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Скачать книгу (размер 932 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 184) Аннотация: With these pictures, Leonie Purchas presents a new and innovative photographic approach to the human condition. The photographer chose to take an introspective look at herself through the members of her family. The resulting photos form a highly personal and emotional record of life in the Purchas household, in which both the photographer and the other members of the family show their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Now completely revised and updated, this new edition collects documents and insightfully analyses the birth, development and decline of the 20th-century artistic movements, art styles, artists from the famous to the obscure in Italy and abroad up to nowadays. The text has been extensively expanded with new material and images. It functions as a small dictionary-guide, a helpful manual for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: The development of Soviet realist painting over fifty years through a selection of works from Russia's leading museums. Socialist realism remains an exceptional phenomenon in twentieth-century art. By affirming the value of content over form and restoring the central role of traditional practices, socialist realism was the declared opponent of the modern movement. In fact, it represented the only…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: A collection of some two hundred cartoons dedicated in various ways to the Beatles from all latitudes. A subtle thread links the Beatles to comic strips. And not just because the four musicians had always been fanatic readers of those comics printed on cheap paper. Genuine icons of pop culture, like Marilyn and Coca-Cola, they were fated to meet up with the most classic means of expression, with…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Numerous leading artists of the 20th-century showed an interest in jewellery, often through love of a woman, or for their daughters. Despite the opening of art from the 1910s onwards to the abstract and conceptual, they happily bridged the gap that seemed to be deepening between art and craftsmanship. The jewels exert a fascination in part because they bear the trace of the relationship between…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Emilio Cavallini is a high quality italian brand, offering a touch of class to the hosiery industry. The Emilio Cavallini style is unmistakable for its creativity: geometric cuts, optical motifs, strong colors. Since 1980, when the Emilio Cavallini brand was registered, the designer has been strongly expressing his determined style: unconventional, eccentric, ever changing. Currently Emilio…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A beautifully designed monograph surveying the works of the highly acclaimed contemporary photographer. Kenna’s photographs captivate viewers through their silent drama and magnetism: rather than being accurate descriptions of a place, the photographer seems interested in capturing the invisible lines which enclose space, and in so doing arousing a viewer’s imagination and reverie. This catalog…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 222) Аннотация: The Dassiers (Jean Dassier,1676-1763 and his two sons, Jacques-Antoine, 1715-1759 and Antoine, 1718-1780) were the only medalists of their time to have had the honour of being mentioned in the Encyclopedie by Diderot and DAlembert, in which one can read that they have rendered their names famous through their same talent: their fine medals after nature and several other works emerging from their…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A groundbreaking work, edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with the artist and her New York studio, which enriches our knowledge of Louise Bourgeois. Over a long career she worked through most of the twentieth century's avant-garde artistic movements from abstraction to realism, yet always remained uniquely individual, powerfully inventive, and often at the forefront of contemporary art.…

Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Il volume è il catalogo della mostra di Torino (Castello di Rivoli, 30 gennaio — 5 maggio 2002). L'esposizione presenta le opere di Francesco Vezzoli, video installazioni e ricami da lui stesso eseguiti a piccolo punto, che mescolano linguaggi e generi eterogenei, unendo icone pop, cinema d'autore, storia dell'arte e del costume.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The updated story of the Italian company, one of the most important fashion houses in the world, with material from the company’s precious archive. Thanks to a realistic approach and an all-round sense of fashion, Max Mara has been able to sustain its principles and priorities over time, values that are recognised the world over: superior quality, fashion content, superb tailoring even in mass…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: This is an exciting monograph dedicated to an extraordinary figure and one of last century's most famous and influential artists. Man Ray (1890-1976) was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films and images which were at times enigmatic. This catalogue, which presents more than 200 works and compares and contrasts images with biographical details, enables the reader to…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The Skira History of Photography series will be released in four separate volumes: 1839-1890; 1890-1939; 1939-1980; and 1980-2010. Each volume is made up of essays by specialists, including a series of short monographic essays dedicated to individual photographers written by a single author, providing a narrative voice that ensures continuity throughout and a historical framework that adopts a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: This title presents more than 600 objects from the close of the 19th century to today, characterized by bold juxtapositions of precious materials, a unique purity of design and obsessive attention to detail. An enthralling excursus through jewels of extraordinary beauty, many of which belonged to legends of international cinema, including the splendid jewellery of Anna Magnani, Grace Kelly, Gina…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The Art of the 20th Century is a five-volume project that is distinguished by its innovative style and format. Each volume has narrative text and a full index arranged chronologically by artistic period. In this third volume in the series, the halfway mark of the twentieth century to what many would already describe as the contemporary period is examined.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This pocket book is part of the Skira Mini ARTbooks: it is perfect for casual reading or easy reference: a fun and practical art history lesson that everyone can enjoy. Francis Bacon was born in Ireland of English parents in 1909 and died in 1992. Self-taught, he expressed the satirical, horrifying, and hallucinatory in such works as Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion (1944,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: This third book in the series, coming after Contemporary Photography from the Far East and Contemporary Photography from Eastern Europe, this new book brings together the work of artists from Africa and the Middle East. As in the other books in the series, the works are introduced by a critical text and come with a biography of each artist. This heterogeneous selection offers a clear…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Bauhaus arts and crafts institute was founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919. In setting out its programme, it was intended to bridge the gap that had appeared in the 19th century between art and crafts, aiming to build a common expressive language. Avant-garde artists from every part of Europe joined, including Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: A broad monograph devoted to Daido Moriyama, one of the preeminent names in contemporary Japanese photography along with Nobuyoshi Araki, Yasumasa Morimura, and Shomei Tomatsu. Provoke is the title of the magazine founded in 1968 by a group of Japanese photographers, graphic designers, poets, critics, and political activists. Moriyama's photography is indeed provocative, both for the form it…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Trash Rubbish Mongo examines the work of artists who use garbage as their artistic medium, creating art that mirrors our alienation and consumerism. Author Lea Vergine suggests trash is a natural medium: It has been said that trash represents risk and fascination, impending disaster and seduction. Now and then it is the mark of a creativity as menacing as it is ambiguous-garbage cannot be…