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Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: This work contains illustrations of all of Michelangelo's work, his paintings, sculpture and architecture, excluding his drawings. The text surveys the opinions of leading Michelangelo scholars and provides a commentary with bibliographical notes. The exhaustive selection of plates devoted to the paintings of the Sistine Chapel provides a record of their condition before the recent controversial…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, «Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction» charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and young…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), known as Canaletto, is one of the most popular of all old master painters. His views of Venice and London are much celebrated and admired. First published in 1982, and revised in 1994, this book is here reissued in paperback, tracing Canaletto's career from his beginnings as a scene-painter with his father to the work of his later years. Canaletto was…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 326) Аннотация: Beautiful, evocative and historically significant, old maps are endlessly intriguing and keenly collected. Antique Maps is widely recognised as a standard reference work for novice map collectors and experts alike. It provides a historical background to the subject and advice on starting a collection. The invaluable biographical section lists major map makers between 1450 and 1850, with key dates…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: Containing the most important body of work of Magnum photographer Larry Towell, this book provides a portrait of the way of life of the Mennonites, a Protestant religious sect in Mexico and rural Ontario. In addition to the photographs, Towell's text tells anecdotes of his experiences. He paints a picture of the lives of the people: the harshness and poverty of their rural life, the disciplines…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This beautiful monograph explores the life and work of one of the most important artists in the history of the West, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520). Its scope covers Raphael's origins, his early influences, his important Urbino period and subsequently the extraordinary series of frescoes and portraits of his last phase in Rome. Over two hundred of Raphael's finest paintings and drawings…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Tiziano Vecellio (c.1488/90-1576) — known in English simply as Titian — was a remarkably versatile painter, equally comfortable with a wide range of genres and subjects. Unlike many artists from history whose work has been appreciated only after their death, Titian enjoyed fame and success throughout his career, which spanned over seven decades. Based in Venice, Titian received commissions from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (c. 1390/95-1455), known as Fra Angelico, was possibly the most celebrated religious painter of the Italian Early Renaisance. Adhering to the austere life of a Dominican monastery despite his huge success, Fra Angelico's contemporary biographer Giorgio Vasari said of him 'it is impossible to bestow too much praise on this holy father, who was so humble and modest in all…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Danny Lyon emerged as a courageous participant and recorder of the civil rights movement in America in the early 1960s. He has long been considered one of the most popular and influential American photographers and pioneered the style of photographic 'New Journalism' — immersing himself and becoming a participant in his subjects' lives and leading the way in a style of photography that has…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In a survey of Californian-based artist Mike Kelly, the author of this volume discusses with the artist his various aesthetic and symbolic strategies in both the American and In European contexts. Kelly's work is considered in the context of his anti-art predecessors since Dada and chronicles all of Kelly's work, from his earliest performances in the late 1970s to his large sculptural…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This work presents a comprehensive survey of international architecture at the end of the century and offers a critical study of the social, cultural and political changes that are shaping the built environment today. Continual advances in science and technology, shifting demographics and greater global communications constantly transform lifestyles and business practices, and prompt a perpetual…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley is an internationally acclaimed artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture. His public sculpture projects, such as the «Angel of the North», have continued to grow in scale and ambition, as well as popularity. This book is published to coincide with a major solo exhibition of his work at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico in November 2000,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Francois Truffaut (1932-1984), French motion-picture director and critic, a leader of the nouvelle vague movement of filmmakers who rejected the slick, impersonal style of studio filmmaking for a more personal approach, in which the director has sole creative authority and is recognized as the author of a film. Truffaut was born in Paris. After a troubled childhood, he left school at the age of…

Скачать книгу (размер 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 40) Аннотация: The Three Robbers has been translated into sixteen languages and has sold millions of copies in the 45 years since it was first published. However, it has been unavailable in English for years, depriving English-speaking children around the world of one of the most memorable, entertaining, and beautiful storybooks ever published, in which good triumphs over evil in a delightfully unexpected way.…

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Cartoonist and illstrator Jean-Jacques Sempe has been delighting readers in France and beyond with his witty drawing and cunning eye for the finer amusements of the human condition for over 40 years. This most recent body of his work from 2003, is now available in English. In «Mixed Messages», Sempe turns his attention to the trappings of modern life, mobile phones, designer water, as well as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word 'Pop' described any example of art, film, photography and architectural design that engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. In addition to key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Richard Hamilton and many others, this book includes works of photography and avant-garde film, as well as what the critic…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by Andre Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon. During World War II Surrealism's exiled artists and writers had a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: French architect Auguste Perret (1874-1954) was highly influential in the development of 20th-century architecture. He was one of the first architects to exploit the architectural potential of concrete, a material that previously had been perceived as common and industrial. Works such as the apartment building in Rue Franklin, Paris, and the Church of Notre Dame de Raincy made an impact on Le…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Drawing from those same impulses that compel us all to take pictures of our family, this book considers the entirely unique response of photographers to their family and the significance of this work in the broader context of their photography. Family is a collection of c. 175 photographs by a wide range of photographers that consciously reflect on the experience of family. It presents the work…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: For more than a thousand years, until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire, the Christian successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, stretched across large areas of Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Under successive emperors, the artists, architects and craftsmen of Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) worked within a long-established tradition to produce superb…