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.
Dieser Bildband schlägt einen Bogen von den frühen figurativen Arbeiten des großen amerikanischen Malers bis zu seinem bekannten Spätwerk der Farbfeldmalerei.
Der Werküberblick berücksichtigt die tiefgreifenden Auswirkungen von Rothkos vier Europareisen zwischen 1950 und 1966. Der Künstler besuchte damals Paris und Venedig, Arezzo, Siena, Rom und Florenz, wo er Michelangelos Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana und die Fresken Fra Angelicos besichtigte. Der Bildband zeigt nicht nur auf, wie Rothko von den Techniken der alten Meister lernte, sondern auch Rothko selbst kommt zu Wort: Auszüge aus seinem posthum veröffentlichten Manuskript The Artist's Reality, ergänzt um Briefe, Reden und Stellungnahmen, geben Einblick in seine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit Philosophie, Kunst und der conditio humana. In der Gegenüberstellung von Rothkos Thesen und seiner künstlerischen Entwicklung vermittelt die Publikation neue Lesarten einiger seiner größten Gemälde.
Mark Rothko, eigentlich Marcus Rotkovich (1903, Dwinsk, Lettland–1970, New York), war einer der wichtigsten Maler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Berühmt wurde er als Protagonist des Abstrakten Expressionismus und Pionier der Farbfeldmalerei.
Classic Tracks - Led Zeppelin gives an in-depth examination of the stories, events, characters and places that inspired what is easily one of the greatest rock bands of all time. What were 'The Houses of the Holy'? Where was the 'Stairway to Heaven'? Which strange encounters led to such classics as 'Kashmir' and 'Whole Lotta Love'? This book reveals the roots and origins of the songs on all nine of the band's celebrated studio albums, together with all the stories behind material released after Zeppelin's break-up in 1980, including Unledded: No Quarter and the BBC Sessions album.
The definitive biography of Soviet Jewish dissident writer Vasily Grossman, called "gripping" and "fascinating" by William Taubman in the New York Times "[Popoff] tells Grossman's story with sensitivity and a keen understanding of his world, drawing on little-known archival collections to produce what must be considered the definitive biography."-Douglas Smith, Wall Street JournalLonglisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize sponsored by McGill University; finalist in the 2019 National Jewish Book Awards, Biography category; winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award, Biography category If Vasily Grossman's 1961 masterpiece, Life and Fate, had been published during his lifetime, it would have reached the world together with Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago and before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag. But Life and Fate was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the twentieth century.
Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905-1964) was among the first to describe the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article "The Hell of Treblinka" became evidence at Nuremberg. Grossman's powerful anti-totalitarian works liken the Nazis' crimes against humanity with those of Stalin.
His compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art. Because Grossman's major works appeared after much delay we are only now able to examine them properly. Alexandra Popoff's authoritative biography illuminates Grossman's life and legacy.
This practical book looks at the fundamental principles that underpin the process of architectural illustration: to represent architectural design and the built environment in a way that the general public can understand. Focusing particularly on watercolour, it explains the full process from site sketching to finished rendering. Case studies follow the process of an illustration, using demonstrations specially selected from the author's own work and profiles of leading practitioners.
Illustrated with over 200 colour images, it is a unique guide to the work of the architectural illustrator and will be invaluable for artists, illustrators, architects, builders and planners.
In The Photographer's Vision, international bestseller Michael Freeman examines the work of photography's greats, explaining how to view a photo and how to learn from looking at it. Photographers featured include some of the most distinguished names in photography's history: Nick Knight, Frederick Henry Evans, Frans Lanting, Tim Page, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Walker Evans, Cindy Sherman, Elliott Erwitt, Trent Parke, Jeff Wall, Paul Strand, Romano Cagnoni and many more, making this book visually stunning as well as intellectually rigorous.
'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes' The New Yorker
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s - Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies - and at its centre sat a bemused young artist with silver hair: Andy Warhol. Andy knew everybody (from the cultural commissioner of New York to drug-driven drag queens) and everybody knew Andy. His studio, the Factory, was the place: where he created the large canvases of soup cans and Pop icons that defined Pop Art, where one could listen to the Velvet Underground and rub elbows with Edie Sedgwick and where Warhol himself could observe the comings and goings of the avant-guarde.
Tells the story of Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather. Both photographic artists at the centre of the Bohemian cultural scene of Los Angeles during the 1910s and 20s, Weston would go on to become an influential American photographer of the 20th century, while Mather, who Weston ultimately expunged from his journals, would vanish into obscurity.
This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as “Art Deco.”
The works shown demonstrate a broad range of styles and influences: from the chevrons, sunbursts, maidens, fountains, floral abstractions, and ubiquitous biche (doe) of the Parisian geometric style to the crisp, angular patterns of the zig-zag, jazz-age, streamlined aesthetic to which architects were drawn towards 1930. The author organizes his subject into three main categories: the first features work by avant-garde sculptors (Csaky, Janniot, Pompon, and others); the second shows commercial sculpture, comprising mainly large-edition statuary, commissioned by éditeurs d’art and foundries from sculptors as decorative works for the burgeoning 1920s domestic market; while a final, third category covers architectural and monumental sculpture from around the world.
With artists’ biographies, details of manufacturers, a full glossary, and a thematic index, this volume is the essential and authoritative guide for all those interested in the Art Deco style.
Tents, bandstands, displays, places for sitting, listening, seeing and being seen... Pavilions have myriad forms and as many functions. For architects and designers, they offer unique opportunities to experiment with form, construction, material, structure, surface and texture, often as prototypes for larger buildings or as purely artistic pursuits. A pavilion’s particular location also offers rich possibilities for interaction with the landscapes, streetscapes and peoplescapes around it. Pavilions can be temples to digital interaction or provide oases of surreal calm and isolation. This is a selection of the best examples produced in recent years. From the cutting- edge forms of Sou Fujimoto to Zaha Hadid’s Chanel pavilion, from small structures created entirely out of farm waste to a mirrored carapace conceived by Olafur Eliasson, each pavilion featured provides a lesson in the extreme possibilities of built form and demonstrates that many of the biggest ideas in architecture start small.
Urodzony aktor. Artystyczny fenomen. Geniusz nie tylko komediowy Fascynował Wojciecha Młynarskiego i Jeremiego Przyborę, zachwycał Stanisława Bareję i Kazimierza Dejmka,zdobywał każdą publiczność. Ale to tylko jedna strona medalu. Zmagał się przecież z wizerunkiem „wesołka” i całe życie uciekał od roli Czereśniaka z Czterech pancernych i psa. Wiesław Gołas. Czasem śliczny, liryczny i apetyczny, czasem ponury i smutny, inaczej niż na ekranie. Jak zapamiętali go przyjaciele? Co on sam mówił o sobie? Wreszcie, jak widzi go jedyna córka?
Agnieszka Gołas tworzy czuły i barwny portret Wiesława Gołasa – dopisuje kolejne rozdziały i żegna się z ojcem. To pełna frywolnych, nieznanych anegdot nietypowa autobiografia i biografia w jednym.
Wiesio Gołas. Aktor fenomenalny. Komediowy i dramatyczny. Poczucie humoru himalajskie. Kumpel przeuroczy. Gentleman w każdym calu. I właśnie o nim i o wszystkim, co go dotyczy, jest ta książka. Wzruszająca, zabawna i poważna, gdzie trzeba. Z czystym sumieniem polecam.
Wiktor Zborowski
Wiesław Gołas przez długi czas był moim przewodnikiem po świecie filmu i kabaretu.
Janusz Gajos
Inteligentna, subtelna biografia aktora najwyższej klasy. Sercem pisana, bo przez Agnieszkę Gołas o ojcu Wiesławie. Byliśmy z Wieśkiem w zażyłości ponad pół wieku. Powiedział mi kiedyś, że gdy się urodził, zaraz zaczął się śmiać. Jakby wyczuł, że jedyną skuteczną obroną na tym świecie jest dowcip i komedia. Stanisław Tym
Based on the futuristic novel by Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange is a masterwork of cinematic satire. When a flamboyant, Beethoven-obsessed, murderous gang leader agrees to undergo experimental violence-aversion therapy in exchange for early release from prison, he winds up "cured" of his own free will. The film's highly stylized sets, choreographed brutality, and Moog synthesizer score-conceived to heighten the effect of each scene-were so ahead of their time that, to many, they obscured the overall message. In fact, so much controversy over the violent scenes ensued that the film's notoriety became, itself, the stuff of legend. From a contemporary perspective, what stands out above all is Kubrick's extraordinary gift for entertaining us while making us think. To quote Burgess: "Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?" The ethical queries so central to this visionary film are every bit as relevant today, and every bit as difficult to answer. This collection is part of the Making of a Masterpiece series, offering a behind-the-scene glimpse into cinematic milestones.This set includes: film stills, behind-the-scenes photographs, screenplay drafts, and other exclusive material from Stanley Kubrick's archives background about the making of the film, interviews with Kubrick, and an illustrated biography and filmography a fold-out film poster a DVD of the remastered film
Big city, big bands: New York’s jazz scene of the 1920s
It’s the Roaring Twenties, and New York is aflame with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and dance halls in Harlem to see the likes of Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra playing at the Kentucky Club, or Duke Ellington at the Roseland Ballroom or the world-famous Cotton Club.
Designed, illustrated, and edited by Robert Nippoldt, this award-winning book pays homage to this exceptional era, via an entertaining blend of illustrations, facts, and amusing anecdotes presenting 24 leading lights of New York’s jazz scene in the 1920s. The texts, contributed by Hans-Jürgen Schaal, give a vivid account of the club scene and the “band battles,” as well as the legendary recording sessions. A splendid read, a groovy soundtrack—and not strictly for jazz fans only!
International Book Award, 2014, Los Angeles
International Design Award, 2014, Los Angeles
Joseph Binder Award, 2014, Vienna
D&AD Award, 2014, London
Good Design Award, 2014, Chicago
A’ Design Award, 2014, Como (Italy)
Best American Infographic, 2014, New York
An encyclopedia of modern architecture
With almost 300 entries, this architectural A to Z offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. Covering modern architecture from the 19th into the 21st century, pioneering architects are each featured with a portrait and a concise biography, as well as a description of his or her important work.
Like a bespoke global architecture tour, this book will allow you to travel from Manhattan skyscrapers to a Japanese concert hall, from Antoni Gaudí’s Palau Güell in Barcelona to Lina Bo Bardi’s sports and leisure center on a former factory site in São Paulo. You’ll take in Gio Ponti’s colored geometries, Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, the luminous interiors of SANAA, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s unique blend of Scottish tradition and elegant japonisme.
The book’s A to Z entries also cover groups, movements, and styles to position these leading individual architects within broader building trends across time and geography, including International Style, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and much more. With illustrations including some of the best architectural photography of the modern era, this is a comprehensive resource for any architecture professional, student, or devotee.
Paul Outerbridge’s provocative nudes and pioneering color
Whether in his sumptuous images for advertising or his soft-hued nudes, Paul Outerbridge (1896–1958) was an alchemist of desire. Color was integral to his aesthetic allure, embracing the complex tri-color-carbro process to create a seductive surface of texture and tone. His quest was for “artificial paradises”—a perfection of form, with a surreal edge.
This concise monograph introduces Outerbridge’s unique aesthetic and its commercial and artistic trajectory, from his professional peak as New York’s highest-paid commercial photographer through to his retreat to Hollywood in the 1940s after a scandal over his erotic photography. With key examples from his oeuvre, the book explores Outerbridge’s innovative style through Cubist still life images, magazine photographs, and his controversial nudes, as well as his interaction with other avant-garde photographers, such as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, and Man Ray. Along the way, we recognize Outerbridge’s particular ability to transform everyday objects into a quasi-abstract composition and his pioneering role in championing the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of color photographs.
Wolfgang Tillmans compiles 30 years of his work
to draw a picture of where we are today
Like hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of his friends to still lifes, travel shots, nudes, landscape and sky photographs, to his abstract work, Tillmans has created a multitude of iconic works in his unmistakable visual language, opening up new paths and possibilities for both photography and contemporary art. In 2000 he was the first photographer and the first non-British person to receive the renowned Turner Prize.
His first volume for TASCHEN (1995) shows the young generation of the 1990s, of which Tillmans himself was a member, in clubs, at Gay Pride, at fashion events, and in everyday life. His dense, realistic photographs conjure up tangible utopias of community and society and are important documents of their time as well. With the follow-up volume Burg (1998), Tillmans enriches his subject matter with another array of beautiful, now iconic photographs. In truth study center (2005), his images condense into even more subtle compositions and now stand alongside completely abstract works. Finally, Neue Welt (2012) documents Wolfgang Tillmans’ travels around the globe: from London to Tierra del Fuego, India, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia, and Central Africa, we follow his ever-inquisitive eye for the realities of our planet, for social situations with people and markets, technology and architecture, and last but not least, nature and astronomy. For this volume, the artist for the first time made use of the new possibilities of digital photography. This enabled a density of information and incisiveness hardly seen in photographs until then.
This 40th-anniversary publication from TASCHEN combines the best of the four books in one volume. Wolfgang Tillmans himself has compiled this edition, partly redesigned it, added some recent works, and written a new foreword.
Paging through this collection of images, which spans three decades, there are countless moments to delight in, moments that are held not only in our collective memory but in our individual ones too.
The most comprehensive retrospective of Renoir’s work
Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841–1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir remains one of history’s most well-loved painters—undoubtedly because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good spirit.
In an incisive text tracing the artist’s career and stylistic evolution, Gilles Néret shows how Renoir reinvented the painted female form, with his everyday goddesses and their plump contours, rounded hips and breasts. Renoir’s later phase, marked by his return to the simple pleasure of the female nude in his Bathers series, was his most innovative and stylistically influential, and would inspire such masters as Matisse and Picasso.
With a complete chronology, bibliography, photos, sketches, and brilliant reproductions, this is the essential work of reference on this enduring master artist.
Shots from the world’s greatest collection of Polaroid images
The Polaroid Corporation’s photography collection is the greatest portfolio of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by Polaroid founder Edwin Land and photographer Ansel Adams, the collection now includes some 23,000 images by hundreds of photographers throughout the world, including pieces by the likes of David Hockney, Andy Warhol, and Jeanloup Sieff.
The Polaroid Book dives into these archives, paying tribute to a medium that continues to defy the digital age. Like an oversized Polaroid film pack, this collection curates works by luminaries and unknowns alike, celebrating the boundless possibilities that develop inside the white borders of the original instant photograph.
Balinese homes in harmony with nature
Loved by travelers for its lush tropical scenery and charming people, Bali is one of the most magnificent places on Earth. Spirituality and nature are integral parts of everyday life for the Balinese, so one can easily see why the island’s traditional architecture has a peaceful presence to it, mimicking its surroundings and sometimes blending in with them.
When it comes to Balinese houses, walls are not compulsory, wood is everywhere, earth tones are dominant, and thatched roofs abound. Opening onto gorgeous green landscapes, majestic mountains, or beautiful coastlines, the homes herein ooze relaxing, contemplative vibes. This portfolio of Southeast Asian living features a swath of fresh and inspiring photographs and comes in a compact size, so you can take a little bit of paradise with you wherever you go.
Gazing at these opulent examples of simple and elegant living, it’s a wonder why more people aren’t rushing to move to Bali.
W swoim przewodniku, bogato ilustrowanym i napisanym obrazowym, żywym językiem, Michael Bird zabiera nas na niezwykłą wyprawę. Wyruszymy w tę podróż z prehistorycznej jaskini, w której powstawało malarstwo naskalne, a skończymy ją wśród awangardy XXI wieku. Po drodze spotkamy oczywiście Vincenta van Gogha, Fridę Kahlo, Leonarda da Vinci, Jacksona Pollocka, Claude'a Moneta czy Pabla Picassa, lecz także mniej znanych w kulturze zachodniej artystów chińskich, japońskich, arabskich czy nawet azteckichGotowi do drogi? Przed nami czterdzieści tysięcy lat historii sztuki!
Michał Misza Czorny podjął się w swojej książce ważnego zadania - zbadać niemal na gorąco, na żywo, pewną nową jakość na polskiej scenie teatralnej, która ukształtowała się dzięki nowej koncepcji kształcenia, podjętej na bytomskim Wydziale Teatru Tańca. Absolwenci, aktorzy-tancerze, nie tylko coraz mocniej zaznaczają swoją obecność jako wykonawcy, ale też sami tworzą artystyczne projekty, grupy tetralne, spektakle, sami też zaczynają nauczać. Autor książki jest jednym z takich pełnych twórczej energii artystów, choreografem, założycielem Teatru OdRuchu.
"Postać sceniczna aktora-tancerza" to zapis obserwacji od wewnątrz, z zachowaniem koniecznego badawczego dystansu i z mocną podbudową teoretyczną.
W środku tej 400-stronicowej pozycji znajdziecie ponad 40 zdjęć oraz wywiady z artystami zebrane w rozdziale IV.
"Teatr, jego forma, estetyka, zmieniają się. Potrzeba nowej energii, środków wyrazu, umiejętności artystów – wykonawców. Takimi dysponują absolwenci Wydziału Teatru Tańca krakowskiej AST. Opisanie ich racy, procesu tworzenia, metod stosowanych w cyklu nauczania może stać się bezcennym, w Polsce pionierskim, materiałem dla świata teatru" - pisze na okładce prof. dr hab. Jerzy Stuhr
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