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Скачать книгу (размер 927 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 183) Аннотация: Jürgen Vollmer has lead the traditional peripatetic life of a photographer and this book contains images of the people he has photographed in different countries across the globe. What is different from the usual collection of travel portraits is that often his subjects have been famous actors and literary figures. The first part of the book, On Filmsets, consists of a series on two dozen…

Скачать книгу (размер 758 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 150) Аннотация: British photographer Glen Luchford first caught the public eye in the late 1990s, with his avant-garde fashion campaigns for Prada. With its elaborate lighting and atmosphere of conspicuous artifice, Luchford's highly cinematic imagery exemplified the merging visual languages of fashion and art photography, launching the photographer as one of his generation's most imaginative talents. Part of…

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Robert Capa (1913-1954) gave the world some of the most moving and memorable images of war ever taken, and redefined journalism for ever. Through his photographs we see the suffering, confusion, boredom and courage of the soldiers and civilians affected by the five wars that he covered. Yet he was more than a war photographer: Capa's portraits of politicians and artists are equally memorable. A…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: One was a famous artist and a pioneering photographer, the other an ardent collector of photography, a curator and author--known to his many friends as «Mr. Photokina» for his founding and curatorship of the legendary exhibitions at the Photokina photography fair in Cologne. Man Ray (1890-1976) and L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005) nurtured a professional and personal friendship for more than 20 years,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 440) Аннотация: »I have drawn all my life. I began withdrawing: I have never stopped drawing.»—Auguste Rodin From the «black» drawings contemporaneous with the Gates of Hell to his great watercolor nudes, this book reproduces hundreds of Auguste Rodin's most beautiful graphic works held in the collection of the Musée Rodin, a number of which are published here for the first time. The accompanying essays…

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: »No one wants to be a prophet, if the job can be avoided. What you want to try to be is a psalmist.» Robert Adams Robert Adams began by photographing suburban landscapes along the edge of the Rocky Mountains. His goal was then, and remains, to acknowledge the disappearance of wilderness but also to discover a basis for affirmation. In the 1980s he went on to revisit semi-rural areas through which…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 074 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 408) Аннотация: In her second book, acclaimed photographer Brigitte Lacombe offers revelatory portraits of Barack Obama, Brice Marden, Joan Didion, Kate Winslet, Daniel Day-Lewis, Miuccia Prada and many of her most influential contemporaries. Lacombe's honest and intelligent collection of portraits is a documentation of artists, writers, directors, actors and political figures. These compelling photographs, in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Traces the history of the German school of art, the Bauhaus, and examines the activities of its teachers and students.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: This comprehensive survey the history of realist painting and argues that realism has had a continuous yet restlessly changing place in American and European painting throughout the 20th century. Artists discussed include Eakins, Bellows and Homer, Vuillard, Bonnard, Schiele, Morandi, Hopper and Giacometti, through to Balthus, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney. The author provides the historical,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Filled with great masterpieces by such artists as Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna and Titian, «Understanding Italian Renaissance Painting» takes a journey into their world. As in the acclaimed and innovative «How to Read a Painting», each spread uses an important painting as a way to explain a key concept, with numerous large details. Here,…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: For centuries, all over the world, scrapbooks have been the most immediate and popular form of visual diary. In Northern Ireland, scrapbooks from the late 1960s through the early 1990s reflected «The Troubles,» the regional conflict between Protestants and Catholics. Inspired by these highly individual collaged records of daily life--albums full of newspaper clippings, family photos and personal…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 778 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 350) Аннотация: In 1956, Inge Morath (1923-2002) traveled to the Middle East for Holiday magazine. She wore the traditional chador and traveled alone most of the time. «It was difficult to photograph there as a woman,» she later recorded. In this body of work, Morath's subjects range from politics and religion to work and commerce, from the shah's palace to the nomad's tent to Zoroaster's sacred shrine. She…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 666 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 328) Аннотация: Nobody doubts that the contemporary art of Turkey has arrived on the international stage: Hale Tengers work has been bought by the Pompidou Centre; Fikret Atay features in Tate Moderns collection; Kutlug Ataman has been nominated for the Turner Prize; and, collectors flock from around the world to pick up pieces by exceptionally talented Turkish artists. «Unleashed» is the most comprehensive…

Скачать книгу (размер 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 48) Аннотация: Robert Rauschenberg made a tremendous impact on Modern art in the twentieth century. As a pioneer of Pop art, he was a key figure in the postwar tradition that brought American art to the forefront of the international scene. This new volume in the MoMA Artist Series, which explores important artists and favorite works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, guides readers through a dozen…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty. In recent years shoes have become objects of fanatical devotion, as covetable designs have gained iconic status and shoe designers have become heroes of popular culture. From Christian Louboutin's signature red sole and the Manolo Blahnik heels that helped to define Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw to the eco-friendly…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Exhibition Design offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describes the skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: developing a brief and working with clients, design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting and accessibility, presenting ideas to clients, and the practicalities of production. The visual material includes photographs of…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: The stone monuments of the Incas, set against the dramatic backdrop of the Andes, are among the most magnificent structures in the world. Originally published in 1982, Monuments of the Incas is the most comprehensive photographic and narrative study of the major sites of the Inca empire, including the famed city of Machu Picchu, the Inca town and sun temple of Ollantaytambo, the mighty…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: For over two decades, Belgian architect Vincent van Duysen has created a body of work that is at once sublime and rich, minimal yet tactile. This is the complete monograph of Van Duysen's work, including his domestic architecture, office and commercial spaces, as well as furniture and decorative objects for such leading international manufacturers as B&B Italia, Poliform and Swarovski. Over…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Published in concomitance with the major exhibition curated by Germano Celant at the Triennale di Milano, this volume brings together all the projects realized by Frank O. Gehry since his pivotal stylistic metamorphosis of 1997, embodied by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, until today. Among the featured works: the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (1989-2003), the DZ Bank Building in…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: In January 2003 British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy was invited to create a work of art for the National Gallery of Art. The project began with a series of ephemeral works on Government Island in Stafford County, Virginia. From this phase a series of photographic suites and a diary remain. The second phase of the project resulted in Roof, a permanent, site-specific sculpture at the National Gallery…