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Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The great fashion photographer Martin Munkacsi was born in Hungary in 1896, spent the 20s and 30s in Berlin, and immigrated to New York City in 1934. For many years the best paid photographer of his time and a profound influence on photographers like Richard Avedon, his work was out of fashion at the time of his death in 1963. Recently, Munkacsi has emerged from history as one of the most…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Colour is a powerful selling tool. It is the first thing to catch the consumer's eye in the shop window. Get the colour choice wrong and an entire range can stay on the racks. So, how do colours arrive on the catwalk or the sales floor and why do different companies choose similar colours each season? In this book, Kate Scully and Debra Johnston Cobb look at how the industry has developed and how…

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Pattern Magic Stretch Fabrics is the third in the series of cult Japanese pattern making books, now translated into English. The new volume looks at working with stretch and jersey fabric. Material that stretches lengthways or sideways can be magical in itself. This book takes the special qualities of jersey and stretch fabrics and uses them to create stunning, sculptural designs. In two parts,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Over 350 powerful photographs capture the key events from 2011 and cover the full range of global reporting. The fifth edition of Our World Now captures the key events from 2011 in more than 350 powerful photographs. Organized into four sections representing the four quarters of the year, the images cover the full range of global reporting: politics, commerce, conflict, the environment, natural…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This substantial book features one hundred of the most spectacular interiors across the world, spanning the entire 20th century to the present day. It includes interiors assembled by artists and fashion designers, architects, interior and set-designers, bringing together diverse design talents from Piero Fornasetti and Coco Chanel to Alvar Aalto, Marc Newson and Matthew Williamson. Twenty short…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: Since the dawn of the film industry, the worlds greatest photographers have been drawn to record the colourful characters and the process of filming, capturing rare behind-the-scenes views, moving portraits and candid stills of the stars living their everyday lives. A photographic journey that spans the history of cinema, MovieBox is a collection of more than 350 images of the most iconic movies…

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Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: Published in conjunction with the first large-scale, multi-medium, posthumous retrospective of Willem de Kooning's career, this publication offers an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the development of the artist's work as it unfolded over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: This is the latest book from the pattern cutting and construction experts at Bunka Fashion College in Japan, school of Yohji Yamamoto. It includes 17 fashionable and achievable designs, with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and diagrams that guide the reader through the draping process. With two folded patterns at the back, this book provides inspiring ideas and highly practical…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: The second volume in the Skira Photography series serving as a major reference in the field. The fifty years of artistic and mass photography taken into consideration in this volume are unquestionably the most important in the twentieth century. The acceleration of technological progress, the advent of the era of the machine and the metropolis, the epoch-making economic crisis, the dramatic…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 412) Аннотация: This is the mystery and fascination of the Armenian culture in an original exhibition catalogue. The Armenia: The Traces of a Civilisation exhibition, and the catalogue accompanying it, present the high achievements of the Armenian culture in the spiritual, artistic, architectural, economic sectors, as well as in the world of thinking, in an original chronological and thematic way. The ancient…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Van Eyck in Detail opens with a biographical note on the artist and an introductory chapter on the technique of oil painting. Organized by theme, it further encompasses subjects as nature, architecture, daily life, fabrics, glass, jewellery and mirrors, and portraits. Van Eycks concentrated observation of nature formed an integral part of his innovation of the art of painting. He studied fauna…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 360) Аннотация: Situated just south of St Petersburg, the Russian imperial residence of Tsarskoye Selo is now more than three hundred years old. Occupied by the Nazi forces in 1941, Tsarskoye Selo saw its treasures plundered and many of its interiors left derelict. This book deals with this imperial residence.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Travelling through the history of art from the 15th till the 20th century, The Unfinished Painting is an ambitious survey of works of art by Old and Modern Masters including Van Eyck, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rubens, David, Manet, Cezanne, Matisse and Mondrian that have remained deliberately or unintentionally unfinished, and that are usually marginalized in traditional art history. They remain…

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Andrei Tarkovsky was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor and film theorist. He directed the first five of his seven films Ivans Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker in the Soviet Union, but left for Italy in 1982, where he shot Nostalghia. His last film, Sacrifice, was produced in Sweden in 1985. His work is characterized by spirituality and metaphysical themes, very long…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: «Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) was a man of dazzling charm and style, and his talents were many. In his twenties, he recorded London and New York society in needle-sharp words and drawings, and then, at Conde Nasts insistence, in photographs. The resulting work earned him a place among the great chroniclers of fashion. In this classic book, now in a sumptuous paperback edition after many years out of…