Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: For this book of cats in costume, Susan Herbert turns from masterpieces of fine art to masterpieces of theater. Painting in her familiar and highly popular style, this imaginative artist presents an irresistible array of well-known characters in the great Shakespearean plays, from the tragic Romeo and Juliet to the mischievous Titania, from the beautiful Cleopatra to the roguish Falstaff. In…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Venice, a mosaic of over 100 islands, many connected by the 400 bridges which span its famous canals, is possibly the most romantic city in the world. It began as a village in the marshes and grew into a formidable sea power, dubbed the Queen of the Adriatic. Now its fading glories — the canals and palaces, monuments and churches — battle with the elements, yet remain breathtakingly beautiful.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Usually portrayed as a period dominated by the extraordinary achievements of great men, Margaret L. King recasts the Renaissance as a more complex cultural movement rooted in a unique urban society that was itself the product of many factors and interactions, such as commerce, papal and imperial ambitions, artistic patronage, scientific discovery, aristocratic and popular violence, legal…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for avant-garde experimentation. «Drawing from the Modern» traces such groundbreaking innovation through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: This is a visually stunning, definitive survey with objects – furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and works on paper – from all over Europe, Scandinavia and the United States. At the turn of the last century, the Arts and Crafts movement transformed not only how objects looked but also how people looked at objects. It provided a framework for essential issues that are still debated today:…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Graffiti World is the ultimate graffiti book offering a unique insight into the very essence of graffiti and its creative explosion in almost every corner of the globe. With over 2,000 pictures from more than 180 international artists, no other book is remotely so comprehensive or up to date. Nicholas Ganz combines his own first-hand experiences with quotes from the artists themselves to offer a…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In a career that spanned nearly seven decades, Josef Sudek, one of the masters of twentieth-century photography, created his own solitary world of shadow and light, of theme and variation. The more than one hundred images in this monograph convey the spirit of Prague as well as the spirit of Sudek. Essay by Anna Faroua.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Visions of Symmetry is a trip into the mind of a creator who continues to captivate the world. Doris Schattschneider’s classic is the most penetrating study of Escher’s work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. Schattschneider asks, ‘How did he do it?’. She answers the question by meticulously analysing Escher’s notebooks. Visions of Symmetry includes many of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This sumptuously illustrated reference book is for serious Paris-lovers who seek information beyond what can be found in a traveler's guidebook. Paris is the first title from a major new series of classic, elegant guides to the monuments and mysteries of Europe's great capitals, illustrated by 600 photographs documenting sweeping panoramas, hidden corners, and stylish interiors. The handsome…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Gerard Malanga has made himself a reputation as co-founder of Andy Warhol's Factory. His career as a well-known photographer began there between 1964 and 1966, when he and Warhol made screen tests of 300 people. Later on, he stunned the world with portraits of Iggy Pop, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tennessee Williams, Alice Cooper, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and William Burroughs. These photographs take the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This comprehensive and authoritative study of post-war American art begins with Abstract Expressionism and concludes with the experimental and radical art of the beginning of the 21st century. Along the way David Joselit analyses what has shaped American art: how the mass media has framed the way in which artists view the world; how the issue of personal identity has emerged as a powerful…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death in the flu epidemic of 1918 at the age of 28. His few hundred oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized, but he also created nearly 3000 drawings and watercolours. Limited access to these fragile works and dispersion among several collections have made a comprehensive survey of Schiele's work…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Hofmann places Goya's paintings, drawings and prints in a biographical context, revealing the specific character of each phase of the artist's life and work. He discusses the glory and the pain of faith evinced by Goya's early work, the artist's parabolic representation of the threat posed by the French Revolution, his dramatic documentation of the French occupation of Spain, his variations on…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 348) Аннотация: This dictionary profiles world-renowned architects, engineers, landscape architects, artists and photographers whose work has given rise to an entirely new dimension in designing the cityscape. It features leading figures from the international scene, including Tadao Andao, Emilio Ambasz, Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Anish Kapoor, Rem Koolhaas, Maya Lin, Richard Long…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is an introduction to one of the great periods of Western art and provides a clear, dramatic account of the French art world under Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Drawing on research that places the art of the period in its context of religious and philosophical ideas, Christopher Allen provides the means for the reader to judge the meaning, relevance, success or failure of the art of this period.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Here, in more than one thousand full-colour illustrations, is the history of Western costume, from ancient Egypt to Paris fashion. John Peacock’s meticulous drawings are organized in chronological sections and accompanied by detailed descriptions of each figure, including the individual items of costume shown and the many types of fabric, cut, pattern and colour that have been used over the…
Скачать книгу (размер 871 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 172) Аннотация: The volume traces a panorama, one never before observed, of the last century of Italian art within a «global» framework, choosing, that is, the most distanced and wide-ranging perspective in order to be the most all-inclusive outside Italy and outside Europe. Furthermore, the historical line followed is also one of the first for Italian art to take account of the postmodern revolution and to…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Mario Sorrenti's brother Davide was born on July 9th, 1976, and died of complications stemming from a blood disorder on February 4th, 1997. Sorrenti, a well-known fashion photographer, movingly documents his brother's suffering over the course of one night, while Davide was hooked up to a drug infusion pump referred to by the family simply as «the machine.»
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: This book — according to the Antiques Roadshow's jewelry expert Geoffrey Munn — is an essential for every student and collector of jewelry, irrespective of their particular interest or budget. Featuring over 1,500 colour, specially commissioned illustrations of all kinds and styles of jewelry from 1900 to 2000, the book is arranged in 20-year sections, with every picture accompanied by a full…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Graffiti is the latest craze in commercial graphics and stencil graffiti is a refined version of the medium. Manco gives over 400 examples of this art form from all around the world, produced in a variety of media and with a huge range of subject matter from politics to poetry.