Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Photographer Frederic Aranda's love letter to California's Christine Suppes's collection. Electric Fashion tells the story of the clothing in this collection through photography, including academic text and pages from the collection's accompanying blog, fashionlines.com. Each garment is photographed in a studio setting and some are worn by the collector herself.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Today Egon Schiele (1890-1918) is celebrated as an artist at the forefront of the international stage, although he spent almost his entire life in Lower Austria and Vienna. This publication uses the most recent sources and previously unpublished photographs to show how Schiele developed essential elements of his expressive art and how influential it remains to this day. For Egon Schiele Lower…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal understanding of their environment, presents a well-informed and nuanced account of what has become a widespread art practice. Organized geographically, each section is introduced by a short historical…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Paul Jackson's major new title Complete Pleats is the most comprehensive book about pleating on the market. It explains how pleating systems can be stretched, compressed, flared, skewed, multiplied and mirrored, showing how from simple ideas, a huge number of original pleat forms can be created. Each technique is explained with a series of step-by-step photographs and line illustrations, enabling…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Photographer Christopher Herwig has covered more than 30,000km by car, bike, bus and taxi in 13 former Soviet countries discovering and documenting these unexpected treasures of modern art. From the shores of the Black Sea to the endless Kazakh steppe, these bus stops show the range of public art from the Soviet era and give a rare glimpse into the creative minds of the time. The book represents…
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: A gorgeous peek into the personal garden of an award-winning, playful, postmodernist gardener The garden designer George Carter, a Gold Medalist at Chelsea, the world's most prestigious flower show, is noted for his subtle and witty approach to garden design. He has designed and made gardens for Burleigh, Penshurst, and other stately homes, together with many smaller gardens, all using ingenious…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: The years since 1989 have seen a complete untethering of what art can be, who makes it and where it can be found, which has been matched by a reassessment of art's appropriate place in society and the financial value that should be attached to it. In this new book in the World of Art series, Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art practice worldwide since 1989, going in search of…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This informative and engaging book uses a variety of inventive infographics to take an unusual look at architecture in a way that would not be possible with words and images alone. Through a variety of different infographics it compares, for example, the range of materials and colours used by different architects, the relative locations of their buildings, who influenced who, and which architects…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: More than any other element of a room, and as the largest and most expensive component of any design scheme, the effect a carpet has on a space is every bit as great as its size. Decorators have long recognized the importance of a fine carpet, its impact on the colors and textures of a space, its contribution to creating an atmosphere, its feel of luxury, and, with the best examples, its lasting…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science; yet, over the next 150 years the feared, practical men of medicine benefited from a revolution in scientific progress and the increased availability of instructional textbooks. Anesthesia and antisepsis were introduced. Newly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Established on the global stage by the international success and influence of architects such as Peter Zumthor and Herzog & de Meuron, today's generation of architects in Switzerland draws on the country's distinctive landscape of alpine peaks, crystalline lakes and efficient cities, and fuses traditional Swiss materials with new high-tech tools and innovative construction methods. New Swiss…
Скачать книгу (размер 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 108) Аннотация: The perfect introduction to the citys architectural heritage, Cambridge The Watercolour Sketchbook gives visitors and residents insight into a wealth of sights, both grand and intimate in scale. Many facets of the university town and surrounds are recorded here, as Graham Byfield strolls with his sketchpad through college gateways, courts and gardens, along broad streets and narrow alleyways,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Christian Dior achieved immortality with his first collection in 1947. His New Look amazed the world as it emerged after wartime austerity, and reset the boundaries of modern elegance. Diors search for the perfect line and the ideal silhouette has been celebrated by couturiers of the first rank: Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano have all made their distinctive…
Скачать книгу (размер 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: Emil Nolde was one of the most important exponents of Expressionism, and is considered one of the main precursors of modernism. His virtuosic handling of color and the incomparable expressiveness of his paintings, water colors, and Unpainted Pictures astound viewers again and again, and ensure that every exhibition of his work is a sellout. This volume was produced in close collaboration with the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), one of the most popular American artists of the past century, has often been regarded as a simple illustrator and his work identified with the covers of the Saturday Evening Post. He is, instead, a total artist. An acute observer of human nature and talented storyteller, Rockwell captured America's evolving society in small details and nuances, portraying scenes of…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: Over a century and a half after his death, Katsushika Hokusai is still one of Japans most popular and influential artists. This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusais artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable characteristics: his intellectual ingenuity. It attempts to answer the question of how the self-styled Man Mad about Drawing approached his subjects how he…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This veritable reference work on Bramantino emphasizes the artist's pivotal role in Northern Italy's Renaissance, where he was the only artist able to stand up to Leonardo's inventions. The volume traces the artist's career starting from his debut as an assistant of the architect and painter Donato Bramante down to his last attested works, including Flight into Egypt.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Perfectly attuned to the rising interest and market for men's style, The Parisian Gentleman presents the leading men's style-makers, from hidden ateliers and little-known studios to internationally renowned names such as shirt makers Charvet, shoe-makers Berluti and recently revived trunk makers Moynat. The stories of each house, and the creatives and craftsmen behind them, bring alive the…
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: During the seventeenth century, Dutch artists were unparalleled in their dedication to depicting ordinary people doing everyday things. Genre painting was the preeminent expression of this dedication, offering candid glimpses into the peasant cottages and village courtyards of the Dutch Golden Age, each painting lit with the period's vibrant color palette and rich with radiant natural light. This…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: With his arresting, unsettling style, George Condo emerged out of the dynamism of the New York art scene in the early 1980s, and he has been restlessly painting, drawing and sculpting — bringing forms into the world in one way or another — ever since. Reliably inconsistent, Condo's references and inspirations, in both style and content, ricochet deliriously around the canon of western art…