Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: On a willow-covered island behind Tibets Potala Palace is a small pagoda roofed Khang, or temple, a place reserved exclusively for the Dalai Lamas as a place of meditation and spiritual retreat. During the brief reign of the Sixth Dalai Lama, who built the Lukhang Temple in the 18th century, unknown artists created a series of mysterious paintings on its chapel walls; comparable in quality and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 911 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 376) Аннотация: Allan Kaprow (19272006) described himself as an un-artist, one who refused to participate in the traditional forms of the art world. Instead, he championed a practice that blurred the boundaries between art and life, moving art outside the gallery and museum and insisting on active participation rather than passive spectatorship. This richly illustrated volume documents Kaprows life and work…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Features essays on such topics as: the role of the urban landscape in the sustained health of the world`s cities; landscape as urban infrastructure; the aesthetics of sustainability; why people choose to live in cities; and, the qualities that make them attractive.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 135 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 420) Аннотация: Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. Evolution in Action, a resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to provide a map of those billion years in time. Now updated and presented in a smaller format with seventeen new utterly…
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site studio space. There he produced five portable murals — large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime and wood that feature bold images drawn from…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: In the visual history of the western world, some images and authors have become real icons for entire generations of painters, photographers, and common people. How could they remain so vivid in our memory, defeating oblivion? What was their secret? In this essay, Max Kozloff talks about one of the most emblematic and fascinating artists of our visual tradition, Johannes Vermeer; about his XVII…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The greening of facades with plants gives a piece of nature back to the city. But a green facade is much more than a charming view: Thanks to its insulating effect, it evens out extreme swings in temperature, protects against UV radiation and improves sound insulation. In that regard one does not have to always rely on the usual ivy. Other evergreen or fruit bearing plants and even exotic flowers…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Published to accompany the major exhibition at The Van Gogh Museum, this lavish volume is the first to trace Vincent Van Goghs decade-long achievement as a draughtsman. It features about 110 of the artists finest works in pen and ink, graphite, chalk, charcoal and watercolour, as well as a group of related paintings, all of which offer extraordinary insight into Van Goghs ongoing development as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: This unique visual reference guide will be an invaluable resource to professional designers from architects to illustrators, production designers, art directors, decorators, film concept artists, sculptors and painters. It uses colour photographs to illustrate a wide range of locations and styles of architecture throughout Egypt, particularly highlighting universal architectural elements that may…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 503 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 296) Аннотация: What makes a magazine into a design classic? How can timeless ideas be incorporated into an ever-changing contemporary context? While many books on editorial design simply illustrate great work, this book, now updated with a new chapter covering independent magazines and revised illustrations throughout, presents a huge range of examples from an amazing collection of international magazines and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: First published in 1991, this book traces the history of glassmaking from its origins in Western Asia some 5000 years ago, through the invention of glassblowing around the first century BC, to the introduction of mechanised processes and new styles in the 19th and 20th centuries. It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the extraordinary achievements of the Roman…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Works of art make a substantial contribution to cultural identification. When they are placed in a public place this function is enhanced. However the artworks also acknowledge other tasks: they figuratively announce content in their traditional role, standing as the image of a ruler or at least serve as decoration, while in the Modern period they become increasingly space defining or shaping. In…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Creative Space looks at the studios, apartments, and homes of the designers, directors, stylists, artists, graffiti writers, curators, novelists and innovators who are pushing the boundaries of contemporary culture. These are interiors created by people who shop in Colette in Paris, live on the Lower East Side in New York and travel to Tokyo. The domestic spaces are often DIY and strongly reflect…
Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: Beckett is the result of a little-known encounter that took place over 30 years ago in Tangiers, between the then-burgeoning photographer Francois-Marie Banier and the great Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett. Banier kept spotting Beckett's iconically gaunt and tapering frame — a marsh-bird vanished in the middle of the crowd of Moroccans in djellabahs and indifferent tourists — and was so…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 094 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 608) Аннотация: This is a volume of living history the history of our times, as seen by the photographers who captured it. It is the most comprehensive anthology of Life photography ever assembled, and illustrates the strengths that made many of these individuals famous and Life great. This book, an enormous international success in hardback, is now available in a new, compact, paperback edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: This book demonstrates and revels in the rich inventiveness of a designer who played a key role in the fashions of the 1980s and 90s, and one who — with fashion's recent return to harder edges — has become an inspiration for many contemporary designers.
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Self Portraiture has long been one of the most important genres in fine art, and as photographers like Cindy Sherman and Nan Goldin demonstrate, offers unique possibilities for the creative photographer, too. The digital age and in particular, the photosharing site flickr has opened up the field, throwing up a generation of talents who, in presenting images of themselves to the world, offer new…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Reuters photojournalists are continually bearing witness to events as they happen across the globe. They submit some 1,500 photos a day, creating an annual archive of over half a million images. This award-winning work pushes the boundaries of what news photography is and can be: it ranks among the finest photojournalism of our times. Our World Now 4 draws upon this unparalleled resource to…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: This marvellously illustrated book is a blend of the avant-garde, the unconventional and the delightful. Showcasing 591 contemporary rings by almost 300 international designers who stimulate the imagination by challenging traditional practices and standard definitions. The finished products are sculpture for the hands, and range from the simple to the abstract, from everyday rings to those that…
Скачать книгу (размер 687 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 136) Аннотация: The retrospective of portraits of Mick Jagger, one of the worlds most photographed performers, was a highlight of the 2010 Arles photography festival. This book gathers together all the photographs from that exhibition, introduced by the Festivals director, Francois Hebel. Hebel writes, 'In order to consider the rock portrait, we have chosen to focus on different unities: unity of face, in the…