Скачать книгу (размер 1 192 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 235) Аннотация: Setting out on the trail of Greek Architecture, this volume presents a comprehensive survey which extends beyond the borders of Greece itself to include southern Italy, Asia Minor and Persia. Fortifications, domed tombs, theatres, oracular sites, temples and palaces dating from the sixteenth to the fourth century B.C. are all set within their cultural and historical context, conveying a vivid…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 335 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 263) Аннотация: Travels in the Interior of North America. In 1832 Maximilian Prince of Wied set out with the Swiss painter Karl Bodmer on an expedition to study the way of life of the North American Indians. Starting at the east coast, they followed the courses of the Ohio. Mississippi and Missouri rivers, until they reached the far northern regions of present-day Montana. While the Prince collected ritual…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 890 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 568) Аннотация: «TASCHEN goes digital! The first book in our groundbreaking new series on digital culture focuses on beauty and the cutting-edge computer generated female characters. Whereas most books on digital creation concentrate on technique and include detailed «how-tos» Digital Beauties is all about exploring the artistic achievements of today's best designers without a lot of complicated technical…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Caravaggio — A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacrilegious subject matter and use of lower class models…
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: At a time when artists were still primarily occupied with religious or mythological subject matter, the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569) turned his eye on the everyday. Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town communities. In this title in the Basic Art Series, Rose-Marie and Rainer…
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-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 Blauer Reiter in Munich. His art then freed itself more and…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: During the Renaissance, the great homosexuals, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo and Raphael, transformed the history of art, attaining to ever closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste. From their art, ambiguous beings were born, half man, half woman; female breasts were planted on male busts and a young man's gaze peeped out beneath the eyelids of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one of the great masters of the golden age of Dutch art. Most of his pictures, all of which are reproduced in this text, show women about their daily business. Vermeer records the tasks and duties of women, the imperatives of virtue under which their lives were lived,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: An enigma to art historians and a great source of inspiration to other artists Someone else may have invented the wheel, but Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) invented the ready-made. A bottle dryer may be a bottle dryer, but signed by Duchamp it is also one of the major works of 20th century art. Duchamp has been an enigma to art historians and a great source of inspiration to other artists. This study…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The mystery of the revealed form: A mirror of the artistic and intellectual developments of the 17th century. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669) was one of the most complex and multi–faceted artists of the 17th century. From his initial period in Leiden to his early and late phases in Amsterdam, the stages of Rembrandt’s career mirror the artistic and intellectual developments of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: As a blind person would see the world if the gift of sight suddenly returned — so might one describe the effect of Turner’s paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, the uncompromising nineteenth-century defender of the painting of William Turner (1775-1851) spoke of the ’innocence of the eye’, which perceived the colours and forms of the world before it recognized their significance. But in order…
Скачать книгу (размер 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 76) Аннотация: M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher’s innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: “A house must be a living, organic entity that develops and constantly changes”, stated Friedensreich Hundertwasser in one of his arguments for his nature-and human-oriented architecture. Success vindicated his vision: roof afforestation, organic forms, colorful façades, uneven floors, irregularly positioned windows, gilded onion domes—Hundertwasser’s architecture is unmistakable. From the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 696) Аннотация: The most exciting new buildings in the world are now almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume far less energy than ever before. That architecture is one of the major sources of greenhouse gases in the world makes this new trend all the more significant. This book brings the best examples of green projects from the Architecture Now! series together with numerous new,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 332) Аннотация: «Summer at the Serpentine Ten years of temporary pavilions by top architects Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery in London's Kensington Gardens has called on some of the world's top architects to design summer pavilions — temporary structures that are erected next to the Gallery itself for a three-month period. The Serpentine, which was built in 1934 as a tea pavilion, opened in 1970 as a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: Decades’ worth of images have been distilled down to 568 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself. First published as a limited edition and now available as a standard TASCHEN edition, the curation delves deep into Araki's best-known imagery: Tokyo street scenes; faces and foods; colorful, sensual flowers; female…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: Legend has it that when preparing props for the James Bond film Live and Let Die, producer Albert Broccoli commissioned Surrealist maestro Salvador Dalí to create a custom deck of Tarot cards. Likely inspired by his wife Gala, who nurtured his interest in mysticism, Dalí eagerly got to work, and continued the project of his own accord when the contractual deal fell through. The work was…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665–1736) was unrivaled in his passion. His amazing collection of animals, plants and insects from…
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: «Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), revolutionary artist, inventor of readymades, obsessive chess player, and master of the silent statement, succeeded at the beginning of the 20th century to query art in its traditional form. His creations, not least his readymades such as the famous Fountain (a «reclaimed» urinal) or the Bottle Rack, are subversive and radical upshots of a critical confrontation with…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a…