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Typewriter Art: A Modern Anthology
Автор: Tullett Barrie Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2014 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20172017-02-26
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The first typewriter artist to find fame was Flora F. F. Stacey, with her butterfly drawing of 1898; but since the very beginning of the typewriter's existence, artists, designers, poets and writers have used this rigorous medium to produce an astounding range of creative work. This beautiful book brings together some of the best examples by typewriter artists around the world. As well as key historical work from the Bauhaus, H. N. Werkman and the concrete poets, there is art by contemporary practitioners, both typewriter artists who use the keyboard as a 'palette' to create artworks, and artists/typographers using the form as a compositional device. The book will appeal to graphic designers, typographers, artists and illustrators, and anyone fascinated by predigital technology.
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Bars, Clubs and Lounges
Автор: Kramer Sibylle Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2015 Страниц: 248 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20172019-03-24
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Exclusive cocktails at a bar, excessive partying at a club, or relaxed chilling at a lounge people need to occasionally escape from their everyday life into another world. This is made possible by the individual character and the very own atmosphere of each special location, which are strongly defined by architectural and design visions. Apart from the drinks, the music and the people, lighting and space, form and furnishing are decisive success factors for all good concepts. Nowhere else can a designed space have such a strong effect and impact. While the range of styles has grown enormously recently, this field has become one of the most exciting tasks for interior designers. This volume takes the reader on a tour of very unique bars, clubs and lounges from around the world.
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Erotic Comics: A Graphic History. Volume 2. From the 1970s to the Present Day
Автор: Pilcher Tim Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2011 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132015-03-16
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The liberating underground comix of the 1960s heralded an explosion in the genre of erotic comics, and this volume picks up the story to show how European, American and Asian artists have explored the graphic possibilities of the form in the years since. Well-known names covered include Melinda Gebbie, Giovanna Casotto (whose work graces the cover), Tom of Finland and Milo Manara. This provocative title covers the erotic comics explosion in the mid-80s; the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender comics scene; UK and European comics creators since the 70s; and, Japanese hentai. The book features an exclusive foreword by Alan Moore, multi-award-winning writer of Watchmen, V for Vendetta and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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Trompe l'oeil Panels and Panoramas: Decorative Images for Artists and Architects (+ CD-ROM)
Автор: Guegan Yannick Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2003 Страниц: 250 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20082004-12-07
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This advanced exploration of trompe l'oeil art and technique provides a treasury of designs suitable for interior designers and their clients, artists seeking inspiration or for those simply wishing to copy the images themselves. A CD-ROM is included for easy transfer and re-sizing of the designs. Step-by-step sketches and details of the finished pieces provide a demonstration tool, allowing artists to refine their skills and acquire new techniques. In compositions encompassing classical and fantasy landscape and architecture as well as flora, fauna and the human figure, Guegan demonstrates the successful execution of elegant wood, marble drapery, and natural and figurative motifs, for decorative panels and panoramic murals. Using the integration of fine French methods and traditions with contemporary style and innovation, this book provides both an introduction manual and useful reference for anyone working in interior design and decoration.
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Pop-up City: City-Making in a Fluid World
Автор: Beekmans Jeroen Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2014 Страниц: 260 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20162015-12-16
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Based on 5 years of insights from blogging, 'The Pop-Up City' blog presents this book on creative ideas for cities in a fluid world. The authors Jeroen Beekmans and Joop de Boer are the brains and hearts of the Amsterdam-based blog that showcases eye-opening ideas, concepts and trends that make a change in the city of today and tomorrow. On a daily basis, the authors have written stories about individuals, enterprises, and cities all around the world that come up with refreshing ideas and solutions to deal with a permanent stage of change, ranging from urban hacks, modular hotels, and parasite cinemas to pop-up retail concepts, rooftop farms, and houses on wheels.
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Lomo Life: The Future is Analogue
Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2012 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20172016-03-24
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Attention all hipsters! In November 2012, the worlds coolest camera brand celebrates its 20th anniversary with the publication of this official two-volume slipcased title. Book I features specially commissioned photography showing off all cameras in the vast Lomography range, including every limited edition and the best one-offs ever made. Book II traces the story of the last 20 years of Lomography, as seen through the wonderful and varied world of Lomo lenses. Anecdotes and recollections relate the stuff of Lomo legend. Chronologically organized and featuring the very best photographic material from the 1.5 million-strong Lomography community, this volume is a snapshot of every corner of the lomographic world. This is an absolute must-have package for designers, photographers and hipsters the world over. The future is analogue!
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Speedseekers: The Supercharged World of Custom Cars and Hot Rods
Автор: Lier Alexandra Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2009 Страниц: 274 Дата загрузки: 15 октрября 20122012-02-09
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The love of fast cars has moved into top gear. From its beginnings as a rebellious underground pasttime, it has become a huge cult, spawning its own exciting subcultures in music, art and fashion. Speedseekers is the ultimate book on the world of Hot Rods and Custom Culture. Alexandra Lier spent a decade at the epicentre of the scene revving engines and burning rubber with the world's foremost mechanics, racers and adrenaline junkies. With hundreds of full colour photographs and graphics throughout, this book more exciting than a nitro-burning supercharged Hemi is the ultimate cult guide to the greatest human obsession of all going fast!
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Turkish Delights
Автор: Scott Philippa Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2001 Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20092004-04-27
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Liotard's fine portraits of Westerners in Turkish dress, Carpaccio's turbanned figures and the coveted 'Turkey' carpets that appear in paintings by Lotto and Holbein bear witness to a deep Western fascination with all things Ottoman. It is this cultural influence, spanning five hundred years — from the fall of Constantinople through to the twentieth century — that unites the wealth of paintings, drawing, photographs and decorative objects in this sumptuously illustrated book. The result is a visual feast of Turkish delights, from the exotic allure of the harem and Turkish baths to Ottoman-inspired Western interiors and pavilions; from paintings of Europeans in gorgeous Turkish costume to carpets, silks, tulips, turbans, Iznik tiles, coffee, tobacco, croissants... The delightfully informative text explains how Turkey, the gateway to the East, became a fountain of inspiration for so many artistic and cultural fields — painting, ceramics, textiles, interiors, fashion — in the West. Today the many fruits of this cultural meeting, enticingly displayed in this book, will engage a fresh audience with the decorative possibilities of the ravishing colours, motifs and furnishings of traditional Turkey.
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The Greek Body
Автор: Jenkins Ian Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2009 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20122010-06-11
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The ancient Greeks perceived the human body as an object of sensory delight and its depiction as the expression of an intelligent mind. This sumptuous photographic book explores ancient Greek sculptures of the body from every angle. With an introduction outlining the use of the body in Greek art from the prehistoric simplicity of Cycladic figurines to the realism of the Hellenistic age, seven thematic sections then feature stunning photographs of close ups taken from the British Museum's outstanding collection of marble, bronze and terracotta sculpture. The gods and heroes of Greek religion and mythology are conceived in the image of mankind, as supermen and superwomen, while other supernatural beings such as centaurs and satyrs combine human with animal parts as symbols of their otherworldliness. Human shape is also given to the inanimate phenomena of nature, such as wind and moon, as well as intangible human experiences such as sleep and death. A salient feature of Greek art is human nudity, which was celebrated rather than considered shameful. The great majority of female nudes that have come down to us are representations of Aphrodite, goddess of erotic love. In the Hellenistic age, Alexander's conquest and Hellenisation of the people formerly included in the Persian empire created a new and cosmopolitan world. Greek artists were made more aware than ever before of the ethnic diversity of humanity and delighted in representing and classifying humankind in all its variety young and old, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, freeborn and slave, pauper and wealthy, able and disabled, moral and immoral. The Hellenistic period, more than any previous, was also truly an age of portraiture, reflected love in compelling and unusual images.
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Alexandre Cabanel: The Tradition of Beauty
Автор: Bluhm Andreas Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2011 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 августа 20132012-06-21
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French painter Alexandre Cabanel is famous for his entrancingly beautiful The Birth of Venus. Since its purchase by Napoleon III in 1863, it remains among the foremost attractions at Paris's Musee d'Orsay. Yet as familiar as The Birth of Venus has become — gracing countless posters, art prints, and collectibles — it is but one of the many stunning images Cabanel created in the course of his remarkable career. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and the Musee Fabre in Montpellier, Alexandre Cabanel: The Tradition of Beauty is the first retrospective to deal comprehensively with the breadth of Cabanel's oeuvre. As a successor to the classical tradition embodied by the likes of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, Cabanel was a frequent participant at the Paris Salons and forged a highly successful career with his skilled portraiture as well as his many historical and mythological paintings, many of which feature the artist's trademark abundance of pale, naked flesh. A remarkable retrospective of one of the leading French painters of the nineteenth century, this beautifully printed volume — designed by renowned fashion designer Christian Lacroix — presents sixty stunning works from Cabanel's brilliant career.
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Sweet Dress Book
Автор: Tsukiori Yoshiko Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2013 Страниц: 88 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20152016-02-29
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Fresh from Bunka, the Japanese publisher of Pattern Magic and Drape Drape, comes this stylish book for home sewers. With instructions showing how to make 23 different garments and simple step by step diagrams, this book includes 2 actual size patterns. The step by step instructions are clear and straight forward and there are photographs of all the garments. It's a must for all those who want to make their own versions of cool Japanese designs.
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Flip Fashion Designer
Автор: Clerc Lucille Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2005 Страниц: 42 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20082006-06-28
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Can't decide what to wear in the morning? Why not mix a punk hairdo with a period dress? The pages of this interactive book (split into four parts) will take you from fashion faux-pas to fabulous in one flip. From grunge and pirate to disco queen and street style, create over 100,000 of your own fashion fantasies (and nightmares) with this colorfully illustrated and carefully researched flipbook. With magazine-style captions for each outfit there are words to play with too.
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100 Great Children's Picturebooks
Автор: Salisbury Martin Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2015 Страниц: 216 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20162017-05-18
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This unashamed visual feast celebrates the best designed and illustrated picturebooks from around the world over the past one hundred years. Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists, and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns from a child's and family's perspectives throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Fearlessly confronting the frontiers between a child's picturebook and art, this is a collection of books that anyone with an interest in design, illustration, or simply children's literature should know about.
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Greetings from Retro Design
Автор: Seddon Tony Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2015 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20172018-09-30
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What is a true 1950s look, as opposed to a 1930s or 1940s look? This book aims to address that question by thoroughly surveying the development of graphic design over the course of the 20th century. Timelines for each decade highlight key moments, styles and movements, while profiles of thirty influential graphic designers three per decade are interspersed throughout the book.
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Ming: 50 Years That Changed China
Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2014 Страниц: 312 Дата загрузки: 10 сентября 20192016-10-27
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A ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated book exploring the early Ming period in the years 1400–1450, a time when China was the largest (and one of the most prosperous) states in the world, ruled by a single family through a network of imperial and regional courts.
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Turquerie: An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy
Автор: Williams Haydn Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2014 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20162017-09-20
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This is the first book, painstakingly researched from many scattered sources, to identify the key elements of what in our own time has become a popular and collectable area of the fine art and decorative arts: turquerie. With the arrival of Ottoman embassies and their elaborate entourages at the courts of Europe in the early eighteenth century, a fascination with all things Turkish took hold among royalty and aristocracy that lasted until the French Revolution. Turbaned figures appeared in paintings, as ceramic figures, and on the stage; tented boudoirs became the rage; and crossed crescents, palm trees, and camels featured on wall panels, furniture, and enamel boxes. Here Haydn Williams, an expert on the decorative arts, shows how it was a theme that sparked varied responses in different places. Its most intense and long-lasting expression was in France, but its reach was broad from a pavilion built by Catherine II in Russia to the Turkish tents erected along the Elbe to celebrate a royal marriage in Dresden in 1719; from an ivory statuette of a janissary created for King Augustus II of Poland to the costumes worn for a carnival celebration in Rome in 1748. The book is organized into eight thematic and chronological chapters that concentrate on particular subjects, such as painting, tents, interiors, and costumes and settings for the stage. In all, this splendid volume enables the reader to indulge in the whimsies and fancies of the European elite of the eighteenth century.
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101 Hotel Rooms
Автор: Corinna Kretschmar-Joehnk Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2015 Страниц: 232 Дата загрузки: 14 сентября 20202018-04-27
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Japanese interior design is marked by contradictions. Simple color schemes belie complex and playful concepts, hyper-modern spaces are created using only traditional materials, and the relationship between nature and human architecture is sometimes tense, sometimes harmonious. Some aspects do remain constant: stylish minimalism rules, the color palette tend to be warm and light, and the designers always seem to invent extraordinary solutions to ordinary challenges. This volume, now as softcover edition, presents Japan's most exciting contemporary interior design projects, with a range of areas that includes hotels, offices, shops, bars, restaurants, and private homes. From world-renowned designers to up-and-coming young talents, the land of the Rising Sun proves to be a land of endless inspiration and creativity.
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Ancient Lives: New Discoveries
Автор: John H. Taylor Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2014 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20172017-02-16
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In recent years, British Museum curators have collaborated with scientists and medical experts to explore non-invasive imaging techniques and other scientific approaches to further study Egyptian mummies. Piecing together key biographical data and information, it has been possible for the first time to discover more about who these people were in ancient Egyptian society. Mummies draws on cutting-edge research to reveal the actual experience of living and dying in the ancient Nile Valley. Eight significant mummies are explored, each carefully selected to tell a different story, covering a period of over 4000 years. They include a young female temple singer, an unknown man of high status, and a child from the Roman era. Funerary objects are also highlighted for context: for example, non-invasive imaging of the contents of canopic jars; analyses of embalming substances, and identification of wood species and pigment types used in coffins. The majority of the material is drawn from the British Museums extensive Egypt and Sudan collections, but the book includes a number of mummies from other museums to physically reunite individuals originally buried together in family or communal tombs. This allows fascinating comparisons to be made. With over 200 specially commissioned photographs, Mummies sets out to shine a new light on the past.
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Sketching for Architecture + Interior Design
Автор: Travis Stephanie Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2015 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20162017-05-22
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The debate surrounding hand drawing versus computer-generated imagery has become a hot topic. Having grown up with computers, todays interior design and architecture students are extremely adept at creating computer imagery, but often lack confidence in their freehand sketching skills, or do not know how to sketch at all. Sketching, and the careful observation that it entails, is essential for the successful development of the next generation of designers. Forty-five step-by-step exercises take the student from the simple three dimensional forms of furniture, to interiors, to complex building exteriors and cityscapes. Technical topics covered include tools, line weights, perspective, proportion, composition, shading, serial views and context. Exercises are illustrated with beautiful sketches specially created by the author. Sketching for Architecture and Interior Design is an indispensable and practical guide for students wishing to master the art of looking and sketching.
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21st Century Portraits
Автор: Higgins Jo Жанр: Thames and Hudson Год: 2012 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 декабря 20142014-10-20
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This striking book explores contemporary portraiture from the past decade. The selection features cutting-edge new work from the international art community and reflects an increasing interest in identity worldwide. Organised thematically, the book examines seven key strands of portraiture: The Body; The Self-Portrait; The Invented Portrait; The Anonymous Portrait; Social Identity; The Celebrity Portrait. With an essay by Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, that locates contemporary portraiture within a historic tradition, 21st Century Portraits examines current trends, showcasing the wide range of media today's artists are using. This book includes an extensive bibliography and is an essential reference work in the field of twenty-first-century portraiture. It will present many images to academic, curatorial and general audiences, including museum and gallery visitors and general art book buyers in the trade for the first time.
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