Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Susan Herbert’s innovative, witty and hugely popular renderings of cats in human situations, from Shakespearean drama to masterpieces of Western art, have won her a large and admiring public. Now she draws on her lifelong fascination with cinema to give us a series of scenes from classic films – all with cats playing the leading roles. Here is an irresistible array of well-known characters, from…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From the immaculate manicure of a geisha in Kyoto and the elegant dexterity of Balinese dancers’ hands, to a Havana street photographer’s stubby fingers and the ragged stumps of an Australian crocodile farmer, this eloquent book celebrates an often ignored area of communication – hands. The renowned photographer Basil Pao, who has accompanied Michael Palin on his journeys from Pole to Pole,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: «COATS! Max Mara will delight thousands of women who secretly slip on «my Max Mara» just for pleasure-and millions more who still wish they had gone ahead and bought that unforgettable coat. The publication of this book coincides with a traveling exhibition that includes more than 50 classic coats from the company archives, accompanied by numerous images and sketches showing their design…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Beautifully illustrated and well documented with detailed technical entries, this volume surveys the production of Italian ceramic art through 500 objects. The essays examine the stylistic trends from the brilliant floral decorativism of the Tuscan ceramics by Galileo Chini, the extraordinary period of the 1920s and 1930s, as represented by Gio Ponti, Guido Andloviz, Giovanni Gariboldi, Pietro…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Newly available in paperback, this collection of work by Henri Cartier-Bresson is the ultimate retrospective look at a lifetime's achievement. It is full of classic photographs that have become icons of the medium, as well as rarely seen work from all periods of Cartier-Bresson's life, including a significant number of previously unpublished photographs and a generous selection of drawings,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The originality of Turner’s technique alone puts him high in the canon of great artists, but his subject-matter gains additional interest with an understanding of his enormous appetite for travel. In this book, over 150 of his works of every type are lavishly displayed and superbly reproduced. For over forty years, from the 1790s to his old age in the 1840s, he made regular tours in Britain and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: «Pierre Cardin, the inventor of «prêt-à-porter» whose graphically iconic initials personify his signature style, is best known for fashion and accessory design. However, he launched a unique furniture line during the 1970s that transposed his sculptural approach to fashion into furniture design: futuristic forms combined with traditional lacquer and cabinetmaking techniques and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: «Computer technology has completely revolutionized the work of graphic designers, printers, and print production professionals. To keep pace with these far-reaching changes, «Production for Graphic Designers» is set firmly in the digital age. This revised fourth edition embraces all the new and emerging technologies in graphics and print production, comprehensibly explaining the prepress and…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Moscow Style is the first book to showcase the latest work of talented young Muscovites in the fields of graphic design, architecture, furniture design, fashion, music and interior design. In the fifteen years since the demise of the Soviet Union, Russia's capital has undergone extraordinary transformations — politically, socially and creatively. Moscow has long been associated with innovative…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Denim Dudes is a street style book with a difference. This richly illustrated title showcases over 80 metalheads punks, indie kids, rockabillies, bikers, hipsters, geeks, and other enthusiasts who are obsessed with denim. As well as talking to and featuring pieces key players in the global denim business, such as Henry Holland (House of Holland), Francois Girbaud (Merithe et Francois Girbaud),…
Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: Laurie Simmons is one of the first contemporary American photographers to have created elaborately-staged narrative photographs. Using dolls to act out piquant scenarios within specially constructed environments, she has slyly commented on contemporary culture while re-creating a sense of the 50s that I knew was both beautiful and lethal. Prodigiously creative — she has produced some thirteen or…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The British Museums vast collections include wonderful images of birds from all over the world. Some are primarily decorative, whereas Thomas Bewick and the Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro chose to show birds in realistic detail, going about their daily lives. Other artists concentrate on scientific accuracy. The endless variety of birds, their freedom of sky, land and water, and especially t…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This new edition of BUILDING BERLIN showcases the most interesting 70 new buildings in and out of the German capital by architects working in Berlin. Each project is presented on the basis of informative texts, the most important facts as well as insight.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: «Here is the key book on the key materials in art, design and shaping the environment in the 21st century. Building on the cult success of «Techno Textiles», this book, newly available in paperback, features developments over the past decade. Highlighting advanced textiles in production and available to the designer, artist, architect and consumer today, it will be required reading for…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The 1910s and 1920s witnessed the advent of luxurious catalogs from the great French fashion houses that used the hand-colored stenciling technique known as pochoir. This highly refined, painterly technique, which consists of applying layers of gouache paint or watercolor to achieve bold blocks of saturated color, produced works of visual artistry previously unrivaled in the history of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Modern art, reflecting and defining new intellectual, scientific and technological developments, has radically extended the conventional media of sculpture and painting. Following innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism, Futurism and Surrealism — particularly in the work of Duchamp — artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional hierarchies of media and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Spray-on dresses, growable suits and self-cleaning shirts may soon become everyday items. This visionary exploration of where fashion and clothing are headed provides the first guide to the astonishing ways in which contemporary science and technology are shaping what we wear. Fashioning the Future examines the work of those scientific researchers and fashion designers, such as Issey Miyake,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 258 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 248) Аннотация: Since its founding in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art in New York has brought the history of modern and contemporary art to vivid life through its extraordinary holdings. MoMA Masterpieces provides a fresh look at the Museums exceptional collection as it stands today. Ann Temkins introduction addresses the historical construction of the Museums collection and explores the shifting issues that have…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: This is a beautifully illustrated catalogue on the most comprehensive and ambitious full-scale retrospective of Munchs artistic oeuvre ever. In conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) in 2013, a once in a lifetime exhibition is produced by the Munch Museum and the National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design in Oslo. Munch 150 is the most comprehensive…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 636) Аннотация: The Soviet Union was unique in its formidable and dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the book, the USSR articulated its totalitarian ideologies and expressed its absolute power in an unprecedented way through avant-garde writing and radical artistic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 30s. No other country, nation, government or political system…