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The Books That Shaped Art History
Автор: Shone Richard Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20142014-12-20
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Written by some of today's leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From mile M le's magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first published in 1898, to Hans Belting 's provocative Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, the book provides a concise and insightful overview of the history of art, told through its most enduring literature. Each of the essays looks at the impact of a single major book of art history, mapping the intellectual development of the writer under review, setting out the premises and argument of the book, considering its position within the broader field of art history, and analyzing its significance in the context of both its initial reception and its afterlife. An introduction by John-Paul Stonard explores how art history has been forged by outstanding contributions to scholarship, and by the dialogues and ruptures between them.
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Sculpture Now
Автор: Moszynska Anna Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 232 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20162015-05-26
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Here are the most exciting developments in sculpture across the globe since the mid-1990s. Identifying the key trends, Anna Moszynska discusses the artists who are forging new paths and setting the contemporary agenda. She examines major shifts that have taken place in the last two decades, including the move from a concern with the discrete object to the more complicated and dynamic relationships found in installation-based practice, as well as the increased concern with the experiential nature of sculpture and the participatory role of the viewer. The world 's most promising new talent is discussed alongside established contemporary artists including Cai Guo-Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Isa Genzken, Thomas Hirschhorn, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Doris Salcedo, James Turrell, and Ai Weiwei.
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Painting People
Автор: Mullins Charlotte Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162016-02-16
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Newly available in paperback, Painting People is an in-depth yet accessible survey of figure paintings renaissance in the contemporary art world. Established author and broadcaster Charlotte Mullins introduces over 85 of the most exciting international artists who place painting and the figure at the heart of their practice, and puts their work and the themes they explore in historical, social and artistic context. The book also includes a concise history of the genre and detailed biographies of all the artists featured.
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Architects Sketchbooks
Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2012 Страниц: 352 Дата загрузки: 25 мая 20152014-05-18
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Take a privileged view inside the private sketchbooks of over eighty architects and studios from around the world. Densely packed with over 750 illustrations, Architects Sketchbooks is a joyful celebration of how a sketch can become the start of a skyscraper. The 85 practitioners featured range from such starchitects as Will Alsop, Shigeru Ban, Laurie Chetwood, Norman Foster and Eva Jiricna to rising talents from all across the globe. Will Joness introduction explores the artistry behind the built world, and the importance of sketching as part of the design process.
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Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That: Modern Art Explained
Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2012 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20172013-12-30
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Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That is Susie Hodge's passionate and persuasive argument against the most common disparaging remark levelled at modern art. In this enjoyable and thought-provoking book, she examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical and public hostility from Cy Twombly's scribbled Olympia (1957), Jean-Michel Basquiat's crude but spontaneous LNAPRK (1982), to the apparently careless mess of Tracey Emin's My Bed (1998) and explains how, far from being negligible novelties, they are inspired and logical extensions of the ideas of their time. She explains how such notorious works as Carl Andre's Equivalent VIII (1966) the infamous bricks occupy unique niches in the history of ideas, both showing influences of past artists and themselves influencing subsequent artists. With illustrations of works from Hans Arp to Adolf Wölfli, Susie Hodge places each work in its cultural context to present an unforgettable vision of modern art. This book will give you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from the realistic works of earlier centuries, transforming as well as informing your gallery visits for years to come.
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Fashion Design Drawing Course
Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2008 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20102009-06-11
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Organized into units that reflect required courses at leading design colleges, it contains 20 step-by-step exercises aiming to assist in finding inspiration, developing techniques of observation, and creating finished fashion drawings both in colour and in black and white. Separate sections are devoted to getting started and understanding figure proportions, planning and designing garments, and creating and assessing flat specification drawings. The book also features cross-references and a glossary of designer's terms.
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Space Academy: How to Fly Spacecraft Step by Step
Автор: Kespert Deborah Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2005 Страниц: 48 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20092007-10-11
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Here is a training class that shows children how to pilot different kinds of spacecraft. Filled with stats and facts, this book covers essential space science, plus the latest space hardware, gadgets, and know-how. An introductory Astronaut School section looks at the technology of space travel. In Orbit takes children into space, putting them in the hot seat on different kinds of spacecraft or at mission control. They learn how to fly an Apollo rocket to the Moon, take a space shuttle to the International Space Station, go on a spacewalk, and ferry a cargo of tourists into zero gravity. The ID section at the back of the book explains how to identify different kinds of rockets and manned and unmanned craft, including probes, rovers, and shuttles.
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Talk About Fashion
Автор: Schwaab Catherine Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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Fashion guru Catherine Schwaab packs the history of style, fashion, and its key designers into a practical and engaging guide. In Talk About Fashion, Catherine Schwaab uses her lengthy experience as a fashion journalist to break the subject down into lively and concise sections. This book offers a chronology of the major trends of the twentieth century, introduces thirty designers and their signature pieces that define fashion today, explores our high-low culture of drawing inspiration from haute couture and translating it into pieces at affordable prices, and outlines the timeless ten commandments of fashion. She identifies the brands with staying power and the role fashion plays in Hollywood. In conquering the common myth that I dont have anything to wear, Schwaab shows how to reinvent and recycle the best of fashion every day. Both mens and womens fashion are featured throughout. An appendix of practical information completes this guide, with a glossary, a visual dictionary of different tailoring cuts, and the basic essentials for every closet.
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Still Life
Автор: Gualdoni Flaminio Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2010 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20142012-07-24
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Still life is an art form which gives us valuable insights into changes of mentality and philosophy. Each still life is emblematic of a specific time and place and of a certain metaphysical perspective. This overview features sixty works from antiquity to the present and analyzes the history and significance of each.
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Futurism
Автор: Gualdoni Flaminio Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2009 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20132014-08-23
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Paris, February 1909. An article by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Martinetti appears in Le Figaro. It is the Manifesto of Futurism, the movement that expressed concepts of movement and speed through simultaneous visions and dynamic lines and interpreted in an all-embracing way the new collective myth of modernity.
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The Magic of M: C. Escher
Автор: Locher J.L. Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 202 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20182018-08-31
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M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is renowned for his ability to render the visions of his mind's eye. The visions themselves were remarkable: for Escher, the skin of the visible world was nothing more than a piece of cloth that could be cut, folded, shaped, and rearranged in marvelous ways. A superb draftsman, he portrayed these other-worldly transformations of space within the familiar borders of a sheet of paper. The resulting images have become the favorite artworks of viewers around the world. The Magic of M.C. Escher does justice to this original artist's inventions. Escher's works — woodcuts, lithographs, and drawings, accompanied by quotes from the author — are brilliantly arranged to form a cinematic look at his achievements. Here is the magical world of the artist's mind, an uncharted realm full of exotic conceptions and inventions.
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Animation Sketchbooks
Автор: Heit Laura Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20152014-06-15
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Animation Sketchbooks presents the private notebooks, sketches and doodles of over 50 of the worlds most inventive, innovative and admired contemporary animators. From left-field satire to hit childrens TV series, from short animations for websites to full-scale, internationally distributed films, a wide array of creative work is represented in depth in this fascinating volume.
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The Fashion Resource Book
Автор: Leach Robert Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2012 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 18 июля 20132015-02-19
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Fashion design is a process of investigating, understanding context, and constantly questioning what you are doing and why. This comprehensive survey presents the work of a wide range of modern and contemporary designers and reveals the innumerable areas of inspiration and research on which they ve drawn, from historical examples such as Christian Dior's New Look to traditional textiles from around the world, as seen in John Galliano's Peruvian-inspired collection of 2005. The first part of the book investigates the research process in the work of designers such as Paul Smith, Comme des Gar ons, and Anna Sui. The second section covers subjects like vintage and retro, the use of archives, and the influence of art movements such as op art and surrealism. The third part presents case studies of world-famous designers: Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, and Coco Chanel, to name but a few.
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James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific
Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 276 Дата загрузки: 7 октрября 20162015-10-21
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Captain James Cook (17281779) is renowned for leading three expeditions into the vast and uncharted waters of the Pacific Ocean. He was the first westerner to survey and map New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands, forming the modern image of the world and finally defeating the idea of a mythical southern continent. This book documents Cooks voyages and reproduces around 500 original items collected by him and the international team of scientists and artists accompanying him. As early as the end of the 18th century, many of the ethnographic and natural history objects from diverse Pacific cultures, which were accrued during the three Cook voyages, were dispersed into various collections. Now, for the first time, they are reassembled here. The ethnographic exhibits are supplemented by magnificent paintings and drawings, which offer a fascinating insight into the explorers euphoric yet curious view of the exotic South Sea landscapes. Ship models, original sea charts and navigation instruments also provide a vivid introduction to the world of James Cooks voyages.
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Packaging Design
Автор: Uffelen Chris Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20162018-08-03
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Product packaging is much more than just a kind of container made of glass, wood oder plastic protecting its contents: it is also the face of the product. Like the facade of a building, the package gives an impression of what lies behind it.
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Building Berlin: The Latest Architecture in and Out of the Capital: Vol: 02
Автор: Meyer Friederike Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 184 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20172015-07-14
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Over the last 20 years architecture in and from Berlin has emerged as a global brand. Like Vol. 1, this new edition of Architecture Berlin showcases the most interesting 70 new buildings in and outside of the German capital. Each project is presented on the basis of informative texts, the most important facts as well as insightful photographic and planning documents. The contextual essays for each of the eight sections in this volume cover a wide and interesting range of subjects. While Sarah Tschernigow compares metro systems in cities such as Berlin, Shanghai, Stockholm and Dubai, Falk Jaeger discusses the relevance of drawings and sketches for the contemporary work of the architect. In his contribution Gerwin Zohlen analyses the urban functions of the current and future government buildings in Berlin and the different impacts they have on the city.
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Collage and Context: Terry Farrell: The Partnership's Complete Works,1981-1991
Автор: Farrell Sir Terry Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20152014-06-15
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This book completes the series of titles on the work of the architect Terry Farrell that includes Place (2004), Ten Years: Ten Cities, 1991-2001 (2002), and Continuum (2012). This new volume covers the 1980s, when the practice was founded, and features the work that established Terry Farrells reputation. It includes such seminal projects as Clifton Nurseries, the TVam building, Charing Cross and the MI6 building. Over twenty years later, Terry Farrell continues to build all over the world and enthusiastically explores urban planning and placemaking.
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My Monster Bubblewriter Book
Автор: Scott Linda Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20182016-04-12
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My Monster Bubblewriter Book is an activity book to inspire and encourage creativity with both words and drawing. It teaches children how to create cool hand lettering, using their imaginations to create crazy alphabets from monster inspired scripts to patchwork letters. There are loads of fun things to make, like posters and cards. Kids can use bubble writing to write letters and play games, create their own comics and do lots of other cool stuff. Along the way, members of the Bubble writer Gang appear to show their own special monster alphabets and offer tips and hints throughout the book, including how to invent monster characters. It is monstrously good fun!
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It's a Stick-Up
Автор: Limited Ollystudio Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 88 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20152016-02-29
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This is the first book to look at an increasingly popular form of street art: the 'wheatie' or wheat paste-up. Many street artists dont graffiti or stencil any more but use pre-prepared paper images that can be taken down, thereby avoiding a vandalism charge. The book will show the work of 20 artists, with photographs of their work, an article about their work and a fold-out paste-up. The fold-out pages are perforated so they can easily be removed. Some of the paste-ups will be laser cut with attaching tags so they can be popped out. There's also an introductory interview with cult street artists Sten & Lex.
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The Art of Classic Comics: 100 Postcards from the Fabulous 1950s
Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 100 Дата загрузки: 20 сентября 20182016-09-14
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This luxurious boxed collection of vintage postcards presents some of the greatest comic book covers from the s and beyond. From classic science fi ction and kitsch romance adventures to cautionary crime, grisly horror and tragic war stories theres a multitude of legendary Golden Age cover artwork. From Exploring the Supernatural with Forbidden Worlds to Stirring stories of real romance, theres something for every taste. Each postcard features the title, date, publisher and artist credited on the back, making it an essential purchase for afi cionados.
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