Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Take a privileged view inside the private sketchbooks of over eighty architects and studios from around the world. Densely packed with over 750 illustrations, Architects Sketchbooks is a joyful celebration of how a sketch can become the start of a skyscraper. The 85 practitioners featured range from such starchitects as Will Alsop, Shigeru Ban, Laurie Chetwood, Norman Foster and Eva Jiricna to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That is Susie Hodge's passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twombly's scribbled Olympia (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiat's crude but spontaneous LNAPRK…
Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: This title presents the inside track from the greatest names in the field. As one of the chief collaborators with the directors on a film, production designers are artistic masters in their own right. In Production Design sixteen of the world's greatest production designers share their insights, anecdotes, and technical achievements, through a series of exclusive interviews. Fascinating for both…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Affordable building lots in central locations in the large cities and metropolises are rare. When there are no available gaps in the urban structure, attic conversions and extensions are an interesting and favored form of redensification. This volume explores approximately 60 attic projects, as extensions, conversions, or new construction, which utilize the previously used storage space for new…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Fashion design is a process of investigating, understanding context, and constantly questioning what you are doing and why. This comprehensive survey presents the work of a wide range of modern and contemporary designers and reveals the innumerable areas of inspiration and research on which they ve drawn, from historical examples such as Christian Dior's New Look to traditional textiles from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: For nearly fifty years, sisters Susan Collier and Sarah Campbell have been at the forefront of textile design. Collections for London's Liberty department store made their name, with designs like Bauhaus (1972) deemed a significant turning point, paving the way for a vibrant new aesthetic. Their work at this point included prints, furnishing and dress textiles, and famously Liberty's noted…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: These small, but perfectly formed, book collections of kitsch and kooky images come complete with fascinating facts and weird and wonderful tales. These digests of the best from classic Fifties comics contain everything from ghastly ghouls and racy romances; through wise-guy gangsters and vampish vixens; right up to battle-scarred heroes and outer space adventures. There's a fascinating…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: These small, but perfectly formed, book collections of kitsch and kooky images come complete with fascinating facts and weird and wonderful tales. These digests of the best from classic Fifties comics contain everything from ghastly ghouls and racy romances; through wise-guy gangsters and vampish vixens; right up to battle-scarred heroes and outer space adventures. There's a fascinating…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: In every culture of the world myths help explain our origins, the world 's creation, gods and monsters, demons, the afterlife, and the underworld. This compelling account gathers together themes and stories from every part of the globe to show how myths share many common patterns, and how through them the human imagination is expressed in all its diversity. A treasury of images drawn from all…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: This collection of 30 unintentionally kitsch postcards from yesteryear contains classic adverts, information announcements, and army, navy, and air force recruitment posters that are perhaps hiding a deeper meaning.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: Dance s extraordinary range extends from classical ballet and baroque court spectacles to avant-garde modern dance, tap, and ethnic dancing. This comprehensive history covers the entire spectrum, vividly describing the great performers and performances of the past as well as exploring in detail the contemporary dance world. A generous selection of illustrations completes the picture, taking the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The Scottish Country House chronicles a remarkable group of houses and castles that have survived the vicissitudes of Scotland's turbulent history and are still in the hands of their original families. From breakfront cabinets filled with generations of monogrammed heirloom china to canopy beds keeping the chill of a Scottish winter at bay to cabbage-rose slip-covered sofas nestled under tall…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Available again, this beautifully produced collection of fashion illustration celebrates the richness of fashion drawing in Vogue magazine. William Packer, painter, writer and art critic, has collected the very best drawings from over seventy years of Vogue for this inspired volume, which features the work of hundreds of artists, from Edouard Benito, René Bouché, and Pierre Brissaud, to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: This dictionary provides comprehensive information on the fine arts, with entries on paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints, and the artists who have made them, throughout the world. It covers historical styles and movements in the arts, and contains entries on techniques, materials and terms, as well as on the major writers whose ideas have influenced the course of art and the work of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Fusing understated elegance, relaxed chic, and the Zen attitude, fashion designer Marie France Van Damme reveals the secrets of successful, sophisticated, and stress-free entertainment on a budget. Five chapters Flowers, Candles, The Table, Food, and Art explore how to create a sense of occasion, a relaxed mood, simple pleasures, and food without worry. Each chapter finishes with actual events: a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 309 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 454) Аннотация: This superbly illustrated survey takes a look at SHoP, a prominent New York-based architecture firm, and one of the foremost at work in the world today. SHoPs work has won numerous awards, is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, and has clients including United Colours of Benetton, Virgin Atlantic, Google, Goldman Sachs and the City of New York. All this is down to a unique…
Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Original, imaginative and lots of fun, My Head-to-Toe Body Book is a look at the body inside and out for young children. The approach is hands-on: this book is all about asking questions and getting answers. How many teeth do you have? What happens to the food you eat? How do you wee? A little girl called Koko asks questions to make children think about the body, while three intrepid explorers go…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Britain has played a key role in the history of the last five centuries, and its art reflects this in absorbing but complex ways. At first, foreign artists and influences were dominant — for example, Holbein, Van Dyck, Lely and Kneller. In the century of Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough, British painting reflected an increasingly confident society, propelled by Imperialist expansion and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: Born out of the drawingbuilding.org online archive, Architectural Inventions presents a stunning visual study of impossible or speculative structures that exist only on paper. Soliciting the work of architects, designers, and artists of renown-as well as emerging talents from all over the world-Maximilian Goldfarb and Matt Bua have gathered an array of works that convey architectural…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Lucian Freud Portraits surveys his portraits and figure paintings from across his long career. Drawing together the finest portraits from public and private collections around the world, the book explores Freud's stylistic development and technical virtuosity. A series of previously unpublished interviews conducted by Michael Auping between May 2009 and January 2011 reveals the artist's thoughts…