W tej strefie zapraszamy czytelników tak zwane artystyczne dusze po książki z kategorii Sztuka. Polecamy szereg publikacji o sztuce i jej historii,ciekawostki i portfolia artystów, eseje, albumy, książki o malarstwie, rzeźbiarstwie, architekturze oraz histoii fotografii. Biografie ciekawych artystów, książki i powieści przedstawiające fascynujące losy malarzy i osób uwiecznianych na obrazach. W tym dziale tylko ksiązki ze sztuka w tle.
Albumowe, ozdobne wydanie gawęd Bożeny Fabiani poświęconych sztuce inspirowanej Pismem Świętym. Książka z barwnymi reprodukcjami, wydana na wysokim jakościowo papierze i w twardej oprawie będzie pięknym prezentem dla wszystkich miłośników sztuki.
Stary Testament zawiera opowieści najróżniejsze: zadziwiające, niezrozumiałe, wzniosłe i okrutne, tętniące życiem i emocjami – i wszystko to autorka obserwuje na obrazach, tropiąc przy tym realia związane zarówno z epoką żydowskich patriarchów i królów, jak i z czasami artystów podejmujących tematy biblijne. Przygląda się, jak w ciągu wieków radzono sobie z trudnościami w wyobrażeniu człowieka i żywiołów, powietrza, światła, wody, jak ukazywano potężne emocje bohaterów biblijnych, zwłaszcza te najgroźniejsze – nienawiść, mściwość, zawiść. Autorka ściśle powiązuje historię z obrazem, wyjaśnia jego treść, pokazuje podejście malarza do tematu – tak różne w zależności od epoki oraz indywidualnych cech artysty.
Bożena Fabiani przybliża i objaśnia również malarstwo, którego źródłem stał się Nowy Testament. Przyjmuje układ chronologiczny, zgodny z opowieścią o życiu Jezusa. Wpisuje swoją opowieść w szeroko pojęty kontekst historyczno-obyczajowy, zarówno w odniesieniu do samego zapisu Ewangelii i starożytnej Palestyny, jak i do konkretnego dzieła, badając czas i okoliczności jego powstania oraz cechy charakterystyczne, styl artysty i ducha epoki, nie wchodząc przy tym w zagadnienia czysto teologiczne.
Prawdę Starego i Nowego Testamentu można oddać w rozmaitych wariantach – opowiedzieć na swój własny sposób, uchwycić przez zmyślenie czy idealizację, wynieść ponad czas fabularny. Opowiedziana językiem malarstwa przeszłość biblijnych bohaterów jawi się w zaskakujących odsłonach i kostiumach, a artyści wszystkich epok prowokują do zupełnie innego spojrzenia na literacki pierwowzór.
Pisząc o sztuce, która wyrosła na glebie słowa pisanego, Bożena Fabiani utrzymuje równowagę słowa i obrazu. Każdy rozdział składa się z przeplatających się dwóch elementów – krótkiego streszczenia tekstu, który malarz miał za zadanie zilustrować (autorka cytuje przy tym tekst biblijny) oraz z obrazów, którym towarzyszy opis, a nierzadko także dygresyjna informacja o malarzu. Autorka wzbogaca narrację o wiersze inspirowane Ewangelią.
Książka jest skierowana do wszystkich miłośników malarstwa, a zwłaszcza tych, których interesują dzieła inspirowane tematyką biblijną. To propozycja książki popularyzującej wiedzę o sztuce i pasję do sztuki, pisana przez panią profesor Fabiani z zamysłem, by publikacja trafiła także do rąk młodych odbiorców. Kto sięgnie po tę książkę, będzie czerpał dużo przyjemności, odnajdując w niej rozmaite wymiary – słowne, literackie, malarskie i materialne.
Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work.
As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky’s interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all essential components to his painting and engraving. He was involved with both the influential Blaue Reiter and Bauhaus groups and left a legacy not only of dazzling visual work, but also of highly influential treatises such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Key tenets included the connections between painting, music and mystical experience, and the purification of art away from material realism and towards an emotional expression, condensed in particular by color.
This book presents key Kandinsky works to introduce his repertoire of vivid colors, forms, and feelings. Tracing the artist’s radical stylistic development, it shows how one painter’s progression paved the way for generations of abstract expression to come.
Hailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only reality, but the act of perception itself. Working “en plein air” with rapid, impetuous brushstrokes, he interrogated the play of light on the hues, patterns, and contours and the way in which these visual impressions fall upon the eye.
Sportive gentlemen, lascivious ladies: Since the earliest days of photography, people have been getting up to all manner of rannygazoo in front of the lens. This collection presents the finest highlights from the collection of New Yorker Mark Rotenberg, who began collecting antique smut after finding a stash of vintage erotic pictures in a Brooklyn dumpster and now owns a 95,000 strong collection of archive pornography dating from between 1860 and 1960.
Flick through these pages and witness the fitness of our forebears as they romp, cavort, and frolic with unabashed energy and glee. From early monochromes of daringly dropped drawers and seductively waxed handlebar mustaches, to Kodachromes of cheery, twin-peaked pin-up beauties in the 1950s, this fine collection spans the sublimely sensual and the ridiculous.
Michelangelo’s breathtaking drawings
Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). The nickname il divino (“the divine one”) has been applied to him since the 1530s right through to today: his achievements as a sculptor, painter, and architect remain unparalleled and his creations are among the best-known artworks in the world.
This Bibliotheca Universalis edition is devoted to the artist’s graphic work, a testimony to his masterly command of line, form, and detail, from architectural studies to anatomically perfect figures. The book brings together some of the artist’s finest drawings from museums and collections around the world as well as some of his own notes and revisions, offering stunning proximity not only to the ambition and scope of Michelangelo’s practice but also his working process. A chapter with a compilation of newly attributed and reattributed drawings provides further insights into Michelangelo’s varied graphic oeuvre and the ongoing exploration of his genius.
Choć dziś w Polsce nazwisko Ewy Frysztak niewiele mówi, za granicą jej plakaty stanowią gratkę dla kolekcjonerów. Z rozmowy z Januszem Górskim wyłania się portret nieprzeciętnej kobiety: mistrzyni okładek PIW-u, eleganckiej damy w naszyjniku z pereł, klnącej jak szewc, a przy tym osoby twórczej i niezależnej. Jej barwnym życiem (trzech mężów, stolik w Kameralnej obok stolika Marka Hłaski, przyjaźnie z najwybitniejszymi polskimi grafikami) można by obdzielić kilka biografii.Najważniejsze są jednak jej prace, zwłaszcza tworzone od lat pięćdziesiątych okładki książek ? to rysowane zamaszystym gestem, z werwą i rozmachem, to znów skonstruowane z imponującą dyscypliną. Twórczość Ewy Frysztak jest odpowiedzią na docierające do PRL-u echa modernistycznego projektowania, bardzo charakterystyczną, pomysłową ? i aż do dzisiaj zapomnianą. Ponad dwieście reprodukcji z jednej strony przybliża czytelnikowi wizualną atmosferę świata polskiej książki sprzed kilku dekad, a z drugiej stanowi świadectwo wyjątkowego talentu.
In 2008, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy made a photo app called Snapchat. Just two years later, Facebook wanted to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. This is the story of how Snapchat grew from a university student's idea into a multibillion-dollar company.
Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.
How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.
Udostępnione publicznie w 1805 roku przez Stanisława Kostkę Potockiego i jego żonę Aleksandrę z Lubomirskich zbiory dzieł sztuki zwane Kolekcją Wilanowską zawierają kolekcję malarstwa różnych epok historycznych. Tworzona w trudnym dla polskiej kultury okresie porozbiorowym galeria miała za zadanie z jednej strony odbudowanie pamięci o zwycięskim królu Janie Sobieskim, a z drugiej przedstawienie dziejów sztuki światowej. Ten dualizm z powodzeniem kontynuowali następni właściciele Wilanowa. Prezentowana obecnie w Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie kolekcja należy do nielicznych w Polsce, które przetrwały tragiczne losy kraju w XIX i XX wieku.
Whether you’re thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This edition of 1000 Tattoos explores the history of the art worldwide via designs and photos—from 19th-century engravings to tribal body art, from circus ladies of the ‘20s to classic biker designs—giving a fascinating insight into the art of tattooing.
Though numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York Times best seller, a film starring Scarlett Johansson, and record visitor numbers at art institutions from Amsterdam to Washington.
Vermeer's subjects focus on daily domestic activities, from letter writing to music playing to preparations in the kitchen. The scenes astound with their meticulous detail, majestic planes of light, and with Vermeer's extraordinary ability to draw out narrative intrigues. In such beloved paintings as Lady Standing at a Virginal, A Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid and, most famously, the enigmatic, wide-eyed, and enchanting Girl with a Pearl Earring, Vermeer evokes not only the effects of substance and texture, but also the many stories and secrets that reside beneath the surface.
Featuring all Vermeer's known works and succinct, accessible texts, this essential introduction explores Vermeer's leading place in art history and his unique ability to transform oil paint into a living, breathing scene of human life.
Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint, pencil, charcoal, or chalk.
Yet as he was deploying the lurid colors, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms that would subsequently make his name, van Gogh battled not only the disinterest of his contemporary audience but also devastating bouts of mental illness. His episodes of depression and anxiety would eventually claim his life, when, in 1890, he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday.
This richly illustrated introduction follows Vincent van Gogh's story from his earliest pictures of peasants and rural workers, through his bright Parisian period, to his final, feverish burst of creative energy in the South of France during the last two and a half years of his life.
Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork.
Focusing on issues of materialism, celebrity, and media, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources, from advertising imagery to comic books, from Hollywood's most famous faces to the packaging of consumer products, the latter epitomized by Andy Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. As well as challenging the establishment with the elevation of such popular, banal, and kitschy images, Pop Art also deployed methods of mass-production, reducing the role of the individual artist with mechanized techniques such as screen printing.
With featured artists including Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Ed Ruscha, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, this book introduces the full reach and influence of a defining modernist movement.
The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, both notable for their vernacular language and attention to everyday, contemporary life.
Immersing himself in rural or small-town communities, Bruegel is particularly notable for his depiction of peasant experience and folk culture, earning the artist nickname "Peasant Bruegel." Whether hunters shivering in the snow or a boisterous country fair, Bruegel raised the farming, festivals, gatherings, and games of peasant culture to the status of high art. Bruegel's imposing religious and moral subjects, meanwhile, such as The Triumph of Death and The Tower of Babel are as awestriking and influential today as they were in the 16th century, inspiring contemporary culture from The Lord of the Rings cinematic battle scenes to Don DeLillo's novel Underworld.
From the corn harvest to the conversion of Saul, from quaint wedding processions to Christ's road to Calvary, this book brings together the rich range of Bruegel's subjects to introduce his powerful compositions of both biblical and earthly tableaux.
A good logo can glamorize just about anything. Now available in our popular Klotz format, this sweeping compendium gathers diverse brand markers from around the world to explore the irrepressible power of graphic representation. Organized into chapters by theme, the catalogue explores how text, image, and ideas distill into a logo across events, fashion, media, music, and retailers.
Featuring work from both star names and lesser-known mavericks, this is an excellent reference for students and professionals in design and marketing, as well as for anyone interested in the visuals and philosophy behind brand identity.
George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history.
Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world, containing over 400,000 images and negatives-among them the work of such masters as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel Adams.
Home also to 23,000 cinema films, five million film stills, one of the most important silent film collections, technical equipment and a library with 40,000 books on photography and film, the George Eastman House is a pilgrimage site for researchers, photographers, and collectors from all over the world. This volume curates the most impressive images from the collection in chronological order to offer an incomparable overview of photographic history.
"Girls, Gags & Giggles," ran publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. While other magazines delivered the girl next door, Harrison's publications banked on bad girls in satin and leather, fishnet stockings, and six-inch heels performing slapstick stunts straight from the burlesque stage.
Harrison lured his readers in with vibrantly painted covers by top pin-up artists Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss and, most famously, Peter Driben. This Bibliotheca Universalis edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with every single cover from Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt, and Whisper, from 1942 to 1955, as well as interior spreads, featuring, among others, a budding Bettie Page. In an age when far more graphic material is the norm, 1000 Pin-Up Girls celebrates an era of pin-up and pulp style to fuel your erotic imagination.
While the female nude has long played a conspicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such attention, or acceptance. This ode to the male physique celebrates the evolving, at one time illicit, art form from anonymous 19th century erotica through to contemporary work from David Hockney and Duane Michaels.
Through the classic, the playful, and the provocative, it explores the compositions, postures, and role-playing of this often under-explored genre. Esteemed masters such as Herbert List, George Platt Lynes or Robert Mapplethorpe are all there, alongside Baron Wilhelm von Gloeden, famed for his homoerotic images of nude youths in classical postures in Sicily. Further highlights include illustrations from Physique Pictorial, the leading organ of the mid-50s gay scene and a pioneer in gay publishing.
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