eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2350 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
3890 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
3290 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
4990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
3290 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
INTRODUCTIONSince Inca legends first told of 'paradise' beyond the Western horizon, the Pacific Islands have held a special fascination for the Western world.Exotic reports from the first European explorers only served to reinforce the 'seductive myth' that here, perhaps, was the Garden of Eden;...
WHYI LOVE RENOIRby MAURICE GENEVOIXStudy for Bathers in the Forest," c. 1897. Pencil drawing on tracing paper, WU X 3S5/a in. Paris, Private collection. (Photo Robert Schmit)All my life, I do believe, I have suffered from not being a painter. Such regrets give rise to fervent admirations. So it is...
ABOVE ALL-A PAINTERby ÉMILE BERNARDA painter he is, a painter he remains: whether, as a young man, he interprets Holland in brown or, a little older, he paints Montmartre and its gardens as a divisionist, and finally the South of France and Auvers-sur-Oise with a furious impasto. Whether he draws...
IntroductionMany years ago I ventured on a pilgrimage to one of the world's least known collections of ethnic art, kept within the musty edifice of the Homiman Museum in London, where the haphazard display of artifacts from faraway lands offered up a bewildering treat. I wandered from cabinet to...
Introduction
An extraordinary variety of paths was open to the Mediterranean and European peoples in the last centuries before, and the first centuries after Christ. The subjects of the Roman Empire enjoyed a freedom of choice in religious matters unparalleled until modern times. The similarity...
m ofall things. Eternally. The embrace uniting Parvati and Shiva lasts through milliom JL of years. Lakshmi, wife ofVishnu, the goddess ofbeauty andfortune; she is called the Millionairess. And the god Brahma s mate, Sarasva ti, is the goddess ofspeech, eloquence, knowledge; patroness of art and...
Einleitung In Paris, gegenüber dem Louvre, öffnet ein neues Museum seine Tore, das Musée d'Orsay. Wieso, mag man sich fragen, braucht Paris noch ein Museum, hat es doch schon so viele? Was wird dort ausgestellt? Welcher Ausstellungsplan wurde gewáhlt? Wir werden versuchen, kurz auf diese Fragen...
Every religion at its highest tells us that life itself Is holy, and that the full experience of the transcendent nature of life is a homecoming. Zen is a Buddhist way of attaining a direct realization of the truth of these statements. Based on the highest teachings of the Buddha, it was taken in...
Life
The war with Turkey entailing the loss of Crete (1669), the last heroic endeavour in the military history of the Venetian Republic, came to an end almost thirty years before Giambattista Tiepolo's birth. It was a war fought with bravery, but had nevertheless ended in an irréparable defeat...
FRENCH DRAWING OF THE XX CENTURY
IT IS DIFFICULT to analyse any one aspect of the artistic achievement of the past fifty years such as drawing, and one cannot lightly undertake such an enterprise. Our century has seen so many movements, so many new directions which have not been taken up and...
chapter oneSon of a millerNo one can say what makes an artist. We know that Rembrandt was born at Ley den on 15 July 1606, that he was the sixth of a family of seven children, that his father Harmen Gerritszoon worked a mill near the Rhine (whence the name van Rijn), that his mother Neeltge...
Life
The picture of Gauguin can be pieced together from self-portraits and from letters, read in conjunction with one another; the painted and the written word help to bring alive a face that has been altered by the passage of time. His most recent biographers have discovered photographs, too,...
INTRODUCTION
The new fabric of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was woven from a rich Italian Renaissance past, dominated right up to 1800 by the giant Cinquecento figures of Raphael and Titian. Over this period there was gradual change rather than a break at any specific point. Titian...
V, I'At first thought the very phrase "Caribbean style" seems a contradiction in terms. How can a single style emerge out of a scattered heterogeneous archipelago, spread over hundreds of miles of sea, vrithout a common language, culture, history or even geology?Some of the Caribbean islands are...
Time as a deity and the stream of events
1 Cf. Fraser, The Voices of Time and The Study oi Time. Cf. also Fraser, 01 Time, Passion and Knowledge; Whitrow, The Natural Philosophy ol Time; Priestley; Le Lionnais.
2 Cf. Whorf, 80.
3 Cf.Piaget.
Time is one of the great archetypal experiences of...
The Tree of Imagination'The Nature of Visionary Fancy or Imagination, is very httle known, the Eternal nature permanence of its ever Existent Images is considered as less permanent than the things of Vegetative and Generative Nature; yet the Oak dies as well as the Lettuce, but its Eternal Image...
Introduction
'Some girls affect what is called the Grecian bend' commented the Daily Telegraph in 1869, and the Irish ballad applauds the 'sort of creature, boys, that nature did intend, to walk right through the world' without that affectation. It is a measure of the popular view of Greek art...
Chapter One INTRODUCTION
The red figure technique of vase painting was invented in Athens by about 530 B c at a time when the black figure technique was barely past its prime and when several other important studios of vase painting were flourishing in the Greek world, from the western colonies...
Life and Times
In reconstructing the life of an artist, it is only too easy to interpret the known facts in such a way that, instead of presenting a historically accurate account, they show him as a romantic figure, who reflects in his own life the particular quality of his work. This is...
IntroductionThousands of people nowadays know about the yin and yang as Chinese male and female sexual energies. Perhaps they use the I-ching, or Book of Changes, the ancient Chinese oracle text, without understanding how it is meant to work. They may not realize that Chinese art expresses the same...
CHAPTER ONEThe roots of ImpressionismThe history of Impressionism is now so well known that we rarely pause to wonder why a group of friends, men of different temperaments and with widely dissimilar early experiences, should so rapidly have come to share so many assumptions about the nature of...
The Pursuit of the Knowledge of One's Self
Throughout all times and in all cultures men and women have sought to acquire knowledge about human nature and the purpose of human existence. In their search they have made use of an enormous variety of disciplines which have promised to penetrate the...
INTRODUCTION
The whole notion of the "Middle Ages" bids fair to go out of fashion. It belongs to ways of thinking of other ages than ours. Men felt in the Renaissance that, after dark centuries of ignorance, they were reforging the link with the only form of civilization which had permitted man...
Life
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1845 his family moved to Paris where the father, a tailor, went on making a modest living to support his already large family. Pierre soon showed he was a particularly gifted boy, and he might have studied singing, according...
INTRODUCTION
LORD KINROSS
The eastern and the western Mediterranean differ as sharply, one from the other, as two distinct hemispheres. In the west, Europe flowers; in the east it is laid bare. The landscape of Italy smiles, all soft and caressing; that of Greece stares, challenging and tough....
Introduction
Before we can realize the stature of Munch in his time and his significance for our age, he has to be seen against the background of the radical change in spiritual values-religious, ethical, philosophical and aesthetic-which the last hundred years have witnessed; a change which,...
Life
Van Gogh's life, like his work, is now part of a myth; he is in fact generally placed among the last few heroes of the romantic world to be haunted by an implacable curse. The signs of a singular destiny have been looked for in the most trivial particulars, the most banal aspects of his...
Magic: the Western Tradition
Between the Worlds
Today interest in the so-called occult is more widespread than ever before. Popular Sun-sign astrology is a subject for light conversation, self-appointed 'Perfect Masters' have attracted large followings, and in almost every large city of Europe...
The Pursuit of the Knowledge of One's Self
Throughout all times and in all cultures men and women have sought to acquire knowledge about human nature and the purpose of human existence. In their search they have made use of an enormous variety of disciplines which have promised to penetrate the...
LifeThe two factors in the life of Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa which can never be ignored are his noble birth and the tragedy of his misshapen body. These two essential factors, and especially the latter, determined the course of his life and also provided a rich field for the...
Life
Edouard Manet, who was destined to defy tradition and overturn convention, was born into a highly respectable French bourgeois family. His father, Auguste, was a senior official at the Ministry of Justice; his mother, Eugénie Désirée Fournier, a sensitive, well-educated woman, was the...
. .. Before dctwn, a pair of bleary-eyed teenagers prepare to leave a Tel Aviv discotheque. ... A few hundred yards away, politicians at a party caucus huddle to discuss the unexpected results of a late-night vote. ... At Rosh Ha'Ayin (a suburb of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv); established four...
LifeThe two factors in the life of Henri-Marie-Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa which can never be ignored are his noble birth and the tragedy of his misshapen body. These two essential factors, and especially the latter, determined the course of his life and also provided a rich field for the...
TOWARD PHOTO-HISTORY
Legendary - how to avoid this word so often used to describe Robert Capa? Like that of the actor, the profession of pursuer of pictures, and facts, is fraught with an onerous and sometimes demeaning mythology. With the exception of Moliere, however, few actors have died...
Life
Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in Caprese, a small hill town some sixty miles east oL Florence, on 6 March 1475. He was the son of Lodovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni and Francesca di Neri di Miniato del Sera. As a boy in Florence he was at first a pupil of the grammarian Francesco da...
IntroductionThere is a photograph of Paul Cézanne taken by Emile Bernard in February 1904. It shows an aging man of sixty-five with a lively face, a long nose ending in a bushy white moustache and a white beard which hides his chin. A few wisps of white hair stick out from under a square-crowned...
INTRODUCTION'Onthe 7th ofjune 1753 His Majesty,being seated on the Throne adorned with his Crown and Regal Ornaments, and attended by His Officers of State; the Duke of Cumberland in his Robes sitting in his Place on His Majesty's Left Hand; the Lords being also in their Robes the Clerk of the...
SERENGETI
Natural Order on the African Plain
Serengeti National Park stretches for endless miles across the wilds of East Africa. A world of calm beauty and quick violence, it is home to over two million animals and witness to daily dramas of life and death played against a background of...