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 It was known that Brassai had taken a series of 'secret photographs' which could not be published because of their daring nature — the forbidden Paris, a sordid bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld.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…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Frank Lloyd Wright is a one-man phenomenon — between 1887 and 1959 he completed more than 400 commissions in the USA as well as writing numerous books and giving frequent lectures. Thousands of visitors annually flock to the fifty Wright buildings in America that are open to the public and he is an inspiration to countless architects and designers everywhere. 50 Favourite Rooms by Frank Lloyd…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: This volume presents photographer Cartier-Bresson's own selection of 130 of his photographs of Paris, taken over 50 years. Accompanying text discusses the history of Cartier-Bresson's engagement with the city and its place in his achievement.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Jewelry was one of the most successful expressions of Art Nouveau style. This book provides an account of the movement that spread through Europe and the US. Biographies of over 300 designers are included, with a guide to identification, from the elegance of the French masters — Vever, Lalique and Fouquet — to the linear, geometric designs of the Viennese — Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: By the time of the Paris exhibition of 1925 from which Art Deco took its name, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design — a «total look» — dominated the thinking of both designers and their clients. Studios began to emerge to serve the needs of a design and style-conscious middle-class. This text displays the flourishing design ingenuity through contemporary…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Piero Fornasetti established an enduring reputation as a designer with a style that was all his own – a style based on illusionism, architectural perspectives and a host of personal leitmotifs, such as the sun, playing cards and fishes, from which he spun seemingly endless variations. 'He makes objects speak' said Gio Ponti, his friend and longtime collaborator. Designers and collectors today…