Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: Living well: The ultimate sourcebook for stylish interiors Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, this edition rounds up some oftoday s most exceptional and inspiring interiorsacross six continents. From rustic minimalism to urbane eclecticism, the selection celebrates a global spectrum of styles, united byauthenticity, a love of detail, and a zest for…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 696) Аннотация: Anchored in the Earth: The charm of concrete architecture today Who has not heard of concrete? It is that ugly stuff they make highway bridges and crumbling walls out of, right? Well, yes, and no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range of substances used in construction, and, when it is properly handled, it is actually one of the noble materials of contemporary…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: Alex Steinweiss invented the album cover as we know it. In 1940, as Columbia Records' young new art director, he pitched an idea: Why not replace the standard plain brown wrapper with an eye-catching illustration? The company took a chance, and within months its record sales increased by over 800 per cent. Over the next three decades, Steinweiss made thousands of original artworks for classical,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Urban loneliness: One of the greatest realists of American art Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is considered as one of the first important American painters in 20th century art. After decades of patient work, Hopper enjoyed a success and popularity that since the 1950s has continually grown. In canvas after canvas he painted the loneliness of urban people. Many of Hopper's pictures represent views of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 672) Аннотация: A good logo can glamorize just about anything. Now available in our popular Klotz format, this sweeping compendium gathers diverse brand markers from around the world to explore the irrepressible power of graphic representation. Organized into chapters by theme, the catalog explores how text, image, and ideas distil into a logo across events, fashion, media, music, and retailers. Featuring work…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) defined the look of the fin-de-siecle. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre and olive, his seductive compositions of patterns, flowers and beautiful women became a mainstay of illustration, posters, postcards, and advertising designs of the day. In particular, his posters of star…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: «From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption «this is not a pipe», René Magritte (1898–1967) created an echo-chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation. Like other Surrealist works, Magritte's paintings combine a precise, mimetic technique with abnormal, alienating configurations which defy the laws of scale, logic, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytical practice of Sigmund Freud, the Surrealists championed the unconscious as the domain of truth, uninhibited by the standards or expectations of society. With techniques ranging from hypnotism to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Polaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when «instant photography» meant one-of-a-kind prints that developed within minutes of clicking the shutter. What was once a crucial tool for photographers to test their shots before shooting on film has now become obsolete in the face of digital photography. Luckily for us, legendary photographer Helmut…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Painting outside the box. The founder of abstract art. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The Amazing Amazon: The spirit of truth in the DC Universe Debuting in All Star Comics No. 8 in December 1941, the warrior Amazon Princess is a feminist icon whose strength is equaled by her empathy and compassion. Appearing in comic books, newspaper strips, and TV shows for almost 75 years, Wonder Woman stands as a towering figure in pop culture, and arole model in her fight for justice, love,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 595 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 314) Аннотация: Imagination ablaze: Dante, Blake, and epic visions of heaven and hell Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is widely considered the greatest work ever composed in the Italian language. The epic poem describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, representing, on a deeper level, the…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Caped Crusader: The dark icon of the DC Universe From his first appearance in Detective Comics No. 27 in May 1939, Batman has thrilled imaginations across the globe. This character portrait pays tribute to the World's Greatest Detective, from his early days as a pulp-inflected comics hero to his current stature as a global icon, one of the greatest cultural artifacts of modern times. Through…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: The anatomy of letters: Everything you could ever want to know about printing letters and numbers Looking back as far as man s first efforts to communicate with visual signs and drawings, Letter Fountain is a completely unique typeface handbook: in addition to examining the form and anatomy of every letter in the alphabet (as well as punctuation marks and special characters), the book…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Fantastic menagerie: The sinister majesty of Walton Ford's wildlife At first glance, Walton Ford's large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era. But a closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Acclaimed as the “father of skyscrapers”, the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to structures across the continent, from suburban homes to churches, offices, skyscrapers, and the celebrated Guggenheim Museum. Wright’s work is…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Pictures as Drama Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in the active relationship of the observer to the painting, embodied the radical vision of a renaissance in painting. Rothko characterized this relationship as a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Happy birthday, dear Tramp! Celebrating Chaplin's life and work as his alter-ego turns 100. From Alaska to Zimbabwe, the bowler hat, cane, baggy trousers and outsized shoes of the Tramp is still the most recognized silhouette in the world, 100 years after Charlie Chaplin first created him. Celebrating his centenary, TASCHEN presents The Charlie Chaplin Archives, the ultimate book on the making of…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Painter, sculptor, writer, film-maker, and all-round showman Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis to art, he is celebrated in particular for his surrealist practice, with such conceits as the soft watches or the lobster telephone, now hallmarks of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Femmes fatales have their way: 20 stories from America s premier fetish artist Eric Stanton (1926 1999) was America s premier fetish artist, a man of very particular tastes, as all fetishists are. Most keep their work and sex preferences separate, but Stanton made his desires the center of his art, pouring his passions onto the page. These preferences included, in no particular order, female…