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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...
Virtually no style has left its mark on the image of an age as profoundly as Art Deco. From its origins in Paris, it asserted its influence throughout the world. Combining disparate elements to develop a unique language о forms, Art Deco embraced all fields of art and culture: painting, sculpture architecture, interiors, crafts, fashion, jewelry, and graphic design. This opulent volume traces the chronology of Art Deco style by looking at the politics and culture of Europe in the 1920s and...
| Год | 2016 |
Die Hitzewelle hat in diesem August sogar die Bretagne fest im Griff. Keine Aussicht auf Abkuhlung fur Kommissar Dupin. Und zu allem Uberfluss planen die Kollegen auch noch die grosse Feier seines zehnjahrigen Dienstjubilaums. Doch dann wird eines Morgens an der Kuste bei Concarneau ein Toter aus dem Meer gefischt, ein Schafzuchter von der legendaren Belle-Ile. Und ehe Dupin sich’s versieht, befindet er sich an Bord eines Schnellbootes auf dem Weg zur »schonsten Insel der Welt«, wo er schon bald...
| Автор | J.-L. Bannalec |
| Жанр | Немецкий язык |
| Год | 2021 |
Where does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role does innovation play in creating prosperity and why do some eras see the fruits of innovation spread more democratically, and others, including our own, find the opposite? In Capitalism in America, Alan Greenspan, legendary Chair of the Federal Reserve, distils a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a profound assessment of the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In...
| Автор | A. Wooldridge, A. Greenspan |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2019 |
This spectacular book offers a scintillating, visually outstanding tour of more than 65 of the worlds most fascinating houses. Massimo Listris stunning photographs vary between sweeping panoramas of the houses in their glorious settings to close-ups of specific rooms, furniture and design details, and they span homes around the world, from India to France, from Morocco to Sweden, from the USA to the UK. Unprecedented in scope and scale, this book will be devoured by anyone with an interest in...
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| Год | 2008 |
It was one of the most startling moments in the history of the City of London. In 2011, the Occupy movement set up camp around St Paul's Cathedral. Giles Fraser, who was Canon Chancellor of the Cathedral, gave them his support. It ended in disaster. This remarkable book is the story of the personal crisis that followed, and its surprising consequences. Finding himself caught between the protesters, the church and the City of London, Fraser resigned, and was plunged into depression. As his...
| Автор | G. Fraser |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2022 |
The official illustrated history of Depeche Mode by Dutch artist Anton Corbijn. In November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepting the honour, said: “I’d like to thank Anton Corbijn who thank God came in at the right time and actually made us look cool.” Also in the fall of 2020, TASCHEN released the limited edition Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn (81–18) signed by Depeche Mode and Anton Corbijn, and it became one of the fastest selling...
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| Год | 2021 |
Was im Leben wirklich wichtig ist. Arno Geiger hat ein ausserst beruhrendes Buch uber seinen Vater geschrieben, der trotz seiner Alzheimerkrankheit mit Vitalitat und Klugheit beeindruckt. Im Alltag ist der Vater oft hellwach, aber seine Vergangenheit, sein Haus und seine Kinder hat er vergessen. Arno Geiger erzahlt, wie er nochmals Freundschaft mit seinem Vater schliesst und ihn viele Jahre begleitet. Er entdeckt, dass es auch mit der Krankheit bei seinem Vater noch alles gibt: Charme, Witz,...
| Автор | A. Geiger |
| Жанр | Немецкий язык |
| Год | 2012 |
The art and architecture of Egypt during the age of the pharaohs capture the imagination of the modern world. Vivid, graceful forms decorating monuments that emanated ambition and authority spark our wonder about this distant culture. Ever youthful and elegant men and women encounter odd, animal-headed gods and monsters amid scenes of work and leisure, in a paradise of plain, bright colours, where hieroglyphic texts hint at grand ideas. The tombs and temples of ancient Egypt reveal how art...
| Год | 2017 |
Der Albtraum einer Frau. Ein damonischer Psychothriller. Die verzerrte Stimme kam aus einem Lautsprecher irgendwo im Dunklen: »Herzlichen Gluckwunsch zu deinem Geburtstag, Merete. Du bist jetzt hier seit 126 Tagen, und das ist unser Geburtstagsgeschenk: Das Licht wird von nun an ein Jahr lang eingeschaltet bleiben. Es sei denn, du weisst die Antwort: Warum halten wir dich fest?« Am 2. Marz 2002 verschwindet eine Frau spurlos auf der Fahre von Rodby nach Puttgarden, man vermutet Tod durch...
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| Жанр | Немецкий язык |
| Год | 2014 |
From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas, or Picasso have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions, and libido and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica Universalis, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those of our national and private libraries. Here we...
| Год | 2013 |
Exit Art is an intimate portrait of an institution that from 1982 to 2012 challenged social, political, aesthetic and curatorial norms. Committed to experimenting at the intersection of disciplines, publications and design, the gallery Exit Art remained steadfast in its mission to provide new possibilities and opportunities for artists, curators and viewers through its expansive historical shows, exhibitions of emerging and under-recognized artists, experimental theater and performance works, as...
| Жанр | Искусствоведение |
| Год | 2016 |
Europa es un continente que mira atras, lleno de cicatrices, un territorio que aglutina mas pasado que presente. Alvaro Colomer nos propone cinco itinerarios por ciudades europeas que no pueden desprenderse de ese pasado –Gernika, Chernobil, Transilvania, Lourdes y Auschwitz–, y que constituyen una peculiar geografia de las emociones: la Historia las ha paralizado, no les permite avanzar; los turista
| Автор | A. Colomer |
| Жанр | Испанский язык |
| Год | 2020 |
Henri Rousseau claimed he had “no teacher other than nature.” A retired customs official who only began painting in his late 40s, his simple, bold paintings of exotic flora and fauna attracted public derision at first, but went on to gain adulation from Picasso, the Surrealists, and long beyond. This dependable introduction explores the makings of this late-blooming artist and his legacy as an unlikely hero of modernism.
| Автор | C. Stabenow |
| Жанр | Живопись |
| Год | 2018 |
India, Jewels that Enchanted the World presents for the first time the remarkable history and unique legacy of 500 years of Indian jewellery, from the 17th century to the present. The essays, all written by leading international scholars, explore the rich, distinctive, and unique heritage of Indian jewellery; the striking boldness of South Indian ornaments; the delicate refinement of the Mughal period; the dazzling jewels of the post-Mughal maharajas; the cross-cultural influences between Europe...
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| Год | 2021 |
While Josef Albers’ Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, ‘the dish I serve my craziness about colour in’ – a series of over two thousand tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of colour. Yet he did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United...
| Год | 2018 |
Hailed by George Bernard Shaw as 'useful [corrective] to the romantic conception of war', R.C. Sherriff's Journey's End is an unflinching vision of life in the trenches towards the end of the First World War, published in Penguin Classics. Set in the First World War, Journey's End concerns a group of British officers on the front line and opens in a dugout in the trenches in France. Raleigh, a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school, joins the...
| Автор | Sherriff R. , Р. Шеррифф |
| Жанр | Английский язык |
| Год | 2000 |
Discoveries from the Julius Shulman vaults The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of ’50s and ’60s architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books; but what about those that got lost in the process, hardly or never appearing in publication? The exchange of visual information is crucial to the development, evolution, and promotion of architectural movements. If a building is not widely seen, its photograph rarely...
| Год | 2023 |