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Dian Hanson, Eric Godtland True Crime Detective Magazines ENAt the height of the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was turning ordinary citizens into criminals and ordinary criminals into celebrities, America’s true crime detective magazines were born. True Detective came first in 1924, and by 1934, when the Great Depression had produced colorful outlaws like Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger, the magazines were so popular cops and robbers…
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Truffaut ENFrom The 400 Blows to Jules and Jim to The Last Metro, François Truffaut (1932-1984) practically defined the French cinema of his era and was one of the founders of the New Wave which took the industry by storm in the late 1950s. His endlessly touching and romantic films—always tinged by a touch of reflective sadness—made him one of France`s favorite and most successful directors. This book traces Truffaut`s career…
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Michael Bockemühl Turner CZTato kniha poskytuje zázemí nutné k tomu, aby se Turnerovy obrazy otevřely oku. Ukazuje, že Turner nejen ilustroval přírodu, ale že jeho malby oslovují přímo lidské oko - stejně jako sama příroda, pomocí světla a barvy.
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Michael Bockemühl Turner ENAs a blind person might see the world if the gift of sight were suddenly returned - this is how we might describe the effect of William Turner's paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, Turner's uncompromising 19th-century defender, alluded to this idea when he spoke of an innocence of the eye which perceived the world's colours and forms before it could recognize their significance. But to develop such a style,…
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Tuscany Interiors ENNestling in the gentle hills and brushed with the hazy sfumato of the air, the homes of Tuscany have long been the objects of lust and legend. This book affords a privileged glimpse of Tuscan houses and interiors. Leading lights of the international arts and fashion scenes open their doors and bid us enter. The range extends from the simple casa colonia, the typical farmhouse of Chianti, via the majestic palazzo of…
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Angelika Taschen Tuscany style ENTaschen´s Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year-old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, to market his massive comics collection. Within a year he began publishing catalogs promoting his wares, but it wasn´t until 1984 that his first artbook breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40 000 remainder copies of a Magritte book printed in english, reselling them for a fraction of…
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Sandro Vannini TutanchamonTento podrobný průvodce, který připomíná sté výročí zahájení výzkumů Howarda Cartera v Údolí králů, vychází ve spolupráci s řadou mezinárodních ... Vanni
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Cees W. de Jong Type ENFor The Love of Letters A history of fonts and graphic styles from 1628 to 1938 This comprehensive book offers a thorough overview of typeface design from 1628 to the mid-20th century. Derived from a distinguished Dutch collection, a series of exquisitely designed catalogues trace the evolution of the printed letter via specimens in roman, italic, bold, semibold, narrow, and broad fonts. Borders, ornaments, initial…
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Jan Tholenaar Type. A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, Vol. 2(1901-1938) ENA visual history of fonts and graphic styles: volume 2 This book offers a connoisseur's overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the evolution of the printed letter via exquisitely designed catalogs, showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad…
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Jan Tholenaar Type. A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1 ENThis title presents a visual history of fonts and graphic styles. This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height. Taken from a Dutch collection, this exuberant selection traverses…
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Umění 20. století CZAutoři publikace se ujali gigantického úkolu představit v jediném obsáhlém díle výtvarné umění celého 20. století. Jednotlivé kapitoly jsou věnovány malířství, plastice a objektům, novým médiím a fotografii. Neméně významnou součástí knihy je slovník umělců, který obsahuje biografie a bibliografie 780 osobností.
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Peter Gössel UN Studio ENUN Studio, led by Dutch architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, creates spaces that are surprisingly innovative. Their work doesn`t rehash Modernism but rather embraces the digital age via the invention of new, time-based techniques expanding the imagination, exploding the hierarchy of the design process, and encouraging the input of different disciplines. UN Studio`s architecture is the result of a design…
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Sandra Rendgen, Julius Wiedemann Understanding the World ENPlanet on the page: Historic and contemporary information graphics explaining our vast and intricate world Dazzling in scale, diversity and detail, the world never ceases to open our eyes and captivate our curiosity. Ever since the earliest cave paintings, humans have looked at this Earth that is our home and endeavored to understand it. This expansive visual atlas presents the most exciting, creative and inspiring…
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Mario Testino Undressed ENAn evocative new series from Mario Testino. Mario Testino's Undressed removes various layers. Coinciding with an exhibition conceived exclusively for the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, this intimate series explores the notion of undressing in photography as much as it lays Testino's archive bare, probing beyond the photographer's established public image to reveal a deeper understanding of his practice and…
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Urban Chic ENThis title presents 27 'green' buildings in urban and suburban surroundings.In regard to the current discussions about global warming and a new green movement, ecological aspects in architecture are becoming more and more important. Home buyers and owners as well as builders, architects and designers are seeking for examples and inspiration.Eco Architecture is a book series showcasing the world's best green…
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Helmut Newton, Alice Springs Us and Them ENTwo cameras, one couple: Helmut Newton and Alice Springs turn the lens on their love and their life. s and Them is an ode to partnership and art. First published in 1999, it gathers photographs by Helmut Newton and his wife, the actress and photographer June Newton, who worked under the pseudonym Alice Springs. The collection is arranged into five sections, alternating the gaze between Newton and Spring’s own tender…
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Matt Tyrnauer, Suzy Menkes Valentino - A Grand Italian Epic ENFor almost half a century Valentino dominated Italian haute couture, dressing the world's wealthiest and most glamorous women. Only a few years after opening his fashion house in Rome in 1959, Valentino could already count Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy, and Audrey Hepburn among his devotees. Despite his retirement in 2007 little has changed; his brand continues to thrive and prosper, and is worn by celebrities…
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Van Gogh ENThis man will either go insane or leave us all far behind, prophesied the great Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The man was Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), a vicar's son born at Groot-Zundert near Breda in Holland, who at that time was struggling to find buyers for his paintings. Van Gogh did indeed go at least to the brink of insanity. And he has long been recognised as one of the greatest modern artists. Van…
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Dian Hanson Vanessa del Rio ENBack in 1974, the sexual revolution was in full swing and the adult entertainment business was on the verge of becoming Big Business. Deep Throat had created America’s first porn star in 1972, but by 1974 Linda Lovelace was already retired and the industry was seeking the next big thing. Vanessa del Rio should have been that thing, except in 1974 there were no ethnic sex stars. Undeterred, Vanessa took any role…
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Vasarely ENInspired by the innovative use of color in Bauhaus art, Hungarian painter Victor Vasarely (1908-1997) developed his own abstract-geometric visual language, exploring the relationship between pure form and pure color. Vasarely’s experimentation with optical effects in the 1940s and 50s earned him a central role in the evolution of Op Art. By the late 50s and early 60s, he concentrated on the “democratization of art”…
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Magdalena Holzhey VasarelyHungarian-French painter Victor Vasarely (1906-1997) was a precocious talent. His earliest surviving painting, a landscape done at age 12, baffled through its realism-an indication of the compelling illusions of spatial depth that would later define ...
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Norbert Wolf Velázquez ENDiego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquezreprezentuje zlatý vek španielskeho maliarstva. Narodil sa v Seville, ale pôvodom bol Portugalec. V r. 1632 sa stal dvorným maliarom španielského kráľa Filipa IV. Vo svojej maľbe používal hladké ťahy štetca, obdivoval glazovanú maľbu, a preto sa po stretnutí s Rubensom rozhodol odcestovať do Talianska. Do tejto krajiny sa vrátil ešte niekoľkokrát. V r. 1640 v Ríme namaľoval…
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José López-Rey, Odile Delenda Velázquez - The Complete Works ENManet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it. Francis Bacon painted a study of his portrait of Pope Innocent X. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dalí for so many champions of art history, the ultimate soundboard was and remains Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599 - 1660). This updated catalog raisonné…