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Click Click Click Photography for Children
Автор: Sullivan George Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 87 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20152015-07-28
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Budding shutterbugs will find much to learn and explore between the pages of this colourful and wide-ranging introduction to the world of photography. Illustrated throughout and written in a style that's informative and easy to understand, this book covers everything from the difference between digital and film cameras to mastering action shots and taking pictures of one's favourite pets. Sections introduce young readers to famous photographers and iconic images. Acclaimed writer George Sullivan also explains the principles of composition, lighting and visual story telling, and even the proper way to hold a camera. He offers valuable tips for creating whimsical, unusual shots, and for using free software to organize, share and edit photographs. Children will be entertained and challenged in discovering how to make exciting, high quality photographs they can share with their family and friends.
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London Tattoos
Автор: MacNaughton Alex Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20182015-07-14
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The centuries-old art of tattooing has become one of the modern world's most exciting modes of self-expression. Fascinated by the ways body art reflects an individual's personality, MacNaughton set out to find people whose ornate tattoos tell a story. The result is a wonderfully dynamic collection of portraits that uniquely celebrates the art of tattooing. Each individual is introduced through a full-body, full-page photograph, showcasing the fashion and style which complement the body art. MacNaughton presents gorgeously detailed images of the tattoos themselves, accompanied by personal reflections on the subjects' choice of tattoos, the stories behind them, and the tattoo artists they admire most. The result is a beautiful, sensitive, and exciting exploration of the world of body art, from one of the most successful photographers of urban life.
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Roy Lichtenstein
Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 28 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20162018-08-23
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Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to colour outside the lines.
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A Bird in Winter: A Children's Book Inspired by Pieter Breugel
Автор: Kerillis Helene Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162015-10-13
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Eight-year-old Mayken is a peasant girl who works in her mother's guesthouse. One wintry day she goes ice-skating with some friends and finds an injured bird. Bright watercolours help narrate Mayken's story, which concludes with a stunning reproduction of Breugel's masterpiece. Young readers will learn about Breugel and his art as they cheer Mayken on and enter a world of snow, trees, and the simple beauty of a winter's day.
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Michelangelo
Автор: Illetschko Georgia Жанр: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-07
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Painter, sculptor, and architect, Michelangelo was also a husband, father, writer, and businessman. His thoughts on art, daily life, hard work and fame speak as clearly to us now as they did centuries ago. Brimming with beautiful illustrations of Michelangelo's many masterpieces, this overview of the artist's life helps us understand his inspirations, frustrations, joys, and sorrows as he undertook the commissions that made him immortal: David, Pieta, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the Medici Chapel, and the tomb of Julius II. Quotations from the artist, incisive essays, reproductions of the entire Sistine Chapel, and an informative timeline contribute to make this book a rewarding read and a satisfying visual experience.
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Imago Mundi
Автор: Diaz Sonia Жанр: Prestel Год: 2009 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 10 декабря 20112012-02-29
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Imago Mundi aims to show the world through the unique perspective of the author, who expresses his personal perception of the world through pictograms, ideograms, logos, symbols and signs. This book is an instrument of communication and representation, through which we discover a creative interpretation of the world as seen through abstract signs pictographic textures and repeated designs. These graphic signs and symbols serve to express concepts, ideas objects, places and events of a universal significance, which transcend all cultural barriers. Imago Mundi features images of the everyday, visual representations of daily experiences, which show the author's subjective vision of the world surrounding him and includes more than 1350 pictograms ideograms logos and symbols designed by LSD space.
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Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928 -1945
Автор: Butler Karen K. Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20152015-10-20
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This book offers the first detailed look at Braque's experiments with still lives and interiors during this significant time in his career. One of the leading founders of Cubism, Braque employed the genre of the still life to conduct a lifelong investigation into the nature of perception through the tactile and transitory world of everyday objects. Examining a transitional time between Braque's early Cubist works and his late grand series, this catalog considers his paintings within the cultural and political context of Europe during World War II. Reproduced in vivid color, Braque's paintings are accompanied by scholarly essays that explore the rise of Braque's popularity in the US, including his first major retrospective in America and the reception of his work of the early 1930s and 1940s by German and French critics. This volume also offers a behind-the-scenes look at the materials and process employed by the artist as illuminated by an intensive conservation study of select important works.
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Pictopia (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Un Mundo Feliz Жанр: Prestel Год: 2008 Страниц: 216 Дата загрузки: 27 октрября 20112013-08-17
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A fascinating visual guide, Pictopia provides a source of inspiration for design professionals and amateurs. The images included in Pictopia cover a multitude of subject areas, such as war, peace, animal rights, racism, life and death, represented in more than 400 royalty-free illustrations, offering suggestions as to how to express today's social issues and discussions through the creative process alone.
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1000 Contemporary Silhouette Designs (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Jimenez David Жанр: Prestel Год: 2008 Страниц: 292 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20112012-03-29
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Lets you communicate your ideas in an effective way by offering more than 900 different silhouettes, consisting of figures and objects from various jobs, pastimes, attitudes and situations. This book is suitable for both an amateur and professional in the visual arts.
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Curated: a New Experience in Retail Design
Жанр: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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An outstanding, exquisite visual reference book of some of the most cutting-edge and fashion-forward designs, Minimalism showcases the best examples in minimalist shop interiors from all over the world. Here visual merchandising is taken to a whole new level, elevating the products into objects of beauty and works of art. This work features information and interviews with every designer, plans of the shop interiors, as well as an explanation of the concept and creative process behind each design.
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Pablo Picasso
Автор: Duchting Hajo Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20142015-05-22
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What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist's brilliant career and his influence on twentieth-century art. Color reproductions of his masterpieces are interspersed with photographs of Picasso's personal life, and are presented in a dynamic layout that reflects the artist's creative vision and boundless energy. Picasso's anti-war stance, his tumultuous love affairs, and his outspokenness are all examined with journalistic verve. This book not only provides a solid background on Picasso's monumental body of work, but also offers anecdotes, historical context, and a fresh perspective on an enigmatic and endlessly compelling figure.
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Piranesi, Paestum and Soane
Автор: Wilton-Ely John Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20162014-06-23
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An eighteenth century printmaker and architect, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was a lifelong champion of Rome, publishing more than a thousand etchings of The Eternal City and its ancient monuments. Piranesi's English contemporary, Sir John Soane, was also an architect specializing in the Neo-Classical style. When these two artists met, they formed a profound and complex artistic and intellectual relationship that nurtured Soane's later career. One of Soane's greatest legacies is the museum that bears his name and some of its most important holdings are a number of preparatory drawings Piranesi developed for a publication on the Greek temples at Paestum. These drawings are accomplished examples of Piranesi's topographical observation and great works of art in their own right. This book offers exquisite reproductions of the drawings as well as 30 additional images from Piranesi's oeuvre. Together they offer a unique understanding of early Greek classical architecture seen through the work of an eighteenth century master.
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Egon Schiele: Poems and Letters 1910-1912
Автор: Leopold Elizabeth Жанр: Prestel Год: 2008 Страниц: 140 Дата загрузки: 06 мая 20112011-04-17
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Known for his intense and lyrical style, the Austrian Expressionist Schiele was also a gifted writer. This selection of the artist's poetry and letters gracefully intertwines his powerful words with his indelible images. Elegantly designed with special paper and unique typography, this book emulates a personal journal. Interspersed with sixty sketches, drawings and paintings, Schiele's poems and letters illustrate his artistic and personal struggles and passions. Many of the artworks are referenced in or parallel his writings, thereby enhancing the reader's experience of them. Elisabeth Leopold adds her commentary to this sumptuous presentation that will leave readers with a deeper appreciation of Schiele's creative genius. This title is published in cooperation with the Leopold Museum, Vienna.
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The Museum of Scandals: Art That Shocked the World
Автор: Baucheron Elea Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20162017-03-26
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For centuries artists have been pushing the limits of society's norms, whether in the form of a new technique, subject matter, or message. In the fifteenth century a fresco by Masaccio shocked audiences by playing with perspective to depict Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden. Five hundred years later, Diego Rivera's mural, Man at the Crossroads, commissioned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for the lobby of the soon-to-be-completed Rockefeller Center in New York City, featured Lenin and was destroyed because it was deemed too radical to display. This fascinating volume presents dozens of paintings, prints, photographs and installations that horrified audiences when they were created. Each example is presented in generous two-page spreads, with large colour reproductions and insightful texts that explore the artists' intentions and the pieces' historical context. Most of these works no longer have the power to shock us, but a number of them still do. Together they offer a thought-provoking exploration of the artist's duty to instigate, inspire and move their audience toward new ways of thinking.
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A Year in Photography: Magnum Archive
Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20172015-05-26
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Founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum Photos is the iconic international photographic cooperative whose members have captured the major historical events of their times, as well as private and intimate moments. A year's worth of these images is offered in this visually stunning book that features full page reproductions organized to reflect what Cartier-Bresson himself declared a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually. Nearly 70 photographers are represented with five to six images each, and the current Magnum members have selected the photographs that they consider to best represent their own output. Published in a brilliant new compact format, running more than 700 pages, this book includes images that make history both individual and universal.
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Robert Mapplethorpe: Polaroids
Автор: Wolf Sylvia Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 28 марта 20162016-09-10
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Critically praised for his finely modeled and classically composed photographs, Robert Mapplethorpe remains intensely controversial and enormously popular. This book brings together almost three hundred images from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation's archive and private collections, to provide a critical view of Mapplethorpe's formative years as an artist. These works reveal the themes that would inspire Mapplethorpe throughout his career. Included is a selection of his color Polaroids and objects incorporating his early instant photography. Some images convey a disarming tenderness and vulnerability, others a toughness and immediacy that would give way in later years to more classical form. The author traces the development of Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography during a period of five years, from 1970 to 1975, when the artist worked mainly in this medium. The images include self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, portraits of lovers and friends such as Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff and Marianne Faithful and observations of everyday objects. Marked by a spontaneity and creative curiosity, these fragile images offer an illuminating contrast to the glossy perfection of the work for which Mapplethorpe is best known, allowing us a more personal glimpse of his artistry.
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Cityscapes: From Paris to New York
Автор: Salzmann G. Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20152015-10-20
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For decades Gottfried Salzmann has been taking the art of watercolor painting to exciting and original levels. In his countless urban landscapes of New York, San Francisco and Paris, Salzmann combines watercolors with acrylic and pencil or pen, or incorporates photography and printmaking into the finished piece. This retrospective volume offers an overview of Salzmann's oeuvre. Although he works in other media, Salzmann considers himself a watercolorist first, preferring to champion the medium's flexibility, transgress the narrow notions of its application, and build bridges to the domains of other visual arts. As a result his collage-like paintings offer a window into the urban life that inspires his work.
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Informal
Жанр: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20132014-04-22
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«Balmond is making the transition from structural engineer working alongside other architects to an architect in his own right. His structural thinking differs from that of others in his field, in its completely innovative conception of the engineer's contribution to architecture. The plasticity of architectural plans is enhanced through a decisive promotion of their structural designs. The borderline between structure and architecture thus becomes increasingly blurred. This process is explained in detail in «Informal» by reference to eight seminal projects. Balmond elucidates the theoretical basis of his engineering and architectural solutions, and his sketches transcend purely technical illustration — they are key to his approach. «Informal» invites readers to rethink their understanding of the relationships between architecture, design and engineering.»
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Allan Ramsay: Portraits of the Enlightenment
Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 200 Дата загрузки: 25 июня 20152015-07-28
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Three hundred years after his birth, Allan Ramsay's accomplished canvases and refined drawings offer us some of the defining portraits of the Enlightenment. Ramsay, a Scot by birth, was as well equipped to offer a deep sense of engagement with his Enlightenment sitters through his intellectual and cultural upbringing as he was trained to create elegantly constructed paintings through his extended education as a painter in Italy. Establishing himself in London and Edinburgh, Ramsay was admired for his understanding of contemporary political, cultural, and intellectual issues, as well as for his portraits of key protagonists in these debates. This beautiful volume brings together Ramsay's most celebrated sitters, such as Rousseau, Hume, and William Hunter, along with numerous drawings and prints to consider Ramsay's critical role in the British Enlightenment. Many of the artist's rarely seen portraits of women, equal participants in these debates, are included. In addition to exquisite reproductions, the volume draws on fascinating new research exploring the unique sensitivity of Ramsay's painting, the development of his technique, and familial influences on his work. Important new biographical and art historical information has suggested the need for new analysis of Ramsay's career and this book fills that niche.
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An English Room
Автор: Moore Derry Жанр: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20182016-04-12
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Everyone has a favorite place to read, study, work, and dream — but there's something special about an English room. In this handsome volume filled with elegant photographs of architectural interiors and formal portraits of their occupants, some of England's most renowned sons and daughters share their sacred spaces and their personal musings about Englishness and English rooms. Benedict Cumberbatch reveals his favorite place to read a script; Jeannette Winterson shares why she treasures the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris; P.D. James divulges the inspiration for her novel, The Black Tower; and fashion designer Paul Smith contemplates the joys of his book-lined study. Gilbert & George invite you in to their Queen Anne-style home, while Alan Bennett contemplates his rumpled existence in Primrose Hill. Derry Moore's refined eye captures the essence of the English room, be it in country cottages, storied estates, medieval chapels, or artists' studios at home or abroad. All those with a passion for English culture, society, design, and fashion will relish this unique invitation to peek through the keyhole into the private lives of some of England's most public figures.
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