The world created in the image of man

by Brodski�i, V. E.
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Published by : Peter Lang, (New York :) Physical details: xi, 125 p. : ill. Year: 2010
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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.

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