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.
THE UNTOLD STORY OF A GLOBAL OBSESSION DIRECT FROM THE SHOW'S CAST AND CREATORS...
This official, complete history of HBO's Game of Thrones will draw on the author's many long days and nights spent on GOT sets all over the world and his countless interviews with cast and crew, many of which have never been published before. Packed with stunning photographs from the show and from behind the scenes, this is the only book that will be absolutely essential reading for every Game of Thrones fan.
Game of Thrones is the biggest television drama ever to have graced our screens. The epic saga of warring families, huge battles, arduous journeys and dying heroes has captured the hearts and attention of millions of fans across the world. But its conclusion isn't necessarily the end of the story...
James Hibberd has extensively covered the show since breaking the news of its pilot in 2008 and has had more access to the show's top-secret set than any other member of the media. He was in Croatia when Joffrey Baratheon perished; he was in Northern Ireland when Jon Snow desperately fought in the Battle of the Bastards. He has documented every part of the making of the show and has had exclusive access to cast members, writers and directors.
W tej klasycznej już, fundatorskiej dla filozofii muzyki współczesnej książce Theodor Adorno stawia pytania o istotę twórczych poszukiwań w sztuce dźwięku. Omawiając język artystyczny Strawińskiego i Schoenberga, zestawia ich ze sobą jako reprezentantów dwóch odmiennych dążeń: tendencji do wskrzeszania tego, co już zaistniało w historii, oraz potrzeby rewolucyjnego odrzucenia dawnych wzorców na rzecz wolności wyrazu. Pomimo upływu lat, dziś, wobec nieograniczonej swobody wypowiedzi artystycznej, stawiany przez Adorna problem relacji odbiorcy ze sztuką awangardową zdaje się wręcz bardziej aktualny. Dzieło to niezmiennie stanowi więc istotny punkt odniesienia w socjologicznych i estetycznych dyskusjach o muzyce.
Fisher beautifully brings readers the inside of Hollywood through a web of humor, drugs, relationships, Hollywood Party Terror, and much more. The plot centers on a 30-year-old actress named Suzanne Vale, and follows her challenges as she overcomes her drug addiction, gets back into the swing of things, and falls in love, sort of.
Reducing energy use is the single biggest challenge facing architecture today. From the humblest prehistoric hut to the imposing monuments of Rome or Egypt to super-connected modern airports, buildings in every era and place have been shaped by the energy available for their construction and running. This original and compelling survey tells the story of our buildings from our hunter-gatherer origins to the age of fossil-fuel dependence, and shows how architecture has been influenced by designers, builders and societies adapting to changing energy contexts.
Architecture is a fascinating celebration of human ingenuity and creativity, and a timely reminder of the scale of the task ahead in our search for truly sustainable architecture.
Ta ekskluzywnie przygotowana książeczka w twardej oprawie z tłoczeniami ma niecodzienny, kwadratowy format o boku 20 cm. Na jej 32 stronach prezentujemy najciekawsze przedwojenne pocztówki z miejscowości, a pod każdą z nich umieszczamy krótką informację o prezentowanym zdjęciu.To wydawnictwo to wspaniała pamiątka z pobytu lub nietuzinkowy prezent dla Waszych partnerów biznesowych
Come face to face with Smaug the Magnificent, the most realistic, breathtaking and destructive dragon ever to appear on screen, in this gallery of exclusive images that tell the story of how he was created.
Smaug is possibly the most memorable character in JRR Tolkiens The Hobbit: a huge, malevolent, fire-breathing, talking dragon! But while he makes quite an impact in the book, in Peter Jacksons film adaptation he is definitely the most spectacular creature ever to appear on screen.
So how did the filmmakers manage to take the dragon that has lived in millions of readers imaginations and turn him into a totally unique and unforgettable living, breathing character?
The answer can be found in Smaug: Unleashing the Dragon. Packed with stunning, exclusive new images, it reveals how he grew out of thousands of detailed and fantastical concept designs into the beast that is unleashed in awesome digital glory.
Compiled by the Academy Award-winning teams at Weta Digital and Weta Workshop, who provide fascinating insights telling the story of the dragons creation, this is the perfect companion for every fan who was blown away by Smaug, the Magnificent!
While Balthazar Korab's photography has been widely published in books on architecture, landscape and design, and his contributions to the representation of midcentury Modern architecture has been greatly celebrated, there has never been a publication dedicated exclusively to his life, career and practice. This book will be the first monograph on Korab and includes a broad and comprehensive presentation of his professional architecture photography. In addition to an extensive portfolio of Korab's architecture photography, Balthazar Korab highlights previously unpublished images-lesser-known (though no less significant)-produced throughout his career.
An thorough, illustrated biography traces the evolution of Korab's sensibilities and practices as they developed in relation to his life experiences, his training as an architect-unique among his contemporaries-and his rather circuitous path to a career in photography places the collection of photographs into context. A foreword by Cesar Pelli offers further insight into the life of Korab.
This book looks at the life, art, collaborations, films, friendships and fun surrounding the Fab Four - all in a brilliantly illustrated A to Z format. This tells the stories of their early days playing all-night sets in Hamburg and Liverpool, through the mop-top era, to experimentation in India and elevating pop music into an undisputed artform. The Beatles remain unrivalled in their effect on music and culture.
This book is a glimpse into the lives of John, Paul, George and Ringo: iconic and psychedelic albums; the hit singles; the producer George Martin's contributions to the music industry; and the eternal phenomenon of Beatlemania.
The definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, and more. More than 30 years after Black Sabbath released the first complete heavy metal album, its founder, Ozzy Osbourne, is the star of The Osbournes, TV's favourite new reality show. Contrary to popular belief, headbangers and the music they love are more alive than ever. Yet there has never been a comprehensive book on the history of heavy metal - until now. Featuring interviews with members of the biggest bands in the genre, Sound of the Beast gives an overview of the past 30-plus years of heavy metal, delving into the personalities of those who created it. Everything is here, from the bootlegging beginnings of fans like Lars Ulrich (future founder of Metallica) to the sold-out stadiums and personal excesses of the biggest groups. From heavy metal's roots in the work of breakthrough groups such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin to MTV hair metal, courtroom controversies, black metal murderers and Ozzfest, Sound of the Beast offers the final word on this elusive, extreme, and far-reaching form of music.
Once the mark of an underground subculture, tattoos have well and truly stepped out of the shadows and into the streets. Join photographer Nicolas Brulez and Mylene Ebrardon their road trip through Berlin, London, Paris, New York and Tokyo to capture the moststylish designs and cutting-edge tattoo artists the world has to offer.
Showcasing over 300 photographs of diverse people and their unique designs as well as the cities best artists, this is a keepsake as well as an informative guide to the best places to get your next ink. Presented in a luxurious coffee table book format, this is a stunning collection for the tattoo enthusiast.
Gustav Klimt, one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, was both influenced by and shaped the city of Vienna at the turn of the century. His trips to Ravenna, as well as annual summer holidays with the Floege family on the shores of Attersee, were a source of inspiration and influence on his creative output. This stunning art book explores the influences of Vienna and other places Klimt travelled to and called home on his life and work.
Fully illustrated, it features paintings, archive imagery and photographs of the surrounding city and landscape to provide an insight into how the people and places of his life relate to his work.
When you hear the word "desert," what do you think of? If you imagine more than just endless sand, heat, and emptiness, Jurgen Wettke's The Namib Desert is the perfect photo book for you. With an excellent eye for unusual structures and colors, Wettke invigorates our imagination and shows us that the desert is a place of unexpected variety. There are only a few landscapes on the earth like Namibia where shapes and colors change so rapidly while giving such an immediate feel for how our world originally came to be.
Jurgen Wettke has masterfully captured this ambivalence on film and preserved once-in-a-lifetime moments of ephemeral beauty.
This landmark publication presents, for the first time ever, 500 of the very best and previously unpublished graphic works by cinema's master of film. Created in collaboration with RGALI - the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts - this book traces Eisenstein's extraordinary life and career through the distinctive yet evolving styles of his drawings, from early childhood sketches to set and costume designs, and from surreal pshychoanalytic drawings to late abstract works. Foremost Eisenstein scholar Naum Kleiman brings fresh and incredible insights into the motivation and purpose of the drawings, and reflects upon excerpts from Eisenstein's own discursive texts, some published here for the first time.
Comparative frames from Eisenstein's movies - scanned from the original film - together with a biographical introduction and a foreword by Martin Scorsese completes the revelatory and arresting picture.
The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum, and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage. Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their Contemporaries, now published in its 4th edition, brilliantly traces the course of this development. Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele were the leading figures in the fine arts; Wagner, Olbrich, Loos and Hoffmann in architecture and the applied arts. In other fields, Mahler, Freud and Schnitzler were influencing the avant-garde. The book includes eye-witness accounts of exhibitions, the opening of the Secession building and other events, and the result is a fascinating documentary study of the members of an artistic movement which is much admired today. Some 150 color images and 75 black and white archival illustrations make this a sumptuous and historically engrossing study of a period when Vienna was the centre of the European art world.
People and their relationships with each other are the focal point of photographs by Rosalind Solomon. The photos show well-known figures and ordinary people as they go about their daily lives and celebrate at parties, privately and publicly. Cultural and social contrasts characterize the American photographer's images, captured during numerous trips she has taken through the USA and around the world since the 1970s. The pictures tell tales of rootedness and loneliness, poverty and affluence, of moments of hope and happiness. Rosalind Solomon has assigned her photographs to associative categories such as "Food", "Wheels", "Splits", "Hearts", "Play" and "Faith". In doing so, she has designed a general direction and approach that prompts the viewer to compare the motifs and analyze the photos. The photos are accompanied by Solomon's poetic text, which instantly sheds light on her experiences and thoughts within the context of the photos.
Set in the stark landscape of coastal Maine, Christina’s World depicts a young woman seen from behind, wearing a pink dress and lying in a grassy field. Although she appears to be in a position of repose, her torso, propped on her arms, is strangely alert; her silhouette is tense, almost frozen, giving the impression that she is fixed to the ground. She stares at a distant farmhouse and a group of outbuildings, ancient and grayed in harmony with the dry grass and overcast sky.
Wyeth’s neighbor Anna Christina Olson inspired the composition, which is one of four paintings by Wyeth in which she appears. As a young girl, Olson developed a degenerative muscle condition—possibly polio—that left her unable to walk. She refused to use a wheelchair, preferring to crawl, as depicted here, using her arms to drag her lower body along. “The challenge to me,” Wyeth explained, “was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless.”
The high level of detail Wyeth gave to every object in his paintings encourages intense inspection, but his titles reveal the inner significance of their outwardly straightforward subjects. The title Christina’s World, courtesy of Wyeth’s wife, indicates that the painting is more a psychological landscape than a portrait, a portrayal of a state of mind rather than a place.
A fascinating illustrated history of lost, overlooked, and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy
Science fiction and fantasy reign over popular culture now. Lost Transmissions is a rich trove of forgotten and unknown, imagined-but-never-finished, and under-appreciated-but-influential works from those imaginative genres, as well as little-known information about well-known properties. Divided into sections on Film & TV, Literature, Art, Music, Fashion, Architecture, and Pop Culture, the book examines Jules Verne’s lost novel; AfroFuturism and Space Disco; E.T.’s scary beginnings; William Gibson’s never-filmed Aliens sequel; Weezer’s never-made space opera; and the 8,000-page metaphysical diary of Philip K. Dick. Featuring more than 150 photos, this insightful volume will become the bible of science fiction and fantasy’s most interesting and least-known chapters.
There are many things you can do with paper but what can paper do for you?
Discover paper’s true potential with this book full of exciting projects that enable you to discover new paper arts, such as pop ups, papercuts and 3-D shapes. Learn how paper can be used to communicate ideas, how it can be photographed and lit to great effect and even how it can be animated. Develop skills in construction, tessellation, model making and scene creating, while also working with scale and moving parts. Paper has never been more fun and more intriguing.
Projects include: animal masks, ice creams, shadow puppets, tropical island, Ferris wheel, 3-D pig, car, lantern, geometric mobile, paper food, pop-up greetings card, paper theatre, giant pencil, and many more.
Życie jak wino – uzupełniona, oficjalna (auto)biografia Krzysztofa Krawczyka, opowieść na dwa głosy: artysty oraz jego menedżera – Andrzeja Kosmali. Całe życie wielkiego piosenkarza aż po jego ostatnie dni. Tylko w tej książce przeczytacie o niespotykanej męskiej przyjaźni, dowiecie się, jak wyglądały kulisy sławy i barwne życie Krzysztofa Krawczyka, a także zapoznacie się z anegdotami i wcześniej nieznanymi faktami. Całość dopełniona wypowiedziami współpracowników artysty i jego najbliższych przyjaciół. Wielką gratką dla fanów artysty będzie bogaty materiał ilustracyjny – zdjęcia z prywatnego archiwum Artysty. ,,Kończę Drugi Rozdział, ten ostatni, książki Życie jak wino. W tej odsłonie towarzyszyłeś mi duchem, przywoływałeś pamięć, prowadziłeś pióro w mojej dłoni. I zaprosiłeś do wspomnień swoich najbliższych Przyjaciół i Współpracowników. Ty już wypiłeś wino swego życia. Ja dopijam swoje i zastanawiam się, kiedy skosztuję jego ostatni haust. Ty, wędrując po winnicy niebiańskiej, raczysz się nektarem z jej owoców. Czy to drugie życie też jest jak wino? Choć w wieczystej rzeczywistości zapewne smakuje inaczej. A Ty, wznosząc kielich wina, nucisz naszą piosenkę: Życie jest za krótkie, żeby pić marne wino, Życie jest za krótkie, by miłości dać zginąć, Życie jest za krótkie, żeby się nie spieszyć, Życie jest za krótkie, by się nim nie cieszyć! ANDRZEJ KOSMALA (maj, 2021)
Dlaczego śpiewamy i co po raz pierwszy skłoniło pierwotnych ludzi do śpiewu? Jak taki śpiew mógł brzmieć i jak wiele z takiego pierwotnego stylu mogło przetrwać do dnia dzisiejszego?
Książka "Historia śpiewu" zada te oraz wiele innych pytań, badając śpiew jako zjawisko historyczne i międzykulturowe. Prześledzi ona ewolucję śpiewu w kontekście globalnym - od człowieka neandertalskiego po Auto-tune poprzez nieskończone odmiany muzyki światowej od Wschodu do Zachodu, muzykę klasyczną od średniowiecza aż po awangardę, a także muzykę popularną od wodewilu aż po rock i nie tylko. Rozpatrując śpiew jako uniwersalną działalność ludzką, książka ukazuje w szerokiej perspektywie śpiew wielu kultur i okresów: zachodnich i nie-zachodnich, od prehistorycznych do współczesnych.
"Historia śpiewu", napisana żywym i dowcipnym językiem, zawiera również obszerną bazę odnośników dla tych, którzy chcą mocniej zgłębić poszczególne tematy i przypadnie do gustu międzynarodowemu gronu czytelników - śpiewaków, studentów i naukowców.
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