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Скачать книгу (размер 3 971 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 780) Аннотация: «This book deals with the seminal surrealist. It explores Dali's grandiose and grotesque oeuvre. Picasso called Dali «an outboard motor that's always running.» Dali thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head. Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics — and was…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: For those of you whose datebooks have been replaced by smartphones, TASCHEN has created the new 365 Day-By-Day series so that you can still enjoy the warm analog feeling of marking every day with the turn of a page. Each day you'll discover a new photo and a related quote, ensuring a constant source of inspiration right on your desktop. At the end of the year, just turn back to the beginning and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: How to live well? This is a diverse and inspiring selection of interiors from around the world. This special edition rounds up the creme de la creme of today's most exceptional and inspiring interiors around the world. Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, this painstakingly picked and sumptuously photographed selection of 100 homes represents TASCHEN's favorite ways…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Packaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by presenting awards to designs from around the world. Designers compete in five main categories—beverages, food, body, luxury, and other markets—and no fewer than 44 sub-categories. Featuring a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: This is the bible of breakthroughs and inspiration in the design of the 20th century. Poised at the start of the 21st century, we can see clearly that the previous century was marked by momentous changes in the field of design. Aesthetics entered into everyday life with often staggering results. Our homes and workplaces turned into veritable galleries of style and innovation. From furniture to…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The 18th century's Neoclassicist movement, with its white marble sculptures inspired by the art of the ancient world, has helped Greek art to remain vivid in our memories even today. But the reality of ancient art was entirely different, as surfaces were in fact much more brut. As author Michael Siebler points out, recent findings have revealed that the seemingly perfect bodies of statues and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: For anyone who worships the male body or wants to know why others do (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) While the female nude has long played a concpicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such adoration. This collection provides an overdue review of material that at one time could only be bought under the counter, beginning with the anonymous erotica of…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Fifty years of Bond, James Bond Bond, James Bond. Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. Armed with guns, gadgets, and beautiful women, the impeccably British character created by author Ian Fleming has starred in 24 films, played by 7 different actors over five decades.…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Between the pleats Issey Miyake's iconic line of innovative garments. Issey Miyake's Pleats Please collections were first launched in 1993. Made from single pieces of high quality 100 per cent polyester fabric, Pleats Please clothing is innovative in its process: the clothes are first cut and sewn together nearly three times larger than the finished garments, then individual pieces are hand fed…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Die bloe Erwhnung des Namens Mario Testino lsst die Herzen all derer schneller schlagen, die sich – auf die erwachsene Art – fr die Welt der Mode und der VIPs interessieren. So allgegenwrtig ist dieser Fotograf in den groen Magazinen und bei Insider-Events, dass er lngst selbst als Star gehandelt wird. Testinos neuestes Buch, das anlsslich seiner ersten Ausstellung in China erscheint, vereint…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 722) Аннотация: We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797–1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830, having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior, Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: «Who took 1970s porn esthetic and made it fashion chic? Terry Richardson. Who made the trailer park trendy and the tractor hat de rigueur? Richardson again. Who's equally at home in «Vogue», «Harper's Bazaar», «Purple» and «Vice»? Our boy Terry. Who uses his fashion money to fund an X-rated website? Yes, Richardson. This book tells his story.»

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the past decade she has completed numerous structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (which the New York Times called ’’the most important new building in America since…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 869 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 760) Аннотация: The history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Cologne’s Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography. The L. Fritz Gruber collection, from which this book is drawn, is one of the most important in Germany and one of the most…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Elmer Batters (1919-1997) was the grand master of leg and foot art. While others preferred the thrill of an inviting cleavage, the maestro’s eye was on lower things—trim calves, the arch of a foot, the well-made lines of toes and heels. He chose his models with these criteria in mind—and with the obsessiveness of a Zen artist spent his lifetime looking for the perfect leg. Batters started out…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 900 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 766) Аннотация: This is a unique survey of photography from its origins until now. From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. The subject of a feature film by fellow artist Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. This book explores his short but…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 426) Аннотация: Несомненный успех первого издания стал причиной появления второго сборника эротических фотографий. И это не просто снимки, на которых запечатлено обнаженное тело, это полноценные картины, в которых авторы пытаются постичь секреты женской притягательности. К работе над книгой были привлечены пятьдесят известных фотографов, при этом кадры пятнадцати из них уже появлялись в предыдущем сборнике.…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 277 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 840) Аннотация: The century that changed art forever. This is the quintessential roundup of art from 1900-2000. Who could possibly have forecast on New Year's Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term art has been defined and redefined so many times over the last 100 years that it has gained entirely new social, political, and technological…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The great Belgian Surrealist. A sense of the amazing, the surprising, and the ridiculous in Magritte's paintings. It is impossible to overlook the influence of Rene Magritte (1898-1967) on contemporary art. His surrealistic painting turns the usual order of things ironically on its head, thus restoring mystery to a world that has lost its magic. His work typically conveys a sense of the amazing,…