ilość książek w kategorii: 63920
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Amphigorey Also
ISBN: 9780156056724 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Drawings (including thirty-two pages in color), captions, and verse showcasing Gorey s unique talents and humor. The Glorious Nosebleed, The Utter Zoo, The Epiplectic Bicycle, and fourteen other selections.
" Drawings (including thirty-two pages in color), captions, and verse showcasing Gorey s unique talents and humor. The Glorious Nosebleed, The Utter Zoo...
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113,36 zł |
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From the Ground Up: Observations on Contemporary Architecture, Housing, Highway Building, and Civic Design
ISBN: 9780156340199 / Angielski / Miękka / 1956 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker's "Sky Line" column.
A collection of twenty-six essays from the New Yorker's "Sky Line" column.
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90,09 zł |
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The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting: With Notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780156577168 / Angielski / Miękka / 1949 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The leading authority on the materials and techniques of painting. Index; illustrations. Translated and revised by Eugen Neuhaus.
The leading authority on the materials and techniques of painting. Index; illustrations. Translated and revised by Eugen Neuhaus.
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79,76 zł |
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
ISBN: 9780156717205 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachment In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol--which, with the subtitle "(From A to B and Back Again)," is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections--he talks about love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, and success; about New York, America, and his childhood in McKeesport, Pennsylvania; about his good times and bad in New York, the explosion of his career in the sixties, and his life among celebrities.
A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachment In The Philosophy of Andy War... |
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79,76 zł |
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Beauty and Art: 1750-2000
ISBN: 9780192801609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What do we mean when we call a work of art "beautiful"? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and art lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of art today.
Elizabeth Prettejohn argues that we simply cannot afford to ignore these questions. Charting over two hundred years of western art, she illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres... What do we mean when we call a work of art "beautiful"? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been ...
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118,40 zł |
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Architecture: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780192801791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach and instead gives us an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recent avant-garde period. Illustrations of particular buildings help to anchor the general points with specific examples, from ancient...
This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avo...
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49,57 zł |
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Twentieth Century Design
ISBN: 9780192842046 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known the world over and may tell us more about our culture than a narrowly-defined canon of classics. One of the world's foremost design historians, Jonathan Woodham takes a fresh look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship, he explores themes such as national identity, the "Americanization" of ideology and business methods, the...
The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and McDonald's logo are known ...
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113,63 zł |
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Early Medieval Architecture
ISBN: 9780192842237 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The early middle ages were an exciting period in the history of European architecture, culminating in the development of the Romanesque style. Major architectural innovations were made during this time including the medieval castle, the church spire, and the monastic cloister. By avoiding the traditional emphasis on chronological development, Roger Stalley provides a radically new approach to the subject, exploring issues and themes rather than sequences and dates. In addition to analysing the language of the Romanesque, the book examines the engineering achievements of the builders, focusing...
The early middle ages were an exciting period in the history of European architecture, culminating in the development of the Romanesque style. Major a...
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116,53 zł |
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Landscape and Western Art
ISBN: 9780192842336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. What is landscape? How does it differ from "land?" Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is "nature?" Is it everything that isn't art, or artifact? By addressing these and many other questions, Landscape and Western Art explores the myriad ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance.
Implying that land is the raw material, and that art is created by turning land into landscape, which then becomes art, author Malcolm Andrews takes the reader on a thematic tour of the... What is landscape? How does it differ from "land?" Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish...
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116,53 zł |
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Medieval Art
ISBN: 9780192842411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism and justice of war, and the dominant view of Christianity.
Taking its starting point from issues of contemporary relevance, such as the environment, the identity of the artist, and the position of women, the book also highlights the attitudes and events specific to the sophisticated visual culture of the Middle Ages, and goes on to link... This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the ...
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116,53 zł |
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Art in Renaissance Italy 1350-1500
ISBN: 9780192842794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A richly illustrated, up-to-date presentation of the early Renaissance period in Italian art, which looks not only at Florence, the traditional focus of such studies, but at several other Italian cities significant in their own right. The social, cultural and political context and significance of works of art are given their proper prominence, and many insights provided into issues such as patronage and production. A vivid and exciting recreation of one of the most important periods in the development of Western art, at an extremely reasonable price.
A richly illustrated, up-to-date presentation of the early Renaissance period in Italian art, which looks not only at Florence, the traditional focus ...
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116,53 zł |
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Lord Elgin and the Marbles
ISBN: 9780192880536 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on a detailed study of both original records and recent discoveries, Lord Elgin and the Marbles is the authoritative historical account of the extraordinary circumstances in which the Elgin Marbles were acquired, of the tremendous impact which they made on modern appreciation of Greek art, and of the bitter reaction of Napoleon, Byron, and many others to their appropriation. In the concluding chapters of his book, St. Clair adds further fuel to the controversy by revealing for the first time some disturbing details about the treatment of the Marbles while in the British Museum's care,...
Based on a detailed study of both original records and recent discoveries, Lord Elgin and the Marbles is the authoritative historical account of the e...
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311,72 zł |
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The Timeless Way of Building
ISBN: 9780195024029 / Angielski / Twarda / 1979 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at.
Now, at last, there is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself. The Timeless Way of Building is the introductory volume in the... The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is ...
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302,40 zł |
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Italian Baroque and Rococo Architecture
ISBN: 9780195035483 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A study of the architecture in these styles throughout Italy and Sicily between 1575 and 1750, including such major figures as Bernini, Borromini, and Pietro da Cortona.
A study of the architecture in these styles throughout Italy and Sicily between 1575 and 1750, including such major figures as Bernini, Borromini, and...
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888,24 zł |
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A New Theory of Urban Design
ISBN: 9780195037531 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large and small, in restaurants, shops, public gardens, even in balconies and ornaments. But this sense of wholeness is lacking in modern urban design, with architects absorbed in problems of individual structures, and city planners preoccupied with local ordinances, it is almost impossible to achieve.
In this groundbreaking volume, architect and planner Christopher Alexander presents a new theory of urban design which attempts to recapture the... The venerable cities of the past, such as Venice or Amsterdam, convey a feeling of wholeness, an organic unity that surfaces in every detail, large an...
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273,55 zł |
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Architectural Design and Indoor Microbial Pollution
ISBN: 9780195044362 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Chemical contaminants and other forms of indoor pollution have recently raised serious concern among occupational and environmental health workers, architects and engineers, and the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Microbial pollutants in the home pose major health risks to adults, children, and particularly the immuno-suppressed, while "sick building syndrome" is a reality for many office workers. This timely book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of these problems by examining the effects of modern, energy-efficient architecture...
Chemical contaminants and other forms of indoor pollution have recently raised serious concern among occupational and environmental health workers, ar...
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206,68 zł |
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Families & Farmhouses in 19th-Century America
ISBN: 9780195044751 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The antebellum era and the close of the 19th century frame a period of great agricultural expansion. During this time, farmhouse plans designed by rural men and women regularly appeared in the flourishing Northern farm journals. This book analyzes these vital indicators of the work patterns, social interactions, and cultural values of the farm families of the time. Examining several hundred owner-designed plans, McMurry shows the ingenious ways in which "progressive" rural Americans designed farmhouses in keeping with their visions of a dynamic, reformed rural culture. From designs for...
The antebellum era and the close of the 19th century frame a period of great agricultural expansion. During this time, farmhouse plans designed by rur...
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392,86 zł |
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American Salons: Encounters with European Modernism, 1885-1917
ISBN: 9780195065695 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry into World War I. Crunden begins with deft portraits of the figures who were central to the birth of Modernism, including James Whistler, the eccentric expatriate American painter who became the archetypal artist in his dress and behavior, and Henry and William James, who broke new ground in the genre of the novel and in psychology, influencing an international audience in a broad range of fields. At the heart of the book are the American...
In American Salons, Robert Crunden provides a sweeping account of the American encounter with European Modernism up to the American entry int...
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416,71 zł |
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Native American Architecture
ISBN: 9780195066654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native Americans encompass much more, including specific structures for sleeping, working, worshipping, meditating, playing, dancing, lounging, giving birth, decision-making, cleansing, storing and preparing food, caring for animals, and honoring the dead. In effect, the architecture covers all facets of Indian life.
The collaboration between an architect and an anthropologist, Native American Architecture presents the first book-length,... For many people, Native American architecture calls to mind the wigwam, tipi, iglu, and pueblo. Yet the richly diverse building traditions of Native A...
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232,93 zł |
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Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning
ISBN: 9780195075052 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is the first comprehensive study of Mormon architecture. It centers on the doctrine of Zion which led to over 500 planned settlements in Missouri, Illinois, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Canada, and Mexico. This doctrine also led to a hierarchy of building types from temples and tabernacles to meetinghouses and tithing offices. Their built environment stands as a monument to a unique utopian society that not only survived but continues to flourish where others have become historical or cultural curiosities. Hamilton's account, augmented by...
This book is the first comprehensive study of Mormon architecture. It centers on the doctrine of Zion which led to over 500 planned settlements in Mis...
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590,90 zł |