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Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: The author is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. In this title, he uses colour, reimagines the arcane world of the cabinet of curiosities: antiquarian collections of the recondite, rare and bizarre, which reminded the viewer of the vanity of earthly life.
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 034 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 204) Аннотация: A spotlight on French landscape painters of the early twentieth century. Most of the painters collected here have remained uncelebrated for far too long. This catalogue aims to repair this oversight, as well as to reignite the study of this generation of French painters who concentrated primarily on the traditional genre of landscape and still life. The eighty works of art, mainly painted between…
Скачать книгу (размер 19 985 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 3920) Аннотация: This exquisitely produced volume presents the work of twenty legendary photographers of international renown. From Man Ray's pioneering experimentations with the medium to the elegant and provocative fashion shots of Helmut Newton and Herb Ritts, the photographers featured are masters of their craft across different photographic genres, from reportage and documentary to art and portraiture to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This beautifully nostalgic and wonderfully insightful volume examines Tinseltown's fascination with the City of Light, from silent movies through to modern blockbusters. Romantic, elegant, and enticing, Paris has fascinated American filmmakers for over a century. As habile in accommodating a romantic comedy as an action-packed thriller, it is by far the foreign city that appears most frequently…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Wood has always been a strong contributing factor in the creation of interesting architecture. Because of its special physical characteristics, its many possibilities of application and combination with other construction materials, since human beings began building houses, wood has been one of the main building materials. In addition, because of the increasing sensitivity for the protection of…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: In the era of e-books and online shops, when the classic book trade has come under increasing pressure, the success of a bookshop is by no means a foregone conclusion. Booksellers confront these new challenges with very different economic strategies and conceptual measures. Spatial concepts, furnishings and design are indispensable ingredients of a successful sales strategy for newer as well as…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Numerous leading artists of the 20th-century showed an interest in jewellery, often through love of a woman, or for their daughters. Despite the opening of art from the 1910s onwards to the abstract and conceptual, they happily bridged the gap that seemed to be deepening between art and craftsmanship. The jewels exert a fascination in part because they bear the trace of the relationship between…
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