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Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A dazzling visual journey through 1000 years of architecture. • Charts the progression of Western architecture over the last millennium, from the Romanesque to the latest modern trends • 148 special features dedicated to the greatest architects, styles, movements and themes, each with a concise introductory text and illustrations of the most important work • Thirty-six analyses of masterpieces…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Auguste Rodin rose from humble origins to become one of the most influential sculptors of all time, regarded during his life as a Michelangelo of the modern age. The influence of such masterpieces as The Thinker, Eternal Idol, The Kiss and The Burghers of Calais still reverberates today, almost one hundred years after Rodin’s death. Jennifer Gough-Cooper’s interest in photography was sparked by a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The decorative arts were given a fresh lease of life by the Paris International Exhibition of 1925, and experienced a boom that was to shape the lifestyles of a whole generation. In Art Deco Textiles — The French Designers, hundreds of full-colour photographs bring to life the age when craftsmanship and industry worked side by side: Lyons silk and the first artificial fibres; carved wooden…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Photography helped shape art in the late twentieth century; in the twenty-first, it has begun to dominate it. Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters, with their pieces commanding unprecedented prices. This stunning survey presents the work of eighty of the…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: 'The Jeweled Garden' traces the inspiration and evolution of two centuries of garden-inspired jewelry. The great 19th-century French jewelers, Boucheron, Chaumet, and later Lalique, excelled in adapting flowers, trees, and fruits into wonderfully imaginative – and highly collectible – bracelets, brooches and necklaces. The legendary 20th-century firms Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari and Belperron…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. After two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in 1943. During this time, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, assuming that the photographer had died in the war, started preparing what they thought was a posthumous exhibition of his work. When he reappeared, Cartier-Bresson was delighted to learn of the exhibition, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 146 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 226) Аннотация: The first complete monograph to be published on the Greek artist, this includes works from the 1970s to the present.