Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The most comprehensive monograph on Turner Prize-nominated artist Peter Doig. In every generation of artists, there are a few-or perhaps just one-who propose a new set of questions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is such an artist. While stories of painting's demise in the early 1990s deemed painters and their work quaintly anachronistic, Doig-looking ahead as much as back for…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: An extraordinary private collection of watercolors and drawings by Andrew Wyeth depicting the subjects memorialized in his legendary painting Christina's World, one of the best-known works of American art. This book presents rarely seen watercolors and drawings Andrew Wyeth made of his friend Christina Olson, her brother Alvaro, and the weathered Maine farmstead where they lived. It features…
Скачать книгу (размер 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 180) Аннотация: A catalogue of new work by American artist John Currin, one of the world's foremost figurative painters. John Currin's work draws upon a broad range of cultural influences that include Renaissance oil paintings, 1950s women's magazine advertisements, and contemporary politics. Labeled as mannerist, caricaturist, radical conservative, or satirist, Currin continues to confound expectations and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 335 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 263) Аннотация: Evero che gli americani impazziscono per il ghiaccio, pretendono le mance facoltative, praticano la religione dello sconto e il culto delle poltrone reclinabili? Beppe Severgnini ci porta in viaggio negli Usa tra domande (perche non abbassano I'aria condizionata?) e risposte (perche gli piace cosi), descriven-do le molte sorprese della vita quotidiana, perche I'America vera si scopre solo…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 780) Аннотация: »A definitive biography.» Robert Hughes, Time «A nearly flawless account of a remarkable artist . . . a compelling and accessible narrative for anyone even remotely interested in modern American art.» Michael Kammen, The New York Times Book Review This acclaimed biography of Edward Hopper is essential reading for anyone interested in the world-famous realist artist. This second, expanded edition…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Iconic images of the city from one of the masters of photography collected for the first time in a charming homage to lost New York. Here is «The City of Ambition»—the New York that inspires dreams, the Gotham of the early twentieth century, when grand skyscrapers sprouted everywhere amid columns of steam. Alfred Stieglitz—the legendary art impresario and husband of Georgia O’Keeffe—forged a…
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: Scritto nel 1897, Zio Vania è uno dei capolavori assoluti del teatro cechoviano. Nei quattro atti si intrecciano le monotone conversazioni e le banalissime vicende di un gruppetto di personaggi. La ricostruzione minuziosa di atmosfere sospese e vagamente inquietanti, l'indifferenza abulica dei personaggi intorno agli eventi, l'indefinito senso di attesa di una catastrofe incombente rendono…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The first book on the artist collective known for their raucous multimedia installations. Founded by artist Eli Sudbrack, assume vivid astro focus has been dazzling the art world since 1994 with its exuberant, visually spectacular room-size installations. Created out of recycled and appropriated imagery from a wide range of sources—such as unicorn tapestries, children’s stickers, pages from gay…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: One of the greatest masters of the illustrated book, Antoine de Saint Exupéry has been well-known for his artistic and literary talents ever since the publication of The Little Prince in 1943. It is less well known that from childhood he decorated his letters, notebooks, journals, and diaries (and later his manuscripts) with small drawings, caricatures, cartoons, and visual puzzles, very few…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: A landmark volume to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of arguably the most significant private residence of the twentieth century. With stunning new photography commissioned especially for this book, Fallingwater captures the much-loved masterpiece by legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright following its recent restoration. Built in 1936 for Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann, Fallingwater is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 518 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 299) Аннотация: Chi è, da dove viene e da cosa è fuggita Sally, la bella ragazza che di notte lavora come guardarobiera all'Irish Coffee, un locale trendy alla periferia di Roma, e di giorno si «seppellisce» in uno sperduto monolocale poco distante? A sei anni dall'assunzione neppure i proprietari Anna e Alberto Vasile, i suoi soli amici, sono riusciti a penetrare il muro che Sally ha eretto tra…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: Perché la maggioranza degli italiani ha appoggiato e/o sopportato Silvio Berlusconi per tanti anni? Non ne vede gli appetiti, i limiti e i metodi? Risposta: li vede eccome. (Anche) per questo, spiegare il personaggio ai connazionali è una perdita di tempo. Ciascuno di noi ha un'idea, raffinata in anni di indulgenza o idiosincrasia, e non la cambierà. Ogni italiano si ritiene…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: Gatsby, giovane ambizioso, che ha saputo conquistare con tutti i mezzi prestigio, ricchezza e rispettabilità, vuol far rivivere l'amore fiorito un tempo tra lui e Daisy. Ma non solo non riuscirà a strappare a donna amata al suo facoltoso marito, pur mettendo in campo tutto il peso del suo fascino e del suo potere, ma finirà addirittura col diventarne vittima innocente. Gatsby…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: In House celebrates some of the world's most striking and eccentric rooms, beautifully captured by Derry Moore, the 12th Earl of Drogheda and a regular contributor to Architectural Digest and Nest magazines, who for nearly thirty-five years has inimitably photographed unique, style-setting houses. Richly diverse in style and period, what these extraordinary interiors share is an eccentricity and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 131 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 223) Аннотация: Celebration. A time when friends and family come together in a breathtakingly beautiful setting to rejoice in one of life's milestones: a wedding, a birthday, an anniversary. Collected in this book are dozens of the most recent, most extraordinary celebrations created by the unparalleled event planner Preston Bailey. These are events on a larger-than-life scale, shaped by Bailey's use of a myriad…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The New York Times called the late decorator Mark Hampton (1940-98) «an icon of American Style» and he was indeed one of the most famous and admired interior designers of the twentieth century, highly regarded for both his versatile design work and his own eloquence and flair. A classic American success story, Hampton grew up in small-town Indiana and went on to worldwide fame. He began his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The «great house» of the South inhabits a place of the imagination as much as it does any particular geographic terrain. Margaret Mitchell's Tara from Gone with the Wind, though fictional, stands even now for many Americans as the epitome of the type, with its stately white-columned porticos, shady verandahs, and elegant interiors with graceful proportions. Yet the Southern great house is much…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: Fresh perspectives on how good design can create stylish yet ecologically sound living spaces in small-scale homes. Anyone who has faced the challenges of limited living space will find inspiration in this survey of the latest trends in environmentally sensitive, small-scale residential designs. More than fifty residential spaces are profiled — from woodsy houses and repurposed barns to cool…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: France's foremost interior designer showcases his signature table settings designed to brighten any occasion. Internationally acclaimed interior designer Alberto Pinto sets the paradigm for creating the perfect setting for entertaining, from large events to intimate, informal ones. Here, he explores the complete spectrum of stylish table settings. Pinto has designed table settings for every type…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A luxurious showcase of the finest homes in the oldest neighborhoods of Los Angeles and environs. This volume offers an exclusive look into the classic homes and gardens in the legendary neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles. Famed for its lavish homes and celebrity residents, one finds here a panorama of richly detailed architectural styles, from Victorian, Tudor, and Georgian, to Spanish…