Изобразительное искусство, фотография
2694 кн.
En Reflejos: Arte Mágico (Vol.I), Aguilar nos deleita con un álbum variado en formas, colores y texturas. Nos introduce a sus abstractas imágenes con agudas observaciones sobre el enigmático mundo de los reflejos. <br><br>In Reflections: Magic Art, Aguilar delights us with a great variety of forms, colors and textures. He offers us arresting, abstract images with in-depth observations about the...
| Автор | Alfonso Aguilar |
Owls have been immortalized throughout the ages through art, literature, religion and culture. <br><br>A Picture Book of Snowy Owls captures their majestic beauty in its most natural form. The winter life and habits of the Snowy Owl are displayed through a series of beautiful portait and action images. The images capture some of the most important behaviours of the Snowy including hunting, soaring over the wintery fields, dealing with intruders and basking in the spring sun....
| Автор | Bryan Shane |
The Adventures of Junior and Rubble is a story about a young Haitian-American boy and his dog, Rubble, who have a strong connection to the natural world that began during a shared disaster. This connection allows Junior to do amazing things like manipulate the elements and take on attributes of plants and animals. Through their bond to each other and the earth, they fight to protect the environment. Junior is also aided by his friends, but from whom he feels he must hide his special gifts. With...
| Автор | Ramon "Absoloot" Robinson |
This volume reprints the celebrated collection of costume plates created in 1694 by noted 17th-century Dutch engraver Caspar Luyken. Executed with remarkable finesse, the superb illustrations depict a wide range of social classes: royalty, courtesans, merchants, laborers, military officers, ladies, gentlemen, soldiers, and a host of other figures representing varied races and countries. (A number of the subjects were drawn in their everyday milieu.) Among the many craftworkers and professionals...
| Автор | Caspar Luyken |
Weather vanes were used by the ancient Greeks a hundred years before the birth of Christ; by early Scandinavians on their ships; and were common throughout England since William the Conqueror, and throughout Europe since the French Revolution. American vanes were recorded since the seventeenth century — among the first known is the copper cockerel, made in 1656 for the Dutch Reformed Church at Albany. The weather vane found a welcome home in the expanding America of the eighteenth and...
| Автор | A. B. & W. T. Westervelt |
This superb compilation showcases the art of Gustave Doré, one of the nineteenth century's most prolific and successful book illustrators. Brimming with stunning images created to accompany the world's greatest literature, this volume compiles the very finest and most famous plates from Doré's work.Scores of magnificent, finely wrought engravings feature such dramatic and powerful scenes as Don Quixote tilting at windmills, Christ driving the money-changers from...
| Автор | Gustave Dore |
Packed with indispensable information on a vital aspect of drawing, this time-honored manual offers expert guidance on how to draw shirts, pants, skirts, gloves, hats, coats, and undergarments on the human figure. Step by simple step, artists will discover how these garments fit and drape the body at rest and in action. Abundant with detailed illustrations, photographs, and diagrams, Drawing Drapery from Head to Toe familiarizes readers with the properties of cloth and how it moves; it also...
| Автор | Cliff Young |
In an arresting series of images, the story of a young woman's tragic, often violent, life unfolds. Follow her as she lives out her destiny through seventeen chapters, including Childhood, The Father, The Mother, Service, Love, Vengeance, The Seducer, and The Crime. Each visual dimension of her world is a riveting discovery.In the style of genre masters Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward, Nückel's graphic novel pulses with movement and a vivid unspoken...
| Автор | Otto Nückel |
"Hailed by many as the greatest war novel of all time and publicly burned by the Nazis for being “degenerate,” Erich Maria Remarque’s masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front, is an elegant statement on a generation of men destroyed by war. Caught up by a romantic sense of patriotism and encouraged to enlist by authority figures who would not risk their lives to do the same, Paul Bäumer and his classmates join the fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. He is soon...
| Автор | Erich Maria Remarque |
The 'Stan is a collection of short comics about America's longest war. Individual stories highlight different perspectives—one through the eyes of a Taliban ambassador and others through the eyes of Afghan and U.S. Army soldiers—but every account highlights the human element of war. The tales in this book—based on reporting by David Axe and Kevin Knodell and drawn by artist Blue Delliquanti—are all true and took place in roughly the first decade of the U.S. military intervention in...
| Автор | David Axe |
The story revolves around Elena Popescu as the principal character in the book. Following the mysterious and untimely death of Elena's mom, at the young age of thirty-four, Elena sets out to carry out a weird investigation in order to determine the exact cause of her mom's demise. Was her death the result of the work of clandestine vampirism or was there another underlying cause? Marius Lupu and Elena's mom, were part of the same congregation at the local church in Cluj-Napoca. At...
| Автор | Dr Amelia Harte |
What is forgiveness? What enables people to forgive? Why do we even choose to forgive those who have harmed us? What can the latest psychological research tell us about the nature of forgiveness, its benefits and risks? This imaginative comic explores the key aspects of forgiveness, asking what it means to forgive and to be forgiven. Witty and intelligent, it answers questions about the health benefits and restorative potential of forgiveness and explains, in easy-to-understand terms, what...
| Автор | Masi Noor |
<P>At one time, sardines were an inexpensive staple for many Americans. The 212 photographs in this elegant volume offer a striking document of this now vanished industry. Generations of workers in Maine have snipped, sliced, and packed the small, silvery fish into billions of cans on their way to Americans' lunch buckets and kitchen cabinets. On April 15, 2010, Stinson's Seafood, once the home of Beach Cliff Sardines, shut down the packing line that had made the name...
| Автор | Markham Starr |
The Greatest Gun Book of All Time Presents – The Greatest Guns of All Time! <br>In <i>The Greatest Guns of Gun Digest®</i>! <p>For over six decades, <i>Gun Digest</i> has been the definitive guide to the world's greatest guns. Pistol and revolvers, rifles and shotguns, military and commercial arms – all have been lovingly and lavishly featured in the pages of the world's greatest firearms annual, <i>Gun...
| Автор | Dan Shideler |
Since 1944, Gun Digest has been regarded as the shooter's No. 1 resource. The 2012 edition continues the tradition of bringing you more of everything that firearms fanatics crave! Features in-depth articles about the world's most fascinating guns, testfire reports on the latest models, insights about fine collectibles, and roundups of what's new from leading manufacturers… you simply won't find a more comprehensive collection of firearms information. Whether you're...
| Автор | Dan Shideler |
Your One-Volume Guide to Collectible Military Firearms! It's Standard Catalog of Military Firearms , 6th Edition! If you collect military firearms, your best insurance policy is to know what you're collecting and how much it's worth. There's no better source of this knowledge than the updated, revised 6th edition of Phillip Peterson's Standard Catalog of Military Firearms . From handguns to rifles to shotguns and fully-automatic machineguns and submachineguns, ...
| Автор | Philip Peterson |
Shooters, collectors, hunters and anyone else who buys, sells or trades firearms will benefit from the Standard Catalog of Rifles & Shotguns . This is the only long-gun pricing guide on the market that includes photos to assist with identification. More than 5,000 photos and detailed descriptions, plus six pricing grades make this the most comprehensive collection of firearms data anywhere. 5,000-plus photos Six condition grades assist in accurate value estimation Special 8-page color gun...
| Автор | Jerry Lee |
The Gun Digest Book of Exploded Gun Drawings is the definitive one-volume resource for collectors, gunsmiths and hobbyists, with hundreds of updated listings for modern and vintage handguns, rifles and shotguns. More than 1000 line drawings of disassembled guns are presented, with parts identified by number and a key to those numbers. This collection of «exploded guns» is the perfect aid to anyone looking to identify and order replacement parts, or take a gun apart for cleaning and simple...
| Автор | Dan Shideler |
There's a reason the Standard Catalog of Firearms is known industy-wide as the reference on firearms. This year we bring it to you in a volume dedicated strictly to handguns, our new must-have, the Standard Catalog of Handguns . Year in and year out, we bring you more of what you need in the world of handguns! More photos, more prices, more handguns, handguns, handguns. This trusted sourcebook is your guide to the world's hottest collectible sidearms, along with what's current...
| Автор | Jerry Lee |
Great articles, written by great gun writers, about classic rifles! The Gun Digest Book of Classic American Combat Rifles presents a unique compilation of articles on the greatest American combat rifles developed since 1776, and as they originally appeared in Gun Digest . Since the first issue of Gun Digest in 1944, combat rifles have made regular appearances in the magazine, in articles on the romance, design, performance, historical, and technical significance—and even the...
| Автор | Terry Wieland |
For the collector, shooter, or fan of combat handguns, the Gun Digest Book of Classic Combat Handguns is a must-have resource. The Gun Digest Book of Classic Combat Handguns is an absolutely unique compilation of articles celebrating the greatest combat pistols of all time, as they originally appeared in the world's greatest firearms annual, Gun Digest, from 1944 to present. Presented by the greatest gun writers of all time, this volume entertains you with information-packed stories...
| Автор | Dan Shideler |
The World's Greatest Gun Book is Here Again! IT'S GUN DIGEST 2013! Since 1944, Gun Digest has been regarded as the shooter's No. 1 resource worldwide. Our 2013 edition, our 67th Edition, is nothing less, as we continue the tradition of bringing you more of everything that firearms fanatics crave! In-depth articles about the world's most fascinating guns, testfire reports on the latest models, insights about fine collectibles and one-of-a-kind custom creations, and...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
The Flood of 2013 chronicles an unforgettable summer of angry rivers, unprecedented flooding and undeniable human spirit. This book looks at how the disaster irrevocably changed southern Alberta and its people. In the face of disaster, Albertans showed their true grit and rose above adversity—just like their ancestors did for generations before them.The flood began in southern Alberta on June 20 and led to four deaths, billions of dollars in damage and more than 100,000 people fleeing...
| Автор | Naheed Nenshi |
An exploration into Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group and its legacy of women painters who now rank among Canada’s most outstanding artists. Today it is difficult to imagine that the art of Montreal’s Beaver Hall Group was once shocking. As these Modernists struggled against academic art, critics such as Samuel Morgan-Powell ranted – “rough,” “meaningless” “blatant plastering and massing of unpleasant colours in weird landscapes” – and likened their paintings to the “cacophonous riot of metallic...
| Автор | Evelyn Walters |