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 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 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: «Piero della Francesca (c.1413-92) is one of the most intriguing artists of the early Italian Renaissance, known not only for the balance of his compositions and the emotional coolness of his style, but also for his outstanding talent as a mathematician. Taking advantage of documentary evidence that has emerged, particularly since the quincentenary of the artist's death in 1992, Piero scholar…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Examining the black and white animated films of William Kentridge, this volume discusses the political and philosophical dimensions of drawing, a term the artist applies equally to his works on paper, film and theatre productions. It surveys Kentridge's work within a broad historical and geographic context of politicised art practices while analyzing the formal innovations of his animation…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: This work is a comprehensive overview of architecture worldwide since the 1960s. A guide to the many and varied contemporary architectural trends, it leads the reader through the styles and movements of architecture in the latter half of the 20th century. The Modern Movement in architecture early in the 20th century gave rise to the International Style — architecture was intended to transcend its…
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 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Ten years ago it was reasonable to apply the label 'high-tech' to the work of Michael Hopkins. Today, however, with buildings such as the Glyndebourne Opera House and the New Parliamentary Building, Hopkins is perceived as a far more complex figure, perhaps even that most paradoxical of creatures, a high-tech historicist. This monograph features all of Hopkins's major built works and projects…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Julia Margaret Cameron was almost fifty, and practically self-taught, when she took up photography seriously, yet she produced some of the most innovative and visually striking portraits of her time. Her novel use of lighting and focus transformed portraiture and helped secure the acceptance of photography as an expressive art.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: & Fork seeks to represent the best in international product design from around the world. In order to make the most comprehensive selection of 100 important young product designers working today, 10 key figures from the design world were enlisted to curate the project. These 10 writers, curators and designers have combined their extensive knowledge to ensure that & Fork truly represents this…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: David Seymour, or Szymin, was born in Warsaw in 1911, the son of a Polish publisher. In 1929 he studied graphic arts and photography at the academy in Leipzig, where he specialized in the new techniques of printing pictures in colour. In 1931 he moved to Paris to study sciences at the Sorbonne but with the political problems that developed in Poland he was advised to take up photography by David…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: In the mid-1980s the sprouting of new movements that had driven modern art since the nineteenth century finally went dormant, sputtering out with a last few half-hearted labels ('pattern painting', 'neo-geo', 'commodity art'). But this was not the end of art history — far from it. In the years since, art's creative development has remained more vibrant than ever, resulting in a staggering…
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 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 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Alexey Brodovitch (1898 — 1971) a legend among graphic designers. Escaping from the Bolshevik revolution and settled in Paris and then in new York, AB was one of the pioneers of graphic design of the twentieth century. He more than 20 years has taken the place of the main artist of magazine Harper's Bazaar, he has worked on several collection of publications together with Richard Avedonom and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 763 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 543) Аннотация: Before you is the first comprehensive and exhaustive monograph Elliott Erwitt (1928), one of the most talented photographers of his generation. This album features pictures of famous personalities and ordinary people, strange and funny photos, made over fifty years of the period of his career. More than 200 previously unpublished photographs являютя the best reflection of their Creator, his…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: «The nature of photography» — this is the ABC of photography. The book became the results of the training course, which Stiven Shart led for many years, but publication will be useful not only to students. Its goal is not to study the subject of the image, as in the description of the physical and external properties of picture elements, which are the tools of the photographer for the definition…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 227 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 438) Аннотация: A short version of the «Atlas of the world architecture of the XXI century». This so-called travel publication of a small, handheld, format, that is very convenient for those who travel on vacation or a business trip. The material posted on the geographical principle, is equipped with a large and small maps, maps of the cities, so the described constructions on them easy to find. Constructions of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 444) Аннотация: Like its successful predecessors 10x10 (published in 2000) and 10x10_2 (published in 2005), 10x10_3 is a comprehensive overview of contemporary world architecture. Generously illustrated, this volume presents 100 of the world's most exceptional emerging architects, selected by 10 esteemed members of the international architecture community. Arranged alphabetically by architect, the book features…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the years immediately following the Second World War and quickly became one of the most powerful and influential movements in the history of modern art. Building on developments in European avant-garde art of the preceding decades, a wave of artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still developed a new…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: «Art & Today» is an innovative and extensive survey of international contemporary art from the 1980s to the present. Over four hundred of the most significant contemporary artists from around the world are represented in this comprehensive overview — some emerging, some mid-career, and others long established. Each of the book's sixteen chapters address recurring and relevant themes as diverse as…