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Margarita Carrillo Arronte: Mexico: The Cookbook

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: The definitive bible on Mexican home-cooking by Mexico's leading culinary authority, Margarita Carrillo Arronte.

Ehrenstein David: Roman Polanski

Скачать книгу (размер 524 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 104) Аннотация: Roman Polanski (born 1933) is a French — Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who stands as one of the most influential directors living today. A truly international filmmaker, Polanski has received numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and five Oscar nominations. Polanski has tackled many genres, including the horror film (Rosemary's Baby, 1968), film…

McCarter Robert: Understanding Architecture

Скачать книгу (размер 2 273 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 447) Аннотация: Intended both as an introductory text for students and professionals in the field as well as an accessible read for the general public, Understanding Architecture addresses the basic principles of architecture. The volume is organized in 12 series of chapters based on a key architectural themes — including space, time, matter, gravity, light, silence, dwelling, ritual, memory, landscape, and…

Tatehata Akira: Yayoi Kusama

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: This is a monograph on the extraordinary 40 year career of Japanese sculptor and performance artist Yayoi Kusama, recently the subject of a major retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art, which toured the United States and Japan through 1999. In January-March 2000 the Serpentine Gallery, London will be presenting a large solo exhibition devoted to Kusama's work. Internationally noted for…

Argan Giulio Carlo: Michelangelo

Скачать книгу (размер 1 972 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 388) Аннотация: Michelangelo (1475 — 1564), one of the great artistic figures of the Renaissance, is best known as a sculptor and painter. However he was also an important and highly original architect despite asserting that architecture was not his profession. This comprehensive study examines the complex story of his architectural production from his early works in Rome at the beginning of the 16th — century…

Longworth Karina: George Lucas

Скачать книгу (размер 519 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 103) Аннотация: George Lucas (born 1944) is a producer, screenwriter and director, who played a major role in the anti-establishment New Hollywood movement of the 1970s and helped define the blockbuster era of the 1980s. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars space opera and the producer of the iconic Indiana Jones adventure film series. Lucas had directed THX 1138 (1971) and American Graffiti (1973)…

Warwick Joe: Where Chef's Eat

Скачать книгу (размер 3 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 662) Аннотация: Recommending a minimum of three restaurants each, today's hottest food talent reveal their favourite breakfast places; where they like to eat late at night; which restaurant they wish they'd opened and more. Whether it's their favourite sushi bar when traveling or where they eat locally on a rare night off all 2300 chef recommendations will be based on the food alone. With entertaining reviews,…

Herkenhoff Paulo: Louise Bourgeois

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: With a career spanning 70 years, Louise Bourgeois now enjoys cult status after a lifetime of little artistic recognition. As a sculptor, she has experimented with alabaster, plaster, latex, bronze and marble, and is equally admired for her intimate drawings and her highly personal writings.

McCurry Steve: Steve McCurry: the Iconic Photographs

Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: Steve McCurry: The Iconic Photographs is a large-format collection of Steve McCurry's most famous and iconic photographs, including the Afghan Girl, and the Buddhist monasteries of Tibet.

Hall William: Concrete

Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Includes innovative and inspirational projects from monuments and churches to stations and cultural spaces, by some of the best architects of the last 100 years. Each project features a carefully selected photograph accompanied by an engaging extended caption.

Frampton Kenneth: Richard Meier

Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: Richard Meier (b.1934) is one of America's most distinguished architects and the winner in 1984 of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. This detailed monograph is a comprehensive study of his work from 1965-2002 and covers 90 of his buildings including his best-known Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art. The book documents all stages of Meier's career…

20th-Century World Architecture: The Phaidon Atlas

Скачать книгу (размер 4 237 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 832) Аннотация: 20th Century World Architecture portrays, for the first time, an overview of the finest built architecture from around the world completed between 1900 and 1999. The unprecedented global scope of this collection of over 750 key buildings juxtaposes architectural icons with regional masterpieces. Specially designed and commissioned graphics at the start of the atlas explore the changing economic…

Arden Paul: It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be is a handbook of how to succeed in the world — a pocket bible for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable and the impossible possible. Advertising guru Paul Arden offers up his wisdom on issues as diverse as problem solving, responding to a brief, communicating, playing your cards right, making mistakes and creativity, all…

The Art Book mini

Скачать книгу (размер 2 620 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 515) Аннотация: This is a pocket-sized A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of typical work, accompanied by information on each image and its creator. Artists, styles and subject matter are cross referenced.

Polano Sergio: Achille Castiglioni

Скачать книгу (размер 2 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 476) Аннотация: Achille Castiglioni (1918 — 2002) was one of the most important and prolific designers of the twentieth century. This comprehensive monograph is the only detailed study of his remarkable career and includes a catalogue of his complete works from 1938 — 2000 spanning architecture and exhibition, interior and product design. An essay by Sergio Polano describes Castiglioni's important collaborations…

Ketner: Andy Warhol

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Andy Warhol (1928–1987) captured the popular culture of his age through his iconic drawings, paintings, films and prints.He made as great an impact on the world of art as any of his contemporaries, ushering in a fundamental transformation in our visual culture to the mediated image. Yet perhaps his greatest work was his own identity; in his quest for fame and fortune, Warhol fashioned himself…

Hammer Martin: Francis Bacon

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Includes an in-depth chronology of Bacon's life and work. Accompanies the Edinburgh International Festival at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, June 4 — Sept 4, 2005.

Pattern: 100 Fashion Designers, 10 Curators

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: PATTERN is the follow-up to the 2005 Phaidon success SAMPLE, presenting 100 of the most creative fashion designers who have recently emerged internationally. Selected by 10 of the most respected figures in the field — a mixture of leading designers, stylists, editors, educators, bloggers and writers — it is a must-see catwalk in a book.

Craft Catherine: Robert Rauschenberg

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: A perfect introduction to the life and works of Robert Rauschenberg. Part of a brand new series of well-illustrated, short introductory books on the visual arts.