Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial commercialism. He also discusses thoroughly Gainsborough's life and work — his childhood in Suffolk; his 'apprenticeship' in London; his marriage and the birth of his daughters; his…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Never before has a volume of such lavishness been devoted to printed textiles. Covering the past two centuries, during which the Industrial Revolution drastically altered textile manufacture, Textile Designs presents a dazzling, comprehensive selection of the colourful patterned fabrics used for clothing and interior decoration. These are presented by pattern and motif, in contrast to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: ‘A great resource for the designer and ticket to ride for the armchair traveller’ – Antiques Magazine Living in Morocco celebrates the arts of a country at the height of a cultural renaissance, a land where an ancient tradition of craftsmanship has been sustained and recently reinvigorated. Lavishly illustrated chapters on decorative and folk arts alternate with chapters on Moroccan life today.…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassai created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape. The back alleys, Metro stations, and bistros he photographed are by turn hauntingly empty or peopled by prostitutes, laborers, thugs, and lovers. Paris by night, first published in French as Paris de nuit in 1932, collected sixty of these images, which have since become…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In this book of watercolour paintings and sketches, the beauty of Paris is celebrated through the talents of Fabrice Moireau and Maria Kelly. Their visual and narrative images capture the history and romance of Paris, highlighting the architecture of the French capital: its grand public buildings and intimate private houses, majestic avenues and narrow lanes. Visit the Louvre, Beauboug, Orsay,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The essence of London, both grand and intimate in scale, is captured beautifully in this book of over 150 watercolour paintings and pencil drawings.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: One of the most evocative photographic memoirs every published. It was known that Brassai had taken a series of 'secret photographs' which could not be published because of their daring nature — the forbidden Paris, a sordid bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Cubism, often considered to be the seminal art movement of the 20th century, initiated a pictorial revolution through its radical approach to image-making, invention of the new media of collage and sculptural assemblage, and evolution towards pure abstraction. This work aims to reveal these profound formal innovations as integrally related to rapid changes in French society. It examines the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The story of the modern garden has – until now – received little or no attention in the vast canon of garden literature. Jane Brown, one of the world’s foremost garden historians and chroniclers of twentieth-century culture, has been captivated by the secret story of the modern garden for more than a decade, mining its little-known history for revolutionary ideas and rediscovering long-lost…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: In this collection of classic work from the 1980s, Bailey abstains from any comment or explanation but shows the reader the world of a mature photographer whose vision has been sharpened by time.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Is colour just a physiological phenomenon? Does it have an effect on feelings? This vividly written book, the sequel to the award-winning Colour and Culture, is ultimately informed by the conviction that the meaning of colour lies in the particular historical context in which it is experienced and interpreted. John Gage explores the mysteries of themes as diverse as the optical mixing techniques…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The work of nearly thirty of the world's top up-to-the-minute illustrators is organized into three different styles. The sensualists — for example, François Berthoud — adhere to a fluid, fine-arts tradition. Others, such as Jean-Philippe Delhomme, focus on characters: smoky-eyed gamines and sophisticated 50s-style divas. And here, for the first time in any survey, is the computer-generated…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: In 1955, Henri Cartier-Bresson published «The Europeans», a portrait of the continent documenting a landscape shadowed by the war. In this book, the photographer brings together images spanning the years from the late 1920's to the early 1970's. He has travelled across Europe, from the Scandinavian shield to the Irish bogs, in order to capture what it means to be European. Beyond nationalism and…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Susan Herbert’s feline versions of famous paintings have delighted cat and art-lovers alike. It was inevitable that she should be attracted to the works of the Pre-Raphaelite painters whose popularity is reaching new heights. A special feature of this book is its inclusion of small white-and-black reproductions of all the original paintings which have inspired her. Once again she has risen to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: The Majorelle Gardens of Marrakech were laid out in the 1920s by Louis Majorelle, the French decorator, architect and painter renowned for his participation in both the art nouveau and art deco movements. He gave his name to the shade of blue lavishly used to paint the house and ornament the garden decoration. The site has been restored and replanted by the designer Yves Saint Laurent and his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: After the initial explosion of art deco in Europe in the mid-1920s, American designers were soon making their own contribution to the style. The illustrations in this book seek to demonstrate that a dynamic American tradition developed in sculpture, ceramics, furniture, architectural decoration, graphics, and virtually all the applied arts. Alastair Duncan explores the subject of American art…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Art Deco buildings, with their highly ornate façades and dramatic forms, are a vital part of our surroundings. This wide-ranging exploration of Art Deco architectural design embraces many different times and places in its summary of the movement’s origins, development and influence. Various types of architecture were termed Art Deco, and their antecedents might include Arts and Crafts,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: The impact of Japan on Western art was as immediate and almost as cataclysmic as the influence of the West on Japanese life. After Commodore Perry opened Japan’s door to the outside world in 1858, a wealth of visual information from the superb Japanese traditions of ceramics, metalwork, architecture, print-making and painting reached the West and brought with it electrifying new ideas of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: When Crown Prince Gustaf returned from Versailles in 1771 to ascend the throne of Sweden, he was determined to give his country a leading place in Europe culturally as well as politically. He fostered the international movement of Neoclassicism, which in Sweden took on a freshness distinctive to the country, alongside the influences of France, England and Germany. Neoclassicism in the North…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: A sequel to The Body, this volume contains over 300 images, discovered during a lifetime's discriminating research into a century and a half of photography. They represent love and desire in all its many forms: the love of parents for their children and vice versa; the love between men and women; between men; between women. There is forbidden love. There is love as a saleable commodity and love…