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.
Simo Heikkilä jest fińskim projektantem i architektem wnętrz. Karierę rozpoczął od projektowania sklepów i wystaw dla Marimekko, a następnie zajął się projektowaniem mebli. Książka ma na celu przedstawienie życia i twórczości Simo Heikkilä w szerszym kontekście historycznym i stylistycznym.
Published to coincide with the first UK retrospective of work by Edward Krasinski (1925 -2004), one of the most important Polish artists of the twentieth century. This richly illustrated publication will investigate the development of Krasinski's unique formal language, showcasing works spanning over fifty years of the artist's remarkable career. Introduced by Tate curator Kasia Redzisz, a series of texts by leading scholars present fresh research on Krasinski's practice, placing it within a wider global context. Featuring rarely reproduced artworks and documentary photographs, as well as previously unpublished archival materials and a fully illustrated chronology, this is the definitive English-language volume on one of the most important Polish artists of the twentieth century.
This is the new and revised edition of Arnold Odermatts acclaimed book, first published in 2003. With thoroughness and meticulous attention to detail, Swiss police officer Arnold Odermatt photographed automobile accidents on the streets of the Swiss Canton Nidwalden, documenting accident scenes and property damage during his 40-year career. In his photos the drivers have gone and the victims have been removed. All thats left are the wrecked cars that tell the stories of excessive speed, drunk driving, right-of-way errors and plain foolishness. The de-formed steel takes on a malleable quality. The cars become sculptures that show the sudden end to many hopes and dreams, the intrusion of the unforeseen into well-regulated daily life. What results from the picture-taking policemans official work is a selection of melancholic, sometimes funny and always strange atmospheric photos of our mobile society.
In fifteenth-century Florence and Flanders, painters were using an arsenal of new techniques—including perspective, anatomy, and the accurate treatment of light and shade—to present traditional religious subjects with an unprecedented immediacy and emotional power. Their art was the product of a shared Christian culture, and their patrons included not only nobles and churchmen but also the middle classes of these thriving commercial centers.
Shirley Neilsen Blum offers a new synthesis of this remarkable period in Western art—between the refinements of the Gothic and the classicism of the High Renaissance—when the mystical was made to seem real. In the first part of her text, Blum traces the emergence of a new naturalism in the sculpture of Claus Sluter and Donatello, and then in the painting of Van Eyck and Masaccio. In the second part, she compares scenes from the Infancy and Passion of Christ as rendered by artists from North and South. Exploring both the images themselves and the theological concepts that lie behind them, she re-creates, as far as possible, the experience of the contemporary fifteenth-century viewer.
Abundantly illustrated with color plates of masterworks by Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Rogier van der Weyden, and others, this thought-provoking volume will appeal equally to general readers and students of art history.
Russian avant-garde art—the exciting art movement that flourished in Russia in the years surrounding the 1917 revolution—resulted in remarkable works of art, architecture, literature, film, theater, dance, and graphic design. The first non-figurative art movement, it was enormously important in the development of modern art.
This lavishly illustrated exhibition catalog looks at six major works by six renowned Russian artists: Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Ivan Kliun, Ilja Chashnik, El Lissitzky, and Lyubov Popova. Stunning reproductions are accompanied by original documents, objects, manuscripts, and photographs from the collection of art historian Andréi Nakov.
Nakov also writes on how, in the late 1950s, Canadian diplomats posted to Moscow were instrumental in helping form the collection of George Costakis, who worked at the Canadian Embassy and whose collection of Constructivist and other Russian avant-garde works grew to become the largest and most representative collection anywhere.
There is no other product in the world that is as exacting technically as the Leica M camera, whose design, manufacture and styling remained nearly unchanged during the past 60 years. This book vividly describes, in words and with numerous illustrations how this unique camera came to be and how it was possible to continually optimize its functions and to complement them with new technologies that were both innovative and sensible. Completely up-to-date with all information on the new Digital Leica M Typ 240.
This is the story of Monty Python, one the most popular and influential forces in modern comedy-and of their TV show-told in words and images. This celebratory book includes 22 removable facsimiles of rare memorabilia from their official archives, including hand-scribbled scripts, cue sheets, character lists, posters, and animation artwork. Written with active input from the Pythons themselves, the book recounts the adventures of all six members and their TV show, from early days in the Cambridge Footlights through early appearances on the BBC, global stardom, the inevitable fights, and their triumphant reunions.
Voici la première monographie de Arthur Elgort, un mélange de ses plus iconiques photographies de mode aux côtés de son travail personnel. Ce livre présente plus de cinq décennies de la carrière de ce photographe de mode à la longévité rare dans ce monde d’artifices. Son style ? Humour et décontraction, et un amour immodéré de la musique et de la danse, en particulier le jazz et le ballet. En 1971 Arthur Elgort débute pour le Vogue britannique et créé la sensation pour ses « instantanés » mis en scène, son art du mouvement et sa maîtrise de la lumière naturelle qui lui feront vite transcender les normes de la photographie de mode. Arthur Elgort a vite collectionné les collaborations et travaillé pour des magazines comme Vogue (américain, français et italien), Interview, GQ, et Rolling Stone. Il a signé de nombreuses campagnes publicitaires pour des marques de mode comme Chanel, Valentino et Yves Saint Laurent.
Berlin is a particularly strong magnet for international street artists and its landscape is filled with artwork and signatures that are inventing new visual codes. But the impressions that these artists leave are inevitably fleeting, as their art falls victim to the city’s unrelenting development. Luckily, the book Urban Art Photography serves as a permanent documentation and time capsule of both the creation and evolution of these constantly changing images.
Today, the desire to escape the urban bustle inspires the longing to retreat to natural serenity. The book Arcadia is an inspiring reference that shows how the archaic idea of ife in harmony with nature can be reflected in contemporary living. Taking readers on a journey through a collection of contemporary alpine and backcountry architecture and interior design, it profiles architects and designers who are embracing nature and creating provocative rural hideaways that adapt to their surrounding habitats and their topographical and climatic conditions.
For five hundred years the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India has been a haven for India's dispossessed widows. Cast out by their families and condemned by strict marital laws that deny them legal, economic, and, in extreme cases, even human rights, they have made their way to the city to worship at its temples and live in its ashrams, surviving on charitable handouts or begging on the streets. In Vrindavan they worship the young god Krishna, who invades their dreams, helping them to cast off memories from their past lives and prepare for new and better lives are to come. Their ultimate dream is to reach Moksha--heaven--where they will find freedom from the cycle of death and rebirth and live surrounded by their gods forever. Fazal Sheikh's photographs capture the meditative mood of the city and his portraits of the widows convey their sense of acceptance of life's nearing its end and a longing for what is to come. As in his previous books, he spent time with his subjects, listening to their stories, many of which reveal the suffering caused by traditions that still govern Indian society. Through his depiction of the city and its inhabitants, Fazal Sheikh once again contributes to our knowledge and understanding of a community whose existence, to those who live outside it, remains closed.
Fragiles is an eclectic collection of unconventional contemporary work in porcelain, glass and ceramics. Today, these materials are increasingly being used in playful ways by both established and emerging design talents, who are inspired by Modernism, an ironic depiction of kitsch and an expanded repertoire of forms made possible by technological developments such as rapid prototyping. The spectrum and quality of these innovative projects shows a current generation of designers just how relevant and challenging working with these traditional fragile materials can be.
A powerful collection of the luminous last work by one of the true giants of twentieth-century photography.
After the death of his wife, André Kertész consoled himself by taking up a new camera, the Polaroid SX70. As with earlier equipment, he mastered the camera and produced a provocative body of work that both honored his wife and lifted him out of depression.
Here Kertész dips into his reserves one last time, tapping new people, ideas, and tools to generate a whole new body of work through which he transforms from a broken man into a youthful artist. Taken in his apartment just north of New York City’s Washington Square, many of these photographs were shot either from his window or in the windowsill. We see a fertile mind at work, combining personal objects into striking still lifes set against cityscape backgrounds, reflected and transformed in glass surfaces. Almost entirely unpublished work, these photographs are a testament to the genius of the photographer’s eye as manifested in the simple Polaroid.
During the golden age when Montparnasse was teeming with artists, Robert Doisneau gained remarkable access to the artists working in Paris from 1937 onwards, and he visited their studios and caught them in various private moments: working, reflecting, and even playing with their children. This book, which includes some previously unpublished photographs, shares Doisneau’s intimate view on the work and lives of these artists. Many remain famous—Picasso, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Giacometti, Saul Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Le Corbusier, Foujita—while others have fallen into obscurity, perhaps one day to be rediscovered. Regardless of the artist’s social status—whether major figure of the day or struggling newcomer—Doisneau approached each subject with the same humble eye. His signature black-and-white photographs capture the nostalgia of the period and bear witness to these artists in the act of creating some of the world’s finest art. This book, published in cooperation with Doisneau’s daughters, is a fascinating document of the daily lives of artists by one of the world’s most famous and popular photographers.
This book presents the work of approximately one hundred individuals whose creations exemplify the potential of photography in Central Europe between the two World Wars. Foto brings together for the first time works by recognized masters such as the Russian El Lissitzky, the Hungarian László Moholy-Nagy, and the German Hannah Hóch―all of whom developed their photographic ideas in Germany―with contemporaries like Karel Teige and Jaromír Funke (Czechoslovakia), Kazimierz Podsadecki (Poland), Károly Escher (Hungary), and Trude Fleischmann (Austria), who are less well known today.
This little book contains a beautiful and varied collection of typographic ornaments sourced from specimen books of type foundries, dating from 1700.
David Jury explains how the need for typographic ornaments arose and developed, and sets them in their historical context. The chapters cover natural forms; geometric forms; rules and borders; wreaths, borders and scrolls; and pictorial ornaments. The last chapter charts the rise of the graphic designer over the last century, and how modern designers are now reinterpreting these typographic ornaments into new forms of art.
The Little Book of Typographic Ornament is an invaluable reference for graphic designers, as well as providing a source of copyright-free images.
Książka ""Moje komiksy Vol. 1. Od Tajfuna do Supermana"" zabiera czytelnika w nostalgiczną, ale także pełną odniesień do współczesności, podróż przez fantastyczne światy. Wszystko zaczyna się na odległej planecie, terroryzowanej przez straszliwe monstrum, a kończy w świecie opanowanym przez superbohaterów. W trakcie tej wyprawy dowiecie się, co Tytus zawdzięcza radzieckiemu Sputnikowi, czym Łamignat zezłościł Swaroga oraz dlaczego Superman zakłada majtki na rajtuzy!Paweł przelał na papier swoją wieloletnią miłość do medium, które nie raz i nie dwa było uważane za dziecinne i gorsze. W niniejszej publikacji nie tylko obcuje ze sztuką komiksu, ale punktuje najważniejszych przedstawicieli gatunku i tytuły, które ukształtowały go jako odbiorcę popkultury komiksowej i nie tylko. Przybliża fantastyczne światy z wirtuozerską precyzją!Marcin Andrys, ParadoksBez akademickiego zadęcia, z pełną miłością do medium, ale jednocześnie bez zaślepienia nostalgią. Drobiazgowa wiedza przepleciona różnymi ciekawostkami tworzą pozycję, którą czyta się z prawdziwym zainteresowaniem.Damian ""Damex"" Maksymowicz, DC ManiakPaweł nadał swojej książce przewrotny tytuł. Opisując, czasem w sposób bardzo osobisty i emocjonalny, tych kilka komiksów, które wywarły na nim największe wrażenie, oferuje solidną dawkę rzetelnej wiedzy oraz faktów na temat poszczególnych autorów i ich dzieł.Marcin Osuch, EsensjaPaweł włożył w tę książkę całe serce. Serce, które bije dla komiksu.Jakub Syty, ThorgalverseMoje komiksy to książka pełna emocji. Zarówno poprzez sentymentalne podróże do czasów dzieciństwa, jak i współczesne spojrzenie na zjawisko komiksu i dyskusje, jakie się wokół tego gatunku toczą. To pozycja intrygująca, która jest żywym świadectwem fana, pełnym miłości do tej formy sztuki.Jakub Wołosowski, KZ
Książka jest poświęcona gatunkowi radiowemu feature zbliżonemu do reportażu artystycznego. Autorka prezentuje stan badań, precyzuje terminologię, wyznacza granice omawianego gatunku i jego odmian. Kreśli historię feature’a i pokrewnych form wypowiedzi, odwołując się zarówno do przykładów polskich, jak i obcych, głównie zachodnioeuropejskich – czytelnik znajdzie tu m.in. podrozdział o roli reportażu artystycznego w programie Radia Wolna Europa. Publikacja zawiera też analizę takich kategorii, jak narrator, aktor i elementy „słuchowiskowe” w twórczości z gatunku feature.
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Opracowania dotyczące feature’a w polskiej literaturze przedmiotu są właściwie nieliczne. Nie chciałbym dokonywać porównań wartościujących, odnoszę jednak wrażenie, że książka Natalii Kowalskiej jest nie tylko wyraźniej ukierunkowana w swych celach i wywodach, lecz także pełniejsza, obszerniejsza, bardziej wyczerpująca. Dla „utwierdzenia” gatunku na gruncie polskim wydaje się niezwykle pożyteczna i na chwilę obecną trudna do zastąpienia. […] Pod wieloma względami jest dziełem pionierskim i w zakresie podjętego tematu stanie się bezsprzecznie ważnym punktem odniesienia.
Z recenzji prof. dr. hab. Jana Tomkowskiego
Ed Fox thought he was the only young man who checked out a woman’s feet before her face, and most of the time couldn’t meet his models’ eyes for fear they’d discern his secret. Then he became the official foot photographer for Leg Show magazine, and learned of the thousands of men just like him and the glorious legacy of foot fetish photographers before him, not least the great Elmer Batters.
Since then, Fox has become famed the world over for his sensual photographic style that captures every curve of a woman’s body, right down to the tips of her toes. In Ed Fox II he brings us voluptuous new models, arresting locations―many blending the desert landscapes of Southern California with Fox’s passion for automobiles―and fantasies mild to extra spicy, all shot in warm, caressing natural light. And, like Glamour From the Ground Up, Ed Fox II comes with a 60-minute original DVD, bringing the still photos to vibrant life.
This edition’s special Panic Cover is reversible to a realistic-looking academic book to keep the real contents hidden from prying eyes, or even to help you impress an attractive onlooker!
The Big Book of Pussy, not to be confused with a book of big pussies, closed out the popular “body part” series with an offering just as controversial as it was popular back in 2011. As in previous volumes, editor Dian Hanson explored the historical significance of her subject, explaining how the female genitalia have been coveted, feared, reviled, and worshipped by civilizations worldwide, from New Guinea to old Ireland. Her text was supported by playfully positive photographs of women exposing their vulvas, from 1910 to today. And with more than 400 photos, the point was made emphatically, in images both naturally furry and stylishly groomed.
Now, this fresh edition reframes not just the subject, but the format and design of this popular volume in the portable and affordable Bibliotheca Universalis size, to meet the needs of consumers like the gentleman who commented on Amazon, “Who wants a two-ton Pussy Book being ‘exposed’ for the mailman?” Relax, my finicky friend! Your pussy now arrives in a discreet 14 x 19.5 cm (5.5 x 7.7 in.) size!
Included are interviews with the auteur known as Pussyman, the ex-cop who turned masturbation into millions with a toy called the Fleshlight, clit queen Vanessa del Rio, squirter Flower Tucci, and vaginal performance artist Mouse. Contemporary photographers Richard Kern, Ralph Gibson, Jan Saudek, Guido Argentini, Ed Fox, and others share their favorite pussy photos, urging even the shyest reader to call, “Here, kitty, kitty!”
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