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Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: Symmetry and opulence. Art and architecture of ancient Egypt. An ardent admirer of the superb skills of the ancient Egyptian and Oriental artisans, the French Orientalist, author, and artist Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) made enormous contributions to the field of Egyptology. As a youth he dreamed of exploring the Orient, and at 19 began his travels, by visiting Greece, Palestine, and India.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 324) Аннотация: Sparkling tales for a special season: Stories of winter from around the world Despite its chilly weather and barren landscapes, wintertime has inspired some of the most magical and heartwarming stories in history. Around the world, this season of celebration, frost and snow, religion, tradition, and adventure has produced such classics as Clement Moore s Twas the Night Before Christmas, and such…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Get personal, get posting. Postcard Set Impressionism. We all know how much people like a card through the mailbox. Make someone's day with this set of 100 postcards, carefully selected from the TASCHEN archives. Elegantly packaged in a bespoke cardboard case, with a ribbon to pull up the cards, this collection covers the most important works of Impressionism. Flick through and find something…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Get personal, get posting: Postcard Set Magic We all know how much people like a card through the mailbox. Make someone s day with this set of 100 postcards, carefully selected from the TASCHEN archives. Elegantly packaged in a bespoke cardboard case, with a ribbon to pull up the cards, each collection covers the most important works of Magic. Flick through and find something perfect for friends,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: Get personal, get posting. Postcard Set Gil Elvgren, Pin-Ups. We all know how much people like a card through the mailbox. Make someone's day with this set of 100 postcards, carefully selected from the TASCHEN archives. Elegantly packaged in a bespoke cardboard case, with a ribbon to pull up the cards, this collection features the sassiest girls from Gil Elvgren's Pin-Ups. And if you fall in love…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Curate your home: Print Set Grimm, Fairy Tales This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Grimm s Fairy Tales. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as…

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Curate your home: Print Set Hiroshige This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Hiroshige s work. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as a poster.

Скачать книгу (размер 157 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 32) Аннотация: Curate your home. Print Set Salgado. This inspiring print set offers sixteen designs to transform a blank wall into a personalized display. Each set of sixteen images has been specially selected from the TASCHEN collection as the most loved, and most interesting, examples of Sebastiao Salgado's work. The prints are packaged in a sturdy cardboard box and are suitable either for framing or as a…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: In the 15 years since TASCHEN published The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up, defined as drawings or paintings of pretty girls that stop short of frank nudity,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Life is but a dream: The complete works of the visionary painter Manet called him the greatest painter of all. Picasso was so inspired by hismasterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Monet, Renoir, and Degas were heavily influenced by the paintings of Philip IV's grand chamberlain. Francis Bacon famously painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Indeed, Diego…

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: The Decisive Moment originally titled Images a la Sauvette — is one of the most famous books in the history of photography, assembling Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years. Published in 1952 by Simon and Schuster, New York, in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, it was lavishly embellished with a collage cover by Henri Matisse. The book and its images have since influenced…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: This volume presents Bruce Davidson's personal selections from his lesser-known color archive. Ranging from a period of fifty-six years and counting, these images are representative of the photographers color career. Assignments from various magazines (Vogue, National Geographic, Life magazine) and commercial projects led him to photograph fashion (early 1960s), the Shah of Iran with his family…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Howard Greenberg has been a gallery owner for more than thirty years. He is nowadays considered one of the pillars of the New York photographic scene. While he is well known as a dealer, his rather private passion as a collector is now revealed for the first time to a larger public. The Howard Greenberg Collection — which has been carefully assembled over the last thirty years — counts around 500…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: Planet on the page: Over 300 historic and contemporary Infographics explaining our remarkable, fragile world Gigantic and frail at the same time, our world keeps changing at high speed. New communication technologies have downsized the distances between far away continents. Data processing and network systems are changing our ways of living and working. Each second social networks are…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: A mighty history. Marvel from its golden age to the silver screen. From the very first issue of pulp impresario Martin Goodman's Marvel Comics in 1939, the comic book creators of Marvel's Golden Age flipped the traditional fantasy script by placing the inhuman and the invincible into the real world. With the likes of the fiery android Human Torch, vengeful sea prince Sub-Mariner, and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: A fascination for flora. Timeless photos in which plants become sculptures German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took thousands of photographs, revealing a formally rigorous talent whose precision and dedication bridge the 19th and 20th-century…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 572) Аннотация: From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city's development from the 1880s' real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood and the urban sprawl of the late 20th century,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 552) Аннотация: Eine fotografische Reise durch die Historie einer Weltstadt Samuel Johnson hat einmal gesagt: „Wenn ein Mann Londons berdrssig ist, ist er des Lebens berdrssig.“ Hunderte von Fotos aus Archiven in aller Welt illustrieren die Geschichte dieser einzigartigen Stadt, ihre Architektur, ihre Wahrzeichen, ihren Stil, ihr Flair – und natrlich ihre unerschtterlichen Bewohner. London mag eine ausufernde,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: For a year, Frans Lanting roamed the wetlands and deserts of northern Botswana, living by the rhythms of the water and the movements of the animals as he captured them on film. National Geographic had sent him there on assignment, but what he would take away was much more than a magazine story; it was a seminal and unparalleled collection of photographs depicting an epic world of wilderness and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: TASCHENs Paris, Portrt einer Stadt fhrt uns durch eine, wie Goethe es formulierte, „Weltstadt, wo jeder Gang ber eine Brcke oder einen Platz an eine groe Vergangenheit erinnert und wo an jeder Straenecke ein Stck Geschichte sich entwickelt hat“. Die Historie von Paris wird anhand bedeutender Fotografien nacherzhlt, von Daguerres frhen Inkunabeln bis zu aktuellen Aufnahmen — eine berbordende…