Full History of Art: Lecture Course

Paola Volkova - Soviet and Russian art critic, cultural historian, teacher, leading the author’s program “Bridge over the Abyss” about the masterpieces of visual arts on the TV channel “Culture”. A brilliant teacher and narrator, through her books, lectures and conversations, she instilled in her students and interlocutors a sense of beautiful, trying to reach their souls.

The publication that you hold in your hands unites three books based on a unique cycle of lectures of art critic Paola Volkova.

The first is a “commentary on antiquity”, where new connections between forms are traced - from Stonehenge to the Globus Theater, from Crete to Spanish Corrida, from the European Mediterranean to the conceptualism of the 20th century - all this is due to and is due cannot exist without each other. “I suppose,” said Paola Dmitrievna, “that the whole story of the culture that we know is a continuous history of commentary. We are still commenting on antiquity. Thanks to this endless comment with world artistic culture, we have psychological, intellectual and spiritual wealth. ”

The second book of Mystics and Humanists is dedicated to the Renaissance. Artists of this period Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael and Titian, Jerome Bosch and Peter Bruegel the Elder were not just artists. They were philosophers charged by the main problems of time. Returning to the ideals of antiquity, they created a solid, with an internal unity of the concept of the world, filled traditional religious plots with earthly content.

The last book, included in this course of lectures, talks about the phenomenon of impressionism. Eduard Manet and Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse - Lotrek and Paul Gauguin tried to convey to the viewer Impression, the beauty of everyday reality, and convey what the eye sees at a particular moment, but it turned out that their work is once and that their work is once and forever influenced all subsequent art.

The book invites the reader on a fascinating journey through the centuries, where he, following the story of an art critic, will be able to comprehend the images of world artistic culture.