Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A survey of one of the most controversial epochs art history, the Modern Movement, this text combines a critical eye with a historian's insight into wider trends. It reflects the changes that have swept across the art world since 1960, challenging the old assumptions and certainties. As it reviews the worldwide view, the book's central argument is that the art world is no longer hierarchical but…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: Minimalism comprises one of the key movements in post-war art. The term 'minimalism' was coined to describe the work of a group of American artists who, in the 1960s, produced a decidedly unexpressionistic, reductive work with a hard industrial feel. This title examines the movement from its beginnings to its broader cultural influence.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Alfred Sisley is now recognized as one of the great landscape painters of the 19th century, and a leading figure in the Impressionist movement. He divided his time between France and England and the illustrations in this volume include the snow scenes of the Paris suburbs, his views of the flooded Seine at Port-Marly, and his paintings of the regattas on the Thames, which have been described as…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Area_2 is the newest volume in Phaidon's acclaimed Area series, and features 100 of the world's most interesting emerging graphic designers, as chosen by 10 of the most respected figures in the field. Within, more than 1,500 images reveal the talents and trends of contemporary graphic design as it has evolved over the past five years. Each of the book's 100 four-page sections is devoted to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This is a comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and varied eras in the history of painting. It embraces not just the United Kingdom but also the British-speaking countries linked to Britain by cultural ties of empire and emigration, such as the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. Long regarded as a backwater of sentiment and outmoded academic convention that was bypassed by…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Vitamin Ph provides a third dose of visual stimulation and vital information, following on from the successes of Vitamin P and Vitamin D. Similar in concept, scope and structure, Vitamin Ph presents, in A to Z order, the work of 121 international artists. This up-to-the-minute survey focuses on global developments in art photography and the use of the medium by contemporary artists. 78 nominators…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Rudolf Kuenzli, is a comprehensive reassessment of all aspects of Dada activity — writing, performance, and social experimentation — that forever changed our fundamental ideas about art. The newest addition to Phaidon's Themes & Movements series.
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Federico Fellini (Italy, 1920-1993) is a major figure in the history of cinema, who created his own highly personal and baroque cinematic language. He had his first major success in 1954 with La Strada, in which his wife and favourite actress Giulietta Masina plays the unforgettable Gelsomina, an innocent clown who falls prey to the violence of the post-war period. With La Dolce Vita of 1960,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Few artists have been so directly invoved in the events of their time as Gustave Courbert. Amid the social transformations of the mid-19th century, Courberts unconventional and stark paintings came to embody values with radical political implications. Rebuffed by the Parisian art world and attacked as a Realist, he seized upon that name to assert his sympathy for ordinary citizens and their…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Takes you on a tour of prehistoric caves, and explores the origins of art and creativity. This title features 85 caves and rock shelters, revealing the works of art within them. It also includes over 300 works from the Paleolithic period, made between 35,000 and 11,000 years ago.
Скачать книгу (размер 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 110) Аннотация: Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) created some of the most memorable fashion imagery of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s Contains photographs that were seen by millions in Vague, Harper's Bazaar and Cosmopolitan Seminal innovator of colour photography when the medium was just developing Photographs are rich in hybrid. Imagery, imbuing images of celebrities and black-and-white graphical shapes with saturated…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The first volume of «Vitamin F», issued in 2002, called the «scenic» environment resonance. After its publication there has grown up a whole new generation of artists. Some artists drew inspiration from it, the other — in other similar sources. «Vitamin Ж2: new perspectives in art» opens the world of this new wave of artists. In the environment of the artists of the means of expression continues…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Covering the entire 20th century, this text traces the roots of conceptual art to movements such as Dada, explaining its importance in the 1960s and 1970s and showing that it is still alive today. In 1917 Marcel Duchamp signed the name R. Mutt on a urinal and placed it in a gallery. Even the most strident modernists refused to accept this object as a work of art, however, Duchamp stuck to his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Offers an overview of the most innovative houses built around the world — in Europe, the United States, Mexico, Latin America, Japan, China, and Australia. This book presents 33 houses in 15 countries, by both distinguished architects and designers.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The author has now turned his attention to the USA with 160 of the dullest postcards from the land of opportunity. The book provides not only amusement, but a commentary on how America has changed, and a celebration of those places that have been forgotten by conventional history.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 645 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 520) Аннотация: The 20th Century Art Book was hailed upon its release as an exciting celebration of the myriad forms assumed by art over the last century. Complementing the phenomenally successful Art Book, and most recently The American Art Book, it presents a new and original way of bringing art alive. This new mini edition has all the visual energy and compelling insights of the original but in a light and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This book explores witty thinking — the most entertaining area of graphic design. Witty thinking is playfulness with ideas, words playing against images, unexpected connections prompting new insights. It is clever thinking, not funny drawing. A Smile in the Mind analyses the thought processes behind the images. It shows how to make the case for witty solutions and, through a series of interviews…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Richard Prince emerged in the 1980s as one of America's new, highly innovative artists who worked with the margins of American subcultures and visual debris. Highly idiosyncratic subject matter — such as one-line jokes, cartoons, cowboys (borrowed from the Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs — are central to his work. In the late 1970s Prince was working for the cutting services of Time Life…