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Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: European metropolises like Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, Istanbul or London are fascinating because of their history, the people, and the feeling for life but especially because of the buildings. Architectural details of all epochs and styles are the focus of this book: the window as the eye of the house, balconies as retreats in the midst of the urban din or stairs as the embodiment of change. Aside…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: David Hockney introduces his two dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie, in this delightful new book. The result of both sharp observation and affection, these paintings and drawings are lyrical studies in form and color. A text by the artist himself gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how to work with models who don't necessarily want to sit still. Hockney has provided additional drawings made…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Naked Architecture Valerio Paolo Mosco: An account of one of the most interesting phenomena of contemporary architecture: the return to the structure and methods with which contemporary constructions are realized. Over the last ten years architecture would seem to have rediscovered engineering. Now that the Postmodern period, in which the structure of buildings was camouflaged by coverings of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 268 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 250) Аннотация: In 1989, Malcolm McLaren had his only number one hit with a single called Deep in Vogue. Early the next year, Madonna had one of the biggest hits of her career, with the single Vogue, and when Jennie Livingston's film Paris Is Burning arrived in cinemas the same year, winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the mainstream got hip to New York City's extraordinary ball culture,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 200) Аннотация: This is the definitive catalogue on the first woman artist to be a glamour star. A cosmopolitan painter and icon of the Art Deco movement, Tamara de Lempicka created images that became the symbols of an era, the crazy 1920s and 1930s. She was possibly that periods most brilliant exponent. Driven by an iron will to achieve, Tamara not only cultivated her artistic talent, he also consciously built…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Construction for Landscape Architecture cConstruction for Landscape Architecture covers all aspects of landscape construction, giving a good understanding of building materials and assembly. It is heavily illustrated with specially commissioned, detailed construction drawings and has a strong emphasis on sustainability and good practice. At the end of the book there is an extensive glossary and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: The automobile has shaped the appearance of our streets for 100 years now. At the same building types have been created to serve it. Parking garages and gas stations as new species of architecture and showrooms whose exhibition spaces and display windows are markedly different from the usual businesses have decisively changed the cities. This book is dedicated to this type of architecture,…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Willem de Kooning was a pioneering figure among Abstract Expressionists, one of the most influential champions of the dynamic, process-driven painting that brought NewYork to the centre of the art world in the 1950s. This latest volume in The MoMA Artist Series guides readers through ten of de Koonings most memorable achievements, chosen from The Museum of Modern Arts substantial collection of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped architecture. Entertainingly written by an expert on architecture, it provides a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader. Starting with the basic building 'components' of door, window, column and beam and the Classical orders, it then goes on to explore…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: The Fashion Design Reader is a comprehensive guide to fashion design. Through a series of critical and informative chapters covering historical and contemporary theory, The Fashion Design Reader explores the multi-faceted nature of fashion design and its associated contexts, processes and methodologies. It takes a practical look at more advanced approaches to fashion drawing, working with colour…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: An introduction to the basic principles of pattern cutting, this practical book shows students how to interpret the human form and look at clothing through the eyes of a designer rather than a consumer. As well as explaining the proportions of human anatomy, the book introduces key tools and then takes the reader from simple pattern-cutting ideas to more advanced creative methods. Step-by-step…

Скачать книгу (размер 769 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 152) Аннотация: Explores the roots and fruits of this radical art movement. Here Emmett Williams turns cartoonist, in the footsteps of Lyonel Feininger, Rube Goldberg, and Ad Reinhardt. His pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered by Ann Noel for this edition, are peopled with often-irreverent images of his real-life friends and colleagues. Williams, the oldest living member of Fluxus, assumes…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This miscellany of mysterious objects celebrates the beauty of simple, useful things. If you have ever thatched a roof, measured a skull, stuffed a rabbit or walked on a whale, you may well recognize some of these tools. If you haven't, but admire the work of, say, Miro, Duchamp and Cornell, you will appreciate these accidental masterpieces of the everyday. These are the tools of life, some…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: A childhood encounter with a crow at a zoo led to a lifetime fascination with avian life for the American artist Jim Dine. This encounter with the bird was perceived by the young Dine with a mixture of fear, fascination and a deeper understanding of his unconscious world, and from it grew a mythic personal symbolism, which he explores in Birds, a series of remarkable black-and-white photographs.…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: »The winter in L.A. that year was kind of a 'grey July.' Diana and I lived at 234 Entrada Drive in January and February of 2001. These photographs are a memoir of what our eyes saw in our garden and when we walked to the Pacific Ocean. We also [rode] into the Santa Monica Mountains on our bicycles, crossing Sunset Boulevard just where it goes into Pacific Palisades. We did this every day, winding…

Скачать книгу (размер 463 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 92) Аннотация: In 1994, suffering from aching knees and painfully concerned about it, Lee Friedlander decided to prepare himself for a sedentary life. He began to pursue the still life as a possibility and maybe a way of photographic life a dramatic shift for a man who has spent his life photographing on the street, in the woods, on the road, at parties, anywhere but sitting down. He tried a variety of subjects…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: British artist Susan Derges engages with themes of alchemy, testing the inter-relation between the elements of fire, water, earth and air. Her beautifully crafted images reflect a holistic system that encompasses the human psyche and finds its metaphors through the natural world. From 1980-86 Derges lived and worked in Japan, introducing the influence of Japanese minimalism which she combined…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 585 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 312) Аннотация: Japanese contemporary artists have mined some distinctive territory in the past decade or two--from the Superflat movement, to the referencing of traditional art objects like scrolls or contemporary pop phenomena like manga. Within these conventions, certain themes continually surface--nature in conflict with the manmade world, costuming and the search for personal identity and the child as…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This much acclaimed book, newly available in paperback, is the definitive retrospective of the most popular serious artist in the world today, covering all media over almost fifty years. Presented thematically to show the evolution and diversity of Hockney's prolific paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints and photography, it also features quotes from the artist himself that illuminate the…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This book, part of a new series built on the authority of Rob Thompsons highly acclaimed Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals, includes new content selected specifically for the needs of students who create product and furniture designs for mass production. With some 450 specially commissioned photographs and technical illustrations, it describes more than 30 manufacturing processes,…