chronicle
of Impressionism
(by Bernard Denvir)
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A CRISIS OF
TRADITION & THE BIRTH OF CONTEMPORARY ART
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(Art
Styles in 19th century Art Map)
Symbolism
EXPLORATION:
Henri Rousseau
(by Cornelia Stabenow)
Nabis
EXPLORATION:
Matisse
("Cut-Outs"
by Gilles Neret)
Fauvism
Collection:
Odilon Redon
"The Unconscious"
Collection:
Aubrey Beardsley
"Beardsley's Vision"
Collection:
Paul
Gauguin
Collection:
Auguste Rodin
EXPLORATION:
Gustav Klimt
(by Gilles Neret)
The Modern Style
Art
Nouveau
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PART TWO
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ART OF THE 20TH
CENTURY
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(Art of
the 20th century Art Map)
Folk Art, Naive Art
EXPLORATION:
Naive Art
(by Natalia Brodskaia)
EXPLORATION:
Grandma Moses
(by Jane Kallir)
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
(by Jean Selz)
EXPLORATION:
Amedeo Modigliani
("The Poetry of
Seeing" by
Doris Krystof)
EXPLORATION:
Francis Bacon
("The Theater of the Body" by Jose Maria Faerna)
Cubism
- 1907
EXPLORATION:
Pablo Picasso
(by Carsten-Peter Warncke)
The Eight. The Ashcan school - 1908
Futurism - 1909
Jack of Diamonds
- 1910
Der Blaue Reiter
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1911
Section d'Or (Golden Section)
- 1912
Orphism -
1912
Rayonism
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1912
Constructivism
- 1913
Vorticism
- 1914
Suprematism - 1915
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ART OF THE 20TH
CENTURY
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(Art of
the 20th century Art Map)
Year by Year - 1916 -1924
Dadaism
- 1916
De Stijl - 1917
Pittura Metafisica
(Metaphysical
Art)
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1917
Purism
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1918
Neo-plasticism
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1919
The Bauhaus school
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1919
Art Deco
- 1920
Precisionism
- 1920
The Mexican Muralists - 1921
EXPLORATION:
Diego Rivera
("A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art"
by A.Kettenmann)
New Objectivity
- 1924
Novecento group - 1924
EXPLORATION:
Marc Chagall
("Painting
as Poetry" by Ingo F.Walther, Rainer Metzger)
(Marc Chagall "Tapestries" by Jacob Baal-Teshuna)
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ART OF THE 20TH
CENTURY
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(Art of
the 20th century Art Map)
Year by Year - 1924 -1929
Surrealism
- 1924
EXPLORATION:
Surrealist Art
(by Sarane Alexandrian)
EXPLORATION:
Salvador Dali (by Robert Descharnes & Gilles Neret)
Max Ernst
"A Week of Kindness"
(A surrealistic novel in
collage)
EXPLORATION:
Rene Magritte
("Thought rendered visible" by
Marcel Paquet)
EXPLORATION:
Surrealism
("The
Dream of Revolution"
by Richard Leslie)
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)
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ART OF THE 20TH
CENTURY
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(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"
by Jose Maria Faerna)
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)
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PART THREE
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ARTISTS & PAINTIGS THAT CHANGED
THE
WORLD
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Artists and
Paintings that Changed the World
Paintings that Changed the World
FROM LASCAUX TO WARHOL
(by K. Reichold, B.
Graf)
The Modern Mind.
Modern
Art.
FROM
IMPRESSIONISM TO POST-MODERNISM.
(Edited by David
Britt)
100 Greatest Artists of the World
FROM ALMA-TADEMA TO WATTEAU
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PART FOUR
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DESIGN &
POSTERS
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A Brief History of Design
and Posters
Graphic Design a new History
(by
Stephen J. Eskilson)
Introduction:
The Origins
of Typography and
Graphic Design
1 Art Nouveau I:
A New
Style for a New Culture
2 Art Nouveau II: Scotland, Austria,
and
Germany
3 Sachplakat, The First World War,
and Dada
4 Modern Art, Modern
Graphic Design
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Revolutions in Design
6 The Bauhaus and
the
New Typography
7 American Art Deco
and the Second World War
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The Triumph of the
International Style
9 Postmodernism, the Return
of
Expression
10 Contemporary Graphic Design
History of Posters
(by John Barnicoat)
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PART FIVE
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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A Brief History of Photography
Introduction
History of
Photography
(Encyclopaedia Britannica)
A World History of Photography
(by Naomi Rosenblum)
The Story Behind the Pictures 1827-1991
(by
Hans-Michael Koetzle)
Photographers' Dictionary
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CLASSICAL
MUSIC
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A Brief History of Classical
Music
(by
John Stanley)
The great composers and their
masterworks in MP3 format
(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
A
Brief
History of Jazz
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PART SEVEN
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WESTERN
LITERATURE & PHILOSOPHY
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History of Literature and Fhilosophy
(contents)
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
Masterpieces of
World Literature
Biographies of Writers and
Philosophers
Texts
Masterpieces
Illustrations
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
EXPLORATION (in Russian):
THE SECRETS
OF THE CRAFT
Homer
"Iliad "and "Odyssey"
Aleksandr Pushkin "Yevgeny Onegin"
Osip Mandelshtam -
Marina Tsvetaeva -
Anna Achmatova -
Joseph
Brodsky
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PART EIGHT
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VISUAL HISTORY
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Visual History of the World
(Foreword
by Douglas G. Brinkley)
Prehistory
First Empires
The Ancient World
The Middle Ages
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The Early Modern Period
The Modern Era
The World Wars and Interwar Period
The Contemporary World
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PART NINE
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SUBCULTURE
& MULTICULTURE
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The Encyclopedia of
Bad Taste
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
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-Superstar
Stormy Daniels
T-Tattoo
V-Velvet painting
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PART TEN
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ARTISTS INDEX
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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,
etc)
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