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Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This lavishly illustrated volume documents the residential works of master architect Richard Meier.

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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: The divergent personalities profiled in this book have collectively engineered entirely new ways of seeing, expanding their influence well beyond Japan and into the arts of Asia, Western Europe, and North America. Featuring the work of renowned talents as well as rising stars, this book is organized around the physical city and the role of the megalopolis as both the site and inspiration for an…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Long before pin-ups, Playboy, or the Internet, enterprising Parisians at the turn of the 20-th century turned the relatively new invention of the camera toward the female nude. Artfully posed with classical architecture or in flirtatious dishabille with stockings and lingerie, the winking models embody the erotic fantasies of a repressed society. Some of the women shown are demure and shy,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 482 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 488) Аннотация: This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cézanne. The book includes not only Freud’s paintings but also his sketches,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: In this visually stunning book, Ralph Lauren speaks candidly about himself and his art, including his most important, most iconic, and most beloved work handpicked from hundreds of runway shows, collections, and his signature cinematic advertising campaigns. Here is a rare peek into the mind of one of Americas most accomplished fashion designers.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A beautiful record of America's jazz age, Jazz Age Beauties celebrates the original Ziegfeld Follies girls with gorgeous portraits and publicity stills by photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston — a star maker of the 1920s and '30s. With more than 100 beautiful vintage photographs of Broadway starlets and silent film actresses, Jazz Age Beauties is an evocative and nostalgic ode to a glamorous era of…

Скачать книгу (размер 947 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 187) Аннотация: Questo romanzo è la storia di un progressivo inoltrarsi nel sogno di un silenzio assoluto, che il giovane narratore compie con ritmi e colpi di scena. Chi è quest'uomo anonimo, che potrebbe essere chiunque e decide di ricercare un silenzio totale, a cui il mondo esterno si rivolta aumentando il suo fragore immorale e malefico? La lotta contro il frastuono per la conquista del silenzio…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 294 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 255) Аннотация: Alberto Pinto is among the most celebrated interior designers at work today and is known primarily for his highly creative use of color and texture to achieve the effect of unparalleled opulence. Here, Pinto turns his attention to the most intimate and personal space in any home — the bedroom. Pinto succeeds in giving each of the fifty-one bedrooms featured in this illustrated volume his…

Скачать книгу (размер 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 156) Аннотация: If ever there was a defining moment in a career, for renowned body-painting artist Joanne Gair it came when she painted «that suit» on Demi Moore for the cover of Vanity Fair. From creating painted swimsuits on supermodels for Sports Illustrated or making music videos with Madonna, Gair's career allows us to see the human body as a canvas to be transformed and has worked with some of the world's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A glorious celebration of the singular sophistication of English furniture, this lavishly illustrated volume features more than 150 objects from the world-class collection of Hyde Park Antiques — one of the most prestigious purveyors of objects from England's history — showcased among charming illustrations of period interiors, exquisite drawings from cabinet-makers' albums, and contemporary…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The Rizzoli Art Classics series brings you Piero della Francesca, Titian, Caravaggio, and Velázquez, all in beautifully illustrated monographs, offering high-quality reproductions in compact, accessible volumes. These books feature a literary introduction by a renowned art historian, a thoroughly researched essay, and captions describing the artist's most famous canvases. A useful appendix…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Auguste Rodin rose from humble origins to become one of the most influential sculptors of all time, regarded during his life as a Michelangelo of the modern age. The influence of such masterpieces as The Thinker, Eternal Idol, The Kiss and The Burghers of Calais still reverberates today, almost one hundred years after Rodin’s death. Jennifer Gough-Cooper’s interest in photography was sparked by a…

Скачать книгу (размер 957 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 189) Аннотация: The Rizzoli Art Classics series brings you Piero della Francesca, Titian, Caravaggio, and Velázquez, all in beautifully illustrated monographs, offering high-quality reproductions in compact, accessible volumes. These books feature a literary introduction by a renowned art historian, a thoroughly researched essay, and captions describing the artist's most famous canvases. A useful appendix…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: With the advent of Prairie style architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright embarked on a journey that would forever change the course of architecture. During this extraordinarily prolific period, roughly the first quarter of the twentieth century, Wright built the first great modern American houses. He cast aside many of the conventions of the past, opening up interior spaces so that there might be a more…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Louise Brooks has become one of the most spectacular icons of early cinema. Her distinctive «bob» haircut looks as modern as they did when she first appeared in films in 1925. Louise Brooks was born on November 14, 1906 in Cherryvale, Kansas, and by eighteen had established herself as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies, and was receiving film offers from both MGM and Paramount. In 1928, she…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A tour of the twentieth-century architect's lesser-known works considers his gardens, parks, residential projects, and interior furnishing designs, studying the aspects of his finer details and including a selection of the architect's own writings.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: »In Vogue» is a fascinating look at the history of the world's most influential magazine. The complete compendium is illustrated with hundreds of covers and archival interiors of past «Vogue» editions, featuring the work of some of the twentieth century's most respected artists, cover illustrators, and photographers—from Edward Steichen, Toni Frissell, and Erwin Blumenfeld to Irving Penn, Richard…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Owen Jones was, and still remains, a highly influential force in the world of architecture and design. His prolific and impressive work—captured here in its various stages through drawings, architectural plans, and photographs—is as current, imaginative, and important now as when it first emerged more than 125 years ago. Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture & Theory in an Age in Transition…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The People's Republic of China is currently the largest market for architectural services in the world, and its cities — sites of the greatest economic migration in modern history — are rapidly being transformed into rival centers for global trade and commerce. «On the Edge: Ten Architects from China» is an unprecedented critical anthology on new architecture in China, the first book of its kind…