Майкл Тейлор — новинки

Один из величайших живописцев в истории западного искусства, непревзойденный мастер рисунка и офорта, Рембрандт остается загадкой: никто пока не смог объяснить, за счет чего ему удавалось с такой непринужденной точностью запечатлевать духовную сущность своих моделей.

Глубокая, проницательная и в то же время доступная книга, написанная известным исследователем и переводчиком Майклом Тейлором, будет интересна как специалистам по творчеству Рембрандта, так и всем интересующимся его наследием и биографией. Пристально вглядываясь в портреты и автопортреты голландского мастера, в его исторические и библейские композиции, автор пытается понять, что делает представленных на этих картинах и графических листах людей такими живыми, полными внутренней энергии, прорывающейся всюду — даже в такой, казалось бы, малозначительной детали, как изображение их носов. «Нос Рембрандта» — редкая находка: это искренний, доверительный и необычайно увлекательный диалог с произведениями, полный колоритных исторических подробностей, которые позволяют нам соприкоснуться с мыслью и живописью великого художника, жившего четыре века назад. Текст дополняют 49 иллюстраций и развернутая хроника жизни и творчества Рембрандта.

The year 2006 marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest portrait painters that ever lived, the Dutch seventeenth-century master, Rembrandt. Although Rembrandt is among the most important artists in western history, and perhaps our greatest draftsman, no one has ever, until now, been able to pinpoint exactly how it was that he so precisely and effortlessly captured the spiritual essence of his subjects. This insightful, sophisticated and yet accessible illustrated reading-format study, written by the preeminent scholar and translator Michael Taylor, will be as enlightening and delightful to Rembrandt scholars as to lay readers. Taylor looks at Rembrandt's self-portraits, his society portraits, historical paintings and biblical scenes, and identifies how it was that the artist rendered his subjects so alive, so full of earthy, flesh-and-blood vitality--which all boils down to his treatment of the nose. Rembrandt's Nose is a gem of a book, an intimate, candid and extremely entertaining engagement with the works of art themselves, interwoven with racy historical snippets that contextualize the artist's breakthroughs and techniques. It includes some 49 reproductions, as well as a complete chronology of Rembrandt's life.

Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the twentieth century. His early success in Paris and subsequent lionization by the Surrealists were followed by decades of negative criticism. While his enigmatic Metaphysical paintings, with their dreamlike imagery of deserted city squares filled with mysterious shadows, stopped clocks, and sleeping statues, had a powerful impact on modern art, de Chirico himself abandoned modernism in the 1920s for a return to the techniques of the old masters.
A key to understanding de Chirico's oeuvre is an influential series of paintings he made in 1912-13 of the mythical Cretan princess Ariadne. De Chirico's increasing engagement with Paris's avant-garde art scene can be traced in the series, as well as the coalescence of his own painting style. In later years the artist would return to the Ariadne theme again and again in his vast series of Piazza d'ltalia paintings, which in their repetition and minute variations border on the obsessive. For all his claims to the contrary, de Chirico remained profoundly modern, his serial approach to painting foreshadowing the work of such artists as Andy Warhol.
In eight essays the authors explore the importance of the Ariadne series in the context of the Paris art world before World War I and in later developments in de Chirico's career. An unpublished text by Max Ernst and an interview with Gerard Tempest, who was tutored by de Chirico in the late 1940s, shed new light on the artist and his working methods. Illustrated with some 180 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and documentary photographs, this book provides an unparalleled range of primary research materials and the best overall account of de Chirico's career.