Language of the body. Poses and gestures in art

An exciting study of the language of poses and gestures in life and art from the author of the “naked monkey and the collection of biographies "Surrealists in life", which we released this year together with the Museum of Modern Art "Garage".
Zoologist, ethologist and the last of the living artists -scurelists Desmond Morris combined in this book two sides of his experience - science and art. Talking about how various gestures and poses acquired and what values ​​acquired throughout history, he devotes the reader into exciting secrets of art works. The author analyzes why Napoleon posed for ceremonial portraits, laying his right hand behind the lapel of the uniform, and why the knight on the canvas El Greco clenches his palm to his chest, settling the index finger and little finger to the sides. Many examples given by the author from visual culture - from primitive anthropomorphic figures to modern graffiti - make you look at the history of art in a new way.
The basis for illustrations in the book was numerous samples of drawings on the vases and sculptures of the ancient Greeks. These objects are, in particular, in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, the Acropolis Museum in Athens, the Museum of the Atheno Agora, the Archaeological Museum in Delphi, the Archaeological Museum in Heraclion, the Louvre Museum in Paris, the British Museum in London, the Museums of the Vatican in Rome, the Old Her Old Republic of Old Museum in Berlin, the Museum of the History of Arts in Vienna, the Munich glyptote in Munich and the National Museum in Warsaw