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.
Kraków przez uchylone drzwi to podróż do zaginionego miasta, które w postaci ukazanej na zamieszczonych fotografiach nigdy nie istniało. Fotografia jest iluzją. Nigdy, czytelniku, nie wierz w to, co zobaczysz na zdjęciach. Ktoś chce Ci przekazać swoją wizję i każe w nią uwierzyć... Fotografia stereoskopowa miała być prawdziwym wizerunkiem świata – powstała w połowie XIX w., przez sto lat gościła w mieszczańskich salonach. Molierowski pan Jourdain odkrył, że od 40 lat mówi prozą, podobne odkrycie zrobili fotografowie: zapragnęli zostać prozaikami. Swymi stereoskopowymi zdjęciami chcieli okiełznać otaczającą ich przestrzeń i pokazać prawdę. Jak im się to udało, oceń sam.
W książce, prócz zawartego we wstępie wprowadzenia w istotę tworzenia obrazów przestrzennych, ukazano wybór zdjęć stereoskopowych Krakowa, zrobionych zarówno przez uznanych fotografów, jak i, często bezimiennych, amatorów. Widzimy tu prowincjonalne XIX-wieczne miasto, jak i rozwijającą się w początkach XX w. metropolię. Ale najważniejsi są na zdjęciach ludzie. Oni przemijają.
Jerzy Przybyło – krakus, geolog górniczy, zawodowo związany z Kopalnią Soli „Wieliczka”. Pasjonat fotografii w odmianie street photo, które to zdjęcia przyniosły mu nagrody w krakowskich konkursach: „Ocalić od zapomnienia”, „Portret miasta”, „Jeden dzień z życia miasta” i in. Wykonał tysiące zdjęć dokumentujących podziemia kopalni; autor lub współautor ponad 30 artykułów traktujących o tajnikach wielickiego złoża soli. Fotografuje głównie w manierze czarno-białej, ale też od początku towarzyszy krakowskiemu Festiwalowi Teatrów Ulicznych, który jednak wymaga koloru. Kolekcjoner dawnej fotografii – od XIX-wiecznych dagerotypów po współczesne zdjęcia typu polaroid.
Sławomir Mikrut – adiunkt w Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie, absolwent Wydziału Geodezji Górniczej i Inżynierii Środowiska tamże. Stopień doktora uzyskał w 2003 r., habilitację – w 2016 r. Od 20 lat związany z Katedrą Geoinformacji, Fotogrametrii i Teledetekcji Środowiska AGH. Autor ponad 70 monografii i artykułów naukowych z zakresu fotogrametrii i teledetekcji, przetwarzania obrazów oraz GIS, publikowanych w czasopismach krajowych i zagranicznych. W latach 2012–2016 członek Senatu AGH. Kierownik i wykonawca kilkunastu projektów naukowo-badawczych tak krajowych, jak i zagranicznych. Założyciel i prezes start-upu HyperLab Solution. Wieloletni członek zarządu w firmach geodezyjnych i fotogrametrycznych.
The issues raised in this study concern the contemporary specifics of the Polish territory as well as the historical context, especially legal provisions, economic changes and the political transformation which took place after the Second World War. All these issues are illustrated by numerous local examples from the Gdańsk agglomeration and the Pomerania region. However, the research presented is also based on the analysis of the utilitarian approach of regimes observed not only in Poland but all around the world. The Polish case serves merely as a background for further discussion.
Ostatni weekend września 2018 roku miał stanowić jedynie przygrywkę do cyklu rozmów planowanego na całą jesień. […] Byliśmy umówieni na telefon, by ustalić termin następnego spotkania. Były więc kolejne daty i coraz więcej zmęczenia w głosie pana Kazimierza, między jednym szpitalem a drugim. Do spotkań w cztery oczy już więcej nie doszło. Pozostało kilka godzin nagrań, tym cenniejszych, że okazały się rejestracją rozmów ostatnich.
Andrzej Gwóźdź
Ksia?żka Rafała Solewskiego przynosi bardzo wiele szczego´łowych, nieznanych i dobrze udokumentowanych informacji o z˙yciu i two´rczos´ci Janusza Orbitowskiego, a jednoczes´nie w sposo´b subtelny wia?że te? problematykę z szeroka? erudycja? teoretyczna?. Budowa opracowania jest w pełni klasyczna. Jednak wypełnienie tres´cia? układu tematycznego jest bogate i powiedziałbym „smakowite”...
Grzegorz Sztabiński
Ze znawstwem prowadzone opisy prac, z sugestiami podejmowanych przez Orbitowskiego dialogo´w z mistrzami abstrakcji, pozwalaja? Autorowi na porza?dkowanie materiału woko´ł obranych zagadnien´. Zaproponowana ro´z˙norodnos´c´ perspektyw badanych fenomeno´w opar- ta jest na dobrym warsztacie historyka sztuki. I trudno nie przyznac´ racji Autorowi, gdy konkluduje: „W rzeczywistos´ci włas´nie niemal detaliczny opis, kto´ry zmusza do przybliżenia sie? do dzieła, poda?z˙ania za liniami, s´ledzenia zmian kierunko´w, oddawania sie? rytmom, odkrywania jakos´ci materiału i sposobo´w jego wykorzystania, pozwala pojmowac´ wysiłek two´rczy artysty i zbliz˙ac´ do zrozumienia, dlaczego jego dzieła tak zatrzymuja? uwage?.”
Maria Hussakowska-Szyszko
This retrospective of Albert Watson's (*1942) best photos from the past four decades reflects a history of an era, capturing cultural aspects such as design, fashion and beauty as well as their protagonists. Through his carreer that has lastet more than 40 years, the scottish photographer portrayed various moviestars, musicians or politicians for magazines and made more than 250 covers for Vogue magazine. Although graphically constructed, his pictures still reveal the soul of the person or object portrayed, while seeming like sculptures at the same time. One of his special abilities is to find the defining difference in his motives. For the catalogue "UFO - Unified Fashion Objectives", a special selection was compiled to present Watson's special abilities as a photographer, chosen from a huge archive.
“When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. Yet behind this triumph lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, frustration, lost love, exile—and above all the miracle of survival.
Born into near poverty in Russia in 1887, the son of a Jewish herring merchant, Chagall fled the repressive “potato-colored” tsarist empire in 1911 for Paris. There he worked alongside Modigliani and Léger in the tumbledown tenement called La Ruche, where “one either died or came out famous.” But turmoil lay ahead—war and revolution; a period as an improbable artistic commissar in the young Soviet Union; a difficult existence in Weimar Germany, occupied France, and eventually the United States. Throughout, as Jackie Wullschlager makes plain in this groundbreaking biography, he never ceased giving form on canvas to his dreams, longings, and memories.
His subject, more often than not, was the shtetl life of his childhood, the wooden huts and synagogues, the goatherds, rabbis, and violinists—the whole lost world of Eastern European Jewry. Wullschlager brilliantly describes this world and evokes the characters who peopled it: Chagall’s passionate, energetic mother, Feiga-Ita; his eccentric fellow painter and teacher Bakst; his clever, intense first wife, Bella; their glamorous daughter, Ida; his tough-minded final companion and wife, Vava; and the colorful, tragic array of artist, actor, and writer friends who perished under the Stalinist regime.
Cathedrals and great churches are among the most iconic sights of the world’s towns and cities. Visible from miles around, the cathedrals of Canterbury, St Paul’s, Chartres and St Stephen’s in Vienna dominate their skylines. Others surprise by their statistics: Salisbury has Britain’s tallest spire, Wells the largest display of medieval sculptures in the world, while King’s College Chapel in Cambridge boasts the largest fan vaulting in existence. Not all are ancient: Dresden’s reconstructed Frauenkirche opened in 2005 and Gaudi’s masterpiece in Barcelona is still under construction. Award-winning travel writer Sue Dobson gives us a highly personal tour of their highlights.
Jackson Pollock’s Mural, created early in his career in 1943, is a vast panorama spanning a 6-metre-long canvas – the largest painting he ever made. Mural marked a watershed for Pollock: a presentiment of the epic scale, complexity, energy and ambition of the work ahead. This monumental painting is one of the most influential yet little-seen works of the last century. This book sheds new light on its place in the artist’s meteoric career and the evolution of modern American art.
David Anfam considers the many influences on Pollock that led to this landmark achievement – including the context of the American West, his little-known relationship with Clyfford Still and the importance of wartime action photography. He also traces the explosive magnetism Mural exerted over the emergent Abstract Expressionists and its legacy for painters and sculptors as diverse as Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, David Smith, Richard Serra and Brice Marden.
Wagner’s operatic works rank with the supreme achievements of western culture. But acceptance of Wagner’s musical genius is tempered by feelings of misgiving and many believe the composer’s underlying ideas to be indefensible. A self-styled social revolutionary, Wagner thought the world could be redeemed through vegetarianism and Aryan philosophy. Introducing Wagner: A Graphic Guide separates the composer’s art from the ideas and the arrogant destructive personal behaviour of the man.
Podejmowanie badań związanych z czasopiśmiennictwem dziewiętnastego i początku dwudziestego wieku stanowi cenną inicjatywę. Przedstawione przez dr Katarzynę Rogozińską opracowanie dotyczące periodyku „Echo Muzyczne, Teatralne i Artystyczne”, wychodzącego w Warszawie w latach 1877–1907 (…), doskonale wpisuje się w nurt wydanych dotychczas drukiem publikacji różnych autorów. Dokonywano już opracowań poszczególnych zagadnień na łamach różnych pism – politycznych, społecznych, kobiecych, abstynenckich czy uzdrowiskowych. (…) Periodyk będący przedmiotem opracowania nie miał z definicji charakteru oświatowego, pedagogicznego czy wychowawczego, ale poprzez publikowane w nim artykuły odgrywał rolę kształcącą. (…) Na łamach omawianego przez Autorkę czasopisma widać ukierunkowanie na edukację szeroko pojętą – artystyczną i teatralną, a także wyraźnie w zakresie muzyki.
Z recenzji dr hab. Ewy Danowskiej
This book highlights architectural drawings from the Albertina’s superb collection and offers new insights into the genre.
Since the medium began, artists have used architectural drawings to document the urban and rural past and to envision the future. Covering a period that runs from the 16th-century to the 1930s, this collection of 140 architectural drawings presents a panoply of styles and perspectives from some of the leading artists of their day, including Durer, Bernini, Hansen, Loos and others. From delicately colored Baroque vedute and magnificent Renaissance buildings to Hapsburg palaces and Art Deco structures, these works both document and reflect upon the architects and the artists’ visions and hopes for our built environments. With detailed sketches and painters’ compositions, this book will fascinate architectural enthusiasts and art lovers alike.
With radiant color and lavish detail, this collection of 19th and early 20th-century Viennese floral paintings tells a captivating story of artistic transformation.
In this breathtaking book, richly illustrated chapters explore different artists’ takes on floral paintings. Outstanding Viennese artists, from Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller to Gustav Klimt, tested their skills by painting opulent floral works. Readers will learn how the depiction of flowers in this period echoed the evolution of painting styles as artists liberated themselves from formal techniques, how women, excluded from painting academies, turned to flowers as a means of expression and emancipation, and how modern artists are influenced today by floral masterpieces of the past. Additional chapters examine the role of the sunflower in particular and the role of orientalism in the Biedermeier period, while brief essays on porcelain painting and botany provide additional perspectives. Generously illustrated, this wide-ranging and informative history offers a veritable bounty of floral delights.
A celebratory homage to Edvard Munch on the 150th anniversary of his birth
This superb book is dedicated to Edvard Munch’s vast and fascinating oeuvre of works on paper. Featured in beautiful color reproductions are key images related to well-known prints and drawings, as well as lesser known works, such as childhood drawings and caricatures. Essays by critically acclaimed art historians examine, among other things, the various techniques that Munch used for his prints and drawings; charming examples of childhood drawings featuring his family and their daily life; his interaction with contemporary artists and the intellectual milieu of the so-called “Kristiania Bohemia” and Oslo’s night life; and the impact of his volatile romantic relationship with Tulla Larsen. In sum, this invaluable book reveals many new insights into the life and work of one of the world’s best-known yet enigmatic artists.
The first comprehensive study of the development of solar house design in the United States and around the world. The Solar House explores the development of solar residential architecture over the course of the twentieth century and up to the latest designs today. The solar house is often understood as a product of the 1970s, and few people are aware of the influential experimental solar houses which were constructed during the previous four decades, beginning with the work of masters of twentieth-century architecture such as Richard Neutra, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo Soleri, Louis Kahn, Pietro Belluschi, Edward Durell Stone, and Harwell Hamilton Harris, and continuing with more recent innovations like the German Passivhaus movement and the Heliotrope, the first house to produce more energy than it consumed, and the U.S.-based Solar Decathlon, conceived as a living demonstration laboratory and recently expanded to include contests in Europe and China. Not only are these innovative projects the models for architects exploring environmentally conscious design today, they hold the imagination of the wider public, beginning with the idealism of the 1960s, the pragmatism that accompanied the energy crisis of the 1970s, and continuing into the twenty-first century with the demand for environmentally sustainable living. The first complete study of solar house design through the decades, this volume is a must-have resource for designers today.
In the wake of Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign, artists of the nineteenth century became fascinated by Orient and, most particularly, the harems which were so remote from western culture. These places rapidly provided a pretext for drawing the languid bodies of naked women, whose depiction in any other context would have been intolerable. This assembly of numerous works by Orientalist painters constitutes a sublime testimony to an imagined fantasy Orient, located between eroticism and sensuality.
Oil paint has tremendous versatility, from the dilute and transparent glaze or wash, through to the thick impasto mark. Renoir employed the whole range of paint qualities and this is one of the most valuable reasons for studying his work. Every artist, beginner or expert, is inspired by the work of the great artists that have gone before, and one of the most enjoyable ways to learn painting is to study their work in detail. The Paint Like series unlocks the secrets of some of the most inspirational painters of all time, revealing their techniques and giving today's artists the confidence and skills they need to take their work to the next level. This is the second book in the series.
The cycles of Water Lilies are a highlight in Claude Monet's work. Found in collections around the world, they became some of his most beloved pieces. Never before had Monet brought in the interplay of color and light, the atmospheric water and air, and the beauty of nature and impressions together with such harmony.
Alongside the death of Elvis Presley and the assassination of John Lennon, Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994 ranks as one of the generational milestones of American life – an epochal event in both rock ‘n’ roll and youth culture.
This book is the story of Kurt Cobain’s life, from abject poverty to unbelievable wealth, power and fame. It traces the journey from his humble origins in Aberdeen to becoming lead singer of Nirvana, the most popular rock band in the world from 1991 to 1994, and the most influential band of this decade. The beautifully written text is complimented by 16 pages of photographs.
Based on over one hundred interviews, Charles Cross allows us to understand Kurt Cobain’s personality. This is an incredible tale of a strange, tortured and very talented man.
No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story—until now.
"Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave." Trained to become a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of art" in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. She was loved by kings, princes, military heroes, and wealthy statesmen alike. But even though she became one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, Iwasaki wanted more: her own life. And by the time she retired at age twenty-nine, Iwasaki was finally on her way toward a new beginning.
Geisha, a Life is her story -- at times heartbreaking, always awe-inspiring, and totally true.
Since the Rally Championship started in 1973, Reinhard Klein and his colleagues have photographed every rally, the most visually varied and stunning events of motor sport. This book is the result. McKlein's pictures tell the stories of 40 years of grueling rallies across mud, grit and snow, of splendidly mistreated, hedge-hopping cars, and their flabbergastingly intrepid drivers.
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