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Thérèse Crémieux, Hans Werner Holzwarth Françoise Gilot: Three Travel SketchbooksThree facsimile editions of Françoise Gilot’s travel sketchbooks, made between 1974 and 1981, combine the distinct atmospheres of Venice, India, and Senegal with Gilot’s abstract figuration. Packaged in a fold-out box set, the sketchbooks ...
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Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Frank Lloyd Wright ENThe American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) exerted unique influence on the architecture of the first half of this century. This volume presents the whole range of Frank Lloyd Wright's extraordinarily prolific output and shows clearly how his view of the world was a common factor throughout the rich diversity of his oeuvre. From his early prairie houses to the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Frank Lloyd…
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Frank Sinatra ENLong before he was Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra was a child of the jazz age and its free-wheeling approach to life. In the course of a meteoric rise from singing waiter to the world's first pop star, Sinatra relied on his own version of keeping it simple: I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life or the answer to life. I just go on from day to day taking what…
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Peter H. Feist French ImpressionismIt was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was first exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work's title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water to
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Sebastian Smee Freud ENBritish artist Lucian Freud is widely considered the most important figurative painter working today. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud uses impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to mostly muted hues. His portraits may be physically unflattering to their subjects, but they are honest, frank, and unapologetic. I paint people, Freud has said, not because of what they…
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Wieland Schmied Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1928 - 2000 ENA world full of color, said Friedensreich Hundertwasser, is synonymous with paradise. With his demonstrations and actions, his manifestos for nature, for more human-oriented architecture, and for the improvement of the quality of life and living conditions, Friedensreich Hundertwasser was one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century. He became a symbolic figure, not only as a painter but also as an…
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Uta von Debschitz, Thilo von Debschitz Fritz Kahn ENFritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by the Nazis, who banned and burned his books, Kahn emigrated to Palestine, then France, and finally the United States to continue his life’s work. In this revised Bibliotheca Universalis edition, TASCHEN celebrates Kahn as a creative genius, particularly adept at the visualization of…
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Furniture Atlas ENA comprehensive, illustrated guide to the shifting styles and influences of furniture design from Rococo to Art Deco. The book traces the history of the techniques, the production methods, and the innovators of furniture design.
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Neville Brody, Jon Wozencroft FUSE 1–20 ENLaunched by Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft in 1991, FUSE was the ground-breaking publication that took design and typography into radically new and unforeseen spaces. The major influence of its revolutionary and experimental approach to typographic language reverberates still, and today—twenty years after its launch—the explorations carried out by some of the most famous and influential names in the industry stand…
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Sylvia Martin Futurism ENInspired by the development of Cubism, the Futurist movement was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo Balla. Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carra, and Gino Severini. The school, which celebrated technology and the mechanical era, was comprised of painters, sculptors, designers, architects, and writers. Motion and machines were two main themes of this movement, which attacked the…
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Sylvia Martinová Futurismus CZFuturismus, literární a výtvarný umělecký směr první čtvrtiny 20. století, je jedním z hlavních avantgardních směrů. Záměrem futurismu byla obnova společenského života ve všech jeho uměleckých a také sociálních oblastech, přičemž východiskem a měřítkem teoretických myšlenek se staly nejnovější technické vymoženosti a vědecké poznatky. Futurismus tudíž nepředstavoval žádnou avantgardu, která by se snažila výhradně o…
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Peter Russell, Senta Slingerland Game Changers ENA celebration of the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes who have never stopped redefining the business of creative communications, this book marks the 60th birthday of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
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H. Walter Lack Garden of Eden - 100 Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration ENThe long tradition of botanical illustration finds its tribute in this new book, whose publication coincides with the exhibition of botanical illustration at the National Library of Vienna. TASCHEN has chosen 100 works from the library's extensive archives to be reproduced in this masterpiece of botanical book illustration. Beginning with 6th-century Byzantine manuscripts, it traces the tradition right up through…
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Gardens in France ENFrance's most beautiful public and private gardens open their gates to us in every season of the year: from the classical French palace gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte down to humble domestic gardens in Normandy, from stylized Zen gardens in Provence to cactus displays on the Cote d'Azur. The typical plants of each climatic region are represented—delphiniums, roses and irises in the North, and Californian poppies,…
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Maria Antonietta Crippa Gaudí CZHrdý Katalánec zjednodušil fakultatívny program svetových cestoviek a takmer celé svoje dielo sústredil do trojmiliónovej Barcelony. Domy pre zámožných mešťanov (Casa Batlló, Casa Milä), veľký Giiellov park a slávny kostol na počesť Svätej rodiny (Sagrada Familia) - sú všetko stavby, ktoré patria k povinným barcelonským zastávkam. Geniálny konštruktér sa vyhýbal rysovacej doske a pravému uhlu. Jeho výkresy pôsobia…
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Rainer Zerbst GaudíThe life of Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself ...
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Ingo F. Walther Gauguin CZDotisk další knihy z úspěšné řady věnované světovému umění.Preklad: Jiří Janoštik
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Ingo F. Walther Gauguin ENAfter starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently - when private difficulties caused him to become restless - embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature,…
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Klaus Honnef Gerhard RichterAn encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late abstract paintings, ...