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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 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.

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,…