French literary illustration of the 18th century is studied from point view depicting an interior as a locale. The problem influence and visual sources on formation image through several series illustrations for Racine’s Works in editions. main comparative research are J. Berenice, engraved drawings by artists L. Cheron (1723), L.-F. Dubourg (1743), de Sève (1760), H.-F. Gravelot (1768), J.-J.-...

This article is devoted to the creative biography of largest Russian-Estonian architect at turn 19th–20th centuries A. Poleshchuk and retrospectivism in Russian church architecture beginning twentieth century, which was his main method. The works great master are still poorly studied, scientific publications practically not him. At same time, being a pupil St Petersburg Academy Arts, awarded ti...

В статье представлена история проектирования реконструкции здания обкома ВКП(б) в Новосибирске. Анализируются архитектурно-художественные решения проектов надстройки и пристройки к нему. Первоначальное здание для отделов Сибревкома построено по проекту сибирского архитектора А.Д. Крячкова 1926 г. выполнено стилистике рационалистического модерна. Его же проект 1936 предложен ар-деко с элементами...

Rational investor hypothesis, efficient markets hypothesis(EMH), and random walk of yield rate are three basic concepts of modern capital market theory. However, it could not be proved that real capital markets are full with rational investors. The theory, which regards the price movement of capital market as random walks, and regards the yield time series as a normal distribution, is not suppo...

magination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters; united with her, she is the mother of the arts, " wrote Goya in the subtitle of his etching The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters. Imagination, its origins and its limits, fascinated Goya and permeated his work, outweighing tradition and ranking him " first of the moderns. " Fantasy and invention marked the course of a career during w...

In German art history, drawing assumed a leading role in two periods: around 1500, the age of Dürer, and around 1800, the age of Goethe or the Romantic era. The correspondences between ideas, themes, and practices in the drawings of these periods are the subject of this article. I will first discuss the interesting phenomenon of the parallels between the ages of Dürer and Goethe in the developm...

expressionism in painting, existentialism in philosophy, the final forms of representation in the novel, the films of the great auteurs, or the modernist school of poetry (as institutionalized and canonized in the works of Wallace Stevens): all these are now seen as the final, extraordinary flowering of a high modernist impulse which is spent and exhausted with them. . . . the younger generatio...