The world created in the image of man
Subtitle: the conflict between pictorial form and space in defiance of the law of temporality
By: Vladimir Brodsky.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433107795
Subjects: Composition (Art); Space (Art); Form (Aesthetics)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of illustrations; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: I. 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 The tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu; title: II. The virgin of Vladimir (early 12th century) and The virgin of the Don (c. 1392); title: Icons from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow : striving for a particular of life; title: III. The arch motive in Italian Renaissance art : its changing meaning in compositional function; title: IV. Rembrandt and the Baroque : contained emotion and the hostility of darkness; title: V. French impressionism as heir to the classical tradition and its encounter with Japanese "pictures of the floating world" (Ukiyo-e); title: Conclusion. What happened next?; title: Postmodern art in the context of the historical development of the interrelation of form and space; title: Notes; title: Index.