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Bibliographic Description

Человек и Вселенная / Леонов А., Соколов А. – М. : Издательство «Изобразительное искусство», 1984.

Author
Леонов А., Соколов А.
Publisher
Издательство «Изобразительное искусство»
Year of publication
1984
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

This album clearly shows how man ventured out into the expanses of the Universe. It speaks of the present and the future. More and more artists today try to reflect, in their work, the theme of man's penetration into space. But perhaps few of them have managed to get as close to space as the authors of the drawings published here. The secret of such closeness is simple: the author of some of the drawings is the cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first person in the world to step out of a spacecraft into open space, who himself became, for a time, a satellite of the Earth. His colleague is the science-fiction artist Andrei Sokolov, who has devoted his work to depicting space. Some of the pictures were created jointly. The extraordinary landscapes seen by the cosmonauts and conveyed in drawings by A. Leonov carry not only cognitive, scientific or aesthetic significance, but also a profound philosophical one. They show how extraordinarily diverse and vivid nature is, and how our conceptions of the Universe expand as man penetrates ever further into space. In this album reality and fantasy go hand in hand, for movement forward is unthinkable without fantasy.

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