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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Claude Monet spent the last 43 years of his long life at Giverny, creating the paintings and gardens for which he is now revered. From the standpoint of his garden this book considers the controlling intelligence behind both landscape and art, and the influences that shaped Monet's life and vision. The artist is shown as a consummate plantsman who composed his gardens with an Impressionist's care…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Max Dudler's architecture stands for a rationalistic language which combines basic modernistic ideas with normative aesthetic and contextual overall concepts in a large city architecture. This also includes high-rise buildings in Frankfurt am Main: the residential and commercial high-rise Romeo and Julia as well as the Westend First High-Rise. Both buildings are located next to each other in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: The House of Boucheron represents one of the great Parisian jewellers of the last 150 years. Founder, Frederic Boucheron opened his first shop in 1858. Many of his clients were not women of society, but femmes fatales of the demi-monde. Nonetheless, his skill with precious stones and his absolute discretion made him a favourite of both courtesans and princes. In turn his business flourished…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Through a series of candid photographs taken over the last 7 years and covering all the different elements that make up the catwalk shows — Backstage, Front Row, Catwalk and Street Style — the more casual viewer will get an insight into the chaotic world that makes up the apparently glamorous fashion shows! Unlike many shots from the shows published in women's fashion magazines the book will have…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This is the only western study of the renowned Russian landscape painter, Isaak Levitan (1860-1900). This third, expanded edition is further enhanced by new images and extra chapters about his portraits, still lifes and cityscapes; it also discusses his working methods and assesses the influence of his output on later artists. Born into a poor Jewish family in Lithuania, Levitan was able to enrol…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: 'Impressionists in their Gardens' explores gardens through the senses of the Impressionists from three continents — Europe, North America and Australia — enjoying the essentially similar pleasures of the garden, but engaging with the light from their skies in order to create very different sensations. The enclosure of the garden acts like a picture frame showcasing a living canvas that exudes the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, Florida owns one of the finest and most comprehensive Meissen collections in the world, outside those of the Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden and the Arnhold Collection in New York. Donated to the Museum by Ralph H. and Constance I. Wark in 1965, it features nearly 700 pieces of Meissen porcelain, including rare pieces…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A contemporary of Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky, Goncharova is now recognised as one of the leading Russian artists of the Twentieth Century. This book traces the development of her art from its impressionist origins, through a provocative phase of 'primitive' style paintings on peasant themes to highly innovative abstract works that rivalled the most daring experiments of the Cubists and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: «Whether highly bred canines or loveable mixed breeds, America has fallen in love with the dog, and who better than Christine Merrill, America's premier pet portraitist, to chronicle this long term relationship. As best selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford exclaims, «She has caught my Jemmy exactly; the portrait is perfect in every way.» While grounded in the traditions of 18th and 19th century…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Iain R Webb's 'Postcards from the Edge of the Catwalk' is a personal photographic portfolio spanning three decades that documents the glittering brouhaha surrounding the ready-to-wear and haute couture fashion collections in New York, London, Milan and Paris. The photographs, snapped by the award-winning fashion journalist from the insider vantage point of his front row seat and invite-only…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A new title in the Design series and an excellent introduction to the life and work of this versatile Russian artist. Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891-1953) was a central figure in the Russian Constructivist art movement; a radical activist, a pioneer of photomontage, a theorist, and a teacher. He was an active force in the organization of the first museums of modern art that arose in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 534 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 302) Аннотация: A comprehensive study of the Japanese Okimono's history during the Meiji Era ( 1868-1912).

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: El (Eleazar) Lissitzky (1890-1941) was a vital force in the revolutionary period in Russia. Having first trained in engineering and architecture and later becoming a painter and illustrator, his creative activity ranged across disciplines. This he called 'the interchange station between painting and architecture', and it made him enormously influential — as a painter, graphic designer, teacher,…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: 'John Bates came onto the London Fashion scene like a bolt of blue light, trailing sparks of excitement, designing the shortest skirts, the swiftest shapes, the surest colours. He had an unswerving instinct for what was new, modern, cutting edge' — Marit Allen. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, John Bates dominated the British fashion scene with a unique brand of style and innovation. No other…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London in 1851 was the first of a series of international exhibitions that have continued, in one form or another, to the present day. The content of these exhibitions gave nations and individual companies of the world the opportunity to display their specialised skills and present new ideas and products to a much wider public. In this book, Jonathan…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: «British flower painting has its own unique, if relatively recent, history, but it can only be judged in the light of the wider history of the subject and by comparison with other, particularly European, countries. The first chapter of «A History and Dictionary of British Flower Painters», therefore, sets the scene with a brief introduction to floral art world wide before the next four chapters…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 220) Аннотация: This book, with 400 colour and almost 100 black and white illustrations, is the result of years of research. It is the first published history of the tools and accessories used by needlewomen in Holland, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, describing how they were used and also who would have used them. Many of these tools were beautifully made by craftsmen from precious metals,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 600) Аннотация: This work provides a comprehensive listing of all known Chester marks in easy-to-use format with photographs of the actual marks.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Based on contemporary documents and modern scholarship, this highly illustrated comprehensive review provides a closely-reasoned analysis of changing furniture styles from 1660 to 1714, together with much technical information on materials and processes.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 126 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 222) Аннотация: This book acts as a practical introduction to the subject of collecting British watercolour paintings. There is a lot more to collecting than noting just the price, the name of the artist and deciding whether or not one likes the subject. Many watercolours are either not signed or bear false signatures, or perhaps have been saddled with misleading attributions. The text and carefully chosen…