Изобразительное искусство, фотография
2694 кн.
Desde muy joven, Giles Smith se sintió atraído por el universo del pop: por las canciones que sonaban en la radio, por los conciertos en directo que veía en la televisión, por los singles de siete pulgadas que compraba o hurtaba, por la iconografía pop, los peinados estrambóticos, las guitarras eléctricas Empezó a comprar discos, a clasificarlos y atesorarlos, a imitar a sus ídolos, a Marc Bolan de T. Rex, sobre todo, y a tocar en grupos de escuela, mientras soñaba en convertirse en una...
| Автор | Giles Smith |
Albert Camus, de la felicidad a la moral, esclarecedor trabajo de Susana Cordero de Espinosa, estudia la obra del gran escritor francés y reconstruye el trayecto recorrido por él en su búsqueda de la felicidad y el sentido de la existencia humana. La lectura que realiza Susana Cordero se funda en el conocimiento serio y minucioso de la novela, teatro y ensayo de Albert Camus y la inteligente comprensión de cada uno de los textos. No obstante, la clave de la riqueza de aquella lectura radica en...
| Автор | Susana Cordero |
***En la lista de los Mejores Libros del Año 2019 según NPR*** Cuando Liz Phair irrumpió en la escena musical independiente a principios de los noventa con su controvertido doble álbum «Exile in Guyville» —su particular respuesta, tema a tema, al célebre «Exile on Main St.» de los Rolling Stones—, su sinceridad descarnada, sexualidad sin tapujos y talento como escritora de canciones lo convirtieron en un disco fundamental del rock alternativo y en manifiesto generacional. Siguiendo la estela de...
| Автор | Liz Phair |
BOOKS: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOM – Including Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Jane Austen, John Green, Mark Twain, Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Stephen King and many more! – ABOUT GOLDEN QUOTES GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it...
| Автор | Everbooks Editorial |
100 Ways to Improve Your Landscape Photographs is an easy-reference guide to landscape photography; packed with practical advice and stunning photos this book will help and inspire photographers of all levels. This is a simple and comprehensive troubleshooting guide to landscape photography. The book is divided into themed sections and features simple explanations of techniques, which will help both beginners and more advanced photographers get the results they want. The thematic sections cover...
| Автор | Guy Edwardes |
In considering medieval illustrated Buddhist manuscripts as sacred objects of cultic innovation, <i>Receptacle of the Sacred</i> explores how and why the South Asian Buddhist book-cult has survived for almost two millennia to the present. A book «manuscript» should be understood as a form of sacred space: a temple in microcosm, not only imbued with divine presence but also layered with the memories of many generations of users. Jinah Kim argues that illustrating a manuscript with...
| Автор | Jinah Kim |
Por supuesto, hay mucho de mito, conspiranoia (paranoia conspiratoria), leyenda e imaginación desvelada con respecto a cualquier secta por poderosa que sea, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta que los verdaderos amos del mundo, iluminados, masones, luciferinos, gnósticos, teósofos, o no, no necesitan nada de nadie porque ya lo tienen todo: el dinero y el poder, los medios de producción y comunicación, la distribución y los puntos de venta de todas y cada una de las mercancías y los bienes que...
| Автор | Javier Tapia |
A partir de ideas, casos prácticos y conceptos sobre talento humano, este libro ofrece una manera diferente y superadora de pensar, diseñar e implementar estrategias para la gestión de los talentos en las organizaciones. Se invita a los lectores a ir más allá de las «recetas», para reflexionar desde la propia problemática del talento humano. Se presentan en cada capítulo un conjunto de herramientas conocidas y se ofrecen guías para ajustarlas a la realidad propia -con sus potencialidades y...
| Автор | Sofía Conrero |
Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique teaches beginners the fundamental techniques of suiboku , a form of Japanese ink painting. Suiboku is considered to be a type of Japanese painting known as sumi-e. It adds water to emphasize the shading of black into gray in one brush-stroke. With origins in China and a spiritual basis in Zen Buddhism, this form of brush painting—expressing nature's colors through shades of black ink monochrome—has been enjoyed...
| Автор | Ryukyu Saito |
Sesshu's Long Sroll is the masterwork of the 15th-century Japanese artist, Susshu—considered by many Japanese to be their greatest.Famed not only as a painter but also as a Zen priest and a great traveler, Sesshu found inspiration for his wonderful landscapes both in China and Japan. This magnificent scroll, which pictures the procession of the seasons, is essentially religious painting with a strong atmosphere of Zen Buddhism. Nature, rather than man, is dominant, although the...
| Автор | Reiko Chiba |
The Way of the Brush: Painting Techniques of China and Japan examines the technique, style, traditions, and methods of Chinese ink painting and how they were interpreted in Japanese art. Illustrated with over 250 images and packed with instructions, The Way of the Brush covers every aspect of brush painting, from brushstrokes, composition and the painting surface to meaning, perspective and artistic philosophy.Part One is a study of the techniques of Chinese painting and explains the elements,...
| Автор | Fritz van Briessen |
Featuring over 200 stunning photographs, this Chinese design book captures the modern, yet nostalgic style of the Chinese home.Twenty-first century China is a country on the move. As it hurtles into the future, a new revolution- that of a fast growing creative movement – is taking place. As the country's enterprising designers draw on classical Chinese accents and blend these with modern dynamic ideas, the term «Made in China» becomes dramatically redefined to mean chic, refreshing,...
| Автор | Sharon Leece |
El 1 de julio de 1997 el mundo entero tuvo ocasión de seguir la ceremonia de transferencia de soberanía de Hong Kong, una de las joyas de la corona británica, a la República Popular China. Con aplausos de unos y lágrimas contenidas de otros se cerraba una página de la historia y comenzaba un angustioso periodo de incertidumbre para los habitantes de la antigua colonia. Durante los años previos se había ido gestando un complejo acuerdo que permitía el difícil encaje constitucional de Hong Kong...
| Автор | Sylvia Martí Sánchez |
Nur wenige Menschen sind sich darüber im Klaren, dass die meisten Juden, ob religiös oder nicht, den Zionismus ablehnten, als er gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts auftauchte. Diese Ablehnung ist bis zum heutigen Tag nicht verschwunden. Dieses Buch erklärt und interpretiert ein wichtiges, aber oft verdunkeltes Kapitel der Geschichte des modernen Israels, das ein anderes Licht auf den nun ein Jahrhundert währenden Konflikt im Heiligen Land wirft. Die Schrift des emeritierten Professors Yakov M....
| Автор | Yakov M. Rabkin |
The Landscape Painting of China and Japan presents for the first time in English a full and lucid account of the remarkable art form which, as a distinct tradition in Oriental art, has come to be universally recognized as one of the greatest in the world.The author points out how essential it is to an understanding of the Orient when he says: «In China alone, landscape painting has religious as well as philosophical significance…and in consequence is one of the great manifestations of...
| Автор | Hugo Münsterberg |
Traditional Japanese design imbues objects with a sense of history and artistry that easily reaches across cultural boundaries. In <i>Things Japanese: Everyday Objects of Extraordinary Beauty and Significance</i>, author Nicholas Bornoff and photographer Michael Freeman examine over 60 traditional objects that are uniquely Japanese, deftly illustrating their beauty and significance. <br><ul><li>Beautifully crafted samurai swords</li><li>Elegant wooden...
| Автор | Nicholas Bornoff |
In this Japanese ink painting book renowned Japanese master Shozo Sato offers his own personal teaching on the beautiful art of sumi-e painting. Sumi-e: The Art of Japanese Ink Painting provides step-by-step, photo-by-photo instructions to guide learners in the correct form, motions and techniques of Japanese sumi-e painting.Featuring gorgeous images and practical advice, it includes guided instructions for 35 different paintings. From waterfalls to bamboo, learners paint their way to...
| Автор | Shozo Sato |
This guide introduces aspiring manga artists to drawing chibi characters—wide-eyed caricatures beloved for their cartoonish exaggeration. Drawing Cute Manga Chibi walks you through the steps needed to draw these adorable characters, while sidebars offer expert tips, pointers on the pitfalls to avoid, and how to use details to bring your drawings to life. In this book, readers will learn how to imagine and express: Facial expressionsBody postureHairstylesDifferent agesPosesBringing...
| Автор | Ryusuke Hamamoto |
Do you love museums? Do you believe in their wonder and power? Do you want to contribute to a wider museum community? Do you want to build a satisfying independent career? Museum Mercenary is for you. This book is for anyone who believes in museum work but struggles to find satisfaction in traditional museum jobs. It is for those who want to be challenged and inspired by a wider network of colleagues. It is for the creative, committed, and curious who want to live fulfilling lives while building...
| Автор | Rebecca Migdal |
A spectacular overview of one of the most highly acclaimed art collections on the West Coast, which greets travelers at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) as they journey between land, sea, and sky. The airport which is known for its modern design and expansive topography, offers an impressive visual display of award-winning art and architecture. Each terminal building represents the culture heritage, natural beauty, and iconic experiences that embody British Columbia, and the artwork...
| Автор | Robin Laurence |
American Civil War–era art critics James Jackson Jarves, Clarence Cook, and William J. Stillman classified styles and defined art in terms that have become fundamental to our modern periodization of the art of the nineteenth century. In Critical Shift , Karen Georgi rereads many of their well-known texts, finding certain key discrepancies between their words and our historiography that point to unrecognized narrative desires. The book also studies ruptures and revolutionary breaks...
| Автор | Karen L. Georgi |
Artists do a number of things that are very useful. In this deceptively modest book, some of these things are described. Seminal works by artists Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Richard Serra, Christo & Jean-Claude, Donald Judd, and On Kawara are used to illustrate (in words only) these points. This book is highly recommended for parents of children thinking of embarking on a career in the arts, for policymakers confused...
| Автор | Leonard Koren |
What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization? In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums and some of the world’s most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the works themselves? Can we distinguish between creativity and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives?...
| Автор | Hito Steyerl |
One of the Huffington Post's Best Art Books of 2015"[Peaches] has teamed up with her longtime tour photographer Holger Talinski to look back at a brazen career that has captured the attention of outsider artists and massive pop stars alike, ranging from Michael Stipe to PJ Harvey to Iggy Pop…Along with Holger's uncompromising, often raw imagery, the book includes stories from artists who have championed Peaches's work over the years."–New York Times T Magazine"It takes a lot of...
| Автор | Peaches |