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Автор Amirsadeghi Hossein

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Frozen Dreams is the first comprehensive survey of contemporary art from Russia. Culturally and geographically thought of as part of Europe while at the same time a vast country stretching over nine time zones, Russia is a major world power with seemingly endless natural resources and undeniable political significance. How has Russia’s rapidly changing political and economic landscape shaped its art? And how does art affect social and cultural change within Russia? Russia has undergone an amazing cultural and political transformation over the past forty years. How has its rapidly changing social landscape shaped its art? And how does art effect social and cultural change within Russia? This generously illustrated volume explores these questions by presenting a broad but balanced selection of work by eighty Russian artists working from the 1970s to the present day. It features many newcomers within diverse media and styles, including Alexei Kallima, Kerim Ragimov and Olga Chernysheva alongside such well-established names as Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Boris Mikhailov and AES+F. With more than 600 colour illustrations, perceptive interviews, in-depth profiles and three essays by leading scholars and collectors, «Frozen Dreams» will be an essential guide to a hitherto neglected area and an up-to-the-minute cultural portrait of an exciting artistic arena.

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Equine Journeys casts an unprecedented eye on Britain's horse world, focusing on people, places and organizations instrumental in the breeding, racing, keeping and showing of breeds in the UK - one of the world's foremost equine universes. From Scottish hill farmers breeding Highland ponies, Shetlands and Icelandics to the luxurious world of Arabian horse breeders, from neighbourhood stables to studs that foster some of the world's greatest horses (creating multi-billion-pound businesses in the process and supporting the global racing calendar), the book shows how that business is defining the long-standing relationship between horse and human. In words and pictures, Equine Journeys explores the fundamentals that underpin the economics, politics and sporting components of some of the UK's greatest breeding and racing studs. Up close and personal profiles provide unequalled access to owners, breeders, trainers, jockeys, stable lads and lasses, and polo fanatics. Enriched by a wealth of exclusively commissioned photographs, Equine Journeys features compelling images reflecting both the fantasy and the reality of breeding and racing in Britain today. Specially commissioned essays by leading experts elaborate on the history of the horse and it's place in British history, as well as looking inside the fiercely competitive contemporary breeding and racing scene. It provides an invaluable survey of current trends and key players while shining a light on the exotic and the extraordinary in the realm of racehorses and gymkhana ponies, Shetlands and Clydesdales, gypsy cobs and police horses, polo clubs and the London and Counties social scene. Equine Journeys will explore the landscape and the sociology of horses, horse sense and horsemanship in Britain at a time when the horse has lost it's millennia long economic and strategic importance, becoming a companion to humans, a source of natural beauty and the inspiration for sport.