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Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: This cheeky pocket-sized notebook is ideal for all those daily uses, from shopping lists to jotting down reminders, or even for recording those most intimate and romantic thoughts, hopes, and desires. Plus, it comes with two kitsch mini comic strips and a tongue-in-cheek quiz: Will You Be a Bride... Or an Old Maid? The perfect present for the love of your, life or that hopelessly romantic friend.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This captivating book explores the lives of the ordinary people of Pompeii and Herculaneum the two cities on the Bay of Naples that were buried by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The plaster-cast bodies of the victims are the most vivid shocking reminders of the horrific event that made Pompeii famous, but who were these men, women and children so cruelly frozen in…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 095 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 216) Аннотация: Depicting the Paris of his day, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) captured the nineteenth-century urban experience, legitimising modern life as an artistic subject. His detached, frank mode of looking and his subversive handling of both paint and subject-matter shocked his contemporaries, and eventually established his reputation as the father of modern painting. This remarkable book explores Manets…
Скачать книгу (размер 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 108) Аннотация: Those long, boring car journeys are now fun and fascinating as you Color & Doodle Your Way Across the USA. This amazing concertina-bound sketchbook folds out to an incredible 40-foot-long, coast-to-coast, continuous trip from Alaska to New York. Along the way it stops off at 54 famous landmarks and sites of natural beauty, such as the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Mount Rushmore, the White House,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This album represents some six decades of achievements of Russian photo reporters in the international press photography arena. It contains all the winning photographs in the main categories of the yearly competition, organized since 1955 by the Amsterdam based World Press Photo Foundation, as well as photographs awarded honarary diplomas and special prizes by the international jury — a total of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: In the first half of the 20th century, Mexico was home to a burgeoning of art comparable in energy to the political revolution that shook the country between 1910 and 1920. This surge of artistic activity is the subject of this compelling new book, which presents the work of Mexican artists — from the social-realist painters Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros to the photographers…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Zaha Hadid is the leading architect in the world, and is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize (2004). This is the complete monograph of Hadid's works, from her early, unbuilt projects and ideas from her student years to her very latest projects around the world, including the Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Guangzhou Opera House in China, and the Eli…
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Скачать книгу (размер 2 064 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 406) Аннотация: In June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer and photographer. Over a six-decade career, this towering figure of modern culture constantly observed and imagined landscapes using all the artistic techniques at his command,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Human beings have been transforming Mediterranean landscapes into art for at least 30,000 years. Today, artists, sculptors, designers, architects, and gardeners explore age-old materials, skills, and sites to produce extraordinary landscape art that celebrates life in this multifaceted region. Each work here, whether in France, Greece, Italy, Morocco, or Spain, observes the logic of place as…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: With its high concentration of music, fashion, design, and film, London is one of the world's leading creative hubs. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the dwellings of the talents from around the world who make the city their home. Here, Emily Wheeler and Ingrid Rasmussen unlock the doors of the liveliest and most inspirational homes across the metropolis — where the real style begins. From…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 228) Аннотация: This volume is the definitive account of Tiffany's highly collectible art glass, which he considered his signature artistic achievement. Called Favrile glass a term presumably coined by Louis Comfort Tiffany himself from the same root as the Latin faber (craftsman, artisan) to underscore its one-of-a-kind quality every piece was blown and decorated by hand. With a foreword by Alice Cooney…
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Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: This outstanding global survey brings together the dazzling talent of 50 leading illustrators from over 20 countries, among them Julia Rothman, Whitney Sherman and Mike Perry, and also provides them with the opportunity to indulge in a brilliant, creative experiment. The book is curated into two interleaved strands: in the first, each illustrator showcases their own work and is interviewed by the…