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.
Featuring nineteen home-building and design strategies that are direct, original and often surprisingly simple, this inspirational sourcebook presents a mix of new technology and time-tested vernacular methods that will change the way we think about ‘home’. With strategies and houses that span the globe, including developing regions in Asia, Africa and South America, the book shines a spotlight on everything from wholly new techniques to creative reuse of existing buildings and materials.
Nothing short of a design revolution is underway as we confront climate change, polluting plastics, global migration, rapidly expanding cities and an ageing population. Part handbook, part manifesto, Houses that Can Save the World shows how architects, designers, engineers, self-builders, artists and others are embracing the new challenges the human race is facing.
Whether you are planning a self-build or are simply looking for ways to make your home more environmentally friendly and efficient, this book is packed with innovative ideas that can help us to make our homes and the world a better place to be.
Since his emergence in the early seventies, Martin Scorsese has become one of the most respected names in cinema. Classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas are regularly cited as being among the finest films ever made.
This lavish retrospective is a fitting tribute to a remarkable director, now into his sixth decade in cinema and showing no signs of slowing up. Leading film writer Tom Shone draws on his in-depth knowledge and distinctive viewpoint to present refreshing commentaries on all twenty-three main features, from the rarely shown Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967) to the latest release, The Irishman (2019), as well as covering Scorsese’s parallel career as a documentary maker.
Liam Wong’s world starts after dark and ends at first light. When the night draws in and the lights go down, his urban explorations and cinematic narratives truly begin.
In his previous career as a game designer, Wong learned that ‘real life is just as potent, bizarre and interesting as things we can imagine.’ In his début monograph, TO:KY:OO, he captured the beauty of the city at night. In this new publication, Wong widens his lens from the city that became his photographic muse to Osaka, Kyoto, London, Seoul, Paris and more.
The eerie emptiness of London’s Piccadilly Circus at 4:00 am, silhouettes in Seoul captured during monsoon season, a salaryman waiting on an empty subway platform in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in front of the world’s largest electronics store – mysterious ghosts representing lives lived in shadow, portrayed as intricate cinematic visions, all before the sun rises. In this evocative study of cities after midnight, Wong documents how people and places are altered when darkness falls. He weaves slivers of life, delicate and covert threads, into an insomniac’s journey through the solitude and uncertainty of the night.
When Vivian Maier’s archive was discovered in Chicago in 2007, the photography community gained an immense and singular talent. Little- known during her lifetime, Maier is now recognized as one of the great American photographers of the twentieth century. Born in New York in 1926 to an Austro-Hungarian father and French mother, she lived in France several times in her youth and worked as a governess in New York and Chicago for much of her adult life. It was during her years as a governess that she took many of the photographs that have made her posthumously famous. Now the subject of films and books, Maier lived in relative obscurity until her death in 2009.
Maier’s incredible body of work consists of more than 150,000 photographic images, super 8 and 16 mm films, various recordings, and a multitude of undeveloped films. Working primarily as a street photographer, Maier’s work has been compared with such luminaries as Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Joel Meyerowitz.
Thanks to unpublished archives and recent scientific analyses, this retrospective volume sheds new light on Maier’s work as it documents the artistry of her photographic oeuvre. With texts by Anne Morin and Christa Bluëmlinger, this detailed look at Maier’s entire archive is organized thematically into sections that cover self-portraits, the street, portraits, gestures, cinematography, children, color work, and forms. A valuable addition to the continuing assessment of Maier’s work, this book is a one- volume compendium of her most enduring images.
This beautiful, in-depth reference book by illustration professor Martin Salisbury explores drawing for illustration. Salisbury places a special emphasis on drawing, treating it as a fundamental skill that every illustrator should engage with. Assisting students through exercises and case studies, this guide explores the often-unseen world of draftsmanship that underpins finished illustration work.
From book illustration to graphic novels and caricatures to commercial design, this attractive volume draws on sketchbooks, projects, and historical examples to show how they started as drawings from observation and drawings from imagination.
Salisbury starts out by explaining the fundamentals of this exciting discipline before outlining the basic principles of line, tone, composition, and color through inspired examples. Different approaches to drawing, including anecdotal, sequential, and reportage, are examined to help students acquire their own personal visual language. Interviews with illustrators also provide valuable insights into the creative process, as they discuss the challenges, rewards, and what drawing personally means for them.
Visually appealing, Drawing for Illustration features detailed analysis of works by key illustrators from the past and present, including George Cruikshank, Ronald Searle, Sheila Robinson, Laura Carlin, Alexis Deacon, and Isabelle Arsenault, looking at the differing roles drawing plays in their particular illustrative languages and how styles have changed over time.
Why do we reach for the red rose on Valentine’s day? Where did the owl gain its reputation for wisdom? Why should you never trust a fox? In this visual tour through art history, Matthew Wilson pieces together a global visual language enshrined in art: the language of symbols.
Symbols exert a strong hold in the image-saturated 21st century, and have done so for thousands of years. From national emblems to corporate logos and emojis, our day-to-day lives abound with icons with roots in the distant past. Expert art historian Matthew Wilson traces the often surprising trajectories that symbols have taken through history, from their original purposes to their modern meanings, identifying the common themes and ideas that link seemingly disparate cultures. Thus we meet the falcon as a symbol of authority from the ancient Egyptian pharaohs to the medieval aristocracy; the dog as stalwart companion from the classical era to the Renaissance; and the mythical phoenix as a symbol of female power connecting a queen in England with a goddess in China. We also see moments of radical reinterpretation and change: the transformation of the swastika from an auspicious symbol of hope to one of hate.
From Palaeolithic cave paintings to contemporary installations, Wilson deftly guides us through this world of symbols, showcasing their enduring ability to express power, hope, fear and faith, and to create and communicate identities, uniting – or dividing – the people that made them.
For two centuries, the city-republic of Siena was home to a brilliant succession of painters who created some of the greatest masterpieces of all time; an imagery unmatched in colouristic intensity and spatial experimentation. This overview, now revised and updated, is an essential introduction to this extraordinary artistic tradition. Taking a broadly chronological approach, it moves from the 14th-century Siena of Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers, to the 15th-century city of Sassetta and Giovanni di Paolo.
Perceptive visual analysis of the distinctive styles and conventions of Sienese painting is combined with clear explanations of traditional techniques such as fresco and tempera. The works are also placed in their social and religious context through discussion of Siena’s system of government, its civic consciousness, the importance of the Franciscan movement and the cults of local saints.
An accomplished writer as well as a practising artist, Timothy Hyman brings breadth of knowledge and experience to this extensively illustrated book, brilliantly conveying his personal enthusiasm for Sienese art.
Outsider art is work created by self-taught isolates, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, folk artists, psychiatric patients, prisoners, and others beyond the imposed margins of society and the art market. Coined by Roger Cardinal in 1972 as an English equivalent for Jean Dubuffet’s category of ‘art brut’ – literally ‘raw art’ – and originally regarded as defining a distinctly western phenomenon, the term has come to encompass a wide variety of work produced across the world.
In this indispensable guide, substantially revised and updated with greater coverage of global practitioners, Colin Rhodes surveys the history and reception of outsider art, while providing fresh insights into the achievements of both major figures and recently discovered artists. From now canonical and widely celebrated artists including Nek Chand, Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger, Madge Gill and Adolf Wölfli, to contemporary practitioners such as Noviadi Angkasapura, Marilena Pelosi and Shinichi Sawada, these individuals passionately and obsessively pursue the pictorial expression of their vision.
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a major figure in American art for seven decades. Throughout that long and prolific career she remained true to her unique artistic vision, creating a highly distinctive and individual style that synthesized the formal language of modern European abstraction and the themes of traditional American pictorialism, painting innovative artworks noted for their vibrant colour and smooth, sinuous forms. The main subjects to which she returned again and again were the flowers, animal bones and landscapes around her studios in Lake George, New York, and finally New Mexico, with which she has been ultimately identified.
Written by a noted authority on O’Keeffe and her work, this comprehensive and revealing introduction surveys the artist’s complete oeuvre – drawings, watercolours and paintings from all periods – and explains her life in the context of her artistic output. This new edition features colour reproductions of artworks throughout.
In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This book provides an introduction to the extraordinary range of contemporary art photography, from portraits of intimate life to highly staged, ‘directorial’ spectacle. The vast span of photographers whose work is reproduced includes established artists such as Isa Genzken, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Nan Goldin and Sherry Levine, as well as emerging talents such as Sara VanDerBeek, Rashid Johnson, Viviane Sassen and Amalia Ulman. This new edition revitalizes previous discussion of works from the 2000s through dialogue with more recent practice. Adding to the wide selection featured of work, Cotton celebrates a new generation of artists, who are shaping photography as a culturally significant medium for our current socio-political climate.
Showcasing more than one hundred objects and buildings — from Byzantine icons and wooden churches to gold-domed cathedrals, folk art, and avant-garde masterpieces — Treasures of Ukraine chronicles the rich arts and heritage of a country currently facing destruction and devastation. The significance of the pieces is explained by renowned artists, curators, and critics, revealing the nation’s complex history and its impact on the present. From the development of ancient cultures like Trypillia and Scythia to early states such as Kyivan Rus and the Cossack Hetmanate, to the dawn of Modernism and the striking contemporary paintings and political artworks being produced today, Treasures of Ukraine reminds us that art and monuments represent powerful sources of collective memory and identity.
All proceeds will be donated to PEN Ukraine, to help Ukrainian authors in need and support museums in Ukraine.
Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian
'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday Times
At a moment in which basic rights are once again in danger, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the life of the renegade psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich to chart a daring course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, from gay rights and sexual liberation to feminism and the civil rights movement.
Drawing on her own experiences in protest and travelling from Weimar Berlin to the prisons of McCarthy-era America, Laing grapples with some of the most significant and complicated figures of the past century, among them Nina Simone, Sigmund Freud, Susan Sontag and Malcolm X. Everybody is a crucial examination of the forces arranged against freedom and a celebration of how ordinary human bodies can resist oppression and reshape the world.
Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
'An ambitious, absorbing achievement that will make your brain hum' - Evening Standard
'Laing’s gift for weaving big ideas together with lyrical prose sets her alongside the likes of Arundhati Roy, John Berger and James Baldwin. In other words, she is among the most significant voices of our time.' - Financial Times
Danuta M. Piekut-Brodzka, pracownik naukowy (profesor warszawskich i pozastołecznych uczelni), znana jest z licznych publikacji poświęconych tematyce warunków życia różnych grup społecznych i udzielanego im wsparcia socjalnego. Od wielu lat interesuje się problematyką dworu polskiego jako zjawiska gospodarczego, społecznego, historycznego i kulturowego. Zwłaszcza pasjonuje ją świat ogniskujący się w mianie: "dwór polski - wiejski". Zgromadzone przez nią materiały źródłowe (antykwaryczne i współczesne), stare dokumenty, ryciny, rękopisy, zdjęcia - przybrały postać opracowania książkowego. Autorka przedstawia w nim świat dworu widziany w dwóch perspektywach: sfery mentalnej i materialnej. Podkreśla to, co nie wybrzmiało w dotychczasowych publikacjach o dworach i dworkach: dwór polski, to dwór wiejski. Na kartach tej książki ożywa, poprzez myśli i fakty charakterystyczne dla epoki dworów, świat miniony. Jest to świadectwo życia codziennego mieszkańców dworu i zespolonego z nim otoczenia wiejskiego, miejscami sentymentalne, ale równocześnie zakorzenione w konkrecie ówczesnej rzeczywistości. Życie we dworze skupiało się wokół prac folwarcznych, pozostających pod rządami praw przyrody. Przepojone było tożsamością szlachecką, eschatologią, religijnością, identyfikacją z mikrokosmosem rodowego majątku.
Jan Vermeer jest jedną z najbardziej tajemniczych postaci świata sztuki. Częściowo zapomniany, przez niemal dwa stulecia od swej śmierci, Vermeer został odkryty na nowo w drugiej połowie XIX wieku. Artysta pozostawił po sobie niespełna 40 udokumentowanych dzieł, w przeciwieństwie do innych malarzy, których dorobek zachowany do dzisiejszych czasów obejmuje często oprócz dziesiątek lub setek obrazów tysiące grafik i szkiców. Dlaczego tak się stało? Czy życie Vermeera to naprawdę tak wielka zagadka, jak się powszechnie uważa? Na te i wiele innych pytań stara się odpowiedzieć autorka, sięgając m.in. do najnowszych światowych badań. Ich analiza prowadzi do ciekawych i zaskakujących wniosków. Książka składa się z dwóch części: biografii malarza przedstawionej na szerokim społeczno-kulturalnym tyle XVII-wiecznych Niderlandów oraz katalogu obrazów ze szczegółowymi omówieniami 37 dzieł.
Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
'When I started to write this book I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender is a word freighted with meaning for me. Growing up in Ireland in the seventies with my fists up (musically speaking), it was not a natural concept. A word I only circled until I gathered my thoughts for the book. I am still grappling with this most humbling of commands. In the band, in my marriage, in my faith, in my life as an activist. Surrender is the story of one pilgrim's lack of progress ... With a fair amount of fun along the way.' - Bono
As one of the music world's most iconic artists and the cofounder of organizations ONE and (RED), Bono's career has been written about extensively. But in Surrender, Bono's autobiography, he picks up the pen, writing for the first time about his remarkable life and those he has shared it with. In his unique voice, Bono takes us from his early days growing up in Dublin, including the sudden loss of his mother when he was 14, to U2's unlikely journey to become one of the world's most influential rock bands, to his more than 20 years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS and extreme poverty. Writing with candour, self-reflection, and humour, Bono opens the aperture on his life - and the family, friends and faith that have sustained, challenged and shaped him.
Surrender's subtitle, "40 Songs, One Story," is a nod to the book's 40 chapters, which are each named after a U2 song. Bono has also created 40 original drawings for Surrender which will appear throughout the book.
Artur Andrus rusza w trasę z Alicją Majewską i Włodzimierzem Korczem. Wybierz się razem z nimi! Artur Andrus wyrusza w trasę koncertową z legendarnym artystycznym duetem – Alicją Majewską i Włodzimierzem Korczem. Słuchamy wielkich przebojów: Być kobietą, Odkryjemy miłość nieznaną, Jeszcze się tam żagiel bieli czy uwielbianej przez fanów serialu 07 zgłoś się piosenki Przed nocą i mgłą. Ta opowieść odkrywa przed nami niezwykłą, ciepłą, przyjacielską i pełną humoru relację tej pary artystów. Z właściwym sobie dowcipem, językową elegancją i brawurą prowadzi nas przez ich artystyczne i życiowe drogi. Drugiej takiej książki nie ma i długo nie będzie! Wiem z doświadczenia: konferansjer czasem nie tylko zapowie, lecz także przepowie. Wydaje się, że coś palnął, że może to nawet głupie. A potem się okazuje, że miał rację. Za dowód profetycznych zdolności prowadzących niech posłużą autentyczne zapowiedzi występów bohaterów tej książki. Dwóch konferansjerów na dwóch różnych koncertach. Jeden zakończył słowami: „To nie żaden pic! To Alicja Majewska!”, drugi: „A teraz będzie z grubej rury! Alicja Majewska i Włodzimierz Korcz!”. Obaj mieli rację. Artur Andrus
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