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Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: COATS! Max Mara will delight thousands of women who secretly slip on «my Max Mara» just for pleasure-and millions more who still wish they had gone ahead and bought that unforgettable coat. The publication of this book coincides with a traveling exhibition that includes more than 50 classic coats from the company archives, accompanied by numerous images and sketches showing their design…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Beautifully illustrated and well documented with detailed technical entries, this volume surveys the production of Italian ceramic art through 500 objects. The essays examine the stylistic trends from the brilliant floral decorativism of the Tuscan ceramics by Galileo Chini, the extraordinary period of the 1920s and 1930s, as represented by Gio Ponti, Guido Andloviz, Giovanni Gariboldi, Pietro…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Susan Herbert’s innovative, witty and hugely popular renderings of cats in human situations, from Shakespearean drama to masterpieces of Western art, have won her a large and admiring public. Now she draws on her lifelong fascination with cinema to give us a series of scenes from classic films – all with cats playing the leading roles. Here is an irresistible array of well-known characters, from…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From the immaculate manicure of a geisha in Kyoto and the elegant dexterity of Balinese dancers’ hands, to a Havana street photographer’s stubby fingers and the ragged stumps of an Australian crocodile farmer, this eloquent book celebrates an often ignored area of communication – hands. The renowned photographer Basil Pao, who has accompanied Michael Palin on his journeys from Pole to Pole,…

Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: These moody, monochrome landscapes speak of an Italy far removed from the familiar, tourist images. Mostly ‘empty’ – without people – they highlight the intrinsic beauty of Venice itself, and capture the timelessness of the city throughout the centuries. Juxtaposing black and white photographs of traditional, theatrical Venice with images of the city’s industrial area, Marghera, this is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The originality of Turner’s technique alone puts him high in the canon of great artists, but his subject-matter gains additional interest with an understanding of his enormous appetite for travel. In this book, over 150 of his works of every type are lavishly displayed and superbly reproduced. For over forty years, from the 1790s to his old age in the 1840s, he made regular tours in Britain and…

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 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This is an indispensable resource for all collectors, connoisseurs and students of Chinese ceramics, as well as anyone with an interest in Asia’s rich cultural heritage. In over 700 specially taken colour photographs a wide range of imperial and regional, decorative and practical, export and domestic, ceremonial and funerary wares are fully represented, organized into chronological sections, from…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: David Adjaye is one of Britain’s leading contemporary architects. Known for his domestic projects, Making Public Buildings focuses for the first time on Adjaye’s engagement with civic space and the built environment. Adjaye combines the sensual and emotive with a conceptual approach to the fundamental elements of architecture. His influences range from African art and architecture to contemporary…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Mediterranean lifestyle is the envy of the world. A fusion of interior style, glorious landscapes and bold architectural design, Mediterranean Modern presents twenty-five of the most desirable houses of the region in a format that speaks directly to the increasingly design-savvy. It presents twenty-five houses – from southern Spain to northern Africa, from Greece to the Balearic Islands – which,…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: One of the best known and most influential artists in the history of art, Michelangelo was a prolific sculptor, painter, architect, and draftsman. This lovely book focuses on more than 250 of his drawings executed in chalk, charcoal, and pen and ink. Distinguished art historian Hugo Chapman examines this array of works and discusses how the act of drawing figured prominently in Michelangelo’s…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: It provides accurate scale plans of every floor, together with elevations, sections, and site plans where appropriate, for each house. All have been specially drawn for the purpose and are based on the most up-to-date information and sources. Amplified with full-color views of the houses, a concise text explains the significant architectural features of each building and the influences it shows…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Wallpaper is back, but this time it is different. No longer used to cover cracks and imperfections in crumbling plasterwork, wall coverings are now a means of expressing individuality. Graphic designers and illustrators are playing with scale and using walls as their canvases, while fashion and textile designers are transferring their fabric prints to paper. This book is a showcase of fresh and…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Newly available in paperback, this collection of work by Henri Cartier-Bresson is the ultimate retrospective look at a lifetime's achievement. It is full of classic photographs that have become icons of the medium, as well as rarely seen work from all periods of Cartier-Bresson's life, including a significant number of previously unpublished photographs and a generous selection of drawings,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The second volume of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia contains completely new drawings, text and photographs from Danzig Baldaev and Sergei Vasiliev. During his fifty years working as a prison guard in St Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison, Baldaev diligently recorded over 3,000 criminal tattoos, documenting their meanings within this closed society. This volume further explores the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: This monumental art reference series will offer a complete and up-to-date survey of the major movements and art phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium in an original interdisciplinary analysis of artistic culture. It provides an extraordinary repertory of images and a vast source of information, enriched fact-finding windows and technical information compiled by experts.…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: Whether photographing avant-garde theatre, gypsies on the steppes of Eastern Europe, resistance to Soviet guns and tanks advancing on Prague, or the environmental degradation of a crumbled empire, Josef Koudelka has consistently produced images that provoke a connection to the larger questions of human existence. This book is the first to unite all his most eloquent images, and is the ultimate…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: A dazzling visual journey through 1000 years of architecture. • Charts the progression of Western architecture over the last millennium, from the Romanesque to the latest modern trends • 148 special features dedicated to the greatest architects, styles, movements and themes, each with a concise introductory text and illustrations of the most important work • Thirty-six analyses of masterpieces…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The decorative arts were given a fresh lease of life by the Paris International Exhibition of 1925, and experienced a boom that was to shape the lifestyles of a whole generation. In Art Deco Textiles — The French Designers, hundreds of full-colour photographs bring to life the age when craftsmanship and industry worked side by side: Lyons silk and the first artificial fibres; carved wooden…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Photography helped shape art in the late twentieth century; in the twenty-first, it has begun to dominate it. Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters, with their pieces commanding unprecedented prices. This stunning survey presents the work of eighty of the…