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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Following the success of the hugely popular Little Books of Vintage series, come three sequels: Terror, Love and Space. Each one is packed with unseen strips, adverts and text stories from the Golden Age of comics. Plus, each one comes with a brand new introduction giving a brief history of the genre, and each title has its own, unique free fridge magnet.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: A tongue-in-cheek gift, this luxury A journal contains over helpful hints and tips from various armed forces around the world on how to conduct oneself as an officer and a gentleman. Theres a marker ribbon and pocket for keeping calling cards, notes and other useful ephemera.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Over the last several years the renowned painter Ken Howard OBE RA (b. 1932) has been exploring the Swiss journeys of one of his most illustrious predecessors as a Royal Academician, using J. M. W. Turners travels in the country as his inspiration for an exciting new body of work. This compelling publication contains an authoritative introduction to Turners experience of these breathtaking lakes…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in loving detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. In this title, characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Art Directors Annual 91 is the best-selling, international review of the year's most innovative works in visual communication. This annual features, in full color, the winners of the toughest competition in the field — the Art Directors Club Annual Awards. The book showcases, with exceptional clarity and detail, the work of gold, silver and bronze medallists in design and advertising around the…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: What is Contemporary Art? is the ideal introduction for children aged eight and over to art made since the 1960s. Featuring artworks from one of the worlds leading collections of modern and contemporary art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, its lively and engaging text introduces the art and ideas to young readers, with background information, fascinating stories and intriguing questions…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Computerized media in all forms have had an incalculable effect on how we live our lives. No creative sector has been left untouched, and the revolutionary ideas that have occurred in the fashion and textile industries have heralded a move away from the tailor's cutting table to designs that are digitally printed at the touch of a button. Following on the success of Techno Textiles, this new…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In the twenty-first century, some of the most dynamic works of art are being produced not in the studio but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical, and social questions connected with cutting-edge scientific and technological research. Their work ranges across disciplines microbiology, the physical sciences, information technologies, human biology and living systems,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Behind the closed door of the contemporary artist's studio is a hidden world of images those artworks from the distant or near past that have animated, troubled, consoled, or inspired the artists of today. This book reveals that hidden world, presenting an intimate guide to the imaginations of today's leading practitioners through the works they love best. Artworks ranging from the fifteenth to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: This book is Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld's reinterpretation of Chanel's iconic little black jacket. Lagerfeld has redesigned the jacket, transforming it into a modern, adaptable garment to be worn by both sexes of all ages. The Little Black Jacket contains Lagerfeld's photographs of celebrities wearing the jacket with individual flair — sometimes classic, sometimes irreverent, but always…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: Russia has undergone an amazing cultural and political transformation over the past forty years. How has its rapidly changing social landscape shaped its art? And how does art effect social and cultural change within Russia? This generously illustrated volume explores these questions by presenting a broad but balanced selection of work by eighty Russian artists working from the 1970s to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Bars and restaurants need to be assertive. Customers tend not to visit them to satisfy basic appetites for food or drink but for the social opportunities. Their interiors need to occupy the imagination of their customers and to whet the appetite for a return visit. The design that gets the formula right will do as much to prolong the life of the business as the products on offer. As this book…
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Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: A side effect of the rise of photography as a popular art form has been the accumulation of a huge body of images whose photographers and subjects remain unknown. These include fascinating photographs — some almost masterpieces — that could easily have been lost if it hadn't been for their chance rediscovery in libraries, archives, homes, and institutions. This book presents a selection of these…