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 definitive illustrated overview of contemporary performance art.
Performance Now charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the 21st century. It reveals how performance, so integral to the history of art in the 20th century, has become an increasingly essential vehicle for communicating ideas across the globe in the new millennium.
Renowned authority RoseLee Goldberg discusses key themes in performance art practice, from beauty, global citizenship and political activism to performance’s intersection with film and technology, dance, theatre and architecture. Each chapter is followed by illustrated profiles of the world’s best-known performance artists, accompanied by extended captions that assess the importance of specific works to the practice of international performance art.
A visually exciting and stimulating overview of this most varied art form, Performance Now is the go-to reference for artists, art students and historians as well as avant-garde theatre and movie goers.
Weegee’s macabre tabloid photographs of murdered gangsters, bodies trapped in crashed cars, slums consumed by fire, and other poignant records of New York’s nocturnal low life in the 1930s and 40s are the stuff of legend. Lesser-known, however, is the work he created in his later years, when he satirized Hollywood, mocking its fleeting glory, jubilant crowds, and social scenes, and created celebrity portraits that he delighted in distorting using a palette of technical tricks. And herein lies the paradox of Weegee: how can two such wildly different bodies of work co-exist?
Offering the first evaluation of the famed photographer’s career in its entirety, this book reconciles the two sides of Weegee by showing how the ‘spectacle’ was the unifying theme of his work. Over 130 images, some iconic, some more rarely seen, are accompanied by essays that explore the consistent themes throughout Weegee’s career, his documentary and photojournalism work, and his last great series taken on the set of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove.
A showcase from across the globe of 25 houses offering creative solutions for planet-friendly home design.
Designing with the environment in mind is not 'new'. What is new is the increasing number of ways houses can be more sustainably built. With a fresh focus on design ingenuity, new technologies and materials, The New Sustainable House demonstrates that there is more to ecologically motivated construction than solar panels and water tanks.
From a mud-brick single-storey box built in the Texas desert to an all-timber Swedish cabin that is completely petrochemical-free, what unites this diverse collection of houses is the shared motivation of the architects and clients to do as little damage as possible to the planet, without compromising on comfort or aesthetics. This compelling survey shows that the environmental impact of every home, no matter the size or location, can be greatly reduced with creative and responsible design.
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift celebrates The Face’s most iconic portraits from 1980–2004. It explores the magazine’s role in the evolution of style photography and its international and enduring impact on visual culture.
The Face Magazine: Culture Shift includes portraits of iconic sitters including Kate Moss, Annie Lennox, Kurt Cobain, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, David Bowie, Ewan McGregor, Madness, The Sex Pistols, and Kylie Minogue. It features the voices of some of the key contributors to the magazine and celebrates the ongoing legacy of the magazine’s imagery in British art, design and culture. It showcases striking portrait photographs from the likes of Miles Aldridge, Elaine Constantine, Corinne Day, David LaChapelle and Juergen Teller, alongside selected covers from the print magazine.
When we think of the trailblazing photographer Dennis Morris’s work, music is right there. Morris’s adventures in the 1970s reggae and punk scene laid the groundwork for a six-decade career.
It all began with Bob Marley: Morris doorstepped Marley in his early teens while skipping school and went on to capture much of Marley’s tour, which launched his career as a music photographer. He later became the official photographer for the Sex Pistols, and for John Lydon’s next project, Public Image Limited, Morris was art director and designer as well as taking iconic images for the band. He captured the greats of reggae and roots music, from Lee 'Scratch' Perry to Toots and Jimmy Cliff, forming friendships with many of the acts.
Morris's documentary and street photography work, with roots in his experiences as a Black teenager in 1970s Britain, bring us visionary projects that explore race, politics and cultural identity. From the miner's strike to squat protests, from civil rights organizations to pop-up studio portraits, his work was a reckoning with his new home, capturing eccentricity and individual spirits with his camera.
Edited by Laurie Hurwitz, this book unfolds in two electrifying parts: the first unravels Morris’s lens on race, culture and identity in 1970s Britain, while the second pulses with encounters with music legends like Patti Smith, Gregory Isaacs, The Stone Roses and Radiohead.
With contributions from agnès B and Sean O’Hagan, the book will delight photography fans and music lovers alike. It includes previously unseen images, and is supported by an internationally touring exhibition, presenting Morris’s influential work in depth for the first time.
This concise survey showcases the incredible, diverse work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists. Building on traditions that stretch back at least 50,000 years, these artists have long worked in a variety of contexts from the sacred and secret realm of ceremony to more public spheres. From isolated beginnings to post-colonialism and the present, Wally Caruana explains how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art has continually developed and responded to change; and considers the impact of urban living, the growth of local art centres that support the artists in these communities, and the recognition of women artists.
This new edition has been expanded and updated to include and reflect on important artists who have emerged in the last decade, with a focus on the burgeoning of activity in the Southern Desert region, Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands - all testament to Aboriginal art’s continued dynamism and vitality.
This visual timeline for film enthusiasts makes the history of cinema – from the earliest moving images to the latest blockbusters – newly accessible by organizing it chronologically.
• A large format makes it easy to trace the complex links between technological innovations, social changes and artistic interventions.
• An easy-to-read timeline identifies key films, together with commentaries and contextual information about the social, political and cultural events of the period in which they were produced.
• In-depth essays explore a variety of film genres and styles, break down the technical advancements of the last 150 years, and highlight pivotal figures who have shaped the development of filmmaking.
With A Chronology of Film, cinema is an open book…
Jackson Pollock and his gestural paintings are icons of abstract expressionism. His groundbreaking works evolved from a period of experimentation during which Pollock drew upon influences from Native American art, Mexican muralists, and the European avant-garde—most notably from Picasso. With an illustrated chronology and extensive bibliography, this catalog reveals the artistic and intellectual development of one of the greatest American artists.
Manet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the history of art. This book sets drawings by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists in the context of late 19th-century France and explains why these particular works are as important as their paintings in the representation of modernity.
A new approach to materials and a wholly inclusive attitude to exhibitions gave drawings a more elevated status in this period than ever before, which avant-garde artists welcomed in their preference for scenes from contemporary life. For the first time also, painting and drawing shared the same stylistic principles of spontaneity, freer handling and lack of finish. Pastels by Degas, watercolours by Cézanne, pen-and-ink drawings by Van Gogh and mixed media works by Toulouse-Lautrec have an autonomy of their own, which proved instrumental in the development of modern art.
The distinguished art historian Christopher Lloyd examines the drawings of twenty of the leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, highlighting an aspect of French avant-garde art that remains relatively unexplored and was of immense importance for the art movements that followed.
An indispensable guide to the international history of illustrated images, from 1750 to the present day.
Illustration: A Concise History is a dynamic visual journey through the landscape of illustration that maps the evolution of the discipline from the industrial revolution to the post-digital age and showcases over 180 of its most iconic practitioners, including Laura Knight, Antonio Lopez, Käthe Kollwitz and Hayao Miyazaki. By contextualizing the subject within a framework of key political events, cultural innovations and technological advances, Andrew Hall redefines how we might think about illustration and the place that it has in our ever-evolving global network.
The second half of this introductory volume follows on from the ten chapters charting the chronology of illustration to provide a more in-depth look at its specific commercial genres across eleven feature sections, each including mini-histories, practical career advice and biographies of inspirational practitioners who operated within the field.
Architect Albert Frey (1903–1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. Born in Zurich, he studied in Europe with Le Corbusier before moving to the United States in 1930, convinced it was the land of architectural opportunity. On a visit to Palm Springs, he fell under the desert spell. It was here, amid the arid and empty landscape, that he could truly envisage a perfect modern future.Like fellow Californian luminary, John Lautner, Frey would spend the rest of his career nurturing the consonance of architecture and nature: studying the fall of sunlight and rain, and merging aluminum, steel, and glass with the boulders and sands of the West Coast wilds. His vision centered in particular on Palm Springs, capitalizing on the city’s postwar population boom to create a bastion of the sleek, leisurely modernism that defines midcentury California.In this dependable architect introduction, we follow Frey’s long and prestigious career from his European beginnings through to the apogee of his Californian practice, taking in his notes on De Stijl, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus, and exploring the stylistic, material, and geographic makings of his unique “desert modernism.”
Before becoming the critically acclaimed filmmaker responsible for such iconic films as Dr. Strangelove and The Shining, Stanley Kubrick spent five years as a photographer for Look magazine. The Bronx native joined the staff in 1945, when he was only 17 years old, and shot humanist slice-of-life features that celebrate and expose New York City and its inhabitants.
Through a Different Lens reveals the keen and evocative vision of a burgeoning creative genius in a range of feature stories and images, from everyday folk at the laundromat to a day in the life of a debutant, from a trip to the circus to Columbia University. It features around 300 images, many previously unseen, as well as rare Look magazine tear sheets and an introduction by noted photography critic Lucy Sante.
These still photographs attest to Kubrick’s innate talent for compelling storytelling, and serve as clear indicators of how this genius would soon transition to making some of the greatest movies of all time.
One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958–1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique, memorable effect. With thick black outlines, bright colors, and kinetic figures, his public (and occasionally illegal) interventions, sculptures, and works on canvas and paper have become instantly recognizable icons of 20th-century visual culture.From his first chalk drawings in the New York City subway stations, to his renowned “Radiant Baby” symbol, and his commissions for Swatch Watch and Absolut Vodka, Haring’s work was both emblematic of the manic work ethic of 1980s New York, yet distinctive for its social awareness. Belying their bright, playful aesthetics, his pieces often tackled intensely controversial socio-political issues, including racism, capitalism, religious fundamentalism, and the increasing impact of AIDS on New York’s gay community, the latter foreshadowing his own death from the disease in 1990.In this vivid introduction to Haring’s work, we explore the dynamic life and innovative spirit of this singular artist, who spent little more than a decade in the spotlight, but through the accessibility of his visual vocabulary and the strength of his political commitment became one of the most significant artists to emerge from New York’s vibrant, downtown community.
Stanisław Wyspiański is widely regarded as Poland’s greatest artist and as the founder of modern Polish drama.
Stanisław Wyspiański (1869–1907), is widely regarded as Poland’s greatest artist whose work is just beginning to be appreciated outside of Central Europe. Best known as the founder of modern Polish drama, he was also an artist and applied arts designer. During his short career he made a number of striking portraits in pastel of his family and and contemporary Cracovians which collectively provide a fascinating insight into the cultural life of a nation under partition and striving for independence.
This illustrated publication showcases 70 of Wyspiański’s portraits. Full of colour and vitality, his works draw on indigenous folk traditions, but are executed in a progressive expressive style influenced by the years Wyspiański spent in Paris, and epitomise the ideals and aspirations of the Young Poland movement with which he is closely associated.
Jerzy Jaworowski (1919–1975) – wybitny grafik czasu PRL-u, projektant książek, ilustrator. Pracował głównie dla wydawnictwa Czytelnik, ale też PIW-u, Iskier, Więzi. Mało kto wiedział, że w zaciszu domowym tworzył rysunki prywatne – i właśnie im poświęcona jest ta książka.
Każdego dnia powstawała kolejna praca wykonywana jedną z autorskich technik na bazie tuszy rozcieńczanych acetonem. Pośmiertna wystawa, na której zaprezentowano tę twórczość, zachwyciła publiczność i krytykę. „Z pracami Jaworowskiego wraca wiara w pierwszy fundament sztuki, którym jest rysunek. Rysunek będący najprostszym instrumentem twórczej wrażliwości, pierwszą definicją złożoną w języku sztuki i jednocześnie podstawą wszelkich studiów nad plastyką” – pisała Danuta Wróblewska. Na Henryku Tomaszewskim, bliskim przyjacielu Jaworowskiego, wrażenie zrobiły „szybko, szeroko szkicowane, takie lecące przez powietrze figury tańczących. A także jakby znaki, jakby stemple. Szarość oraz czerń i biel. Jeden ruch ręki. Jestem podejrzliwy co do spontaniczności gestu. Sam u siebie sprawdzam, czy nie za łatwo idzie. Tu była spontaniczność, ale tak kontrolowana, jak u największych mistrzów, że ręka poza planowany tor nie zboczy ani na milimetr”.
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Take a deeper look into the history, art and faith of India with the Ancient India: living tradition book – the beautifully illustrated official hardback from the British Museum’s major exhibition. This accessible and engaging volume offers a fresh perspective on Jainism, Buddhism and Hinduism, and how these living traditions shaped everyday life and creativity over two thousand years ago.
Through stunning imagery and expert storytelling, the book explores how sacred art evolved between 200 BCE and 600 CE – from early nature spirits to some of the first depictions of the Buddha, Jain teachers (jinas), and Hindu deities. You'll learn how these devotional images came to include familiar symbols, animal companions and intricate details still seen in religious art today.
It also shows how spiritual ideas and artistic traditions spread far beyond India, leaving a lasting influence across Central, East and Southeast Asia through sculpture, temple design and iconography.
Whether you're interested in religion, art or ancient history, the Ancient India: living traditions hardback book makes a thoughtful gift or a valuable addition to your own collection.
'If I were pressed to describe my style, I’d have to say it is called reality. No matter how stylized it gets, underneath it’s real’ Ridley Scott
Illustrated with images as iconic as they are stunning, and including the author’s first-hand experiences on set and interviews with Scott himself, this book charts the extraordinary journey of Britain’s greatest living director.
The stories behind many great films are revealed, from science fiction classics Alien, Blade Runner and The Martian, through timeless thrillers Hannibal and American Gangster, to historical hits Kingdom of Heaven, Napoleon and Gladiator II. The book explores the themes and motifs that unite such different films, and the methods of Scott’s approach to his medium.
This is the account of a director who has never been less than stubbornly, brilliantly, unforgettably his own man.
Józef Elsner(1769-1854) - kompozytor, dyrygent, wydawca, teoretyk muzyki, pedagog muzyczny - znany przede wszystkim jako nauczyciel i przyjaciel Chopina. Urodzony w Grodkowie w śląskiej rodzinie mówiącej po niemiecku, już od dziecka miał styczność z muzyką. We Wrocławiu w szkołach u dominikanów i jezuitów śpiewał w chórach i grał na skrzypcach, wcześnie też zaczął komponować. Ze Śląska trafił do polskiego Lwowa, w którym jego utwory i działalność kapelmistrzowska spotkały się z aprobatą publiczności. Tamże poznał Wojciecha Bogusławskiego, za którego namową zaczął się uczyć polskiego i komponować polskie opery. W roku 1799 przeniósł się wraz z Bogusławskim do Warszawy, rozpoczynając nowy, ponad 50-letni rozdział swego pracowitego życia. W stolicy był wieloletnim dyrektorem muzyki w Teatrze Narodowym (skomponował dla niego ponad 20 oper), wydawał miesięcznik nutowy "Wybór Pięknych Dzieł Muzycznych i Pieśni Polskich", opublikował m. in.Rozprawę o metryczności i rytmiczności języka polskiego, tworzył i prowadził szkoły muzyczne - ze Szkołą Główną Muzyki na czele, w której pod jego profesorskim okiem studiował Fryderyk Chopin. Całkowicie spolonizowany, stał się gorącym polskim patriotą. Od swych studentów-kompozytorów otrzymał pierścień z napisem "Twórcy muzyki polskiej, młodzież".
Mów mi Michał. Michał Figurski.Mam licencję na wszystko. Radio? Proszę bardzo. Gdy mam powiedzieć w porze największej słuchalności ogłaszając zabójcze wyniki wyborów: "Drodzy Państwo! KURWA MAĆ!" - nie ma problemu. Zorganizować koncert Perfectu w ścisłym centrum, zakorkować Warszawę o ósmej rano w poniedziałek i dogadać się z policją, żeby przed kamerami skuła Grzegorza Markowskiego? Przyjemność po mojej stronie. Poprowadzić program telewizyjny na żywo w trakcie udaru krwotocznego? Do usług.To wszystko ja. Taki już jestem.Tylko że to pozór. Mam osiemnaście lat, gdy słyszę wyrok: cukrzyca insulinozależna typu 1. Raz ważę 63 kilogramy, innym razem 136. Niemal tracę wzrok, a moje ciało się rozpada. Impreza trwa jednak w najlepsze, jutra przecież nie ma! Aż w końcu słyszę głos pielęgniarki: - Zamknij się wreszcie! Nie jesteś w telewizji!Nie żyje się dwa razy, a tryb nieśmiertelności się skończył. W każdej chwili może pojawić się napis GAME OVER.To moja historia.
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