Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Cubism originated in Paris between 1906 and 1908 with the revolutionary experiments of Picasso and Braque. It was a movement which spread very rapidly throughout Europe and the world and which extended from painting into other fields of artistic expression such as sculpture and design. In questioning the imperative to be representational and in emphasising an autonomous vision of the world,…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is truly an artist for the twenty-first century. In his sculptures, he refashions artefacts and antiques into surprising, sometimes monumental constructions such as «Template» (2007): hundreds of wooden doors and windows taken from demolished Ming and Qing dynasty temples and arranged into a massive outdoor sculpture.As much as these materials look to the past, they also…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: Art Nouveau conjures up images of nymph-like female figures and sinuous organic tendrils, as well as radical geometric simplicity. In its brief life span, which broached the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the style spread across the world in myriad incarnations. this comprehensive book places Art Nouveau in the context of its time and explores architecture,…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Bonnard is acknowledged as a master of modern art, following in the tradition of the Impressionists. He is best known as a painter of intimate, domestic interiors but he was also a highly accomplished draughtsman who produced a wealth of lithographs and drawings. This volume illustrates the full range of his output, from his early works inspired by Japanese prints, to the richly coloured works of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 260) Аннотация: Tuymans' monochromatic palette and choice of subject matter — domestic interiors, commonplace objects or family portraits — link painting with post-war filmmaking and amateur photography. The sources of other images on his canvases give his work a brooding violence. Although modest in scale and sensitive in execution, this work is powerful in its haunting evocation of lost lives and repressed…
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: David Lynch (USA, b. 1946) is perhaps the best known of all cult directors, whose Mulholland Drive marks cinema's arrival to the 21st century. His career began more than 30 years ago, with the groundbreaking, mystifying Eraserhead (1977). With Blue Velvet (1986), Wild at Heart (1990) and Lost Highway (1997) Lynch breathed new life into the sensory experiences of film audiences and disrupted…
Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Tim Burton (USA, b. 1958) is the youngest of Hollywood's most successful directors. He has the knack of making films with a very broad appeal, taking the silliness out of the representation of children, while remaining in touch with the child within himself and his audiences. Burton emerged as a director and storyteller after working as an animator for Disney. His meeting with Johnny Depp enabled…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «The title of this book is a phrase that Steve McCurry uses a lot when talking about his work — he is always trying to capture those 'unguarded moments' when people are at their most unselfconscious and natural. McCurry takes photographs all over the world, for National Geographic magazine and his own projects, so this book includes the places, colours and forms of Yemen, Mali, Niger, Chad,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: The Beatles follows the extraordinary development of four self-taught musicians from Liverpool, from their beginnings, until the break-up in 1970. This biography sets the group's evolution against the backdrop of a popular culture explosion in the 1960s. A serious study of the Beatles' music is expanded here by consideration not only of the group's commercially released disks but also of rare…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: For more than a thousand years, until its fall in 1453, the Byzantine Empire, the Christian successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, stretched across large areas of Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Under successive emperors, the artists, architects and craftsmen of Byzantium (Constantinople, modern Istanbul) worked within a long-established tradition to produce superb…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: «Wallpaper City Guides» not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he/she has a week or 24 hours in the city. Featured are up and coming areas, landmark buildings in an 'Architour', design centres, and the best shops to buy items unique to that city. «Wallpaper City Guides» present travellers with a fast-track ticket to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: «Contemporary sculpture is a wide-ranging and fascinating subject, surprisingly unrepresented in the current marketplace. This beautifully illustrated book is a comprehensive overview of developments in the world of sculpture during the past fifty years, and follows the successful, highly illustrated formula of Phaidon's best-selling volumes «Art Today» and «Architecture Today». In the great…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 812) Аннотация: The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture is a comprehensive portrayal of the finest built architecture from around the world completed since the year 2000. Divided into six world regions, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture provides an important overview of global and local trends in architecture for a wide range of users. The geographical contexts for twenty-first…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Mary Ellen Mark (b.1940) began working as a freelance photographer in the mid-1960s. In the 1970s, Mark worked on several bodies of work for which she gained her reputation as one of the most provocative documentary photographers, ensuring her legendary status in the history of photography. In 1976, she documented the women's maximum security ward of Oregon State Mental Hospital, and in 1978 she…
Скачать книгу (размер 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 60) Аннотация: The Architecture in Detail series comprises books that focus on individual buildings noted for their exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity. Each volume contains a text by a respected author, a sequence of colour and black-and-white photographs and a set of technical drawings and working details. The Dessau Bauhaus encapsulates the ethos of that design school's…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: This work contains illustrations of all of Michelangelo's work, his paintings, sculpture and architecture, excluding his drawings. The text surveys the opinions of leading Michelangelo scholars and provides a commentary with bibliographical notes. The exhaustive selection of plates devoted to the paintings of the Sistine Chapel provides a record of their condition before the recent controversial…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 079 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 409) Аннотация: «Es ist nicht die Frage, ob es passiert, sondern wann… Der gro?te Horror wird Realitat — ein todlicher Anschlag auf eine deutsche Gro?stadt. Unter den zahllosen Opfern ist auch Ben, der Sohn des Ex-Kommissars Lennard Pauly. Bei einem Uberwachungsauftrag sto?t der Privatdetektiv auf Informationen, die ihn an der offiziellen Aufklarung des Attentats zweifeln lassen. Wahrend das ganze Land von einem…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: «From Egypt and Classical Greece and Rome through the building booms of the Gothic era and the Renaissance, and from the Industrial Revolution to the present era of digital modeling, «Building: 3,000 Years of Design, Engineering, and Construction» charts centuries of innovations in engineering and building construction. This comprehensive and heavily illustrated volume, aimed at students and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: «Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), known as Canaletto, is one of the most popular of all old master painters. His views of Venice and London are much celebrated and admired. First published in 1982, and revised in 1994, this book is here reissued in paperback, tracing Canaletto's career from his beginnings as a scene-painter with his father to the work of his later years. Canaletto was…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: History of the Poster, co-written by Josef and Shizuko Muller-Brockmann, is a landmark account of one of the most prolific visual traditions of our culture. Originally published in 1971, this seminal study is clearly written and richly illustrated. Now reprinted by Phaidon Press, History of the Poster is an essential read for anyone intrigued by this most modern medium. The book presents an…