The world created in the image of man
Brodskiĭ, V. E.
The world created in the image of man the conflict between pictorial form and space in defiance of the law of temporality / [electronic resource] : Vladimir Brodsky. - New York : Peter Lang, c2010. - xi, 125 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Japanese defiance of the Chinese concept of unlimited space : the role of the oblique setting in the illustrations of the first half of the twelfth century to Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji -- The virgin of Vladimir (early twelfth century) and The virgin of the Don (c. 1392), two icons from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow : striving for a particularize feeling -- The arch motive in Italian Renaissance art : its changing meaning in compositional function -- Rembrandt and the Baroque : contained emotion and the hostility of darkness -- French impressionism as heir to the classical tradition and its encounter with Japanese "pictures of the floating world" (Ukiyo-e) -- Conclusion. What happened next? Postmodern art in the context of the historical development of the interrelation of form and space -- Notes -- Index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Composition (Art)
Space (Art)
Form (Aesthetics)
Electronic books.
N7430 / .B674 2010eb
701/.8
The world created in the image of man the conflict between pictorial form and space in defiance of the law of temporality / [electronic resource] : Vladimir Brodsky. - New York : Peter Lang, c2010. - xi, 125 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Japanese defiance of the Chinese concept of unlimited space : the role of the oblique setting in the illustrations of the first half of the twelfth century to Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji -- The virgin of Vladimir (early twelfth century) and The virgin of the Don (c. 1392), two icons from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow : striving for a particularize feeling -- The arch motive in Italian Renaissance art : its changing meaning in compositional function -- Rembrandt and the Baroque : contained emotion and the hostility of darkness -- French impressionism as heir to the classical tradition and its encounter with Japanese "pictures of the floating world" (Ukiyo-e) -- Conclusion. What happened next? Postmodern art in the context of the historical development of the interrelation of form and space -- Notes -- Index.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Composition (Art)
Space (Art)
Form (Aesthetics)
Electronic books.
N7430 / .B674 2010eb
701/.8