August. Пополнение коллекции. Г.Вельфлин

Вельфлин (Wölfflin) Генрих (21.6.1864, Винтертур, — 19.7.1945, Цюрих), швейцарский искусствовед. Профессор университетов в Базеле (с 1893), Берлине (с 1901), Мюнхене (с 1912), Цюрихе (с 1924). Разработал и мастерски применил последовательную методику анализа художественного стиля, которая в ранних работах В. служила для исследования "психологии эпохи" ("Ренессанс и барокко", 1888, русский перевод 1913; "Классическое искусство", 1899, русский перевод 1912). Позднее, под влиянием неокантианства, В. всё больше ограничивал задачи анализа определением "методов видения" — систем абстрагированных формальных категорий, сводя к ним характеристику искусства разных эпох или народов.

С именем Вельфлина связано становление истории искусства как самостоятельной научной дисциплины. До него история искусства - это отчасти раздел археологии, отчасти периферийная область истории культуры, отчасти сфера эссеистического творчества, после Вельфлина - это респектабельная и вполне автономная наука, обладающая собственным методом и специфическим материалом для исследования. Разработанный Вельфлином метод формально-стилистического анализа художественных памятников уже почти столетие лежит в основе подготовки искусствоведов в разных странах мира. В некотором смысле вельфлиновский метод является краеугольным камнем в многосложном здании современной науки об искусстве.

Популярности Вельфлина, помимо научной новизны и актуальности его идей, несомненно способствовала литературная одаренность исследователя. Вельфлин писал живым, образным языком, выгодно отличающим его произведения от перегруженных специальной терминологией и до предела наукообразных "гроссбухов" иных немецких ученых. Вельфлин легко обращается к неожиданным, на первый взгляд даже произвольным, сравнениям и метафорам, в итоге на удивление точно и осязаемо передающих мысль исследователя. Например, знаменитое сравнение раннего Ренессанса с "тонкочленными девичьими фигурами в ярких одеяниях". Вельфлиновский стиль изложения делал его глубокие по научному содержанию работы доступными и интересными для широкого круга читателей. Прямым следствием популярности и широкой известности явилось избрание Вельфлина в члены Прусской Академии наук. Он был первым исследователем, получившим звание академика за работы в области истории искусства, что, безусловно, подняло престиж тогда еще молодой науки.

Основные понятия истории искусств: Проблема эволюции стиля в новом искусстве
Генрих Вельфлин

Книга "Основные понятия истории искусств" является в науке первой попыткой дать точную и сжатую характеристику стилей, толкуемых обыкновенно весьма расплывчато. Впервые в этой книге автор создает образцовую терминологию и методологию для научной истории искусств.

М Academia 1930г. 290с. Твердый переплет, увеличенный формат.

Классическое искусство. Введение в изучение итальянского Возрождения
Генрих Вельфлин

Издание Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1912 г.
Твердый переплет, 212 стр.

Прижизненное издание.
Выпущено в 1912 году Брокгауз-Ефроном.
С 10 таблицами в красках и 79 таблицами на меловой бумаге. Старинный подарочный переплет. Золотое тиснение. На переплет наклеен вытисненный на тонкой медной пластинке портрет Леонардо да Винчи. Сохранность раритета хорошая.
С предисловием проф. Ф. Ф. Зелинского.
Перевод с немецкого А. А. Константиновой и В. М. Невежиной.

№1 in Obama's Reading List for Martha's Vineyard (The Time)

Hot, Flat, and Crowded. Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America
Thomas L. Friedman

Thomas L. Friedman's no. 1 bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see globalization in a new way. Now Friedman brings a fresh outlook to the crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy—both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively. His argument speaks to all of us who are concerned about the state of America in the global future.

Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy—which he calls "Geo-Greenism" — is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.


The Washington Post Cover Review "Like it or not, we need Tom Friedman. ...By and large [he] gets the big issues right."

Business Week "Required Reading"

The Boston Globe "A compelling manifesto that deserves a wide reading, especially by members of Congress and candidates for President."

Newsweek "New York Times columnist and globalization exponent Thomas Friedman pleads for Americans to wake up to the perils and opportunities of an emerging resource-strapped world. The author comes across as a blend of Will Rogers, Jack Welch and Norman Vincent Peale—a plain-spoken citizen outraged at the bullheadedness of U.S. politicians, yet optimistic about the power of ingenuity and finely crafted policy to avert disaster."

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Gandhi and Churchill: The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age
Arthur Herman

In this fascinating and meticulously researched book, bestselling historian Arthur Herman sheds new light on two of the most universally recognizable icons of the twentieth century, and reveals how their forty-year rivalry sealed the fate of India and the British Empire.

They were born worlds apart: Winston Churchill to Britain’s most glamorous aristocratic family, Mohandas Gandhi to a pious middle-class household in a provincial town in India. Yet Arthur Herman reveals how their lives and careers became intertwined as the twentieth century unfolded. Both men would go on to lead their nations through harrowing trials and two world wars—and become locked in a fierce contest of wills that would decide the fate of countries, continents, and ultimately an empire.

Gandhi & Churchill reveals how both men were more alike than different, and yet became bitter enemies over the future of India, a land of 250 million people with 147 languages and dialects and 15 distinct religions—the jewel in the crown of Britain’s overseas empire for 200 years.

Over the course of a long career, Churchill would do whatever was necessary to ensure that India remain British—including a fateful redrawing of the entire map of the Middle East and even risking his alliance with the United States during World War Two.

Mohandas Gandhi, by contrast, would dedicate his life to India’s liberation, defy death and imprisonment, and create an entirely new kind of political movement: satyagraha, or civil disobedience. His campaigns of nonviolence in defiance of Churchill and the British, including his famous Salt March, would become the blueprint not only for the independence of India but for the civil rights movement in the U.S. and struggles for freedom across the world.

Now master storyteller Arthur Herman cuts through the legends and myths about these two powerful, charismatic figures and reveals their flaws as well as their strengths. The result is a sweeping epic of empire and insurrection, war and political intrigue, with a fascinating supporting cast, including General Kitchener, Rabindranath Tagore, Franklin Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. It is also a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure, and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.

Pulitzer Prize 2009 General Nonfiction Finalist

Gregory Bateson Book Prize

Just One Child. Science and Policy in Deng's China
by Susan Greenhalgh

China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was just reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary manner in which a handful of leading aerospace engineers hijacked the population policymaking process and formulated a strategy that treated people like missiles. Just One Child situates these science- and policymaking practices in their broader contexts—the scientization and statisticalization of sociopolitical life—and provides the most detailed and incisive account yet of the origins of the one-child policy.

"China's 'one child' policy is often dismissed in the West as the misguided work of an alien civilization with fundamentally flawed conceptions of human rights. Greenhalgh shows how, on the contrary, it was scientific aspirations and a thirst for high-tech rationality, imported from the military to the civilian sphere, that co-produced this particular excess of planning in the post-Mao era. This is not just a devastating critique of Chinese population policy, but a thought-provoking look at the dark side of the politics of science."—Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University

Honorable Mention for the Gregory Bateson Book Prize, Society for Cultural Anthropology

American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence

All Can Be Saved. Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World.
by Stuart B. Schwartz

The book explores various sources of tolerant attitudes, the challenges that the New World presented to religious orthodoxy, the complex relations between “popular” and “learned” culture, and many related topics. The volume concludes with a discussion of the relativist ideas that were taking hold elsewhere in Europe during this era.

"All Can Be Saved is the work of a master historian who does not just pay lip service to the importance of the Portuguese in the Iberian Atlantic and who is deeply sensitive to early modern theology and ethnography. This book should spark a larger re-assessment of popular attitudes toward religion, not only in the Iberian Atlantic, but also in the other corners of the early modern world." —Liam Matthew Brockey, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Winner of the 2009 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in the category of Historical Study of Religion
Winner of the 2008 Cundill International Prize in History, McGill University.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title