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Paris: Life and Luxury in 18th

Скачать книгу (размер 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 150) Аннотация: Luxury items from centuries past are most often seen within museum settings, devoid of their original contexts and connotations. This groundbreaking book seeks to re-imagine objects from 18th-century Paris within their original context, showing how they were used in the daily routines of the elite members of society. Against the background of the reign of Louis XV (1723-1774) the chapters move…

Schweidler Max: The Restoration of Engravings, Drawings, Books, and Other Works on Paper

Скачать книгу (размер 1 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 316) Аннотация: Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address what he saw as a woeful dearth of relevant literature and in order to assist those who have 'set themselves the goal of preserving cultural treasures, '…

Codrescu Andrei: Walker Evans: Cuba

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In 1933, Walker Evans traveled to Cuba to take photographs for The Crime of Cuba, a book by American journalist Carleton Beals. Beals's explicit goal was to expose the corruption of dictator Gerardo Machado and the torturous relationship between the United States and its island neighbor. Evans's photographs are fascinating both for their subject matter and the evidence they provide of his…

Abbott Brett: Edward Weston

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886 — 1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty Museum's important collection of approximately 240 works that span the photographer's career, this book features pictures made in Claremont, Glendale, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and other locations in…

Bravo Manuel Alvarez: Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, who celebrates his 100th birthday in 2002, is Mexico's most famous photographer. In eight decades as a photographer, he interacted with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Sergei Eisentein, Tino Modotti and Octavio Paz, and created works of art that display an array of styles and themes. This volume contains 50 images with extended commentaries on each by Robert Tejada, an…

McArthur Meher: An ABC of What Art Can Be

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: This delightful book is a colorful reminder of the many things that visual art can be, become, and do. Whether it's weaving or making pottery or working on your computer or turning junk into something unexpected and wonderful, An ABC of What Art Can Be is an invitation to look around and think creatively-outside the boring box. After all, A is for artist, creator of art, Making all sorts of…

Garcia Erin C.: Photography as Fiction

Скачать книгу (размер 412 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 82) Аннотация: Photography is most commonly associated with fact, yet it has been a medium for fiction from the very beginning. From as early as 1839, artists began exploring photography's enormous potential for storytelling and often went to great lengths to create pictures for the camera. In this book, a short introductory essay summarizes the history of staged photography, highlighting key debates on the…

Bohn-Spector Claudia: August Sander: Photographs from the J: Paul Getty Museum

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The long life of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spanned one of the most turbulent eras in his country's history. The Great War of 1914-1918, the Weimar Republic, the reign of National Socialism, and the horrors of World War II all left an indelible imprint on both the man and his work. Sander, a conventional studio portraitist who transformed himself into an avant-gardist,…

Panzanelli Roberta: Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The material history of wax is a history of disappearance—wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny human simulacra since ancient times—from phallic amulets offered to heal distressing conditions and…

Keller Judith: Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J: Paul Getty Museum

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This installment in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and career of Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), who is most recognized for her social documentary work during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Getty Museum holds nearly one hundred of the artist's pictures, about fifty of which are discussed by Judith Keller, associate curator of photographs. These include the iconic images of…

Keller Judith: Doris Ulmann: Photographs from the J: Paul Getty Museum

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Doris Ulmann, one of the foremost photographers in the United States in the 1930s, disappeared from public awareness until the 1970s. She is best known for her quintessentially American pictures of the rural South. A prolific creator, she died before many of her last images could be printed. The latest addition to the acclaimed In Focus series present fifty-five pictures by Ulmann from the…

Naef Weston: Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J: Paul Getty Museum

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This latest volume in the acclaimed In Focus series examines the life and work of Alfred Stieglitz, concentrating on the Getty Museum's considerable holdings of the work of this American master. In his studies of his wife, Georgia O'Keefe, in his portraits of the urban scene, and in his pictures of natural form, Stieglitz defined the modern movement on photography. In his periodical Camera Work…

David Massimiliano: Ruins of Ancient Rome: Drawings of the French Architects Who Won the Prix De Rome, 1786-1924

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Traditionally, a critical component of the education of any architect was to draw the ruins of ancient Rome, reconstructing either from ancient sources or, more often, pure fantasy, what the original structures must have looked like. From this training emerged generations of architects imbued with the aesthetic ideals that would form the Neoclassical and Beaux-Arts building styles. In this…