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Photographers A-Z
Автор: Koetzle Michael-Hans Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2011 Страниц: 446 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20142013-10-23
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There's no question — photography is the medium of our age. Despite all the competition from various (especially flickering) media — the «great still» (Norbert Bolz) remains in first place. Not only when it's a matter of the visual arts. On the market as well — in galleries and auction houses — the «fine art print» is well established, with photographic prints being seen as works of art and thus as investments. If you are going to talk, argue, negotiate about photography, you need sound data and facts — not least on the artists behind the works. Information that is succinct and authoritative, clear and factual forms the basis of this new book. Yet the title quite intentionally bridges two worlds, for the book is both a lexicon and a volume of prints, a useful reference book and a feast for the eyes. The aim is to provide those interested in photography with reliable information in a convenient form that they can also browse, rummage through, «surf» freely, a book that will surprise and inspire. It’s clear structure, alphabetical order, and fact-rich entries relate to the idea of an encyclopedia. But completeness, however defined — something in any case unattainable — was never the intention. The book's strength lies in its precise selection, in its restriction to a sort of pantheon. Thus the photographers to be found in these pages are those whose contribution to the culture of the photographic image is beyond question, whose work is internationally recognized, presented and discussed — even if controversial. Those included are mostly photographers from Europe and the United States. African and Latin American photographers are alsoprominently represented, as are those from Japan, whose photo scene is gaining international respect. Taken together, this selection provides a history of photography in the 20'th century through succinct biographies of artists whose works reflect an eventful century.
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Howard Huang's Urban Girls
Автор: Huang Howard Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2011 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 27 апреля 20152013-10-31
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When photographer Howard Huang began shopping his fashion book around New York in 2002 he had no idea he was about to become the master of urban photography. Back then, Huang, originating from Taiwan, thought «urban girls» were just women who lived in the city, explaining, «English is my second language; I was still learning.» Nonetheless, when the editor of Black Men magazine asked if he knew how to shoot sexy women he said, «Sure!» and set about staging the magazine’s voluptuous singers, models, and actresses in fantasies inspired by his love of comic books and anime.
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Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs
Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2011 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 14 августа 20132014-09-24
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In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a yacht on the Hudson River; her fresh, candid photographs of the band were far superior to the formal shots made by the band`s official photographer, and she was instantly on the way to making a name for herself as a top rock `n` roll photographer. On May 11, 1968, when her portrait of Eric Clapton was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, she entered the record books as the first woman to have that honor. During her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960s` musical scene, she captured many of rock`s most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead. In 1967, Linda went to London to document the «Swinging Sixties,» where she met Paul McCartney at the Bag `o Nails club and...
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Cars Now
Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2011 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20132014-09-20
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With the motor industry in turmoil and environmental concerns more pressing than ever, this book highlights the latest cars that promise to challenge our dependency on fossil fuels. Tesla's S offers an alternative to the traditional luxury sports sedan, Chevrolet's Volt could leap-frog Toyota and Honda's trailblazing hybrids, Smart goes zero-emission, while electric cars from Renault and Nissan are bringing up the rear. The book's scope is global, examining Indian company Tata's affordable Nano, supercars developed in Morocco, home-grown people's cars in Iran, Saab's reinvention at the hands of Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg, Hummer's new Chinese future, and the demise of legendary brands like Pontiac. Can Jaguar roar back under new ownership? Will Rolls-Royce overtake Bentley with its new entry-level model? How is Europe reacting to newly-introduced Infiniti and Cadillac models? What is Fiat planning at Chrysler? Written to satisfy autophiles without confusing learner drivers, this unparalleled guide to today's most stylish, innovative and intriguing automobiles also looks at the companies pushing the frontiers of design, value, and technology. Featuring a chapter on every manufacturer of note and their most desirable models, with hundreds of original photographs and illustrations, as well as interviews with designers and entrepreneurs at the forefront of change, and special features exploring street culture, it demystifies the rapidly evolving world of motoring for discerning drivers. Whether you're looking for an off-road workhorse or a limousine, an electric urban runabout or an exotic supercar, if it's on the road and worth a spin it's in this book.
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Manual of Typography
Автор: Bodoni Giambattista Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Страниц: 1232 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20092005-03-18
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Celebrated printer and type designer Giambattista Bodoni set the standard for printing the alphabet with his Manuale tipografico (1818). The two-volume set—published posthumously in a limited edition of 250—features 142 sets of roman and italic typefaces, a wide selection of borders, ornaments, symbols, and flowers, as well as Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Arabic, Phoenician, Armenian, Coptic, and Tibetan alphabets. Official printer for the Duke of Parma, Bodoni (1740-1813) declared that well-designed type derived its beauty from four principles: uniformity of design, sharpness and neatness, good taste, and charm. His typefaces display an unprecedented degree of technical refinement, and epitomize purity and grace. The culmination of more than four decades of work, the Manuale tipografico represents one of history's greatest typographical achievements. The Bodoni typeface is still widely used even today, both in digital media and in print, and TASCHEN's meticulous reprint of Bodoni's masterwork gives readers a rare opportunity to explore the origins of the Bodoni typeface and learn about its creator.
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The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 320 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20142013-06-15
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This book brings together approximately two dozen of the most beloved of the classic Grimm fairy tales, including all the classics, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel in an all-new translation specially commissioned for this publication. Containing a painstakingly-researched selection of artwork by some of the most famous illustrators from the 1850s to the 1950s—including Golden Age legend Kay Nielsen, beloved bestselling author Wanda Gag (of «Millions of Cats,» 1928), British darlings Walter Crane and Arthur Rackham, and giants of nineteenth century German illustration Hermann Vogel, Otto Speckter, and Viktor Paul Mohn—this compilation also includes beautiful silhouettes culled from original publications from the 1920s that run throughout the entire layout. For adults and children alike, this collection brings to life the magic of fairy tales and their illustrations.
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The App and Mobile Case Study Book
Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2011 Страниц: 382 Дата загрузки: 28 июля 20122015-03-29
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The mobile revolution Find out how to make the most of it This guide focuses on what is a must for all brands if they are to be leaders in the future: being mobile. From applications for mobile devices, such as phones and tablets, to mobile websites, the book includes over 80 stories of how each has cracked into the newest market on the internet, where users are connected 24/7. The five chapters-Games, m-commerce, Promotional, Social, and Utilities-include the likes of Angry Birds, Jamie's 20 Minute Meals, Stephen Fry's myFry app, Flipboard, TweetDeck, Instagram, Adobe Ideas, BBC News, and SAS Survival Guide. This book is a must for anyone willing to understand the world of mobile and connectivity: the two ingredients at the very core of communication these days. Jumping on the mobile bandwagon has enabled numerous companies to prosper and discover new markets. Introduced by Ralph Simon («the Father of the Ring Tone»), this book is particularly aimed at designers, advertising and communication professionals, product managers, and interactive agencies, but will also be of interest to anyone curious about exploiting the mobile experience.
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The Pedro Almodovar Archives
Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2011 Страниц: 407 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20122015-03-24
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This title presents the complete works of Pedro Almodovar: a personal journey with one of contemporary cinema's the most esteemed film artists, made with Almodovar's collaboration and with full access to his archives. Un film de Almodovar: whether appearing in his stylish opening credits or on the suggestive poster that invariably accompanies each of his films, this announcement triggers a range of expectations. Sexy and subversive, colorful and controversial, passionate and provocative, Pedro Almodovar's world is unlike any other director's. Thanks to his remarkably cohesive and consistent oeuvre, the Manchegan maverick has become a reliable brand, his name a byword for the visual opulence, experimentation and eroticism of post-Franco Spanish cinema. Almodovar found fame with self-penned, gender-bending plots depicting the often comic misfortunes of junkies, nuns, housewives, whores, transvestites and transsexuals. Praised by critics, championed by fellow film-makers, adored by actors and adorned with international awards, he is the most successful Spanish film-maker since Luis Bunuel, with films such as «Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown», «All About My Mother», «Talk to Her», and «Volver». A self-taught auteur, Almodovar draws on influences as diverse as Douglas Sirk, Frank Tashlin, Andy Warhol and John Waters. His feature films borrow liberally from, and frequently invert, traditional genres of classic American cinema-including film noir, melodrama and screwball comedy. Yet they remain unmistakably Iberian, rooted predominantly in the director's beloved Madrid, exploring Spanish myths and modernity to the rhythms of bolero-laden soundtracks. Most recently, the enfant terrible of the 1980s arthouse scene has matured into the Academy Award-winning director of «All About My Mother», a film universally acknowledged for its emotional resonance, sophistication and craftsmanship. Almodovar's distinctive, once marginalized world has finally entered the mainstream. For this unprecedented monograph, Pedro Almodovar has given TASCHEN complete access to his archives, including never-before-published images, such as personal photos he took during filming. In addition to writing captions for the photos, Almodovar invited prominent Spanish authors to write introductions to each of his films, and selected many of his own texts to accompany this visual odyssey through his complete works.
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London: Portrait of a City
Автор: Golden Reuel Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2013 Страниц: 552 Дата загрузки: 02 сентября 20182016-09-14
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Eine fotografische Reise durch die Historie einer Weltstadt Samuel Johnson hat einmal gesagt: „Wenn ein Mann Londons berdrssig ist, ist er des Lebens berdrssig.“ Hunderte von Fotos aus Archiven in aller Welt illustrieren die Geschichte dieser einzigartigen Stadt, ihre Architektur, ihre Wahrzeichen, ihren Stil, ihr Flair – und natrlich ihre unerschtterlichen Bewohner. London mag eine ausufernde, stndig wachsende Metropole sein; doch durch alle historischen Hhen und Tiefen sind der Humor, der Charakter und der Kampfgeist seiner Menschen stets unverndert geblieben. Dieses Buch feiert sie und ihre Stadt. Neben grandiosen Fotografien (viele davon bislang unverffentlicht) wird Londons Geschichte auch durch lebendige Essays, unzhlige Quotes und Verweise auf Filme, Musikalben und literarische Werke erzhlt, in denen oder fr die London eine Rolle spielte.
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Okavango
Автор: Lanting Frans Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2013 Страниц: 252 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20142015-07-14
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For a year, Frans Lanting roamed the wetlands and deserts of northern Botswana, living by the rhythms of the water and the movements of the animals as he captured them on film. National Geographic had sent him there on assignment, but what he would take away was much more than a magazine story; it was a seminal and unparalleled collection of photographs depicting an epic world of wilderness and wildlife. As Lanting wrote, “To many who have seen the fate of other wild areas in Africa and elsewhere in the world, the very notion that such a place as Okavango still exists is like a dream.” Living out of vehicles and canvas tents, gliding through swamps, following lions by night—Lanting, armed with his cameras, got up close and personal with some of the planet’s most formidable creatures. The book he published a few years later, Okavango, was a testament not only to the wondrous wildlife of the region, but also to Lanting’s extraordinary courage, skill, and photographic vision. After many publications of Lanting’s work, including Life, Jungles, Eye to Eye, and Penguin, TASCHEN now revisits his original classic which drew critical praise worldwide with this updated and expanded edition of Okavango, further enhanced with all new reproductions and dozens of previously unpublished photos, as well as a new preface by Lanting.
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Paris: Portrait of a City
Автор: Gautrand Jean Claude Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2013 Страниц: 544 Дата загрузки: 24 августа 20152015-05-06
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TASCHENs Paris, Portrt einer Stadt fhrt uns durch eine, wie Goethe es formulierte, „Weltstadt, wo jeder Gang ber eine Brcke oder einen Platz an eine groe Vergangenheit erinnert und wo an jeder Straenecke ein Stck Geschichte sich entwickelt hat“. Die Historie von Paris wird anhand bedeutender Fotografien nacherzhlt, von Daguerres frhen Inkunabeln bis zu aktuellen Aufnahmen — eine berbordende Bestandsaufnahme des Wandels, ein gewaltiges Panorama von mehr als 600 Seiten und 500 Fotografien. Dieses Buch vereint Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Monumentales und Alltgliches, Architektur und Mode. Aufnahmen weltberhmter Fotografen, aber auch Bilder von Unbekannten fangen die besondere „Pariser Atmosphre“ ein. Mit jener speziellen Poesie, die diese Stadt und ihre Bewohner bis heute vermitteln. Nicht zufllig haben sich daran ber die Jahrhunderte hinweg unzhlige Schriftsteller und Knstler inspiriert.
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Mario Testino: Private View
Автор: Testino Mario Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 300 Дата загрузки: 14 апреля 20162014-05-26
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Die bloe Erwhnung des Namens Mario Testino lsst die Herzen all derer schneller schlagen, die sich – auf die erwachsene Art – fr die Welt der Mode und der VIPs interessieren. So allgegenwrtig ist dieser Fotograf in den groen Magazinen und bei Insider-Events, dass er lngst selbst als Star gehandelt wird. Testinos neuestes Buch, das anlsslich seiner ersten Ausstellung in China erscheint, vereint eine hervorragendeAuswahl seiner besten Studioaufnahmen mit seinen nicht minder glamoursen Schnappschssen. Eine strahlende Gwyneth Paltrow, die den gerade gewonnenen Oscar umklammert, eine in Pelz gehllte Jennifer Lopez auf einer Kommode und die unvergesslichen Portrts von Prinzessin Diana mit ihren beiden Shnen sind nur einige der vielen ikonischen Inszenierungen und Momente, die hier zum ersten Mal in Buchform zusammengefasst wurden. Abgerundet von Testinos besten jngsten Arbeiten aus Werbung und Mode, ist dieser Bildband ein echtes Ereignis fr Fans zeitgenssischer Popkultur.
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Bourgery: Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery (количество томов: 2)
Автор: Sick Henri Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 722 Дата загрузки: 17 апреля 20162015-09-30
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We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797–1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830, having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior, Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas Henri Jacob (1782–1871), a student of the French painter Jacques Louis David. The first volumes were published the following year, but completion of the treatise required nearly two decades of dedication; Bourgery lived just long enough to finish his labor of love, but the last of the treatise’s eight volumes was not published in its entirety until five years after his death. The four parts of Bourgery’s treatise cover descriptive anatomy, surgical anatomy and techniques (exploring in detail nearly all the major operations that were performed during the first half of the 19th century), general anatomy and embryology, and microscopic anatomy. Jacob’s spectacular hand-colored, life-size lithographs are remarkable for their clarity, color, and aesthetic appeal, reflecting a combination of direct laboratory observation and illustrative research; the images are to this day unsurpassed in anatomical illustration.
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Album Vilmorin: The Vegetable Garden
Автор: Dressendrfer Werner Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2013 Страниц: 136 Дата загрузки: 15 августа 20152015-10-07
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The French company Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie arose in the 18th century from the collaboration between Philippe Victoire de Vilmorin—a grain and plant merchant and connoisseur—and his father-in-law, Pierre Andrieux, Botanist to the King. The Vilmorins, though only producers and merchants on the Paris market, contributed enormously to the botanical and agronomic knowledge of their time. Their first catalog, comprising all kinds of seeds for kitchen-garden vegetables—including legumes, salad plants, flower seeds and bulbs—appeared in 1766. It was followed by a series of Publications priodiques in which the quality of the botanical and horticultural information was equaled only by the illustrations. By the mid-19th century, the firm had become the most important seed company in the world—active in production, trade, and scientific advances, thanks largely to Louis de Vilmorin’s crucial research into selection and heredity in the 1850s.
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Leni Riefenstahl: Africa
Автор: Taschen Angelika Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2013 Страниц: 792 Дата загрузки: 24 сентября 20182018-08-03
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When she was in her early sixties, Leni Riefenstahl began traveling frequently to the African continent, where she has worked on various film and photography projects over the last half century. Her favorite destination was in Sudan, where she lived with and photographed the Nuba tribespeople, learning their language and becoming their friend. The Nuba were a loving and peaceful people who welcomed Riefenstahl as one of their own. Her images of the Nuba, as well as of the Dinka, Shilluk, Masai, and other tribes, are gathered in this monumental book. Riefenstahl remembers her experiences in Africa as the happiest moments in her life. Her beautiful, skilled photographs represent a landmark in the extraordinary career of the 20th century’s most unforgettable artistic pioneer.
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Hadid
Автор: Jodidio Philip Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152014-07-24
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Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the past decade she has completed numerous structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (which the New York Times called ’’the most important new building in America since the Cold War’’), the MAXXI Museum in Rome, the Guangzhou Opera House, her first completed project in China, and the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 Olympics. Today, Hadid is firmly established among the lite of world architecture, her audacious and futuristic designs as well as her sense for style and fashion having catapulted her to international fame.
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Nouvel
Автор: Jodidio Philip Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152014-07-24
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Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as France’s most original and important contemporary architect. From 1967 to 1970 he assisted influential architects Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, before creating his own practice in Paris. His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981–87). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House and the Fondation Cartier, Paris. His major completed projects since 2000 include the Culture and Convention Center in Lucerne, Switzerland, the spectacular Agbar Tower in Barcelona, the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Hotel Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom with shopping mall. Jean Nouvel was the 2001 recipient of the RIBA Royal Gold Medal for Architecture. In his citation, Peter Cook said of Nouvel: «In an age of blandness, imitation, or doubt, his work shines through as having both clarity and finesse, originality and lyricism.»
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20th Century Photography
Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 760 Дата загрузки: 18 июня 20142013-12-20
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The history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Cologne’s Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devote a substantial section to international photography. The L. Fritz Gruber collection, from which this book is drawn, is one of the most important in Germany and one of the most representative anywhere in the world, constituting the core of the museum’s holdings. This book provides a fascinating insight into the collection’s rich diversity; from conceptual art to abstraction to reportage, all of the major movements and genres are represented via a vast selection of the century’s most remarkable photographs. From Ansel Adams to Piet Zwart, over 850 works are presented in alphabetical order by photographer, with descriptive texts and photographers’ biographical details, providing a comprehensive and indispensable overview of 20th century photography.
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Basquiat
Автор: Emmerling Leonhard Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152014-07-24
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From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27. The subject of a feature film by fellow artist Julian Schnabel, Basquiat is one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. This book explores his short but prolific career.
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Chagall
Автор: Metzger Rainer Жанр: Taschen Издательство: Taschen Год: 2012 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20152014-07-24
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The Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the «painter as poet». The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century. Chagall’s paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colorful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning they evoke recall his native Vitebsk, and the great events that mark the life of ordinary people: birth, love, marriage and death. They tell of a world full of everyday miracles — in the room of lovers, on the streets of Vitebsk, beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Heaven and earth seem to meet in a topsy-turvy world in which whimsical figures of people and animals float through the air with gravity-defying serenity.
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