Скачать книгу (размер 4 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 896) Аннотация: Founded in 1928 as a living diary by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world's most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and rigor, it has offered consistent coverage of major themes and stylistic movements in product, structure, interior, and industrial design. In this fresh reprint of all 1950s issues, the magazine brings…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 788 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 744) Аннотация: Tortured talent: The genius and the angst of an Expressionist master I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record prices of tens of…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Paradise for the man in the street: A compact overview of one of the world's greatest architects Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976) was strongly influenced by both the landscape of his native country, as well as the political struggle over Finland's place within European culture. After early neoclassical buildings, Aalto turned to ideas based on Functionalism, subsequently moving toward…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: You voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death by attending. 100 miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10.000 years. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of the summer, when a temporary city rises out of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published. Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in 1830 in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782-1871), a student of the French…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Original covers: The golden age of African-American music Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in African-American music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience and street portraiture meets fantastical cartoon in this dazzling anthology of visualized funk and soul. Gathering both…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 616) Аннотация: «Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of hedonism, ukzyo-e scenes often represented the bright lights and attractions…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Comics grow up The humanized super hero. On December 15, 1978, the dreams of generations of American children finally came true. You'll believe a man can fly, read the posters and billboards for the blockbuster film Superman. With an undeniable mass appeal, it cemented the role of the super hero as America's most enduring archetype, and the comic book as one of the country's most significant…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Our Fair Lady. The many facets of Hepburn's beauty, on and off set. In his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughby took iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Kathleen Ruston, later Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, best known as Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: In the 15 years since TASCHEN published The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up, defined as drawings or paintings of pretty girls that stop short of frank nudity,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: A fascination for flora. Timeless photos in which plants become sculptures German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the 19th and 20th-century…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: From the eccentric Museo La Specola in Florence comes this amazing collection of waxworks depicting the human anatomy in all its dazzling complexity. A selection of wax bodies and body part and organ studies from the museum's collection is presented here; from skeletons to vein structures, organs to nerves, and arteries to the delicate pores of the skin, the human body is mapped out in meticulous…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: Rock on: From Elvis to Nirvana: the most important record covers in rock history Album art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture the covers. Many photographers, illustrators, and art directors have become celebrities from their album artworks the best examples of which will go down in history as permanent fixtures in popular…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 355 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 463) Аннотация: Life in the woods: Creative cabin architecture Ever since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects around…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: The deftness of da Vinci: The drawings of Art History's master genius One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the world s most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era. Leonardo da Vinci…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: A glimpse through the keyhole of history: From the earliest nude daguerrotypes to experimental nude photography The history of nude photography is the history of people s fascination with the topic. Indeed, the photographic depiction of the human body is the only subject that has enthralled photographers, theoreticians and consumers over such a long period more than 150 years. No other motif is…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Wheels of history. From the Model T and DB5 to the VW Beetle and the Hummer Henry Ford jump-started the age of the automobile with the first assembly-line car in 1908: the Model T. Over the next century the automobile evolved from chugging workhorse to tailfin-era showboat to sleek status symbol, complete with sleek hood ornament. Initially a novelty item, the car grew into a necessity of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The First World War in color: The work of all major autochrome photographers of the period The devastating events of World War I were captured in myriad photographs on all sides of the front. Since then, thousands of books of black-and-white photographs of the war have been published as all nations endeavor to comprehend the scale and the carnage of the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 572) Аннотация: From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city's development from the 1880s' real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood and the urban sprawl of the late 20th century,…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 656 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 522) Аннотация: Ladies and gentlemen... the Rolling Stones! This is the definitive, authorized illustrated history of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band. The kind of fame and success the Rolling Stones have achieved in their 50-year career is completely without parallel; their most famous riffs and catchiest lyrics are indelibly engraved in our collective memory. With their bluesy rock 'n' roll and…