02220nam a2200337 a 4500 ebr10517048 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 090623s2010 nyua sb 001 0 eng d 2009025960 9781433107795 (hardcover alk. paper) 9781453904725 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)774287520 N7430 .B674 2010eb 701/.8 22 Brodski�i, V. E. (Vladimir Evseevich) The world created in the image of man [electronic resource] : the conflict between pictorial form and space in defiance of the law of temporality / 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. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10517048 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 224831 224831