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Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: ariamna Davydoff, the Russian lady who wrote and illustrated this memoir, was born in 1871. It was after she fled Russia for France in 1919 that she set down her detailed recollections and painted the accompanying watercolours. She did this mainly to enlighten one of her granddaughters about the familys life in the last decades of Tsarist Russia. The result is a first-hand account of a way of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: A photographic journey that spans the greats of contemporary literature, Portrait of the Writer is a collection of more than 250 images of the worlds most renowned and revered writers, as immortalized by renowned photographers. The book features unforgettable images of 20th-century literary greats Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett to the stars of today…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. This fully updated fourth edition includes a completely new chapter on twenty-first-century interior design and a heavily revised chapter on the late twentieth century. Interior design is a field that includes construction, architecture, furniture, decoration, technology and product design. This one-volume…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Sergio Larrain (19312012) crossed the photographic universe like a meteorite. After much travelling, his concern for purity and his attraction to meditation led him to withdraw to the Chilean countryside and live self-sufficiently. From there he began to write concerned as he was about the need to encourage the world to wake up to its possible fate while continuing in his deep love of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Posters by their very nature are ephemeral: crookedly plastered on a roadside billboard, tacked to the back of a tabac, they lasted a few weeks until advertisers issued another imaginative argument for soap or an ocean voyage. While few contemporary observers understood the richness of their design or appreciated the ingenuity of their unsung creators, they are now highly prized. William Crouse,…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Twenty iconic portraits to complete yourself. In an age of childhood fun for grown-ups, we bring you The Dot-to-Dot Book. Thomas Pavitte has put together a unique collection of dot-to-dot drawings, all of them consisting of exactly, dots and taking a satisfyingly long time to complete. His unique style, recreating iconic people and portraits in dot form, results in images that are not only fun to…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Some of the most important people in fashion Chanel, Alaïa, Blahník, Yves Saint Laurent, Pucci, Kenzo and Missoni are known for their public image and their iconic designs. But what kind of world have they cultivated behind closed doors? From France to Italy, from England to Morocco, come along on a private visit to the remarkable homes of the worlds great couturiers, stylists, muses…

Скачать книгу (размер 432 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 86) Аннотация: Drape Drape 3 is the follow-up to the cult Japanese draping books Drape Drape and Drape Drape 2, and the latest in the new series from Bunka Fashion College. It includes 15 stylish contemporary designs for dresses, skirts, tunics and blouses, with easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams that skilfully guide the reader to create draped garments step by step. With two full-scale patterns at the…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: The horse has a long and rich history as a subject in the visual arts. In sculpture and painting, in the decorative arts, and most recently in photography, the horse has been celebrated for its cultural and social importance. Horse Power is a compelling photographic portrait of the horse today. From 12 to 17 September 2009, Bolofo documented life on the grounds of esteemed racehorse trainer…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Here is the long-awaited and much needed new translation of the correspondence of Paul Cézanne, known as the father of modern art. The existing collection in English, produced in the 1930s, is dated, inaccurate and incomplete; for this book, Alex Danchev has gone back to the original manuscript letters, clearing up decades of questionable scholarship and producing a fresh, honest and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Never Built Los Angeles explores the what if Los Angeles, investigating the values and untapped potential of a city still in search of itself. A treasure trove of buildings, master plans, parks, follies and mass-transit proposals that only saw the drawing board, the book asks: why is Los Angeles a mecca for great architects, yet so lacking in urban innovation? Featured are more than 100 visionary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 243 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 245) Аннотация: The first volume of The Mr Porter Paperback: The Manual for a Stylish Life is a witty compendium of life and style advice for the modern man. Compiled by Mr Porters Editor-in-Chief Jeremy Langmead, it covers everything from the essential (how to take care of dress shoes or charm the in-laws) to the just-in-case (how to pull off daring feats or dance at a wedding). Derived from the sites online…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Why take a self-portrait but obscure your face with a lightbulb (Lee Friedlander, Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts (1968)? Or deliberately underexpose an image (Vera Lutter, Battersea Power Station, XI: July 13 , 2004)? And why photograph a ceiling (William Eggleston, Red Ceiling , 1973)? In Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus , Jackie Higgins offers a lively, informed defence of modern…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 457 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 287) Аннотация: This mouthwatering book presents 38 of the finest pastry chefs working worldwide today, together with samples of their glorious, highly sophisticated confections. Some of the chefs are up-and-coming, others are well established; all are innovative pioneers in a uniquely appealing creative field. Profiles of each pâtissier include an informative biography giving a sense of their individual…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: What is Contemporary Art? is the ideal introduction for children aged eight and over to art made since the 1960s. Featuring artworks from one of the worlds leading collections of modern and contemporary art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, its lively and engaging text introduces the art and ideas to young readers, with background information, fascinating stories and intriguing questions…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This is the most complete monograph yet published on the internationally acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge. Bringing together nearly two hundred of his works made between 1989 and the present day, the book explores Kentridges work across a wide range of media, including film, video, sculpture, design, drawing and printmaking. Two essays discuss the development of Kentridges art and…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The Greeks and Romans were not shy about sex. Drinking cups, oil-lamps and walls were decorated with scenes of seduction and sexual intercourse which make the modern viewer blush; models of penises were worn around the neck or hung from doorways. In classical Greece, statues of erect penises served as boundary-stones and signposts. In Rome, marble satyrs and nymphs grappled in gardens. How are we…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: The Fundamentals of Landscape Architecture provides an introduction to the key elements of this broad field. From climate change to sustainable communities, landscape architecture is at the forefront of today's most crucial issues. It serves as a guide to the many specialisations within landscape architecture, such as landscape strategy and urban design. This book explains the process of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Computerized media in all forms have had an incalculable effect on how we live our lives. No creative sector has been left untouched, and the revolutionary ideas that have occurred in the fashion and textile industries have heralded a move away from the tailor's cutting table to designs that are digitally printed at the touch of a button. Following on the success of Techno Textiles, this new…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: 20th Century Type and Beyond provides a decade-by-decade analysis of the issues that have shaped the history of typographic and, latterly, graphic design. This book provides designers, students and general readers with an informed and accessible guide to the typography of the 20th century and the key questions that will shape typographic practice in the future. Subjects include the arrival of…