This is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by 10 leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of the artists

В книге излагается история проектирования, строительства и перестроек Большого театра, анализируется его архитектура в различные периоды его существования, устанавливается его значение в развитии архитектуры русских театров

Книга о выдающиеся лыжнике В. Смирнове, который впервые поднял флаг Казахстана на Олимпиаде в Лиллехаммере

В книге рассказывается о петербургских мастерах балета XIX столетия

This book explores how, since then, american social and artistic history has shaped what we know as contemporary art, and how American art has respondes to the unique cultural conditions of recent times

This book by Lea Vergine, which discusses seventeen different art movements in separate chapters, offers, within the panorama of contemporary art criticism books, a blend between a handy art - history manual and an assessment of a cultural adventure that has passed through and overturned the parameters of taste of the last forty years

This groundbreaking book explores the visual representations of black culture throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. This new edition provides expanded coverage of film and video, and an additional chapter on the work of artists who have risen to prominence in recent years

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life

Spanning more than 100 years, New York: 365 Days is a spectacular collection of then-and-now photographs that capture the rhythms and moods of the greatest city in the world. Selected from the vast archive of The New York Times, the extraordinary images in this book include many rarely-seen moments, with stops at famous landmarks and memorable events as well as a dizzying array of evocative everyday New York scenes