Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. The subject of a feature film by fellow artist Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. This book explores his short but…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the «painter as poet». The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century. Chagall’s paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colorful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning they evoke recall his native…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with the style of Klimt, his mentor, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings. Many contemporaries found…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Today, the painter and graphic artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is considered as one of the most inspired portrayers of human figures. This physically handicapped scion of the old French nobility was fascinated by life around Montmartre, whose cafes, cabarets, dance halls, and bordellos presented him with the «theater of life.» More than any other artist, Toulouse-Lautrec captured the…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: This richly illustrated and expert study follows Vincent van Gogh from the early gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his homeland, through his bright and colorful Parisian period, to the work of his final years, spent under a southern sun in Arles. Here, at last, he found the light that produced the unmistakable Van Gogh style. At Arles, Saint-Remy and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: The field of illustration has flourished over the last decade, with professionals working both by computer and by hand. In illustration, the single most challenging and captivating subject has been the portrait, frequently used in editorials, advertising, products, and most recently, being the subject of major exhibitions. The book gathers together the exclusive (and frequently unpublished)…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Painting outside the box. The founder of abstract art. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Elmer Batters (1919-1997) was the grand master of leg and foot art. While others preferred the thrill of an inviting cleavage, the maestro’s eye was on lower things—trim calves, the arch of a foot, the well-made lines of toes and heels. He chose his models with these criteria in mind—and with the obsessiveness of a Zen artist spent his lifetime looking for the perfect leg. Batters started out…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 166 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 426) Аннотация: Несомненный успех первого издания стал причиной появления второго сборника эротических фотографий. И это не просто снимки, на которых запечатлено обнаженное тело, это полноценные картины, в которых авторы пытаются постичь секреты женской притягательности. К работе над книгой были привлечены пятьдесят известных фотографов, при этом кадры пятнадцати из них уже появлялись в предыдущем сборнике.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 292) Аннотация: Who took 1970s porn esthetic and made it fashion chic? Terry Richardson. Who made the trailer park trendy and the tractor hat de rigueur? Richardson again. Who's equally at home in «Vogue», «Harper's Bazaar», «Purple» and «Vice»? Our boy Terry. Who uses his fashion money to fund an X-rated website? Yes, Richardson. This book tells his story.
Скачать книгу (размер 3 900 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 766) Аннотация: This is a unique survey of photography from its origins until now. From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: One of the hottest areas of contemporary design is clearly landscape architecture. No matter what the architectural style of the moment, the green areas around houses, stadiums or corporate headquarters have taken on a considerable importance, all the more so with the emphasis on ecology and green design. This book deals with this topic.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: Turning 80 is not so bad when the occasion is marked by a sweeping retrospective of your life's work. An exhibition of 300 works by Helmut Newton, curated by June Newton and Taschen editor Manfred Heiting, opens on October 30th 2001 at the Berliner Nationalgalerie. This is the catalogue of the exhibition, and features works carefully selected for the exhibition from Newton's entire career,…
Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The great Belgian Surrealist. A sense of the amazing, the surprising, and the ridiculous in Magritte's paintings. It is impossible to overlook the influence of Rene Magritte (1898-1967) on contemporary art. His surrealistic painting turns the usual order of things ironically on its head, thus restoring mystery to a world that has lost its magic. His work typically conveys a sense of the amazing,…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In search of lost time. For over thirty years, photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) traveled the length and breadth of North America, seeking to record in words and images the traditional life of its vanishing indigenous inhabitants. Like a man possessed, he strove to realize his life's work, which culminated in the publication of his encyclopedia The North American Indian. In the end,…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 680) Аннотация: Designing private homes offers architects more freedom than corporate projects to express their ideas and try out new concepts. This title rounds up 100 of the world's most interesting and pioneering homes from the past decade, featuring a host of talents both new and established, including John Pawson, Richard Meier, Shigeru Ban, and Zaha Hadid.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: Three legends. Monroe by Mailer and Stern. Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary Last Sitting — widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever taken — to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of glamour and criticism for an entire generation. But…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: How to live well? This is a diverse and inspiring selection of interiors from around the world. This special edition rounds up the creme de la creme of today's most exceptional and inspiring interiors around the world. Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, this painstakingly picked and sumptuously photographed selection of 100 homes represents TASCHEN's favorite ways…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: Fifty years of Bond, James Bond Bond, James Bond. Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. Armed with guns, gadgets, and beautiful women, the impeccably British character created by author Ian Fleming has starred in 24 films, played by 7 different actors over five decades.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Home sweet home. This is a remarkable photographic exploration of life on earth. In the year 2000, world-renowned wildlife photographer Frans Lanting set out on a personal journey to photograph the evolution of life on earth. He made pilgrimages to true time capsules like a remote lagoon in Western Australia, spent time in research collections photographing forms of microscopic life, and even…