Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: How do they see the world? How much do they respect, build on or reject tradition? Are they busy in the darkroom or the computer lab or both? This title features more than 200 images brimming with inspiring creativity and ingenuity, that answers these questions.
Скачать книгу (размер 452 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 90) Аннотация: A celebration of the art of the stencil. It features the 20 stencils, printed on perforated card stock that can be torn out and used, and have been created by an impressive list of international street artists, from the masters to the new kids on the block. It is suitable for artists, illustrators and those who love street art.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Addresses the changes that are occurring within advertising, from the perspective of key figures within the industry. This book is split into five chapters, which deal with the main themes relevant to the advertising industry today: Digital, Branded, Ambient, Integrated and Self-Initiated. Each chapter contains a series of case studies.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: 400 years after the death of Caravaggio, some of the worlds most illustrious art historians comment on an extraordinary collection of 25 of his works. How is it possible that an artist who lived over four centuries ago is still seen today as an icon of modernity? The answer must be sought in his works; this is where we will grasp Caravaggios aesthetic pursuit. His is a simple, non ideal, art. He…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Robert Capa (1913-1954) gave the world some of the most moving and memorable images of war ever taken, and redefined journalism for ever. Through his photographs we see the suffering, confusion, boredom and courage of the soldiers and civilians affected by the five wars that he covered. Yet he was more than a war photographer: Capa's portraits of politicians and artists are equally memorable. A…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: A critical survey of contemporary museums, as well as a reference in the field of architecture. The book analyzes the design and production of museum complexes all over the world in the last decade, and gives a critical interpretation of one of the most challenging subjects in the recent architectural panorama. The author organizes 89 designed and mostly built museums through a series of critical…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: Museums are some of the great architectural hallmarks of any place. Since the discovery of the Bilbao Effect, triggered at the end of the last century by the Frank O. Gehry's building, new museums have been emerging all over the world. The volume presents the most varied forms of exhibition buildings of the last decade and reveals their varied spatial and architectural concepts: from the white…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour is a collection of 53 photographs of Pompeii by the master photographer Mimmo Jodice, published here for the first time. These unique images, visions conjuring up a long-lost past tradition, are coupled with texts by Ethan Canin, Jim Nisbet and Jay Parini.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: From its origins in American workwear, via west coast subcultures, extreme sports and subsequent commercialism, streetwear has become to fashion as hip-hop has to music: a global phenomenon. Incorporating cultural codes of dress, the best in graphic design, as well as exemplary brand-building the products not of corporate giants but cottage/tenement industries the leading streetwear brands have…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: «Auto Focus» features the work of 75 contemporary photographers from around the world for whom self-portraiture is a central part of their work. Issues of identity national, sexual, racial, personal or artistic are key to all the images featured in this book. In an extended introduction, historical examples are used to enrich the understanding of how self-portraiture was first used in photography…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Sarane Alexandrian traces the development of surrealism from its origins in the Dada anti-art revolt of 1916-1920 to the death of its guiding spirit, Andre Breton, in 1966. Alexandrian discusses and illustrates an astonishing variety of surrealist artists. The result is a thorough and sympathetic account of the one current within 20th-century culture that has devoted itself to the pursuit of a…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «No one wants to be a prophet, if the job can be avoided. What you want to try to be is a psalmist.» Robert Adams Robert Adams began by photographing suburban landscapes along the edge of the Rocky Mountains. His goal was then, and remains, to acknowledge the disappearance of wilderness but also to discover a basis for affirmation. In the 1980s he went on to revisit semi-rural areas through which…
Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: The Caravaggesque Painters. A Catalogue of the Artists and Works.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This ambitious book is all about clean lines, elegant color combinations, maximizing indoor-outdoor relationships, artfully collecting and displaying objects, and utilizing open areas for lounging, cooking, and dining. Whether the living space is large or small, anyone can create a modern interior. Hundreds of photographs reveal stylish residences around the world, in particular from places where…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: “An essential guide.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer For this new edition, Charlotte Cotton brings the story of contemporary art photography up to date with a chapter on artists who emphasize the physical and material properties of photography, who use photography as just one component in their pan-media practice, or who choose to experiment with new modes of dissemination for their work. Featuring…
Скачать книгу (размер 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 108) Аннотация: «Seeking the innermost self in her photographs, Kuhn achieves a mood of intimacy by photographing up close models she knows well. Her photographs are a product of lasting relationships built on mutual affection. In a sense, the images are based on the memory of shared experiences.» — Julie Nelson The people in Mona Kuhn's photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera,…
Скачать книгу (размер 830 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 164) Аннотация: «Carnival Strippers» is a photographic documentary of the carnival strip shows that flourished in county fairs in small-town New England through the late 1970s. The book consists of photographs of the strippers, the managers, callers, and barkers who run the shows, and their customers, or «marks».»
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: No one in the twentieth century created more instantly recognizable images than Cartier-Bresson. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was perhaps the finest and most influential image maker of the twentieth century, and his portraits are among his best-known work. Over a fifty year period, he photographed some of the most eminent personalities of the era, as well as ordinary people, chosen as…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts from letterpress to slab serifs and beyond play in contemporary graphic design. Written and compiled by the worlds leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain, edify and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Art + Science Now is a groundbreaking overview of the art being made at the cutting edge of scientific research. The first illustrated book in its field, it shows how some of the world's most dynamic art is being produced not in museums, galleries and studios but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical and social questions connected with scientific and technological…