Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Venice, a mosaic of over 100 islands, many connected by the 400 bridges which span its famous canals, is possibly the most romantic city in the world. It began as a village in the marshes and grew into a formidable sea power, dubbed the Queen of the Adriatic. Now its fading glories — the canals and palaces, monuments and churches — battle with the elements, yet remain breathtakingly beautiful.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: This is a visually stunning, definitive survey with objects – furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and works on paper – from all over Europe, Scandinavia and the United States. At the turn of the last century, the Arts and Crafts movement transformed not only how objects looked but also how people looked at objects. It provided a framework for essential issues that are still debated today:…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. From Stockholm to Tokyo, Barcelona to Los Angeles, Melbourne to Milan, wall spaces are a breeding ground for graphic and typographic forms as artists unleash…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: This is an introduction to one of the great periods of Western art and provides a clear, dramatic account of the French art world under Louis XIII and Louis XIV. Drawing on research that places the art of the period in its context of religious and philosophical ideas, Christopher Allen provides the means for the reader to judge the meaning, relevance, success or failure of the art of this period.
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Loire Valley is renowned for its fabulous chateaux and gardens. Indeed, the area between Gien and Angers is known as the garden of France. But for hundreds of years the Loire was an important trading and transport route and the site of many historically significant events. In the Middle Ages the kings of France began to settle in the valley, attracted by its idyllic setting and gentle…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Here, in more than one thousand full-colour illustrations, is the history of Western costume, from ancient Egypt to Paris fashion. John Peacock’s meticulous drawings are organized in chronological sections and accompanied by detailed descriptions of each figure, including the individual items of costume shown and the many types of fabric, cut, pattern and colour that have been used over the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death in the flu epidemic of 1918 at the age of 28. His few hundred oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized, but he also created nearly 3000 drawings and watercolours. Limited access to these fragile works and dispersion among several collections have made a comprehensive survey of Schiele's work…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 348) Аннотация: This dictionary profiles world-renowned architects, engineers, landscape architects, artists and photographers whose work has given rise to an entirely new dimension in designing the cityscape. It features leading figures from the international scene, including Tadao Andao, Emilio Ambasz, Daniel Buren, Tony Cragg, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, Anish Kapoor, Rem Koolhaas, Maya Lin, Richard Long…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This sumptuously illustrated reference book is for serious Paris-lovers who seek information beyond what can be found in a traveler's guidebook. Paris is the first title from a major new series of classic, elegant guides to the monuments and mysteries of Europe's great capitals, illustrated by 600 photographs documenting sweeping panoramas, hidden corners, and stylish interiors. The handsome…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This comprehensive and authoritative study of post-war American art begins with Abstract Expressionism and concludes with the experimental and radical art of the beginning of the 21st century. Along the way David Joselit analyses what has shaped American art: how the mass media has framed the way in which artists view the world; how the issue of personal identity has emerged as a powerful…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: This advanced exploration of trompe l'oeil art and technique provides a treasury of designs suitable for interior designers and their clients, artists seeking inspiration or for those simply wishing to copy the images themselves. A CD-ROM is included for easy transfer and re-sizing of the designs. Step-by-step sketches and details of the finished pieces provide a demonstration tool, allowing…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: «Mario Sorrenti's brother Davide was born on July 9th, 1976, and died of complications stemming from a blood disorder on February 4th, 1997. Sorrenti, a well-known fashion photographer, movingly documents his brother's suffering over the course of one night, while Davide was hooked up to a drug infusion pump referred to by the family simply as «the machine.»
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Graffiti is the latest craze in commercial graphics and stencil graffiti is a refined version of the medium. Manco gives over 400 examples of this art form from all around the world, produced in a variety of media and with a huge range of subject matter from politics to poetry.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial commercialism. He also discusses thoroughly Gainsborough's life and work — his childhood in Suffolk; his 'apprenticeship' in London; his marriage and the birth of his daughters; his…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The essence of London, both grand and intimate in scale, is captured beautifully in this book of over 150 watercolour paintings and pencil drawings.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: One of the most evocative photographic memoirs every published. It was known that Brassai had taken a series of 'secret photographs' which could not be published because of their daring nature — the forbidden Paris, a sordid bas-monde where high society mingled with the underworld.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Cubism, often considered to be the seminal art movement of the 20th century, initiated a pictorial revolution through its radical approach to image-making, invention of the new media of collage and sculptural assemblage, and evolution towards pure abstraction. This work aims to reveal these profound formal innovations as integrally related to rapid changes in French society. It examines the…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Liotard's fine portraits of Westerners in Turkish dress, Carpaccio's turbanned figures and the coveted 'Turkey' carpets that appear in paintings by Lotto and Holbein bear witness to a deep Western fascination with all things Ottoman. It is this cultural influence, spanning five hundred years — from the fall of Constantinople through to the twentieth century — that unites the wealth of paintings,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: In this book of watercolour paintings and sketches, the beauty of Paris is celebrated through the talents of Fabrice Moireau and Maria Kelly. Their visual and narrative images capture the history and romance of Paris, highlighting the architecture of the French capital: its grand public buildings and intimate private houses, majestic avenues and narrow lanes. Visit the Louvre, Beauboug, Orsay,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: An introduction to the art of decorative patterning, of equal value to craftworkers, collectors and students of art history. Trilling analyzes the historical importance of ornament across the world, whether in the monumental architecture of Mycenean Greece or the inlaid vessels of Zhou Dynasty China, in the bronze mirrors of early Celtic Britain, or the carved and woven ornament of Native…