Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: «Gerhard Richter: Panorama» is the first and most complete overview of one of the greatest artistic achievements of recent times. Where previous monographs have focused on a single genre within Richter's vast output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half-century of activity.»
Скачать книгу (размер 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 108) Аннотация: Landscape photography may soothe or disturb; beckon one to forbidden corners of the world or remind us of those spaces only memory recalls. Award-winning photographer Lee Friedlander knows how to evoke such complex responses even when, as in The Desert Seen, the landscape is as strange and impenetrable as that of the Sonora Desert. Here cacti as expansive and preposterous as oceanic fauna are…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Photographer Friedlander offers his view of America as seen through its architecture. Shot during the course of countless trips to urban and rural areas across the country, many of them made by car, these pictures capture an America as unblemished by romanticized notions of human nature as it is full of quirky human touches. 192 duotones.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: «Patterns» represents a brilliant new adventure in image-making and book-making by Gerhard Richter, who in recent years has produced several fascinating explorations of the possibilities of the artist's book. For this latest project, Richter took an image of his work «Abstract Painting» (CR: 7244) and divided it vertically into strips: first 2, then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048,…
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: «Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) and Diego Rivera's (1886-1957) legendary passion for each other and for Mexico's revolutionary culture during the 1920s and 1930s have made them among the twentieth century's most famous artists. During their life together as a married couple, Rivera achieved prominence as a muralist artist, while Kahlo's intimate paintings were embraced by the Surrealist movement and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Сфокусировавшись на работах первой военной корреспондентки, американки Маргарет Бёрк-Уайт, сделанных в 1930-1940 гг. в Чехословакии, Германии, Италии, Советском Союзе и Великобритании, «Мгновения истории» представляют 150 классических фотографий (среди которых фотографии, снятые в СССР) вместе с разоблачительными отрывками из писем и статей периодических изданий. М. Бёрк-Уайт побывала в СССР во…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Richard Meryman began an enduring friendship with Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) while on the job as a Life magazine editor in 1964. For Meryman, this unique friendship yielded more than four decades of recorded conversations with Wyeth, his family, friends and neighbors in Wyeth's homes in Pennsylvania and Maine. The many hundreds of hours of tapes, eventually to be archived at the Brandywine River…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 824 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 359) Аннотация: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Barry McGee, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 24-December 9, 2012, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 1-May 19th, 2013.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Frida Kahlo leans against a concrete wall, looking somberly down while an ankle-length skirt flutters around her. Elsewhere, the tight screws of plough blades stack interlocked on a warehouse floor, utilitarian subjects coalescing into a heady abstract pattern. From his first days as a photographer — with the backing of such greats as Tina Modotti, Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Henri…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In the Industrial North at the end of the 1970s, people were at work using hands and machinery to make things we all use. In the mid 80s, in Wisconsin, they built supercomputers; at the same time, near Boston, they typed on desktop computers. In New York City, in the early 90s, people stood on stock floors, trading. In 1995, in Omaha, they sat at computers, cold calling as telemarketers; and in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: Luc Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, a continuation of the great tradition of Northern European painting and an enduring influence on younger and emerging artists. As a European child of the 1950s, his relationship to painting is inevitably structured by television, cinema and by the lingering effects of World War II; more recent historical preoccupations have included the…