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Art of Burning Man EN100 miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years. Except, that is, for one brief week at the end of each summer, when a temporary city rises out of the barren clay. This is the surreal and amazing site of Burning Man. Baked by the sun, and…
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Art of Burning ManOne hundred miles from the gambling town of Reno, in the wilderness of northern Nevada, lies a vast, hostile plain known as the Black Rock Desert. The region has been an empty and windswept dry lake bed for most of the past 10,000 years...
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Francesco Spampinato Art Record Covers ENSince the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo s 1913 Futurist manifesto L Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel Duchamp s 1925 double-sided discs Rotereliefs, the 20th century saw ever more fertile exchange between sounds and shapes, marks and melodies, and different fields of composition and performance. In Francesco Spampinato…
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David F. Travers Arts and Architecture ENWelcome to Modernism: The very best of the first five years of the groundbreaking architecture magazine From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture: emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated low-cost materials and modern design. This trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, which was championed by…
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Asian Living ENNowadays there is hardly an interior design publication which does not contain at least one article on Feng Shui, the one-thousand-year-old Chinese tradition of the harmonious arrangement of sacred buildings, graves, palaces and streets. The universal value systems of Buddhism and Zen and the principles these involve, such as an affinity whith nature and have had an important influence on todays trends in design and…
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Atlas Maior - Anglia ENThe Atlas Maior, the cartographical masterpiece of the Baroque period, was brought out between 1662 and 1665 by the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu, one of Holland’s leading cartographers. Originally appearing in Latin, the atlas comprised 594 maps in 11 volumes, which depicted the whole of the world as known to early modern Europe. It was the largest and most expensive book published during the 17th century. For…
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Atlas Maior - Hispania, Portugallia, America et Africa ENThe Atlas Maior, the cartographical masterpiece of the Baroque period, was brought out between 1662 and 1665 by the Amsterdam publisher Joan Blaeu, one of Holland’s leading cartographers. Originally appearing in Latin, the atlas comprised 594 maps in 11 volumes, which depicted the whole of the world as known to early modern Europe. It was the largest and most expensive book published during the 17th century. For…
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Peter van der Krogt Atlas Maior of 1665 ENNajrozsiahlejší a najkvalitnejší atlas z obdobia baroka s názvom Atlas Maior Joana Blaeua vznikol v roku 1665 ako reakcia na iný dobový atlas vytvorený kartografom Johannesom Janssoniom, Blaeuovým rivalom. Pôvodné 11-zväzkové vydanie v latinčine obsahovalo 596 máp Európy, Afriky, Ázie, Ameriky a Antarktídy a predstavovalo najväčší a najkompletnejší atlas svojej doby a zároveň jednu z najvzácnejších kníh 17. storočia…
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Jean-Marie Le Minor, Henri Sick Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery ENWe owe a great debt to Jean Marc Bourgery (1797–1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published in any language. In 1830, having received his doctorate in medicine three years prior, Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas…
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Jean-Marie Le Minor Atlas of Human Anatomy and SurgeryAnatomically correct An unsurpassed treatise of the human body We owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive event in medical history, but also remains one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published. Bourgery began work on his magnificent atlas in 1830 in cooperation with illustrator Nicolas Henri…
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Audrey Hepburn ENHer beauty has proved timeless—should we be surprised? Equally graceful whether moving or standing still, blessed with a balletic poise, luminous dark eyes, and an exquisite profile a queen might envy, Audrey Hepburn would no doubt have become famous in her youth even if the movies hadn’t found her—simply because no self-respecting camera could resist her. What sets her iconic beauty apart now, for us, more than a…
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Bob Willoughby Audrey Hepburn Photographis 1953 - 1966 ENIn his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughbytook iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Kathleen Ruston, later Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, best known as Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new starlet one morning shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in 1953. It was a humdrum…
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Françoise Tétart-Vittu Auguste Racinet, The Costume History ENOriginally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was the most wide-ranging and intelligent study of clothing ever published. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, the great work—consolidated in 1888 into 6 volumes containing nearly 500 plates—remains, to this day, completely unique in its scope and…
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Jim Heimann Automobile Design Graphics ENIn the heyday of the automobile, marketing cars was an exacting process. Selling the public one of their major life purchases involved not only traditional advertising but also acrucial item that extolled the virtue of the cars: the brochure. Often oversize and sumptuously produced, including acetate overlays with fabric and paint swatches, brochures were only available at dealer showrooms or auto fairs hence…
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Luigi Ficacci Bacon ENFrancis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos that lies within and struggling with all that is inexplicable. Erotic and grotesquely beautiful is the work of this…
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Tuca Reines Bahia Style ENPortugal and Africa. This book takes you to the breathtaking beauty of the Atlantic coast and inside houses designed with a love of detail—nestling in this landscape as if they always belonged there. From a simple beach bungalow or a typical fazenda to a sophisticated residence: tudo bem in Bahia – everything is good in Bahia.
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Bamboo Style ENBesides feeding pandas and making a yummy addition to many Asian dishes, bamboo is also used as a building material, both functional and decorative. The dried stems are extremely sturdy and lend themselves to a multitude of uses. Shigeru Ban, for example, found a way to create lumber from laminated woven bamboo for a house he designed in Beijing. Other houses show off bamboo in more straightforward ways, lining the…
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Steve Schapiro, Lawrence Schiller, Nina Wiener Barbra Streisand ENPitch perfect From Funny Girl to A Star Is Born, the meteoric rise of Barbra Streisand In 1970 Barbra Streisand published a story in Life magazine titled Who Am I Anyway? It was the very question two leading photojournalists of the day Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller were also asking as they photographed her during her first five years in Hollywood, working to get beneath the veneer and capture the real Barbra.…
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BarcelonaBarcelona may be design-crazed these days, but visitors can still take a trip back in time by visiting devotional shops that have hardly changed in centuries, such as Cereria Subira (est. 1761). Cooks and culinary fans will appreciate our recommendations for the best places to find kitchenware, chef's apparel, fresh-roasted coffee, or world-famous Spanish hams. If clothes-shopping is more your style, you'll want to…
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Hermann Bauer, Andreas Prater Baroko CZBaroko v malířství a sochařství zahrnuje rozsáhlé období od konce 16. do začátku 18.století a vyznačuje se velkolepostí, dramatičností a bohatostí používaných prostředků. Barokní umění je stylově jednotné a jeho výrazným rysem je zachycení pohybu, čehož dosahuje kombinací dramatických světelných efektů a až teatrální kompozice . Průvodce je opatřen podrobným úvodem, který je výkladem stylu na pozadí dobových…
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Baroque ENThe Baroque period in painting and sculpture, stretching from the late 16th century to the early 18th century and occurring between the Mannerist and Rococo movements, was marked by richness, drama, and grandeur. Stylistically complex yet intensely engaging, Baroque art commonly combined dramatic lighting effects and theatrical compositions with great movement and energy. Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Rembrandt,…
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Klaus Walter Littger, Werner Dressendörfer Basilius Besler's Florilegium ENA magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved. First published in 1613, the 367 copperplate engravings by Basilius Besler (1561–1629) capture the spectacular diversity of the palatial gardens of Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1593/95–1612) in Eichstätt,…