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Leonardo Da Vinci Coloring Book
Автор: Sauer Inge Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 32 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132013-10-13
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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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The Story of Renaissance Architecture
Автор: Servida Sonia Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20142013-05-12
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Part of an accessibly written and generously illustrated series on architecture through the ages, this book features the Renaissance period's most important architects, buildings and cities, interior and exterior photographs, detailed images, and drawings and plans. The book offers a general introduction to the period and discusses the primary characteristics of the style, along with commonly used techniques and materials. Renaissance began in fifteenth-century Italy as an attempt to revive Rome's Golden Age. Its orderly use of columns, domes, arches, and entablatures recalls classic Roman architecture, but adapted for contemporary use in churches and urban dwellings. Some of the most recognizable Renaissance structures are the Chateau de Fontainebleau, the Ducal Palace at Urbino, England's Greenwich Hospital, and St. Peter's Cathedral in Vatican City.
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Hans Makart: Painter of the Senses
Автор: Husslein-Arco Agnes Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 252 Дата загрузки: 13 августа 20132016-08-13
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The Makart PeriodA of the late nineteenth century is known as an era of sumptuous beauty and opulence in Vienna. Hans Makart, after whom the period was named, became a national icon in Austria-a rock star of the art world whose paintings, interior design, theatrical sets and costumes were celebrated as much for their style as for the status they exemplified. This catalogue to an exhibit of Makart's works includes his legendary room in the Palais Dumba, his monumental paintings, and his controversial and subversive erotic works. The large-scale theatric quality of Makart's work is evident in the stunning reproductions featured in the book, which allow viewers to appreciate the brilliant palette of his oeuvre.
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Gustav Klimt/Josef Hoffmann: Pioneers of Modernism
Автор: Husslein-Arco Agnes Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2005 Страниц: 332 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092008-09-20
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The birth of the Vienna Secession was brought about by collaboration among numerous painters, sculptors and architects, including Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann. For more than twenty years these pioneering figures mutually influenced each other as they created lasting monuments to the principles of artistic freedom. Published in conjunction with an exhibition commemorating the centennial of one of the pair's greatest accomplishments — the Stoclet Palace in Brussels — this book centres on the collaboration as a means of exploring the modernist movement at the turn of the century. Essays on Hoffmann's designs for the 1900 Paris World's Fair; the creation of the iconic Ver Sacrum building; the 1909 Internationale Kunstschau exhibition; and the history of the Stoclet Palace trace the rise of one of Europe's most fertile artistic eras. Readers will also learn about the role played by other prominent artists such as George Minne, Fernand Khnopff, Jan Toorop, and Frank Brangwyn as they explore the interplay of ideas that marked this important moment in western art.
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Rauschenberg: Posters
Автор: Gundel Marc Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2003 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 мая 20092006-09-22
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One of America's most important artists, Robert Rauschenberg consistently fuses painting, found art, photography and printing in his works. This book brings together 60 of Rauschenburg's most exciting posters. Arranged thematically and chronologically, the posters display the full range of Rauschenberg's stylistic development from the 1960s to the 1990s. Since 1963 the artist has been designing posters to advertise his own exhibitions, music and dance performances, and to address sociopolitical issues. This volume features full page, colour reproductions that allow the viewer to truly appreciate the complexity, ambiguity and incredible scope of Rauschenberg's oeuvre.
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Cut Out Fun with Matisse
Автор: Hollein Nina Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2003 Страниц: 30 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092006-09-10
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Henri Matisse created some of his most exquisite works by cutting shapes out of paper. Entertaining and inventive, his drawings with scissors are also a superb introduction to the most basic artistic concepts: colour, line and form. Taking a look at Matisse's cut-outs, arguably the highlight of his magnificent career, this manual follows the artist as he goes in search of pure forms of expression. Illustrated with reproductions of Matisse's most famous works, the volume relates an imaginary tale about how the colours and shapes created by Matisse come to life, carrying the reader off into the artist's fantasy realm. It reflects Matisse's spontaneity, his love of bold colours, and his seemingly effortless ability to capture movement on paper, which makes him an artist of great appeal to children. This exploration of Matisse's cut-outs invites children of all ages to draw with scissors just like the artist, using the sheets of paper printed in Matisse-inspired colours included in the book.
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Skyscrapers
Автор: Lepik Andres Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2008 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 марта 20112010-05-06
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Few buildings rivet our attention like skyscrapers. As the race to build higher and higher continues, these symbols of success and economic power dominate and reshape urban skylines across the globe. Opening with Chicago's Reliance Building, built in 1894, and closing with plans for the London Bridge Tower, scheduled to be completed in 2011, eye-catching two to four page spreads in this up-to-date and comprehensive volume capture over fifty of the world's most important skyscrapers. Each building is breathtakingly photographed and an accompanying text offers intriguing historical details, notes on construction, and engineering feats. Tracing the evolution of these magnificent structures, Skyscrapers illustrates their significance not only in architectural history, but also as a reflection of humankind's most competitive and optimistic urges.
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Nollywood
Автор: Hugo Pieter Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2009 Страниц: 112 Дата загрузки: 05 июня 20112011-07-23
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The Nigerian film industry is the third largest in the world, after those of the United States and India. Nigerian films often deal with the moral dilemmas facing modern Africans today and tell stories familiar to African families: of religion, violence, AIDS, and economic hardship. Much as he did with his previous book, the hugely successful The Hyena & Other Men, Pieter Hugo documents the intense and incredibly colorful world of Nollywood from an unusual angle. His images are staged representations of Nigerian film sets, featuring local actors who recreate themes and characters from Nollywood films: young men in military fatigues; witch doctors, healers and saints; hunters with their kill; prostitutes in their rooms. The result is a series of surreal tableaux rooted in local symbolic imagery. Accompanying the photographs are texts by Chris Abani, whose short fiction piece captures the chaos of the filmmaking process, and an essay by Zina Saro-Wiwa on Nollywood's explosive growth and what it means to Nigerians. Presented in a simple and restrained format, Hugo's gorgeous photographs reveal a little-known phenomenon to a wider audience.
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Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay
Автор: Guean Stephane Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2010 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 11 октрября 20132013-02-29
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This book of a major travelling exhibition of the same name includes nearly 100 works by the famous masters during the mid-19th century, and from whose midst arose one of the most original and recognisable of all artistic styles, Impressionism. This exhibition begins with paintings by naturalist artists such as Bougereau and Courbet and presents American expatriate James McNeil Whistler's Arrangement in Gray and Black, known to many as Whistler's Mother. Early work by Manet, Monet, Renoir and Sisley are included as well as a selection of Degas' paintings that depict images of the ballet, the racetrack and life in la Belle Aepoque. Notable works in this book include The Fife Player by Edouard Manet (1866), Family Reunion by Frederic Bazille (1867), Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 or Portrait of the Artist's Mother by James McNeil Whistler (1871), The Birth of Venus by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1879), The Cradle by Berthe Morisot (1872), Saint-Lazare Station by Claude Monet (1877), The Swing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876), Rue Montorgueil, Paris. Festival of June 30, 1878 by Claude Monet, Racehorses Before the Stands by Edgar Degas (1866-1868), The Dancing Lesson by Edgar Degas (1873-1876), Portraits at the Stock Exchange by Edgar Degas (1878-1879).
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Martin Ramirez
Автор: Cooke Lynne Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2010 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 августа 20122014-03-18
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Martin Ramirez created nearly 450 drawings of remarkable visual clarity and expressive power while confined in a California mental institution for more than twenty-five years. Diagnosed as schizophrenic, he achieved posthumous fame with recent exhibitions of his works. Eighty important drawings, culled from public and private collections, comprehensively survey his achievement and demonstrate that he was one of the great draftsmen of the twentieth century. The richness of Ramirez's drawings and the depth of historical and cultural influences in his work point to his deep engagement with society. The artist's unique process-employing found items, homemade pigments, matchsticks, and large swaths of paper is explored, as are his personal experiences of poverty, exile, and confinement. The volume includes recent research about Ramirez's life, family, and art, and features examples from a cache of previously unknown drawings by Ramirez, whose discovery caused a great sensation. This dazzling book displays Ramirez's skill and inventiveness and shows why his work is worthy of its own place in the annals of modern art.
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Maira Kalman
Автор: Schaffner Ingrid Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2010 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20132012-05-12
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The world as seen through Kalman's eyes is a quirky, slightly off-kilter place as colourful and varied as a kaleidoscope. For decades this brilliant artist has captured our hearts with her whimsical illustrations and engaged our minds with her trenchant observations. A companion to a travelling exhibition, this monograph on Kalman's work features hundreds of paintings, drawings, sketchbook pages, and journal entries as well as rarely glimpsed photographs, stills from performance pieces, and examples of her newest project, embroidery. Kalman was born in Tel Aviv in 1949 and moved to New York at the age of four. Among her varied body of work are illustrated books for children and adults, clocks she designed with her late husband Tibor Kalman, columns for The New York Times, fabrics for Maharam and Isaac Mizrahi, and sets for the choreographer Mark Morris. In this book, Kalman offers commentary on her life as an artist, collector, observer, traveller, and maker of lists, while essays by curator Ingrid Schaffner and art historian Kenneth Silver explore her unique gift for distilling the extraordinary from the merely ordinary. From the youngest readers to the most discerning critics, Kalman's many admirers will embrace this wonderful celebration of a life dedicated to making art.
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Botticelli: Masters of Art
Автор: Poletti Frederico Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-07
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The Florentine painter Botticelli personifies the Golden Age of the early Renaissance. Best known for The Birth of Venus and Primavera, Botticelli painted with an expressive poeticism that eschewed formal realism. He used line and colour to gorgeous effect, creating some of the most beloved and familiar images of all time. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full-page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details-allowing the viewer to appreciate every aspect of the artist's technique and oeuvre. Chronologically arranged, the book covers important biographical and historic events that reflect the latest scholarship. Additional information includes a list of works, timeline and suggestions for further reading.
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Art Flexi: Louise Bourgeois
Автор: Crone Rainer Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2011 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20132015-03-16
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In her work, Bourgeois used materials ranging from rubber, wood, fabric, and metal to glass, paper, cement and marble, through which the stories of her own life resonated with the lives of others. This generously illustrated book presents the complete cycle of CellA installations from the 1990s until a short time before Bourgeois' death in 2010. In these contained environments Bourgeois reflected on the human tendency toward isolation and her own memories. The book also places this work in the context of Bourgeois' life as an artist, including her youth as the daughter of Parisian textile workers, her studies with Fernand Leger and her experiences with the leading artists of the New York School in the 40s and 50s.
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Titian
Автор: Wolf Norbert Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2005 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092007-07-11
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One of the original celebrity artists, Titian was as famous for his beguiling personality as he was for his masterful paintings. This book introduces readers to the Venetian artist with an innovative format that marries Titian's voice with his works, allowing the artist's own words to deepen the appreciation of his achievements. An illustrated timeline and a pictorial tour of the galleries where his works now reside reveal how this contemporary of Michelangelo and Raphael broke new ground in nearly every genre of painting: portraiture, altar pieces, the rendering of mythological themes, frescoes, and pastoral landscapes. Numerous superb reproductions illuminate not just the breadth of his oeuvre, but also the mastery with which he employed light and colour to lend his paintings the sensuous energy for which he is so admired. Norbert Wolf's engaging text unlocks many of the mysteries surrounding Titian's celebrity, making this journey into the artist's world as intriguing as it is informative.
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Haute Couture: The Polaroids of Cathleen Naundorf
Автор: Naundorf Cathleen Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2012 Страниц: 184 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20162017-08-13
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Whether the incredible pieces of haute couture were designed by Chanel, Dior, Gaultier or Valentino, their beauty is preserved in the gorgeous large-format images captured with Polaroid cameras by Cathleen Naundorf and collected in this book. Her well-honed technique, which combines instant film's distinctive colours and shadow with the artist's remarkable instinct, results in photographs that resemble paintings — haunting, muted, and raw. Not only are they a feast for fashion-hungry eyes, but they are also a testament to the talents of this young artist who has forged a formidable reputation in the fashion world.
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Jigsaw Art: Colours
Автор: Lambilly Elisabeth De Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2012 Страниц: 14 Дата загрузки: 16 декабря 20142014-10-20
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Claude Monet's green lily ponds, a red studio by Henri Matisse, the bright purple of a Georgia O'Keeffe flower — the vibrant colours of artistic masterpieces are presented in the form of simple jigsaw puzzles that will entice the youngest readers. Each spread in the book features a reproduction of a famous painting accompanied by a brief explanatory text and a 16-piece puzzle of the artwork. Arranged thematically, this playful activity book introduces young children to a wonderful rainbow of great art.
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Posters of Paris: Toulouse-Lautrec and His Contemporaries
Автор: Chapin Mary Weaver Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2012 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 12 марта 20152016-03-26
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Thanks to innovations in colour lithography, the streets of fin-de-siecle Paris were punctuated with brightly hued posters featuring bold typography and playful imagery. Many of these posters were torn down almost as soon as they were pasted up, finding their way into private homes and, eventually, museums and collections all over the world. Although many artists contributed to the affichomanie, or poster craze, one of the most famous among them was Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This gorgeous book offers exquisite reproductions of more than one hundred posters, including those by Lautrec and his contemporaries Bonnard, Picasso, Cheret and Mucha. Advertising everything from tony theatre productions to the licentious cancan, bicycles to biscuits, these posters range from cheerfully exuberant to slyly decadent. In her essay, Mary Weaver Chapin captures the voices of the artists, collectors and critics who fuelled the poster craze of the 1890s. The result is a visual spectacle, a lively discourse on the value and purpose of art, and a celebration of a historically and creatively dynamic era.
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Royal Style: A History of Aristocratic Fashion Icons
Автор: Wackerl Luise Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2013 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20162016-02-16
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The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton helped reclaim the fashion cred of Britain's royal family, ushering in a generation of hip but genial personalities that appeal to every age and station. But royals have been setting fashion trends for centuries. This fascinating overview of aristocratic icons reaches back to the middle age, and from Europe to the Middle East, to profile the most renowned promoters of elegance and style ever to don their empires' crowns. Author and royals watcher Luise Wackerl juxtaposes the fifteenth-century Duke of Burgundy's penchant for black with Elizabeth I's taste for virginal white. She presents history's first It Girls: Marie Antoinette, Louisa of Prussia, Empresses Sisi of Austria and Eugenie of France. She relates how Queen Victoria's sorrow and propriety transformed her country, and how an impeccably styled American's love for Edward VIII upended the British monarchy. From the irreproachably elegant styles of Grace Kelly to Lady Diana, Jordan's Queen Rania to Princess Letizia of Spain we move on to the newest icons: couture-loving Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece, Princess Marie of Denmark, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York, whose faces and party antics grace the tabloids on a weekly basis. Hundreds of photos and a lively text make this irresistible reading for anyone interested in fashion, royalty, and the lively intersection of both worlds.
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Art Forms in Nature: Prints of Ernst Haekel
Автор: Breidbach Olaf Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 1998 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 18 марта 20092001-09-10
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The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's prints, which even in their day, became world famous. Haeckel's portfolio, first published between 1899 and 1904 in separate installments, is described in the opening essays. The plates illustrate Haeckel's fundamental monistic notion of the unity of all living things and the wide variety of forms are executed with utmost delicacy. Incipient microscopic organisms are juxtaposed with highly developed plants and animals. The pages, ordered according to geometric and constructive aspects, document the oness of the world in its most diversified forms. This collection of plates was not only well-received by scientists, but by artists and architects as well. Rene Binet, a pioneer of glass and iron constructions, Emile Galle, a renowned Art Nouveau designer, and the photographer Karl Blossfeld all make explicit reference to Haeckel in their work.
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Drawing Fashion
Автор: Brubach Holly Жанр: Prestel Издательство: Prestel Год: 2010 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20122011-12-20
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Drawing Fashion celebrates a unique collection of some of the most remarkable fashion illustrations from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These original works define the fine art of illustrating fashion, from the collections of Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garcons and Poiret as well as Victor and Rolf, Lacroix and McQueen. This catalogue, which accompanies the exhibition at the Design Museum in London, showcases fashion illustrators at their creative heights: Lepape at the beginning of the century, Gruau in the 40's and 50's, Antonio throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, to current artists Mats Gustafson, Aurore de La Morinerie and Francois Berthoud. The illustrations reflect not only the spirit and the style of the decades but also the wider social and cultural changes of the century.
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