Art Architecture category: 42682 books
L'Oeil digital de l'art
Les anachronismes numériques
Language: French
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Les arts de toute catégorie (peinture, sculpture, installations in situ, architecture, arts du spectacle vivant...) sont omniprésents sur Internet. Les œuvres sont visibles en très haute définition – parfois même en milliards de pixels – jusqu'au moindre détail. Or, la dématérialisation...
by Gisella Gellini
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Light as project for life The eighth edition of my Light Art in Italy publication, the one that spans between 2015 and 2016, begins with the works of Luce4Good - Light Art Ensemble 2015, which took place in Milan in December 2015 at the former San Carpoforo church in the Brera district; an event whose...
by Peter V. Moak
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This guide contains a new approach to looking at and appreciating art. One not found elsewhere. It makes you aware of abilities you already have to see things in various ways. The key to these abilities is what I call the visual ego, the place between your eyes from which you see the world. The guide...
Iko Itsuki & Izumi-Oki. Artiste in Italia. La poesia della porcellana. L'anima del vetro
Iko Itsuki & Izumi-Oki. Artists in Italy. The Poetry of Porcelain. The Soul of Glass
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Iko Itsuki Iko Itsuki vive in Italia da trenta anni. Per molti anni ha lavorato a Firenze presso l'atelier di Emilio Pucci. Dalla collaborazione con questo straordinario creatore di moda nasce la scoperta appassionante e l'apprendimento dell'arte della combinazione dei colori. In seguito lavora come...
by Joseph M. Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
The Nation's Most Influential Sourcebook On Architecture, American Architecture, Ancient Architecture, Adobes Architecture, Art Deco and More!
by Nicholas Fox Weber
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded is a prophet in his lifetime, revered as a god after his death.
He...
Visual Shock
A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society....
by Jean Lahor
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Ever since its triumph at the Paris Universal Exposition, Art Nouveau has continued to inspire artists. The movement offered an artistic response to the industrial revolution and the creative vacuum left in its wake, exerting a huge impact on the decorative arts. Art Nouveau spans all forms of expression...
Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White
Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
A rich, fascinating saga of the most influential, far-reaching architectural firm of their time and of the dazzling triumvirate—Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White—who came together, bound by the notion that architecture could help shape a nation in transition. They helped to refine...
by Alphonse Mucha
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
To many, Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860–1939) is best known for his beautiful bell époque posters and magnificent decorative panels. His distinctive graphic approach to the 1895 poster advertising Sarah Bernhardt's performance in Gismonda captured the Parisian public's imagination and catapulted the...
The Florentine Villa
Architecture History Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
Scholarly and innovative with visually stunning line drawings and photographs, this volume provides readers with a compelling record of the unbroken pattern of reciprocal use and exchange between the countryside and the walled city of Florence, from the thirteenth century up to the present day.
Defying...
Leonardo's Notebooks
Writing and Art of the Great Master
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Leonardo's Notebooksis a biography of the genius in his own words, connecting moments of his life to artistic accomplishments through his writings, drawings, and intimate thoughts.
Leonardo da Vinci -- artist, inventor, and prototypical Renaissance man -- is a perennial source of fascination....
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by Kristin G. Congdon, Kara Kelley Hallmark
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
American Folk Art: A Regional Reference offers a collection of fascinating essays on the life and work of 300 individual artists. Some of the men and women profiled in these two volumes are well known, while others are important practitioners who have yet to receive the notice they merit. Because...
Saint John's Abbey Church
Marcel Breuer and the Creation of a Modern Sacred Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In the 1950s the brethren at the Benedictine Abbey of Saint John the Baptist in Collegeville, Minnesota—the largest Benedictine abbey in the world—decided to expand their campus, including building a new church. From a who’s who of architectural stars—such as Walter Gropius, Richard Neutra, Pietro...