Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book focuses on the history and development of outdoor advertising since the beginning of the 19th century. The author examines the rise of commercial art, the development of advertising as a discipline and an industry and the role it plays in modern life, also making reference to examples of successful ad campaigns.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Alexey Brodovitch (1898 — 1971) a legend among graphic designers. Escaping from the Bolshevik revolution and settled in Paris and then in new York, AB was one of the pioneers of graphic design of the twentieth century. He more than 20 years has taken the place of the main artist of magazine Harper's Bazaar, he has worked on several collection of publications together with Richard Avedonom and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 543) Аннотация: Before you is the first comprehensive and exhaustive monograph Elliott Erwitt (1928), one of the most talented photographers of his generation. This album features pictures of famous personalities and ordinary people, strange and funny photos, made over fifty years of the period of his career. More than 200 previously unpublished photographs являютя the best reflection of their Creator, his…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: «The nature of photography» — this is the ABC of photography. The book became the results of the training course, which Stiven Shart led for many years, but publication will be useful not only to students. Its goal is not to study the subject of the image, as in the description of the physical and external properties of picture elements, which are the tools of the photographer for the definition…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: A short version of the «Atlas of the world architecture of the XXI century». This so-called travel publication of a small, handheld, format, that is very convenient for those who travel on vacation or a business trip. The material posted on the geographical principle, is equipped with a large and small maps, maps of the cities, so the described constructions on them easy to find. Constructions of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: During the age that brought the great flowering of the English language in the work of Shakespeare, Jonson, and the King James version of the Bible there also emerged a truly English style of architecture and decoration that has had a romantic appeal ever since. So strong was this appeal to the Victorians that they were to christen it «Jacobethan» and incorporate it into numerous houses of their…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: David Seymour, or Szymin, was born in Warsaw in 1911, the son of a Polish publisher. In 1929 he studied graphic arts and photography at the academy in Leipzig, where he specialized in the new techniques of printing pictures in colour. In 1931 he moved to Paris to study sciences at the Sorbonne but with the political problems that developed in Poland he was advised to take up photography by David…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the mid-1980s the sprouting of new movements that had driven modern art since the nineteenth century finally went dormant, sputtering out with a last few half-hearted labels ('pattern painting', 'neo-geo', 'commodity art'). But this was not the end of art history — far from it. In the years since, art's creative development has remained more vibrant than ever, resulting in a staggering…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Ancient Egyptian art has an enduring fascination. From the geometrical precision of the great pyramids at Giza to the golden treasures found in the tomb of Tutankhamun, the products of the Egyptian civilization attract and intrigue. Far from being art work in the modern sense, they represent the concrete expression of a profound belief in the primacy of the Egyptian way of life and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Graphic Agitation 2 explores graphic protest in the digital age, in particular over the years since the Gulf War. The book deals with a range of protest imagery from hi-tech and low-tech to no-tech and is comprehensively illustrated with images ranging from lollipop wrappers to websites. Graphic Agitation 2 is a survey of social and political graphics since the early 1990s. It illustrates and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations. Wall is foremost among…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Following on from the comprehensive book, the «Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century Architecture», «21st Century Houses» looks at the best residential houses built internationally since the turn of the millennium. This book offers an accessible overview of houses that have been built around the world by both established architects and new, emerging talents. Designed for a general readership, each…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A survey of the life and times of Rembrandt van Rijn, one of the most famous and well-loved artists. From his precocious early work in his native Leyden to his emotional late work and his immense artistic influence, Rembrandt's life is traced within the context of the Netherlands in the 17th century, the highly literate and cosmopolitan environment of Amsterdam and Rembrandt's wealthy and…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Born in Philadelphia, Steve McCurry studied history and cinematography at Pennsylvania State University before working as a freelance photographer in India. He is most famous for his evocative color photography, which has captured stories of human experience that, in the finest documentary tradition, transcend boundaries of language and culture. His career was launched when he crossed the…
Скачать книгу (размер 5 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 992) Аннотация: The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,700 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and visually spectacular history of world art ever published. Ten years in the making, this unique book was created with a global team of specialists in all fields…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: Like its successful predecessors 10x10 (published in 2000) and 10x10_2 (published in 2005), 10x10_3 is a comprehensive overview of contemporary world architecture. Generously illustrated, this volume presents 100 of the world's most exceptional emerging architects, selected by 10 esteemed members of the international architecture community. Arranged alphabetically by architect, the book features…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the years immediately following the Second World War and quickly became one of the most powerful and influential movements in the history of modern art. Building on developments in European avant-garde art of the preceding decades, a wave of artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still developed a new…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: »Art & Today» is an innovative and extensive survey of international contemporary art from the 1980s to the present. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented in this comprehensive overview — some emerging, some mid-career, and others long established. Each of the book's sixteen chapters address recurring and relevant themes as diverse as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by vast, uncultivated spaces of desert and mountain as well as by post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson moved earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Martin Scorsese is one of the most celebrated film-makers working today in Hollywood. A five time Academy Award Nominee for Best Director, Scorsese's films consistently push the boundaries of what viewers expect to see on the silver screen. From Taxi Driver to Goodfellas to The Departed, Scorsese continually challeneges audiences with his gritty, often brutal films. Developed from over 30 years…