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Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: январь 2000

This book features Grimshaw’s work from the late 1980s onwards, which has included some of Europe’s most prestigious commissions; in Berlin he is planning a new Stock Exchange, while in London he has built on the success of his printing plant for the Financial Times with his stunning new international railway terminal at Waterloo, which has been completed to wide acclaim.

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: декабрь 1999

Tadao Ando (b. 1941) is Japan’s leading architect and a designer with a dazzling international reputation. This complete catalogue of Ando’s work examines in detail over one hundred buildings and projects, illustrated by drawings, sketches, plans and other material from the architect’s own studio. Francesco Dal Co introduces this exhaustive survey, which ranges from the smallest of Ando’s private houses from the 1970s to such major commissions as the Church on the Water, Hokkaido (1988), the Japanese Pavilion for Expo 92 in Seville and the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum (1992). An interview with Ando conducted by Hiroshi Maruyama accompanies essays on Ando’s architecture by a range of respected international critics including...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Tanaka Ikko (b. 1930) is one of the established masters of Japanese graphic design. His work draws together influences from East and West, acknowledging the vocabulary of European Modernism while remaining characteristically Japanese. Inspired by sources as diverse as traditional Japanese illustration techniques and his passion for American jazz, he is renowned for numerous cultural posters and programmes for theatre and ballet, many for Kanze Noh Drama. This book examines Tanaka’s entire career, encompassing graphic design and art direction, editorial and interior design. Following an introduction by Gian Carlo Calza, the book is structured in four chapters: Japanese Style, Typography, Invitation to Theatre, and Art and Communication...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

This book, now available for the first time in paperback, traces the history of tapestry from early examples to modern pieces. The different forms of tapestry associated with tribal and nomadic life are discussed, as well as those of the developed world, and tapestry is considered both as an art form and as an everyday, practical craft. The copious illustrations reveal the sumptuous texture and beauty of tapestries in detail, and show them in the settings in which they are used. This is an inspiring sourcebook of ideas that also offers practical advice on where to see the most interesting collections, how to buy antique or modern tapestry and how to care for it.

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

The artist’s body has throughout history been the subject of art – primarily through painted self-portraiture. In the post-war period, however, artists began using their bodies as the subject and the actual material of the artwork itself, through such art forms as Body art, Happenings and performance. In these international art forms the artist’s body is used to represent both the state of contemporary art and the human condition in general. Selected by Tracey Warr, a curator specializing in performance, this book includes over 250 images of these often extreme, highly unconventional artworks, accompanied by documents that chart the ideas, critical reception and broader philosophical and cultural context which framed them. Texts by...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

China has the longest and most highly developed ceramic tradition in the world, encompassing early Neolithic earthenwares, the finely glazed stoneware pieces of the Song period – widely regarded as among the greatest ceramics ever produced – and the years of Imperial patronage and export ware for the new markets of the West. Margaret Medley’s groundbreaking study was the first to bring a practical approach to the study of Chinese pottery. She makes full use of archaeological reports to show how differing geographical areas, materials and developing technology all shaped the evolution of Chinese ceramics. Her revolutionary insights, along with an astute critical judgement in the field of art history itself, combine to form a classic...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

The Impressionists need little introduction. The names of Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Cezanne, Monet and Renoir are familiar to everyone and their paintings remain highly popular over a hundred years after they first scandalized the Parisian art world. This book recounts in detail the fascinating and moving story of the Impressionist fellowship, the interwoven histories of the seven leading painters of the group and sets them in the context of the period in which they lived and worked. The superb colour plates mark the lasting achievement of this small band of friends in the face of prolonged social upheaval and personal hardship.

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

The Story of Art, one of the most famous and popular books on art ever written, has been a world bestseller for over four decades. Attracted by the simplicity and clarity of his writing, readers of all ages and back-grounds have found in Professor Gombrich a true master, who combines knowledge and wisdom with a unique gift for communicating his deep love of the subject. For the first time in many years the book has been completely redesigned. The illustrations, now in colour throughout, have all been improved and reoriginated, and include six fold-outs. The text has been revised and updated where appropriate, and a number of new artists have been incorporated. The bibliographies have been expanded and updated, and the maps and charts...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Ferdinando Scianna has always been fascinated by the sight of figures wrapped in sleep. In over thirty years of photography he has captured images of people and animals sleeping in the most diverse places on earth: in the countryside, in cities, deserts, corners of towns, streets, moving trains, in their own homes. With this collection of photographs, interspersed with evocative quotations about sleep and dreaming, Scianna takes us and himself on a fascinating journey into a dimension of life that is natural and mysterious, necessary and disturbing, everyday and universal. Usually the camera freezes movement, isolating a single moment in the endless flux of reality, but here, on the contrary, the stillness of the image is of its essence....

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

The New National Gallery, Berlin, Kimbell Art Museum and Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt are striking examples of modern museum design, built in three different decades. The Berlin Gallery was Mies van der Rohe’s last great building – a ‘temple’ to art in glass and steel. Louis Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum is a building of severity and restraint, its architectural effects arising from rhythmical spaces and a refined treatment of materials. Richard Meier’s Museum fur Kunsthandwerk is a subtle and intricate building of shifted grids and superimposed planes – an interesting precursor to his Getty Center. By presenting these works together, one can examine the similarities and differences in approach taken by three renowned...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

The Museum of Modern Art in Gunma, surrounded by parkland, is the most complete realization by Isozaki of a conceptual approach to museum design. The Clore Gallery, London, was built to house the Tate Gallery’s superb collection of paintings by J M W Turner, while the Tate in Liverpool was created out of a magnificent 1845 dockside warehouse; both are examined here within the context of Stirling & Wilford’s ?uvre at the time of construction. James Ingo Freed’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the late twentieth century’s most profound architectural statements, managing subtly and symbolically to disengage itself from the city where is stands. By considering these museums together, the reader can examine the...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn are among the twentieth century’s most renowned and influential architectural figures. The Bauhaus Building, the Marseilles Unite d’Habitation and the Salk Institute are landmark buildings in the history of architecture – each is the product of great social vision and humanism, and provides an continuing source of inspiration for students and fellow architects. By studying these pivotal buildings together, the student and architecture enthusiast can examine the approaches of three different architects to building for specific communities, and analyse the qualities which have produced such enduring structures.

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Fallingwater, the Villa Mairea and the Eames House – by Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames respectively – represent pinnacles of modern residential design. Fallingwater is one of Wright’s most inventive houses, showing him to be an architect of immense creativity and daring. Aalto drew on a deep understanding of vernacular building, classicism and modernism, and on a love of natural materials, to create the humane, rich and lyrical Villa Mairea. Charles and Ray Eames’ own house was assembled entirely from standardized industrial components composed with a sensitive irregularity. Together, these buildings represent the responses of some of the world’s most respected architects to the problems of...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Understanding Hypermedia, first published in 1993, firmly established itself in the design and media community as the definitive introduction to this exciting new communications medium. Understanding Hypermedia 2.0 completely revises the original edition, bringing the story of hypermedia bang up to date with full coverage of the Internet and other new developments. The book examines all of the digital media, from Web sites and CD-ROMs to satellite communications. A history of hypermedia and its key players is followed by a survey of the controversial issues that surround it and an overview of the elements that can make up a hypermedia product, including sound, video, animation and hypertext. An extensive gallery of applications shows how...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: январь 2021

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has pursued her principal themes of infinity, self-image, sexuality and compulsive repetition since she took the New York art world by storm in the late 1950s with her Infinity Nets – heroically-scaled paintings covered in endlessly repeating net-like patterns, which won the admiration of artists ranging from Barnett Newman to Donald Judd. In Kusama’s installations and sculptures she compulsively covers every surface, either in polka dots (Infinity Mirror Room, 1965); mirrors (Endless Love Show, 1966); or phallus-like protrusions (Violet Obsession, 1994, a vivid purple boat lined with stuffed forms). This is the first monograph on the forty-year career of this distinguished, highly innovative artist, who...

Издательство: Phaidon
Дата выхода: март 2002