MONOGRAPHS


In this section we present the development of themes that go beyond the chronologically ordered art history, and additional information and thoughts to help you understand the development and status of contemporary art.


100 gothic buildings


100 renaissance buildings


100 baroque buildings


FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT AND PRAIRIE ARCHITECTURE

ART DECO AND STEAMLINE MODERNE

the emergence and development of the art deco style and derivatives, and more than 100 examples of architecture and design

INTERNATIONAL STYLE

the most important buildings in the history of international style

CASTLES OF THE LOIRE

100 most famous (and less known) castles from the Loire Valley

WERKBUND AND BAUHAUS

the origins and history of the German Werkbundu and most famous school of design - Bauhaus

FIRST AND SECOND CHICAGO SCHOOL

characteristics and examples of the style of buildings erected in Chicago in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, belonging to the so-called Chicago School, and the sources and examples of the "Second Chicago School" - from the years 1960-2000

BERLAGE AND AMSTERDAM SCHOOL

a brief introduction to the topic and examples of the most important buildings of the expressionist "Amsterdam School" architecture

THREE MAJOR ATTITUDES OF CONTEMPORARY ART

countless currents of contemporary art come from three main attitudes:
realism, symbolism and expressionism

DIFFERENT FACES OF EXPRESSIONISM

history of expressionism from Kandinsky by Pollock to the "new wild" is simpler than it seems

WORLD'S MOST BEAUTIFUL GARDENS

collection of illustrations depicting various famous gardens - from antiquity to the intimate Monet's garden at Giverny

BRITART CONTRA STUCKISM

Young British Artists and Stuckist - rise and rivalry of the two major groupings of artists in England, which dominated the modern art market at the end of the twentieth century

HISTORY OF AMERICAN PAINTING

a brief history of American painting from the beginning to the action painting, post-painterly abstraction and hyperrealism

PRIMITIVISM, PRIMITIVE ART, NAIVE ART, TRIBAL ART, FOLK ART

a brief introduction to the history of primitive art, folk and naive with and explanation of the differences between these concepts and primitivism as a contemporary intellectual mainstream

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