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Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: Master of the sublime: The essential Impressionist This is the work on Monet; anything published before or after it will seem minor in comparison... It is the only readily available publication that gives a complete record of Monet's work — in other words, it is definitive. The Good Book Guide, London Along with Turner, no artist has sought more than Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: Feast your eyes. This is the art of hospitality design. Restaurants and bars offer architects and interior designers the opportunity to design for both style and entertainment; aesthetics and function must come together to create ambiance and conviviality in a way that both makes a statement and keeps clients wanting to come back. The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards — the world's only awards…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Curate your home: Print Set Grimm, Fairy Tales This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Grimm s Fairy Tales. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Curate your home: Print Set Hiroshige This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Hiroshige s work. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as a poster.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Not just a look at the art of record cover design Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for — Andy Warhol's covers, for…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Curate your home. Print Set Salgado. This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Sebastiao Salgado's work. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 053 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 600) Аннотация: Winsor McCay (1869-1934) was one of the key figures in the American entertainment industry at the beginning of the 20th century. As a comic artist, his influence was inestimable: he set standards in narrative technique, panel layout, and graphic refinement that still apply today. His virtuoso play with perspective, color, and narrative levels influenced many artists after him and, over the years,…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Curate your home: Print Set Robert Doisneau This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Doisneau s work. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as a…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Curate your home: Print Set Gil Elvgren, Pin-Ups This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Elvgren s Pin-Ups. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as…

Скачать книгу (размер 75 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 16) Аннотация: Curate your home: Print Set Matisse, Cut-Outs This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Matisse Cut-Outs. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 386) Аннотация: «A time for greatness. This is Norman Mailer's game-changing coverage of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. With his Hollywood good looks, boundless enthusiasm, and mesmeric media presence, John F. Kennedy was destined to capture the imaginations of the more than 70 million Americans who watched the nation's first televised presidential debate. Just days after beating out Richard Nixon by…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: In the 1930s, the legendary City of Cinema moved from the silent era to the talking picture. It was a decade of pomp and excess in the motion picture capital, of glorious stardom and megalomaniac directors; a time when politicians and the mob all wanted a piece of the thrilling action. Illustrator Robert Nippoldt and film critic Daniel Kothenschulte have teamed up to pay homage to this remarkable…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Life is but a dream: The complete works of the visionary painter Manet called him the greatest painter of all. Picasso was so inspired by hismasterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Monet, Renoir, and Degas were heavily influenced by the paintings of Philip IV's grand chamberlain. Francis Bacon famously painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Indeed, Diego…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 583 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 900) Аннотация: Life behind the Iron Curtain: Art and artifacts from East Germany For 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated friends, families, and countrymen. But while the world teetered on the edge, life went on in the communist East, as it did in the capitalist West.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: «Symmetry and opulence. Art and architecture of ancient Egypt. An ardent admirer of the superb skills of the ancient Egyptian and Oriental artisans, the French Orientalist, author, and artist Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) made enormous contributions to the field of Egyptology. As a youth he dreamed of exploring the Orient, and at 19 began his travels, by visiting Greece, Palestine, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Sparkling tales for a special season: Stories of winter from around the world Despite its chilly weather and barren landscapes, wintertime has inspired some of the most magical and heartwarming stories in history. Around the world, this season of celebration, frost and snow, religion, tradition, and adventure has produced such classics as Clement Moore s Twas the Night Before Christmas, and such…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric lore The Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Decisive Moment originally titled Images a la Sauvette — is one of the most famous books in the history of photography, assembling Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years. Published in 1952 by Simon and Schuster, New York, in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, it was lavishly embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. The book and its images have since influenced…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 680) Аннотация: The best years of our lives: How Arts and Architecture paved the way in post-war construction and culture From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Get personal, get posting. Postcard Set Impressionism. We all know how much people like a card through the mailbox. Make someone's day with this set of 100 postcards, carefully selected from the TASCHEN archives. Elegantly packaged in a bespoke cardboard case, with a ribbon to pull up the cards, this collection covers the most important works of Impressionism. Flick through and find something…