Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This generously illustrated volume on the work of Dürer makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. This monograph explores Dürer's entire life and oeuvre by focusing on the most important of his works. It follows the artist as he traveled throughout Europe, completing commissions for noblemen, kings, emperors, and popes-all the while satisfying…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Picasso Black and White examines the artist's lifelong exploration of a black and white leitmotiv through some 110 paintings and a selection of sculptures and works on paper. Picasso continued the tradition of engaging the color black that had been employed throughout a centuries-long history of Spanish painting by fellow artists Jose de Ribera, Diego Velazquez, Francisco de Zurbaran, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 039 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 205) Аннотация: The first portrait; the first realistic animal drawing; the first night-time scene; the first nude study; the first still life. These firsts and others are closely explored in twenty-five chapters that help the general reader and art lover alike understand how innovation spurred artistic growth through the years and around the world. Each chapter opens with a specific artist or work that…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: A seventeenth century Spanish painter who continues to influence artists today, Velazquez is primarily known for his portraits of Spanish royalty and other notable figures. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details — allowing the viewer to appreciate every aspect of the artist's technique and oeuvre.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Painted between the years 1632 and 1646, the Passion series is one of Rembrandt's finest accomplishments. This volume investigates a work known as the Entombment Sketch — actually a beautiful finished painting, and the jewel of the Hunterian Art Gallery's collection. Drawing from paint samples, new high — definition imagery, and other technical findings, this volume thoroughly explores the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: During his brief yet prolific career, Egon Schiele created hundreds of drawings, watercolours, and oil paintings of the women in his life. His work is generally regarded as Expressionistic, emotional, intense, autobiographical, and highly sexual. In this elegant and beautifully illustrated book, Jane Kallir examines Schiele's depictions of women to argue that there is more to these images than we…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The history of revolution is as old as humanity; yet it is only since the invention of photography that we have been able to discern the realities of these conflicts from the distance of time. Starting with the Algerian uprising in 1954 and culminating with the most recent triumphs and tragedies of the Arab Spring, this book brings together hundreds of colour and black and white images that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition, this book documents the artist's career from his youthful meteoric rise to the largely unexplored period preceding his death. Mentored by Robert Henri, leader of the Ashcan school in New York in the early part of the twentieth century, Bellows skilfully and audaciously painted the world around him: street children, tenements, boxers,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: Is Europe a union in name only? How does the land we live on contribute to our culture? How does it divide or unite a collection of cultures? These important questions are at the root of this pictorial examination of Europe's heterogeneous landscape. This book brings together images from twenty-seven European Union nations and from prominent artists such as Olafur Eliasson (Denmark), Thomas…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This generously illustrated volume on the work of Vincent van Gogh makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Tracing the arc of van Gogh's career, this volume presents his portraits and self-portraits, landscapes, and haunting interiors. Readers will learn deteails of van Gogh's complicated personal life including his struggles with mental illness and…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Focusing on modern architecture, this book gives readers the tools they need to grasp the architectural language and building forms of this diverse period. Part of an accessibly written and generiously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features modern architecture's most important architects and buildings, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, drawings…
Скачать книгу (размер 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 196) Аннотация: No city boasts of a more fashionable population of bicyclists than London. Photographer Horst Friedrichs meets his subjects in their own milieu: zooming around the city's streets on two wheels. There he encounters a dazzling array of style and a surprising amount of substance. In tweeds (both Harris and hipster) and Saville Row suits, in high-tops and stilettos, in flowing skirts and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This refreshing work recalls the golden age of graphic design in the 50s and 60s but looks forward to a new generation of designers using hand-made, more organic design techniques to create and inspire their works. The visual poetic mix of illustrations shown a celebration and reinvention of the artisanal methods once used in graphic design.
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: The enfant terrible of the Viennese art scene, Klimt was notorious for his portraits of beautiful women. Illustrated with color reproductions, this book profiles the women who figured in the artist's life and on his canvasses. The author looks beyond the standard assumption that Klimt was a hard-hearted philanderer, pointing instead to his committed and loving relationship with Emilie Floge that…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: This refreshing new book, a lavishly produced and illustrated volume on the controversial nineteenth-century Romantic artist, addresses Caspar David Friedrich's modern critics while deepening our appreciation for his singular genius.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Each architectural project presented in this book reflects challenges confronting the architect and the solutions they find to create thoughtful, sustainable designs and methods of construction using socially responsible, environmentally-friendly practices. Throughout this superbly illustrated book, we discover the principles of eco architecture; smart design, use of eco-materials, energy…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This remarkable work presents a stunning compilation of some of the most innovative mini-sized graphics, created by some of the most influential graphic designers across the globe. Displaying a diverse range of cutting-edge work, this inspirational visual guide, the second volume in the series, has a wealth of ingenious ideas for designing small-scale graphics in limited spaces, ideal for…
Скачать книгу (размер 718 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 142) Аннотация: In today's design, the role played by folding techniques has gained in visibility and polyvalence, as this book perfectly illustrates, showing designs by creators all around the world, using diverse materials (paper, plastic, textiles) applied to very different areas of creation, such as fashion, jewelry or interior design.
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Today's young designers are savvier and more daring than ever before. Happy to exist within or outside of the established houses of haute couture, their reputations are cemented by savvy consumers who are willing to navigate the thin line between trendsetting and trend following. This book of the most creative and iconoclastic members of today's fashion scene includes Fashion Week regulars and…