Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From the towering Sagrada Família to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batlló and the enchanting landscape of Park Güell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaudí (1852–1926) gained the epithet “God’s architect”. With fluid forms and mathematical precision, his work extols the wonder of natural creation: columns soar like tree trunks, window frames curve like flowering…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Antiquarian, archaeologist, vulcanologist, and envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, Sir William Hamilton (1731-1803) was a leading European figure of his time. Though the romance between his wife Lady Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson tends to eclipse Sir William's own activities, his work as a scientist and a classicist made major contributions to the study of Pompei, Herculaneum, and Mt…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Unflinching truth: Beholding the Animal British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was widely considered the most important figurative painter of his generation. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud used impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to mostly muted hues. His portraits may be physically unflattering to their subjects, but they are honest,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Diego Rivera: A Revolutionary Spirit in Modern Art It was as a revolutionary and troublemaker that Picasso, DalI and AndrE Breton described the husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, but he was also responsible for creating a public art that was both highly advanced and profoundly accessible. From 1910 Rivera lived in Europe where he absorbed the influence of Cubism. After the Mexican revolution,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Functional beauty: The seminal modernist movement Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school developed a revolutionary approach that fused fine art with craftsmanship and engineering in everything from architecture to furniture, typography, and even theater. Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Design's dynamic duo: The illustrious career of Charles and Ray Eames Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design. Though they are best known to the general public for their furniture, the husband and wife duo of Charles and Ray Eames (1907-78 and 1912-88, respectively) were alsoforerunners in the fields of architecture, industrial design, photography, and film. This book covers all…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and art theoretician whose influence is as profound today as it ever was. For Mondrian, the emotion of beauty is always hindered by particular appearance of an object; the object must therefore be abstracted from any figurative representation. After coining the term Neo-plasticism, he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Poetic nightscapes: Darren Almond's nocturnal nature series In Full Moon, the conceptual meets the poetic: British artist Darren Almond catches natural archetypes and silent landscapes in night photographs made under a full moon, with the shutter kept open for over a quarter of an hour. The long exposure time illuminates the landscape almost like daybreak, but the atmosphere is different. There…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Gold, flowers and female beauty: The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century — a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure.The ecstatic joy which Klimt (1862-1918) and his contemporaries found — or hoped to find — in beauty…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Mario Testino's boundless talent with a camera must be maddening for other photographers working in a highly competitive field, but he remains one of the most revered stars in his profession. Often imitated and never equaled, Testino is graced with a natural ability to float effortlessly from studio to backstage to after-party, producing stunning shots in any kind of situation. From royals to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: «With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy, but also our very sense of being in the universe, on the 25th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, TASCHEN celebrates its most breathtaking deep space images both as scientific feats and as photographic masterpieces. Ultra high-resolution and taken with…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 563 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 700) Аннотация: Da Vinci in detail: Leonardo's life and work — all pictures, all drawings! One of the most fully achieved human beings who has ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is recognized the world over as a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability. This updated edition of our XL title provides the most comprehensive survey of the life and work of this master…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 554 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 306) Аннотация: Realist revolutionary: The painter who brought the heavenly down to earth Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. This work offers a comprehensive…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: The look of books: The very finest in German publishing 1919-1933 The period between the First and Second World Wars is well known for the flowering of German culture. With Berlin as its epicenter, the period was replete with advanced science, passionate politics, and groundbreaking literature, philosophy and art. Amid the fervor of intellectual and creative activity, German publishers produced…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 880 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 762) Аннотация: Masterpieces under the microscope: Paintings' hidden secrets revealed This important addition to our understanding of art history's masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass, to help us look much, much closer at images we might have thought we knew well. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen help us become…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art and product design are familiar to many of the creatively inclined. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, from the conventions or constraints of the past. Less well-known, but no less fascinating, is…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: Fairy tale finesse: RevivingEast of the Sun and West of the Moon, Kay Nielsen's most ambitious illustration project Step into a world of star-crossed lovers, magical winds, mischievous giants, and trolls, through some of themost exquisite illustrations in publishing history. In this gorgeous reprint, TASCHEN revives the most ambitious publication project of beloved Danish artist Kay Nielsen, one…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Hailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. Working “en plein air” with rapid, impetuous brush strokes, he interrogated the play of light on the hues, patterns, and contours and the way in which these…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 028 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 595) Аннотация: Master Of Form: Fusion of architecture, art and engineering Santiago Calatrava is a renowned architect, structural engineer and artist. Recent projects such as the Athens 2004 Olympic sports complex, the Turning Torso in Malmo, and TGV station in Liege, have brought him international acclaim. The only architect to exhibit at both the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: Timberland: The wooden structures of the 21st century Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by new manufacturing techniques and ecological benefits, wood has seen afabulous resurgence in contemporary construction. This double-volume survey…