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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: At once cosmopolitan metropolis and venue for a pensive stroll, Moloch and emblem of the modern, Paris has been a source of inspiration for countless artists and writers down the ages. But not least it is the home and constant muse of a relatively young art: photography. Since the earliest days of the daguerreotype right up to our time, renowned photographers such as Joseph Nicéphore Niepce,…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Kasimir Malevitch (1878-1935) was Russia's foremost pioneer of geometric abstract art. This work gives a brief introduction to the life and work of this prolific painter, designer and writer.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Pleasantly plump With whimsical irony and a style reminiscent of the old masters, Fernando Botero (b.1932) began painting caricatured animals and corpulent bodies with disproportionate heads at a time when his contemporaries were fervently rejecting figurative work in favor of abstraction. More recently he has expanded into sculpture, creating delightful large-scale bronze works portraying the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: »For over six decades, Robert Doisneau cast his net in still waters, light years away from the predatory news photographers of today, 'feeling his way', in his own words, 'prompted by feelings of attraction and repulsion, tossed hither and thither by events, and allowing intuition its head — even when it kicked over the traces...» Doisneau delighted in gleaning the instant. Clear of gaze, a man…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 890 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 568) Аннотация: TASCHEN goes digital! The first book in our groundbreaking new series on digital culture focuses on beauty and the cutting-edge computer generated female characters. Whereas most books on digital creation concentrate on technique and include detailed «how-tos» Digital Beauties is all about exploring the artistic achievements of today's best designers without a lot of complicated technical jargon.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: Setting out on the trail of Greek Architecture, this volume presents a comprehensive survey which extends beyond the borders of Greece itself to include southern Italy, Asia Minor and Persia. Fortifications, domed tombs, theatres, oracular sites, temples and palaces dating from the sixteenth to the fourth century B.C. are all set within their cultural and historical context, conveying a vivid…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 335 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 263) Аннотация: Travels in the Interior of North America. In 1832 Maximilian Prince of Wied set out with the Swiss painter Karl Bodmer on an expedition to study the way of life of the North American Indians. Starting at the east coast, they followed the courses of the Ohio. Mississippi and Missouri rivers, until they reached the far northern regions of present-day Montana. While the Prince collected ritual…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The mystery of the revealed form: A mirror of the artistic and intellectual developments of the 17th century. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669) was one of the most complex and multi–faceted artists of the 17th century. From his initial period in Leiden to his early and late phases in Amsterdam, the stages of Rembrandt’s career mirror the artistic and intellectual developments of the…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: As a blind person would see the world if the gift of sight suddenly returned — so might one describe the effect of Turner’s paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, the uncompromising nineteenth-century defender of the painting of William Turner (1775-1851) spoke of the ’innocence of the eye’, which perceived the colours and forms of the world before it recognized their significance. But in order…

Скачать книгу (размер 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 76) Аннотация: M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher’s innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head Picasso called Dali an outboard motor that's always running. Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer and film maker, Salvador Dali (1904 — 1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics — and was rewarded with fierce…

Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the Blauer Reiter in Munich. His art then freed itself more and…

Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: At a time when artists were still primarily occupied with religious or mythological subject matter, the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569) turned his eye on the everyday. Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town communities. In this title in the Basic Art Series, Rose-Marie and Rainer…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one of the great masters of the golden age of Dutch art. Most of his pictures, all of which are reproduced in this text, show women about their daily business. Vermeer records the tasks and duties of women, the imperatives of virtue under which their lives were lived,…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Caravaggio — A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: “A house must be a living, organic entity that develops and constantly changes”, stated Friedensreich Hundertwasser in one of his arguments for his nature-and human-oriented architecture. Success vindicated his vision: roof afforestation, organic forms, colorful façades, uneven floors, irregularly positioned windows, gilded onion domes—Hundertwasser’s architecture is unmistakable. From the…

Скачать книгу (размер 6 277 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1232) Аннотация: Celebrated printer and type designer Giambattista Bodoni set the standard for printing the alphabet with his Manuale tipografico (1818). The two-volume set—published posthumously in a limited edition of 250—features 142 sets of roman and italic typefaces, a wide selection of borders, ornaments, symbols, and flowers, as well as Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, Phoenician, Armenian, Coptic, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: Summer at the Serpentine Ten years of temporary pavilions by top architects Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world's top architects to design summer pavilions — temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a showplace…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The man who built the future. Seven decades of work from the Brazilian visionary. Now over 100 years old, Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer is still practicing — over seven decades since one of his first projects, a 1936 collaboration with Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier. A technical pioneer and one of the 20th century's most important architects, Niemeyer has designed close to 700 realized and…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven…