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With the recent death of Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000), Europe has lost one of its most talented photographers. Giacomelli trained initially as a typographer and this early interest in graphic effect became a central part of his later photographic work. Winner of numerous medals and prizes, he achieved international status with exhibitions in Europe, America and Japan. This is the most comprehensive survey of Giacomelli’s work ever published. Arranged in themes, each section is a testament to his highly personal, striking and artistically atmospheric visual style, demonstrating his life-long preoccupation with landscapes (emphasizing their linear and abstract patterns), rural townscapes, street scenes, still lifes, and portraits of...

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Дата выхода: ноябрь 2000

Maurizio Cattelan is among the best-known Italian artists to have emerged internationally in the 1990s. His work has featured at the Venice Biennale in 1993, 1997 and 1999 and in major venues worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1998); and the Tate Gallery, London (1999). Cattelan\'s work mocks art history (his giant, Disneyland-style "Pablo Picasso" welcomed visitors at New York\'s MoMA, 1998), monumentality (his granite plaque commemorating all the England football team losses, London, 1999), and nationalism (his rug based on the Bel Paese cheese wrapper map of Italy was placed to be trampled by visitors at a major show of new Italian art, 1994). International curator Francesco Bonami sets the work in the context of...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2000

First published in 1953, this book remains a classic of the literature on Michelangelo. It continues to be the only volume that contains illustrations of all his paintings, sculpture and architecture. The book is designed to serve both the student and the art lover: the fine quality reproductions emphatically illustrate Michelangelo’s genius, while the text surveys the opinions of the leading Michelangelo scholars and provides a commentary with bibliographical notes. The exhaustive selection of plates devoted to the paintings of the Sistine Chapel provides an invaluable record of their condition before the recent controversial cleaning, while ten of the colour plates show some of the paintings in their restored state.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 2000

Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations. He explores the Modernist movements of the early twentieth century – Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Purism – and concludes with the ‘post-modernist’ experiments of the 1980s and 1990s. He shows how the ‘tradition of the new’ became the creative credo of a small group of progressive artists and how, with the emigration of leading German modernists to Britain and the USA in the 1930s, the theory and practice of Modernism became widespread. What had...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

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Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

The twentieth century has produced numerous innovative and memorable designs for private houses, many of which have become architectural icons worldwide. In the 1920s and 1930s the private house was the means by which architects established the early Modern Movement, and clients looked favourably on commissioning the avant-garde. Today, the house is enjoying an architectural renaissance, as private clients have returned to architects to express their wealth and status. The result is a collection of innovative projects that demonstrates some of the real concerns of world-famous architects, and displays the talents of young designers eager to establish their reputations. The thirty recent houses from around the world included in this book...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Following Phaidon’s Modern House (published 1993), Modern House 2 is a survey of the world’s most innovative contemporary houses. Organized thematically, it examines over thirty houses considering contemporary issues, such as ecological concerns, changing patterns of living, building with sensitivity in increasingly populated cities, and respecting the environment when building in isolated rural areas. It also discusses concept houses for the future, focusing on international competition designs or commissions for ‘model houses’ and offers an insight into future possibilities for domestic architecture. Architects featured include, amongst others, Glenn Murcutt, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Foster and Partners, Williams...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Neoclassicism was the favourite style of Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson, and made Josiah Wedgwood’s fortune. The most pervasive style in the history of European art, it was deployed in the design of houses, churches, museums, banks, shops and items of daily use ranging from teapots to textiles. This book is the first to embrace all manifestations of the style, not only its broad territorial scope, but also its versatility in every branch of art.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Outland is the culmination of almost twenty years of work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen and amounts to one of the most extraordinary photographic documents of the late twentieth century. Beginning with the small ‘dorps’ or villages of rural South Africa, the subject of Ballen’s photography moved on in the late 1980s and early 1990s to concentrate on their inhabitants: isolated rural whites, scarred by history, in the process of losing the privileges of apartheid which had provided them with livelihoods and sustained their identity for a generation. The results were shocking, both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies. Through the late 1990s and into 2000, Ballen’s work has progressed again....

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

American artist Paul McCarthy creates sculptures figuring animal /vegetable/ human hybrids, Disney-esque installations and slapstick performances in a weird evocation of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxieties induced by the media and the built environment of contemporary America emerge in his collisions of plastic prosthetics and simulated bodily fluids. These have been variously deployed: through live actions, often documented on video, and more recently in outsized figures and artificial rural environments, combined in overtly sexual ways. McCarthy’s work echoes that of European artists such as Joseph Beuys or the Viennese Aktionistes, but gives ‘action art’ a post-modern twist. This is the first...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

These are three highly feted and ground-breaking Modern British buildings. The extremely influential Leicester University Engineering Department Building, with its powerful contradictory geometry, established the worldwide reputation of James Stirling. The glass facade of Foster’s building for Willis Faber Dumas – a mirror by day and transparent by night – caused a sensation in 1974 and still commands attention. The ‘mechanical cathedral’ of Lloyd’s in the heart of the City of London, was a radical development in the 1980s and epitomizes Rogers’s concern with flexibility and technical imagery. By looking at the three key buildings in one volume the reader can chart the development of Modern British architecture and examine...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

St Paul’s Cathedral is an iconic British building combining Renaissance and Baroque elements. Vaughan Hart examines Wren’s extraordinary exterior, brilliantly constructed dome and radiant interior. The Church of the Sacred Heart by Jo?ze Ple?cnik – a key representative of the Modern Movement – dominates a quiet square in Prague; Ivan Margolius discusses the classical and traditional Slovenian elements which create a building of great architectural force. The Church on the Water and Church of the Light complement each other perfectly: one rural and ‘open’, the other urban and ‘closed’. Philip Drew explains how Ando created in them a synthesis of opposites. Considering these churches together allows an insight into the...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

R M Schindler (1887–1953) was a pivotal Modernist architect who remained largely unrecognized by the critical establishment during his lifetime. A pragmatist and theoretician, Schindler designed more than 500 projects, over 150 of which were built, most of these in the Los Angeles area, where he settled in 1920. Trained in Vienna and influenced by two teachers, Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner, Schindler immigrated to Chicago in 1914, hoping to work for Frank Lloyd Wright. By 1918 he had attained that goal, and two years later he moved to Los Angeles as project architect for Wright’s famous Barnsdall House. In his own practice, which began in 1922, Schindler synthesized the ideas of Loos, Wagner and Wright into his own original and...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

The art of visionaries, folk creators, spiritualists, recluses, the ‘mad’ and the socially marginalized, once scorned, is now recognized as speaking with great immediacy and power. Among the earliest to value and collect such work was the French artist Jean Dubuffet, who coined the term Art Brut, literally ‘raw art’ – raw because it was ‘uncooked’ by culture, because it came directly from the psyche, touched by a raw nerve. Some fifty years later, a wave of enthusiasm for contemporary folk art has gripped countries as far apart as India and the United States. John Maizels ties these disparate strands together, providing a guide to the self-taught art of the twentieth century. Following a brief history of the recognition and...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

The Regency period (c.1780–1837) saw the development of what is today one of the most popular styles in architecture and design. The combined influences of the antique and the exotic, together with the technological innovations of the day, produced a sophisticated style which was eclectic but also quintessentially British. By examining the constituent parts of the Regency house in England and America – its architecture, doors and windows, plasterwork and ironwork, colours and coverings, services, furniture and gardens – this comprehensive and stimulating book will inspire not only owners of period houses but also anyone with an interest in this uniquely attractive style.

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

The publication of the third volume in this series of monographs marked a watershed in Piano’s career. In 1995 the Building Workshop completed Kansai Airport in Japan, which is Piano’s largest work to date. The airport is thoroughly documented from its initial design through to its construction, and is then experienced as a finished building. Other ongoing and completed projects are also included, such as the Lingotto Factory Renovation in Turin, the Cite Internationale in Lyons, the Cy Twombly Pavilion in Houston, Texas, the Rome Auditoria, the Saitama Arena in Japan, and L’Ile Seguin and Le Grand Stade in Paris.

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

This second volume of the complete works of Richard Rogers examines the work of the Richard Rogers Partnership from 1987 to 1992, picking up from the highly acclaimed Volume 1, published in 1999. Following the completion of the Lloyd’s Building came expansion for the firm, a new office in Tokyo, and a large number of competitions and schemes, much of which remains unbuilt. Over fifty projects are featured in the book, including competition schemes for Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport and the Tokyo International Forum and buildings such as Channel 4 headquarters, the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, 88 Wood Street and the Bordeaux Law Courts. In a series of essays throughout the book, Ken Powell discusses ‘Continuity and Expansion’...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Well known as an exponent of good architecture in his own work, Richard Rogers is equally famous for promoting architectural quality and campaigning for the revival of the modern city. This first volume, covering the period 1961–88, features all of Rogers’s early work with Norman Foster and Team 4, his partnerships with Su Rogers and Renzo Piano, through to the ethos and philosophy of his present practice, the Richard Rogers Partnership. The author’s interviews with key figures build up a portrait of the teamwork involved in producing the buildings of Rogers’s expansive career. Each project, from Creek Vean in Cornwall (1966), through the Rogers and Piano collaboration at the Pompidou Centre in Paris (1971–7), to Lloyd’s of...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Robert Mangold’s gently curving, majestic paintings are among the most beautiful abstract works of the late twentieth century. Emerging in the 1960s, Mangold is often associated with Minimalism for his non-hierarchical compositions and use of simple geometric forms. His subtle colours and soft, hand-drawn figures also recall other sources, from traditional Greek pottery to the frescoes of Piero. Among the most accomplished painters working today, Mangold is collected in the world’s pre-eminent museums. This first comprehensive monograph assesses Mangold’s contribution to contemporary painting, with essays by some of the most distinguished writers on contemporary art. Richard Shiff, Chair in Art at the University of Texas,...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) produced some of the most glittering and evocative images of the Victorian era. A member of the influential Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Rossetti found inspiration in the writings of Dante, Shakespeare and Malory, with many of his paintings depicting scenes from Arthurian legend and tales of medieval chivalry. He was also an accomplished poet, whose verses frequently dealt with the same themes as his paintings. A notorious womanizer, Rossetti immortalized the women in his life, particularly his wife and pupil, Elizabeth Siddal, who died of an overdose in 1862, and later Jane Morris, with whom he was in love. Representing them as Beatrice, Mary Magdalene and Helen of Troy, among others, Rossetti created a...

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Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

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Дата выхода: март 2002

Canadian artist Stan Douglas combines traditional cinematic techniques with new technologies to produce remarkable video installations. These visually complex works often look at the history of television, video and film, and can result in dramatic contemporary portraits as well as serene landscape imagery. From his early brief dramas for television, depicting uncanny, David Lynch-like suburban encounters, to his spectacular large-screen recent installation, Der Sandmann, exploring childhood trauma and repressed memory, Douglas’s work is layered with the artist’s observations on social and racial alienation and psychic states. Featured in two Documentas and nominated for the Hugo Boss/Guggenheim prize in 1997, Douglas has recently...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002