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Free Download Thomas Stevens, "The Great Artists: Pierre-Auguste Renoir"
English | ISBN: 1788285743 | 2019 | 96 pages | EPUB | 16 MB
This introductory series to the great artists of the past 150 years looks at their lives and inspirations, and showcases a selection of their most significant paintings. Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the foremost Impressionist artists, exhibiting six paintings in their famous 1874 exhibition and often painting scenes of middle-class leisure outdoors – en plein air – with Monet. But Renoir’s primary interest lay indoors, in depictions of sensuous female nudes and intimate domestic scenes, painted in a warm, bright palette. This book explores the life and work of this leading light of Impressionism, and shows how his work developed in a different direction to many of the others in the group, as he absorbed some elements of a classical style into his painting.

Free Download Vincent Guillin, "Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill on Sexual Equality: Historical Methodological and Philosophical Issues"
English | 2009 | pages: 385 | ISBN: 9004174699 | PDF | 2,3 mb
Drawing on a detailed analysis of their correspondence, this books offers a new intepretation of the relation between Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, which focuses on their controvery over sexual equality.

Free Download Deanna Muller, "Auguste Rodin: Sculptures"
English | 2015 | pages: 102 | ASIN: B079Z8T2PH | EPUB | 3,4 mb
Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor, usually considered the progenitor of modern sculpture. But actually Rodin did not set out to revolutionary against the past. He was educated traditionally and desired academic respect, although he was never accepted into Paris’s leading school of art. Many of his most notable sculptures were severely criticized during his lifetime. They clashed with the predominant figure sculpture tradition, in which works were decorative, formulaic, or highly thematic. Rodin’s most original work departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, modeled the human body with realism, and celebrated individual character. It was the freedom and creativity with which Rodin used these practices – along with his activation surfaces of sculptures through traces of his own touch and with his more open attitude toward bodily pose, sensuality, and non-realistic surface – that marked Rodin’s re-making of traditional 19th century sculptural techniques into the prototype for modern sculpture.