En Guerre: French Illustrators and World War I
ISBN: 9780943056425 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, "En Guerre "offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of these illustrations at the University of Chicago Library s Special Collections Research Center, this catalog draws from illustrated books, magazines, and prints to present a wide range of perspectives on themes essential to a deeper understanding of the war in France: patriotism, nationalism, propaganda,...
With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, "En Guerre "offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the i...
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Monika Fioreschy: Interwoven Energy
ISBN: 9783777422435 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Austrian artist Monika Fioreschy first gained recognition for her large-format wall tapestries woven in the Gobelin style, but it was a fascination with heart surgery that inspired her to work with entirely new material-- medical-grade silicone tubing--in her most recent series of work.
For "Injection Art, " Fioreschy incorporates various thicknesses of tubing into intricate woven works resembling bodies, using disposable syringes to inject the works with fluids like blood, chlorophyll, and plant and fruit juices to give the appearance of life. This fascinating artistic process results... Austrian artist Monika Fioreschy first gained recognition for her large-format wall tapestries woven in the Gobelin style, but it was a fascination wi...
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Andrzej Wróblewski: Recto/Verso w.angielska
ISBN: 9788364177163 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of Poland s most important and independent postwar artists, Andrzej Wroblewski (192757) in his short life created his own highly individual, suggestive, and prolific form of abstract and figurative painting that continues to inspire artists today. This volume offers a stunning presentation and thorough re-evaluation of his work and its legacy in the international context of art history. Offering an insightful picture of the world of postwar painting in communist Europe, and highlighting Wroblewski s political engagement, the book helps us to understand the immensely evocative vision of...
One of Poland s most important and independent postwar artists, Andrzej Wroblewski (192757) in his short life created his own highly individual, sugge...
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120,81 zł |
Digital Art & My Knowledge: Digital Art on the Internet
ISBN: 9781499139563 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My Digital Art & My Knowledge about famous artists, beliefs about art, travels around the world. I have digitally painted artworks of impressive buildings that I have observed. I have painted my art to famous painting styles.
My Digital Art & My Knowledge about famous artists, beliefs about art, travels around the world. I have digitally painted artworks of impressive build...
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Soviet Posters
ISBN: 9783791381107 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This large-format book of Soviet propaganda posters allows the reader to remove individual posters and is at once a revealing historical document and a sublime example of graphic art at its best. Dating from 1917 to the end of the Cold War, the posters in this book feature the work of groundbreaking Russian artists such as El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko, alongside extraordinary works by their contemporaries. Presented in full color, printed on heavy paper, and in a large-format, the posters gathered here represent the pinnacle of Russian avant-garde design from the 20th century. They...
This large-format book of Soviet propaganda posters allows the reader to remove individual posters and is at once a revealing historical document and ...
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102,73 zł |
The Stained Glass of the Hosmer Collection, McGill University: Corpus Vitrearum Canada
ISBN: 9780773543973 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Hosmer Collection is one of the most significant collections of secular pre-modern stained glass in North America and the largest in Canada. In contrast to the better-known stained glass works made for churches, these exquisite sixteenth- and seventeenth-century small panels were intended to grace the windows of private residences and other non-religious spaces. The first book-length treatment of pre-modern stained glass in Canada, this volume provides new information on the diverse subject matter (ranging from allegories to heraldic displays), provenance (the Low Countries and...
The Hosmer Collection is one of the most significant collections of secular pre-modern stained glass in North America and the largest in Canada. In co...
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756,45 zł |
Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy
ISBN: 9780231162302 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling art exhibits, touring musical shows, radio programs, book translations, and conferences, they deployed the revolutionary aesthetics of modernism to prove--particularly to the leftists whose Cold War loyalties they hoped to secure--that American art and literature were aesthetically rich and...
European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplo...
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339,40 zł |
Daniele Buetti: It's All in the Mind
ISBN: 9783777422602 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Orange, Gelb, Grün, Blau was passiert im menschlichen Gehirn, wenn Farben nicht gesehen, sondern die Begriffe über das Gehör wahrgenommen werden? Ausgehend von einer Soundinstallation des Schweizer Künstlers Daniele Buetti für die Schirn Kunsthalle schlägt die Publikation den Bogen von Farbtheorie, Meditation und Hypnose im Kunstkontext.
Orange, Gelb, Grün, Blau was passiert im menschlichen Gehirn, wenn Farben nicht gesehen, sondern die Begriffe über das Gehör wahrgenommen werden? A...
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77,20 zł |
Heath Robinson's Great War: The Satirical Cartoons
ISBN: 9781851244249 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is Britain's "Gadget King"--master of the art of creating madcap contraptions that made use of ropes, weights, and pulleys to perform relatively simple tasks, from wart removal to peeling potatoes. Although he trained as a painter and also worked as a book illustrator, Robinson developed his forte with drawings of gadgets that parodied the absurdities of modern life. A true cartoonist, Robinson had a way of getting at the heart of the matter while simultaneously satirizing it mercilessly. He became a household name in Britain, and his popularity continues today with...
Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is Britain's "Gadget King"--master of the art of creating madcap contraptions that made use of ropes, weights, and pulleys ...
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54,92 zł |
Inferno: The Art Collection
ISBN: 9781628790023 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SPECTACULAR AND MIND BLOWING IMAGES OF HELL USED IN TWO ACCLAIMED FILMS Do You Love Horror Books? "Inferno" Images will Scare You Death.
"Inferno - The Art Collection" by Dino Di Durante is a full color book of a 72-piece art collection based on Dante's Inferno story, the first part of the literary masterpiece - The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the second greatest Christian story after The Gospel. This is a completely new, deep and fascinating vision of Inferno by Dino Di Durante, who has studied this masterpiece in its original Italian for over 30 years. This book is the best... SPECTACULAR AND MIND BLOWING IMAGES OF HELL USED IN TWO ACCLAIMED FILMS Do You Love Horror Books? "Inferno" Images will Scare You Death.
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181,51 zł |
Ireland: Crossroads of Art and Design, 1690-1840
ISBN: 9780300210606 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sweeping survey of the arts of Ireland spanning 150 years and an astonishing range of artists and media
This groundbreaking book captures a period in Ireland's history when countless foreign architects, artisans, and artists worked side by side with their native counterparts. Nearly all of the works within this remarkable volume--many of them never published before--have been drawn from North American collections. This catalogue accompanies the first exhibition to celebrate the Irish as artists, collectors, and patrons over 150 years of Ireland's sometimes turbulent history.... A sweeping survey of the arts of Ireland spanning 150 years and an astonishing range of artists and media
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Infierno: Colleccion de Arte
ISBN: 9781628790030 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Infierno - Colleccion de Arte" de Dino Di Durante es un libro de 72 pinturas basada en el Infierno de Dante, la primera parte su gran obra maestra literaria - La Divina Comedia. La mayor parte de estas pinturas fueron usadas en una pelicula titulada "Dante's Hell Animated" (DVD en Amazon), con la voz de Eric Roberts como Dante, y en su version en italiano titulada "Inferno Dantesco Animato" con Vittorio Gasman como Dante, entre muchas celebridades Italians de renombre muncial. Ambas versiones se estrenaron en el Festival de Cine de Cannes. Toda la coleccion se presentara en la proxima...
"Infierno - Colleccion de Arte" de Dino Di Durante es un libro de 72 pinturas basada en el Infierno de Dante, la primera parte su gran obra maestra li...
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Fred A Farrell: Glasgow's War Artist
ISBN: 9781781300275 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederick Arthur Farrell (1882-1935) came from a distinguished Glasgow family. He initially studied civil engineering, and as an artist was self-taught, although he owes a debt to the advice and example of Muirhead Bone. By the outbreak of World War I he was developing a reputation as an up-and-coming etcher and watercolourist of portraits and topographical subjects. He enlisted as a sapper, or military engineer, with the Royal Engineers Railway Troops Depot but was discharged from the Army due to ill health.
In December 1916, Farrell returned to the Front as a war artist, attached... Frederick Arthur Farrell (1882-1935) came from a distinguished Glasgow family. He initially studied civil engineering, and as an artist was self-taugh...
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Visualizing Portuguese Power: The Political Use of Images in Portugal and Its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
ISBN: 9783037347423 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effective means of overpowering another culture with one's own values and beliefs. With Visualizing Portuguese Power, Urte Krass and a group of contributors examine the visual arts within the Portuguese empire between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. With a focus on the political appropriation of Portuguese-Christian art within the...
Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evi...
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310,28 zł |
Europe in Vienna: The Congress of Vienna 1814/15
ISBN: 9783777423241 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For ten whole months, from September 1814 to June 1815, the imperial residential city of Vienna was the centre of Europe. The city became the political, cultural and social nucleus of Europe. With historical photographs, paintings and documents, this title shows the impact that this meeting on the European continent and especially on Vienna.
For ten whole months, from September 1814 to June 1815, the imperial residential city of Vienna was the centre of Europe. The city became the politica...
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205,54 zł |
Dal Buio Della Sala Alla Luce Del Grande Schermo: Donne e bambini al cinematografo
ISBN: 9788899049058 / Włoski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La ricerca oggetto del presente saggio e un viaggio, a ritroso nel tempo, nella storia del cinematografo, nella cui orbita furono attratti non solo gli uomini, ma anche i bambini e le donne: queste ultime direttamente coinvolte nel dibattito teorico intorno al nuovo mezzo di comunicazione che la Storia ufficiale avrebbe poi declinato al maschile. Tutto cio avveniva all'epoca della Grande Guerra, e su di essa il cinematografo esercito le sue possibilita di espressione."
La ricerca oggetto del presente saggio e un viaggio, a ritroso nel tempo, nella storia del cinematografo, nella cui orbita furono attratti non solo gl...
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Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries
ISBN: 9780714868783 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine "Ver Sacrum," and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage. "Art in Vienna, 1898 1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their Contemporaries," now published in its 4th edition, brilliantly traces the course of this development. Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele were the leading figures in the fine arts;... The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a con... |
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Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
ISBN: 9781783270088 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, slithered or stalked through the same environments inhabited by their human contemporaries. Others were objects that a modern beholder would be unlikely to think of as living things, but could yet be considered to possess a vitality that rendered them potent. Still others were things half glimpsed on a dark night or seen only in the mind's eye; strange beasts that haunted dreams and visions or inhabited exotic lands beyond the compass of...
For people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures that swam, flew, ...
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495,61 zł |
Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall
ISBN: 9781941701003 / Angielski / Twarda / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Dumas' first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalogue--which sold out shortly after publication--has been reprinted in 2014 to coincide with the artist's European retrospective exhibition The Image as Burden, organized by Tate Modern, London in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Fondation Beyeler, Basel traveling through 2015. Throughout her career, Dumas has created lyrically charged compositions that eulogize the frailties of the human body, probing issues of...
Originally published in 2010 on the occasion of Dumas' first solo presentation at David Zwirner in New York, this much sought-after exhibition catalog...
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138,74 zł |
Inferno: Collezione d'Arte
ISBN: 9781628790139 / Włoski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Inferno - Collezione D'Arte" di Dino Di Durante, una collezione d'arte di 72 tavole basate sulla storia dell'Inferno di Dante, la prima parte del suo grande capolavoro letterario, La Divina Commedia. La maggior parte di questa collezione di dipinti e stata utilizzata in un film intitolato "Dante's Hell Animated" (DVD disponibile qua su Amazon), con Eric Roberts, nella parte di Dante, e nella sua versione in Volgare Italiano intitolata "Inferno Dantesco Animato" con Vittorio Gassman nella parte di Dante, una tra le molte celebrita' italiane di popolarita mondiale assieme a Franco Nero....
"Inferno - Collezione D'Arte" di Dino Di Durante, una collezione d'arte di 72 tavole basate sulla storia dell'Inferno di Dante, la prima parte del suo...
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181,51 zł |