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Daphne de Saint Sauveur: The French Touch: Decoration and Design in the Private Homes of France

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Everybody concerned with the design of interiors or gardens will find this book an inspiration: everybody who knows and loves the French will enjoy an intimate record of a mode de vie of enviable ease and charm. The French touch cannot be taught, for it is the creation of a way of life. To be understood, the classic poise and insouciance which create it must be experienced and here is the perfect…

Jeremy Cooper: Victorian and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors: From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The furniture designs of William Morris, C. R. Ashbee and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are even more popular today than in their own lifetimes. The work of other figures, such as William Burges and Christopher Dresser is also being avidly collected. Jeremy Cooper’s survey contains an astonishing range of photographs and drawings: nearly 700 illustrations offer a uniquely comprehensive coverage of…

Zaha Hadid: Zaha Hadid: The Complete Buildings and Projects

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: For over twenty years, Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born, English-educated architect, has symbolized the vanguard of contemporary architecture. Although only a handful of her projects have been built — all to great acclaim — her continually new ideas stun the world of design with their commitment to revolutionary forms. As a result she is one of the most respected architects in the world, with an…

Arbus Diane: Diane Arbus: Magazine Work

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Photography's most original artist presents the celebrities of her time in a remarkable collection of portraits. This work reveals the growth of an artist who saw no artificial boundary between art and the paying job and who succeeded in putting her indelible stamp on the visual imagination.

Jose Alvarez: Living in Paris

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: From the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame, the Place de la Concorde to Montmartre, life in Paris is charged with elegance — from private homes and the varied architectural styles along its boulevards, to the quays of the Seine, winding streets, cosy bistros, and intimate restaurants. Gardens, including the Luxembourg and the Tuileries, provide an outdoor paradise in the heart of the city. Lavishly…

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Henri Cartier-Bresson

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Henri Cartier-Bresson reveals — as only a few great artists have done consistently — the richness, the sensibilities, and the varieties of the human experience in the twentieth century. This volume of Aperture's Masters of Photography series confirms the genius of the photographer whose pictures with the new, smaller hand-held cameras and faster films defined the idea of the decisive moment in…

Michael Freeman: In the Oriental Style: A Sourcebook of Decoration and Design

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Celebrating Eastern elegance as a decorative style, this sumptuous book illustrates how it can be achieved in both the East and the West. Here are the refined craftsmanship of Thai textiles and ceramics; traditional statuary from Burma; the minimalist perfection of a Japanese apartment. Increasing accessibility has opened up a huge range of objects and designs which can be used and applied just…

Cartier-Bresson Henri: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexican Notebooks

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: This new book brings together for the first time a collection of photographs taken on two separate visits to Mexico — the first in 1934, just as the young twenty-seven-year-old was embarking on his photographic career, and the second some thirty years later. The dramatic images, preceded by a thought-provoking commentary from Carlos Fuentes, record with brutal accuracy the panorama of everyday…

James F. Jereb: Arts and Crafts of Morocco

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The arts and crafts of Morocco express a centuries-long intermingling of influences from Africa, Islam, and from the alliance of the Moors and the Spaniards. Yet despite their versatility and diversity, Moroccan crafts are relatively little known outside the country. The author's account, based on his own first-hand research, examines all the media one-by-one: textiles, jewelry; leather, wood and…

Ewing William A.: The Body: Photoworks of the Human Form

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A collection of over 360 photographic images of the human body. As well as bodies celebrated by photographers of sport, dance and fashion, the are bodies scrutinized by medical and anatomical photographers. The artists featured include Nadar, Alfred Stieglitz and Robert Mapplethorpe.

Cole Beverley: Railway Posters, 1923-1947

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The National Railway Museum in York has a large and varied collection of railway art and artefacts; this books shows over 200 of the best posters dating from the railways' heyday prior to nationalization. In this period, renowned poster artists of the calibre of Edward McKnight Kauffer, Tom Purvis and Cassandre were commissioned by the railway groups to promote not only their lines but also the…

Alastair Duncan: Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Alastair Duncan introduces us to the work of more than eighty architects, furniture makers and interior designers. The colour and monochrome photographs – almost all of them specially commissioned for this book – form a valuable portfolio of Art Deco furniture for anyone seeking comprehensive information about this design movement. This volume will have lasting appeal for collectors as well as…

Whitfield Sarah: Fauvism

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: An absorbing reappraisal of Les Fauves—their ideas, paintings and the critical response to their works.

W. Kirk MacNulty: Freemasonry: A Journey Through Ritual and Symbol

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Explore a truly astonishing range of interests, philosophies, religions, and cultures — from alchemy to angels, Buddhism to Hinduism, myth to magic. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge, visionary thinking, and accessible writing to each intriguing subject in these lavishly illustrated, large-format paperback books.

Newton Helmut: Helmut Newton: Photofile

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: From his early work for Vogue to his portraits of the rich and famous, Helmut Newton (1920–2004) conveys a unique vision of a wealthy and glamorous world that often shocks but never ceases to fascinate. He lived and worked all over the world and was one of the most internationally famous and controversial photographers of the 20th century. His shots of haute couture and the beau monde are…

Camus Renaud: Duane Michals

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Born in 1932 in Pennsylvania, Duane Michals has become best known for his compelling narrative sequences, including The Voyage of the Spirit After Death, Paradise Regained and The Fallen Angel. His oeuvre reflects a haunting obsession with life and death, fantasy and reality – thematic opposites expressed through his technical use of double exposures, superimposed images, props, mirrors and the…

Packer William: Fashion Drawing in Vogue

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Available again, this beautifully produced collection of fashion illustration celebrates the richness of fashion drawing in Vogue magazine. William Packer, painter, writer and art critic, has collected the very best drawings from over seventy years of Vogue for this inspired volume, which features the work of hundreds of artists, from Edouard Benito, Rene Bouche, and Pierre Brissaud, to Salvador…

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Line by Line: The Drawings of Henri Cartier-Bresson

Скачать книгу (размер 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 100) Аннотация: Some 15 years ago Cartier-Bresson decided to lay down the Leica and return to his first love painting and drawing to which he brings the same magic that infused his famous photographs. The foreword by John Russell (chief art critic, The New York Times) and introduction by Jean Clair.

Lucy R. Lippard: Pop Art

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Pop Art embodied the spirit of the 1960s. Despite its carnival aspects, its orgiastic color and giant scale, it was based on a tough, no-nonsense, no-refinement standard appropriate to its time. Here several critics, each involved in Pop Art, but with different backgrounds, vividly bring the movement to life. Lucy Lippard examines Pop's precursor and related styles, ranging from folk art,…

Suzanne Slesin: English Style

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Like English literature and English manners, the English style of decorating has been copied and admired for generations around the world. It is a style that can be found in a simple cottage with gabled roof and stucco walls, or in a grand country house filled with antique furniture and family heirlooms. It may be reflected in an elegant town house with gleaming brass Art Deco appointments, a…