Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This highly readable introduction to the abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky reveals why he remains one of the most influential and imitated artists. This book explores all facets of Kandinsky s life and career, from his radical work as the founder of the Blue Rider group and his escape from Weimar Germany to Paris, to his stormy love affair with the painter Gabriele Münter and his many…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: When Niki de Saint Phalle died, the world lost not only an artist of enormous passion, but also a remarkably creative woman whose work and life were inextricably linked. Throughout her forty-year career Saint Phalle explored female roles in society and myth, basing many of her disquieting and joyful depictions on personal experience. The full range of Saint Phalle's oeuvre is paid glorious…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Tracing Miro's career, this book begins in the 1920s with the artist's introduction to surrealism, cubism, and dadaism, and the flowering of his friendships with Picasso, Braque and other influential artists and poets. It moves on to his creation of an iconographic pictorial style, which reached maturity in the 1940s and forever distinguished Miro from his contemporaries. Nearly one hundred of…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This lively portrait of the artist and his environment helps readers become acquainted with the life and times of Jan Vermeer. With only 37 known works, Vermeer's oeuvre affords readers an opportunity to become intimately acquainted with his paintings and with daily life in seventeenth-century Holland. Here readers will learn about the Golden Age of Dutch artistry, the culture and community of…
Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the worlds masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Few buildings rivet our attention like skyscrapers. As the race to build higher and higher continues, these symbols of success and economic power dominate and reshape urban skylines across the globe. Opening with Chicago's Reliance Building, built in 1894, and closing with plans for the London Bridge Tower, scheduled to be completed in 2011, eye-catching two to four page spreads in this…
Скачать книгу (размер 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 189) Аннотация: With the opening of the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, an incomparable private collection of artworks from six centuries returns to its original home. Masterful paintings, sculptures, and furniture are displayed in the Liechtenstein Palace, famous for its Baroque architecture and sumptuous gardens. A visit to the museum is a journey through time from the Baroque to the Biedcrmeier eras.
Скачать книгу (размер 713 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 141) Аннотация: Focusing on buildings designed by Bauhaus members from 1919 to 1933, this book features some 65 famous and lesser-known building projects in Germany, Vienna, Barcelona, Prague and Budapest by architects including Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Arranged chronologically, Bauhaus offers informative commentary and site plans along with photographs, taken especially for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This text chronicles the evolution of graffiti via images that had not been intended for everyday people to see, focusing on the works of New York City writers active from 1970s until the mid-1980s.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: A fascinating visual guide, Pictopia provides a source of inspiration for design professionals and amateurs. The images included in Pictopia cover a multitude of subject areas, such as war, peace, animal rights, racism, life and death, represented in more than 400 royalty-free illustrations, offering suggestions as to how to express today's social issues and discussions through the creative…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: Lets you communicate your ideas in an effective way by offering more than 900 different silhouettes, consisting of figures and objects from various jobs, pastimes, attitudes and situations. This book is suitable for both an amateur and professional in the visual arts.
Скачать книгу (размер 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 140) Аннотация: Known for his intense and lyrical style, the Austrian Expressionist Schiele was also a gifted writer. This selection of the artist's poetry and letters gracefully intertwines his powerful words with his indelible images. Elegantly designed with special paper and unique typography, this book emulates a personal journal. Interspersed with sixty sketches, drawings and paintings, Schiele's poems and…
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Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: One of the most celebrated living artists in Latin America, Botero has gained international fame capturing the whimsy of life by painting corpulent and comical figures. His wideranging subject matter is deeply rooted in his South American heritage and includes portraits, bordello scenes, nudes, bullfights, landscapes and still lifes. The paintings and drawings collected in this book provide a…
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Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Now available in a sleek and nicely priced new format, this book reveals why Giorgio Morandi is considered one of the most accomplished painters of his generation. Throughout his long career, Morandi focused on still lifes and landscapes that captured the simple beauty of light and form. While his contemporaries struggled with the intellectual turmoil and aesthetic experimentation of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This book focuses on a world-renowned architectural firm that has contributed to China’s recent architectural boom. The architectural practice founded in 1965 by Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg has become one of the largest, most wide-ranging and most influential in the world, and has garnered numerous international awards. Since the early 1990s von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) has been a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Since 1908 readers have been finding respite from the vagaries of everyday life in the pages of novels published by Mills & Boon. Now part of the Harlequin group, the world's largest romance publisher, the company has published thousands of titles each with its own distinctive jacket art. Part of a centenary celebration, this collection of some two hundred Mills & Boon covers offers a fascinating…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Imagine 365 masterpieces of art from around the world at your fingertips. That's what readers will find as they turn the pages day after day to discover a full-page exquisitely reproduced painting, artifact, photograph, drawing, print, or sculpture from every culture and epoch imaginable. Further enhancing these pages are suitable quotations to ponder, surprise, and delight. Opposite the color…