Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Examining the black and white animated films of William Kentridge, this volume discusses the political and philosophical dimensions of drawing, a term the artist applies equally to his works on paper, film and theatre productions. It surveys Kentridge's work within a broad historical and geographic context of politicised art practices while analyzing the formal innovations of his animation…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This highly illustrated overview of the state of painting documents concerns and ideas among contemporary painters. Often moving beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, this survey illustrates the richness, eclecticism, dynamism and contemporaneity of painting.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Presents a collection of visual games, doodles, graphic objects, sketches and quotations, and demonstrates how images can often convey meaning more clearly than text. This work explores the potential that words have to become pictures, and that drawings have to convey meanings, as well as a collection of ephemera.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: An intriguing look at the work of Danish architect and furniture designer Arne Jacobsen (1902-71) through a detailed study of his masterwork, the SAS House in Copenhagen, completed in 1960. Divided into chapters that examine Room 606, the only preserved area of the hotel and a 'time-capsule' of exquisite woodwork, furnishings, and custom fabrics and colour palette. Rediscovers a lost world of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This work is a comprehensive overview of architecture worldwide since the 1960s. A guide to the many and varied contemporary architectural trends, it leads the reader through the styles and movements of architecture in the latter half of the 20th century. The Modern Movement in architecture early in the 20th century gave rise to the International Style — architecture was intended to transcend its…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Arte Povera is Italy`s most important and influential post-war art movement. Originally championed by the leading art critic Germano Celant, it included internationally recognized artists. Edited by one of the world`s foremost authorities on the subject, Arte Povera is a complete overview of this movement.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Ten years ago it was reasonable to apply the label 'high-tech' to the work of Michael Hopkins. Today, however, with buildings such as the Glyndebourne Opera House and the New Parliamentary Building, Hopkins is perceived as a far more complex figure, perhaps even that most paradoxical of creatures, a high-tech historicist. This monograph features all of Hopkins's major built works and projects…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Christopher Dresser travelled to Japan in 1876 and visited 64 potteries and dozens of other manufacturers. He took photographs home to spread the word there, and also advised the Japanese how best to export their trade. This book presents this story that focuses on the human drama of personalities involved in the two-way dialogue between cultures.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Julia Margaret Cameron was almost fifty, and practically self-taught, when she took up photography seriously, yet she produced some of the most innovative and visually striking portraits of her time. Her novel use of lighting and focus transformed portraiture and helped secure the acceptance of photography as an expressive art.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: New Retail is a generously illustrated selection of 24 of the most innovative retail spaces built around the world in recent years, designed by such architects as Frank Gehry, Herzog + de Meuron, Rem Koolhaas, and Renzo Piano. Flagship stores for luxury clothing designers to supermarkets are reproduced with colour photographs and plans.
Скачать книгу (размер 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 108) Аннотация: This is Eugene Richards' 1972 photographic essay, a social document of his home town of Dorchester, Massachusets, previously only self-published. The book includes additional pictures and a text that speaks of racial tension, violence, poverty and crime, tackling such subjects as the Klu Klux Klan in a way that he did not feel able to at the time of the original publication. On the basis of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 308) Аннотация: The only up-to-date monograph on the work of Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius. Written by three experts on product design; Louise Shouwenberg, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn. Includes over 300 photographs of Hella Jongerius' work, each selected by the designer. A specially commissioned Collector's Edition volume with a unique Jongerius vase is also available.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The period of Neoclassicism in the visual arts was an age of Classical revival, drawing directly on antiquity itself. At a time when archaeologists were making fresh dicoveries and The Grand Tour of ancient sites in the Mediateranian was in vogue, Neoclassicism flourished and spread in all directions as far as St Petersburg, Philadelphia and Sydney. Neoclacissism was the favourite style of…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most brilliant and original portrait painters of the 18th-century, surpassing his great rival Reynolds with his abilty to capture a likeness and his superb handling of the paint. He was also a talented and sensitive landscape painter and has been hailed as the father of the British landscape school, paving the way for artists such as Constable and Turner. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In 1994 the author revealed, for the first time, the astonishing lengths to which the Conservative government and its secret services were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain`s miners` union. This edition has been updated for the 20th anniversary of the Miners` Strike. This photographic journey of the African-American struggle for equality begins in the mid-1800s and continues to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Painting Today is a comprehensive overview of the last 30 years of painting, presenting work by celebrated figures like Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch alongside emerging artists like Jumaldi Alfi and Ingrid Calame. Photo-realism, landscape, still-life, portraiture, neo-expressionism, installation painting and the Leipzig school are just some of the areas of this thriving art medium explored by…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: An intimate portrait of its stars Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift — three of the most charismatic actors of all time. Contains 200 exclusive images by nine of the most famous Magnum photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eve Arnold and Elliot Erwitt, who had exclusive access to the shoot. An essay by Serge Toubiana accompanies a revealing interview between himself and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The Aesthetic Movement swept through England in the latter part of the nineteenth century, touching every sphere of the fine and decorative arts and bringing a new freedom to all aspects of design. In architecture, the dogmatism of Gothic gave way to the charm of Queen Anne. In interiors, heavy Victorian forms were replaced by the lighter, fresher Japanese-inspired shapes and in the graphic arts,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This is a visual history of the world's greatest film festival, the Cannes festival, from its beginnings in 1939 to the present day. It includes a beautiful collection of portraits of the greatest film stars, actors and directors from around the world. It provides 600 photographs taken by three generations of photographers from the Traverso family. From Louis Lumiere to Quentin Tarantino, Grace…