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This is Gauguin

Roddam George, 2014

Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of the late 19th century's artistic mainstream. He created paintings whose radically simplified lines and colours echoed the unschooled art of the rustic and native cultures he loved. After his famously disastrous stay with Vincent van Gogh in southern France, Gauguin escaped European civilization for the Polynesian islands. Immersing himself in the culture, he produced a series of radiant canvases and powerful sculptures his last great works. From his childhood in Peru to his experiences in Tahiti, the story of Gauguin's life is recounted in authoritative text by an expert on the Post-Impressionists and powerful imagery by an award-winning illustrator. Подробнее

Emerald: Twenty-one Centuries of Jewelled Opulence and Power

Self Jonathan, 2014

Sparkling, glittering, and gleaming, emeralds are gemstones twenty times rarer than diamonds. In the first section of Emerald, we see pieces worn by celebrities ranging from Elizabeth Taylor and Angelina Jolie to royals such as Princess Diana, all alongside classic images of emeralds from art, advertising, and fashion. The second part of this major volume showcases more than thirty of the world's most significant and famous pieces of emerald jewelry, including many previously unseen designs from private and royal collections. Historic creations that are almost 5,500 years old are represented alongside modern jewelry houses, including Cartier, Boucheron, Bulgari, Harry Winston, and more. The third and final part tells the story of the emerald trade from mine to market, illustrated with specially commissioned photography from across four continents. Подробнее

World Press Photo 15

McNally Michele, 2015

Every year since 1958 an international jury has convened in Holland under the auspices of the World Press Photo Foundation to choose the finest press photographs of the year. Universally recognized as the definitive competition for photographic reporting, it draws submissions from photojournalists, newspapers, and magazines throughout the world. Publishing the results of the most recent competition, this book contains the most haunting and inspiring photographs from 2014 some 150 pictures selected from more than 100,000 images submitted. These prize-winning works are extraordinary not only for their technique but also because they capture the most powerful, moving, and sometimes disturbing moments of the year. Подробнее

Pictures That Mark Can Do

Bailey David, 2007

Mark is good natured. He finds the best in most things. To explain more would be too much. These are just pictures that Mark can do. David Bailey may be a master of the medium, but he also readily accepts that photography is technologically driven. The snapshot is a part of our visual culture and many photographs have been taken millions and millions of times, with just slight variations, such as the identity of the people in a family portrait. Bailey also takes such snaps, images that are imbued with a sense of ease and freedom and yet, which, in his hands usually carry much greater weight and significance. In compiling this work, he considered that the photographs appear so easy that even Mark, his assistant, could make them and the quip became the title of this, his latest book. Подробнее

Beckett

Francois-Marie Banier, 2011

Beckett is the result of a little-known encounter that took place over 30 years ago in Tangiers, between the then-burgeoning photographer Francois-Marie Banier and the great Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett. Banier kept spotting Beckett's iconically gaunt and tapering frame — a marsh-bird vanished in the middle of the crowd of Moroccans in djellabahs and indifferent tourists — and was so entranced by his curious movements and features that he determined to photograph him. Of course when they finally met Banier forgot all about his camera, preferring instead to listen to Beckett's tales of the 27 books he couldn't find a publisher for, of his wife Suzanne, of his friendship with Joyce, of his family in Ireland. Eventually recovering his photographer's eye, Banier stepped back behind the camera to take this fantastic sequence of photographs, published here for the first time, and unmatched as a portrait of the great writer. Подробнее

1000 Years of World Architecture

Francesca Prina, 2006

A dazzling visual journey through 1000 years of architecture. • Charts the progression of Western architecture over the last millennium, from the Romanesque to the latest modern trends • 148 special features dedicated to the greatest architects, styles, movements and themes, each with a concise introductory text and illustrations of the most important work • Thirty-six analyses of masterpieces shed light on particularly significant individual buildings, brought to life through exterior and interior photographs, details, plans and diagrams • Includes biographies of 180 architects Подробнее

Advertising: New Techniques for Visual Seduction

Uwe Stoklossa, 2007

Advertisers are constantly searching for new ways to grab the interest and appetites of consumers. Often they use words to provoke interest. But just as often, they use eye-fooling, mind- bending images to pull the viewer up short and force them to look again. Images that can do that are magical, and one of the indispensable tricks of the advertising trade. Uwe Stoklossa knows the secrets behind the second glance. He shares this knowledge here, both in the countless examples of ads he has collected from around the world, and also in the accessible, intriguing essays he writes on perception, optical tricks and illusion. This book will heighten your awareness and arm you with a myriad of new techniques for visual seduction, acting as a springboard for a whole host of startling new concepts. It’s a must-read and an indispensable source of ideas for anyone involved in advertising or the business of communication. Подробнее

Andre Kertesz — Photofile Photofile brings together the best work of the world's great photographers in an attractive pocket-size format and at an easily affordable price. Handsome and collectable, each volume in the series contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction, a chronology and a bibliography. Подробнее

Anonymous: Enigmatic Images from Unknown Photographers

Robert Flynn Johnson, 2005

It is often said that, in times of catastrophe, people find their loved ones, their family pets – and their photographs – before fleeing for their lives. The wonderfully diverse images reproduced here include many of transcendent beauty and psychological insight, all with the magical, mysterious charge that comes from speculating on the circumstances in which they were taken. The number of collectors of anonymous photographs is growing exponentially. Robert Flynn Johnson has spent more than a decade on a personal journey of discovery to find the works reproduced here. These photographs are pleasurable and poignant, giving insight into the human secrets with which we can all identify. Подробнее

ArchiLab's Urban Experiments

Marie-Ange Brayer, 2005

Since its inception in a provincial town outside Paris some eight years ago, ArchiLab has established itself as one of the world's most important showcases of young architecture talent. Published to coincide with the major exhibition at Tokyo's Mori Art Museum, ArchiLab's Urban Experiments presents the very latest projects of the rising avant-garde alongside the pioneers of radical architecture. Featuring hundreds of seminal and influential works by ninety architects, ranging from the groundbreaking experiments of Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Peter Cook, Daniel Libeskind alongside a new generation of rising geniuses, including Asymptote, NOX, UN Studios and Greg Lynn, this ambitious publication assembles several generations of visionary architecture in a single volume. With the city as the context and catalyst for the work, the book provides an indispensable resource for architectural and urban development and innovation for the third millennium. Packaged in a compact format that makes for useful student research and boundless inspiration for practitioners, ArchiLab's Urban Experiments continues the tradition of breaking conventions to explore new territories of design around the world. Подробнее

The Architecture of Parking

Simon Henley, 2007

The challenge of housing a maximum number of cars in a well-designed space is one of the most overlooked aspects of twentieth-century architecture, and yet it has attracted a stellar array of architects throughout the history of its development. From Louis Kahn to Rem Koolhaas, from Paul Rudolph to Zaha Hadid to Kengo Kuma, architects have used the parking garage to experiment with ideas about materiality, form, structure and use that ultimately inform their other projects. This is the first major international survey of parking garages ever published. Four chapters — on light, material, elevation and program — feature a visual essay by noted architectural photographer Sue Barr together with project spreads and case studies that present ground-breaking structures in photographs and drawings. From the iconic Marina City towers in Chicago to the latest robotic technology at the Volkswagen Autoturme in Germany, the author shows how the form and function of the parking garage has been hugely influential not only on generations of architects but on popular culture, capturing the imagination of novelists, photographers and film-makers. The Architecture of Parking will be an indispensable and inspirational resource for students, professional architects, engineers, urban planners and developers. Подробнее

Art Deco Architecture

Patricia Bayer, 1999

Art Deco buildings, with their highly ornate façades and dramatic forms, are a vital part of our surroundings. This wide-ranging exploration of Art Deco architectural design embraces many different times and places in its summary of the movement’s origins, development and influence. Various types of architecture were termed Art Deco, and their antecedents might include Arts and Crafts, fin-de-siècle Vienna, Cubism, Expressionism and the Bauhaus. Patricia Bayer shows that Art Deco masterpieces can be seen and admired worldwide: from the skyscrapers of New York City to imperial dwellings in Tokyo; from Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Battersea Power Station to movie theatres and diners across America. Post-modernism now uses its motifs and idioms, and many of the original buildings still survive, fully restored to their former glory. Sumptuously illustrated, this is a comprehensive guide to the best-loved of all 20th-century architectural styles. Подробнее

Art Deco Interiors

Patricia Bayer, 1998

By the time of the Paris exhibition of 1925 from which Art Deco took its name, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design — a «total look» — dominated the thinking of both designers and their clients. Studios began to emerge to serve the needs of a design and style-conscious middle-class. This text displays the flourishing design ingenuity through contemporary photographs and illustrations of selected interiors complemented with modern photographs of individual pieces. It traces the sylistic evolution and dominant motifs of Deco, the triumph of the 1925 exhibition and the pure «high style» of the Paris ensembliers; the growth of Streamline Moderne offshoots in the US; the international revival of Deco as a decorative style for a new generation of post-modern designers; and the restoration of many Art Deco interiors to their original state. Подробнее

Art Deco Textiles

Alain-Rene Hardy, 2006

The decorative arts were given a fresh lease of life by the Paris International Exhibition of 1925, and experienced a boom that was to shape the lifestyles of a whole generation. In Art Deco Textiles — The French Designers, hundreds of full-colour photographs bring to life the age when craftsmanship and industry worked side by side: Lyons silk and the first artificial fibres; carved wooden printing blocks and huge multiple-cylinder rotary presses; indigo and madder and aniline and alizarin dyes; tradition and progress. Whether following the elitist decorative trends of Ruhlmann and Süe, or the more functionalist movement led by Le Corbusier, the worlds of interior decoration and fashion went through radical changes that were both influenced by and reflected in the textiles of the day, and French artists and designers found themselves at the hub of the activity. Here is a rich cornucopia of fabric creations that will provide endless inspiration to designers and students, and enthral anyone keen to discover the key role of textiles at the cutting edge of Art Deco style. Подробнее

The Art Directors' Handbook of Professional Magazine Design

Horst Moser, 2007

Horst Moser has selected a huge range of examples from his amazing collection of international magazines and uses them to illustrate the principles of classic editorial design. He discusses the challenges that face today’s art directors, and showcases the most successful solutions, from cutting edge modern style to classic techniques that can be used year after year. This striking ideas book offers a range of innovative approaches for every aspect of a magazine, inside and out, pictorial and typographical, from standfirsts and subheads to columns and captions. With over a thousand full-colour illustrations, this will be an inexhaustible source of inspiration for students and professionals, and an essential and authoritative guide for anyone involved in magazine design. Подробнее

Art Photography Now

Susan Bright, 2006

Photography helped shape art in the late twentieth century; in the twenty-first, it has begun to dominate it. Not only are major international museums and galleries devoting blockbuster exhibitions to the medium, but artist-photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters, with their pieces commanding unprecedented prices. This stunning survey presents the work of eighty of the most important and best-loved artist-photographers in the world today – such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Allan Sekula, Boris Mikhailov, Inez van Lamsweerde, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sam Taylor-Wood and many more. Introductions to each section outline the current genres and consider why photographers are attracted to certain themes. Each photographer’s work is then presented in sequence, with commentaries by the author highlighting the art’s most important aspects. A general introduction sets out the historical relationship between art and photography from the early nineteenth century and discusses the art world’s embrace of the medium in recent decades. Art Photography Now is a truly comprehensive guide to the essential aspects of contemporary photography. Подробнее

Art Yearbook 3

Melissa Gronlund, 2005

An essential publication for anyone interested in contemporary art, the Yearbook is a comprehensive overview of the fast-moving art scene. Featuring over 300 of the world's most exciting international artists with images and critical texts, the book also provides full details of today's leading galleries. The Yearbook is produced by Frieze Art Fair, which is held in London every October. The fair brings together the most dynamic contemporary art galleries in the world and displays the work of over 600 young and established artists. Подробнее

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America

Wendy Kaplan, 2004

This is a visually stunning, definitive survey with objects – furniture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles and works on paper – from all over Europe, Scandinavia and the United States. At the turn of the last century, the Arts and Crafts movement transformed not only how objects looked but also how people looked at objects. It provided a framework for essential issues that are still debated today: the conflict between standardization and individuality, the question of whether a one-of-a-kind handcrafted object is superior to a mass-produced one, and the problem of defining what kind of design most benefits society. The book features masterworks by the best-known designers of the period, such as William Morris, M. H. Baillie Scott, Henry Van de Velde, Peter Behrens, Josef Hoffmann, Eliel Saarinen, Greene and Greene, and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as lesser-known examples that have never been displayed together before. Подробнее

Beyond Bawa: Modern Masterworks of Monsoon Asia

David Robson, 2007

Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa's forty-year career has become legendary. Beyond Bawa considers his continuing influence through the work of contemporary architects working in the region. Bawa achieved the harmonious and pleasurable fusion of local building traditions with modern forms. Throughout south Asia his legacy lives on in contemporary architectural practice and remains an important source of inspiration for generations of architects. Bawa was the principal force behind what is today known globally as ‘tropical modernism’, and examples of his ideas can be found in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Bali but also in resorts and residences throughout wider Asia. An overview of Bawa and his contribution to contemporary architecture is followed by presentations of twenty-four contemporary architects, ranging from well-known practitioners such as Australian Kerry Hill to local talents such as Anjalendran. They reveal the long-lasting significance of Bawa’s uniquely sensitive approach to building and the landscape. This is the ideal companion to Geoffrey Bawa: The Complete Works and is an excellent introduction to current architectural practice in south Asia. Подробнее

Bulgari

Amanda Triossi, 2007

Copious photographs and archival pictures trace the development of the Bulgari style, a distinctive look that has captivated royalty, movie stars and others for more than a century. This has sparked countless imitations by other jewelers, copies that can never rival the glamour and flair of the Bulgari originals. The book showcases a range of Bulgari’s stunning innovations, such as its easy-to-wear everyday jewels made with precious gems, its trademark watches and unique Vintage Collection. It also describes the creative inspiration that led the firm to its famous juxtaposition of unusual materials, from mixing semiprecious stones with priceless diamonds and mounting ancient coins in gold jewelry to incorporating substances – such as steel and white porcelain – that had never before been used in couture jewelry. This elegant volume will delight anyone in the field of fashion and jewelry design, as well as the many enthusiastic collectors of Bulgari jewels. Подробнее

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