Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A groundbreaking and always controversial musician, M.I.A. is an influential artist and an important cultural figure of the last decade. Here is a documentation of her entire visual output and a telling of her story in collages, photos, and prints from her early years in art school at Central Saint Martins London through to her hugely successful three albums, mixtapes, and live performances at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present sculptures and a large-scale installation by Mike Kelley in this fully illustrated catalogue documenting the 2011 Los Angeles and London exhibitions. The popular Superman story recounts the adventures of an alien being sent to Earth as a baby to escape the total destruction of his home planet Krypton. The «Kandors» series, which Kelley initiated in 1999, are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 268) Аннотация: A comprehensive volume overseen by the artist himself on one of the most renowned living artists today, Takashi Murakami. Takashi Murakami is celebrated the world over for his deft blurring of high and low art. In this volume, accompanying a major exhibition of his work and the first in the Middle East, readers are immersed in the unique way Murakami channels the ecstasy and anxiety of…
Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: In the early 1960s, Robinson, an illustrator celebrated for his drawings of buildings, documented Paris in his signature style. More than forty years after its original publication, Paris, Line by Line returns to print. Page after page is filled with Robinson’s beautiful, precise drawings: be it an aerial view of the Right Bank, the hustle and bustle of the Champs-Élysées, or a show at…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Redefining cool for a new generation, Pharrell Williams is a creative force, using music, fashion, and design to express his distinctive style. Originating at the crossroads of art, design, popular culture, and street savvy, Pharrell Williams’s output is unique. By playing off different disciplines—namely music, fashion, street art, and design—and using each as an element in the other, Pharrell…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The first book dedicated to the career of one of New York’s most successful and prolific yet forgotten architects. Ralph Walker shaped New York’s skyline during the Roaring Twenties, from the iconic Barclay-Vesey Telephone Building at 140 West Street to the luxurious Irving Trust bank tower at 1 Wall Street in the heart of the city’s financial district. Walker was a master of modern ornament,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A native of Hungary, Rita Ackermann moved to New York City in the mid-1990s. She arrived to find a culture (and art world) in transition: rave and zine culture was in full swing; collaborations between artists, musicians, and magazine and book publishers were pervasive; and the dawning of the Internet age was upon us. Within a few short months after settling in New York, the artist received…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For their tenth anniversary, the design studio Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors presents projects that blend the spirit of our collective history with a modernist edge. Roman and Williams’s style honors craftsmanship, the use of natural materials, and the overlooked in unexpected ways. Their understated, glamorous sensibility is imparted in Manhattan’s Ace Hotel interiors and restaurant…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: In 2002, two years after Ryan McGinley, then a student, staged his first exhibition of photographs in a SoHo gallery, he created inexpensive handmade books of a sampling of his work titled The Kids Are Alright. Those books eventually found their way to Sylvia Wolf, then curator of photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, who gave him a solo show a year later, making him the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: My grandmother can make better photographs. Sergey Sapozhnikov s appearance on the Moscow art scene has been accompanied by the same kind of electricity that flows through his work. The dynamic whirlwinds of his photography radiate an energy that could not, it would seem, be of worldly provenance, but rather from some impossible power source. This book features the artist s major series…
Скачать книгу (размер 44 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 10) Аннотация: An interactive and imaginative way to experience the Star Trek universe using the magic of «Kling-on» pieces. Few television series have had as big an impact on popular culture as Gene Roddenberry s Star Trek. Now Trekkies and fans of all ages can set their phasers to fun as they reenact their favorite scenes from the original Star Trek universe or create new, uncharted scenarios! Stuck on Star…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 268) Аннотация: Both a fun read and a true resource of more than one hundred essential wilderness skills, this book is for readers of any age who love adventure, even from the comfort of an armchair. In a world of technological gadgets like GPS, there is an increased sense of nostalgia and thirst for true practical and survival skills. Whether as a launchpad for daydreaming or a resource of practical knowledge…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The other side of twentieth-century architectural history in Italy and Europe. The short-lived cultural journal Quadrante transformed the practice of architecture in fascist Italy. Over the course of three years (1933–36), the magazine agitated for an «architecture of the state» that would represent the values and aspirations of the fascist regime, and in so doing it changed the language with…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Will eco-friendly fashion dress the future? Can fashion be sustainable? Sustainability is a challenge that cannot be ignored today. Sustainable fashion reassesses the material and manufacturing components without renouncing the aesthetic and symbolic. The Beautiful and the Good highlights with the aid of case histories how we are going through a profound and necessary change of paradigm in the…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 318 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 848) Аннотация: The first and greatest book of regional American cuisine, now revised for today’s home cook. Imagine a person with the culinary acumen of Julia Child, the inquisitiveness of Margaret Mead, and the daring of Amelia Earhart. This is Clementine Paddleford, America’s first food journalist. In the 1930s, Paddleford set out to do something no one had done before: chronicle regional American food.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A fresh, modern take on wedding design perfect for today s bride. Paige Appel and Kelly Harris started designing weddings in 2009, and their work immediately resonated with young brides and grooms: weddings in fields, art galleries, refurbished warehouses, vineyards, hip hotels, or farmhouses. Weddings that featured Mimolette and Mexican beer; fireside chats; succulents and wildflowers; funny…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Having travelled widely throughout the USA, the authors compiled this homage to the humble treehouse. As well as illustrating examples from the very simple to the sophisticated, the book includes plans and drawings for the reader to have a go.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The owners of the acclaimed stores and decorating firm Circa Interiors present eight stylish, beautiful homes blending comfort, beauty, and function with classic Southern hospitality. A house with an open door is like a friend with an open heart: inviting, generous of spirit, and constant at the core. In their first book, Jane Schwab and Cindy Smith present beautifully arranged interiors in which…
Скачать книгу (размер 422 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 84) Аннотация: This volume includes 55 color illustrations from Urs Fischer's Beds and Problem Paintings show that was exhibited at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles from February 23rd to April 7th, 2012. This exhibition was the artist's first major solo exhibition with the gallery. Beds and Problem Paintings was designed by the artist, and the images within the book include installation photos from the…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: A captivating look at the career of social and style revolutionary Vidal Sassoon. A visionary hairstylist who became a household name, Vidal Sassoon was an instrument of change during the cultural shifts of the 1960s. Inspired by Bauhaus architecture, Sassoon’s career took off with the Nancy Kwan bob in 1963, followed by the boyish five-point haircut that blurred class and sexual distinctions in…