内容简介
本书以大量的图片,介绍了时尚写真文化。包括什么是艺术、艺术写真的“性感”、切肤之爱?贴身情人、拍摄中的亲密接触、艺术写真的艺术素质、艺术写真的创作过程等。
《不朽的小提琴家》再现了历史上不朽小提琴家的魅力,简要而有趣地叙述其生活、个性与事业。作者就他们对作曲者、公众品味的影响以及演奏技巧的贡献等各个方面,讲述了这些小提琴家的特殊成就。 作者玛格丽特·坎贝尔参阅了大量的书信和私人文件,并且访问许多著名音乐家,很多人为《不朽的小提琴家》提供了从未发表过的回忆录和珍贵照片。 《不朽的小提琴家》是一本献给音乐会听众、唱片收藏者(有“唱片目录”)、弦乐演奏者和学生等所有爱好小提琴演奏艺术者的书。
《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》内容简介:沉香以其浓郁的香味、独特的药用价值历来为人们所钟爱,沉香工艺品的收藏古已有之。《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》由沉香研究专家任刚先生主编,对沉香的分类、沉香的功用、沉香的收藏史,以及沉香摆件的制作工艺进行了深入浅出的叙述,对初涉沉香的收藏爱好者大有裨益。
《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》内容简介:沉香以其浓郁的香味、独特的药用价值历来为人们所钟爱,沉香工艺品的收藏古已有之。《历代文物装饰文字图鉴》由沉香研究专家任刚先生主编,对沉香的分类、沉香的功用、沉香的收藏史,以及沉香摆件的制作工艺进行了深入浅出的叙述,对初涉沉香的收藏爱好者大有裨益。
Picking up where the best-selling Garden House left off, GardenHome: City demonstrates how to infuse an apartment, loft, flat, orother city home with the spirit of the garden. Clusters of yellowblossoms in brightly colored pails on a sill create a flower bedwhere there’s no space for one. Carefully arranged indoor topiariesbring the whimsy of a manicured garden inside. And a wall paintedthe vivid color of a favorite flower adds warmth and vibrancy to asmall room. Garden Home: City also shows how to soften theboundaries between indoors and out with the creative use of windowboxes, fire escapes, and balcony gardens. Anyone who lives in anurban setting will appreciate this richly illustrated,inspirational guide to transforming any space into a modern-dayEden.
When it was originally published in 1970, "How to Draw What YouSee" zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill's best-seller list--and ithas remained there ever since. "I believe that you must be able todraw things as you see them--realistically," wrote Rudy de Reyna inhis introduction. Today, generations of artists have learned todraw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, usingde Reyna's methods. "How to Draw What You See" shows artists how torecognize the basic shape of an object--cube, cylinder, cone, orsphere--and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how muchdetail it contains.
Global Corporate Identity 3 is the third edition in aseries offering some of the best international corporate identityin current use today. Designing for clients who conduct business on an internationallevel isn't nearly the rare event it once was. Due in large part tothe ease of internet communication, even small firms and freelancedesigners have this opportunity more than they ever have, so beingexposed to ideas, themes, and design executions that cross culturallines is invaluable. Global Corporate Identity 3 showcases hundreds ofsuperlative examples of design used on a multinational level. Workfrom 30 different countries and five continents is represented inthis book making it a welcome addition to any graphics referencelibrary.
From every “beautiful mornin’” to “some enchanted evening,” thesongs of Oscar Hammerstein II are part of our daily lives, hiswords part of our national fabric. Born into a theatrical dynasty headed by his grandfather andnamesake, Oscar Hammerstein II breathed new life into the moribundart form of operetta by writing lyrics and libretti for suchclassics as Rose-Marie (music by Rudolf Friml), TheDesert Song (Sigmund Romberg), The New Moon (Romberg)and Song of the Flame (George Gershwin). Hammerstein andJerome Kern wrote eight musicals together, including SweetAdeline, Music in the Air , and their masterpiece, ShowBoat . The vibrant Carmen Jones was Hammerstein’sall-black adaptation of the tragic opera by Georges Bizet. In 1943, Hammerstein, pioneer in the field of operetta, joinedforces with Richard Rodgers, who had for the previous twenty-fiveyears taken great strides in the field of musical comedy with his longtime writing partner, Lorenz Hart. The first Rodgersand Hammerstein work
If the opera world is full of " intrigue, double meanings, anddevious dramatics, " then no place exemplifies this more than theworld-famous Metropolitan Opera, where politics, ambition, andoversized egos have traditionally taken center stage along withsome of the world' s richest music. Drawing on her fifteen years asits press representative, Johanna Fiedler explodes the traditionalsecrecy that surrounds the Met in this wonderfully entertainingaccount of its tumuluous history. Fiedler chronicles the Met' searly days as a home for legends like Toscanini, Mahler, andCaruso, and gives a fascinating account of the middle years whenhaughty blue-bloods battled stubborn adminstrators for control of acompany that would emerge as America' s premiere opera house. Shetakes us behind the grand gold-curtain stage in more recent yearsas well, showing how musical superstars like Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Kathleen Battle have electrified performances andscandalized the public. But most revelatory are Fiedler'
Showcasing many of the most awe-inspiring temples, palaces, monuments and man-made structures ever created. Chinas incredibly rich cultural and historical structures and icons offer a unique window on the development of one of the worlds great civilisations. Selected and described by Chinese experts, the sites are illustrated with over 250 superb photographs.
Travel Sickness is a singular book project from Sheffield in theEnglish midlands which takes us on a surreal journey into the 21stcentury. Drawing inspiration from the messiness, violence andbeauty of the world around them together with the writings ofStephen Jones, DED have unfurled their vision and planted somethingnew. Innovatively, the book?s design is a literal and emotionalreaction to the text. The illustrations convey the fragmentedthoughts of Jack as he takes an unwanted and disturbing journey into his own sense of loss. Stephen Jones? bizarre narrativedescribes how absurd life can be in the new millennium. He usesconsumer goods, ads, themes and McPlaces as effective metaphors ofthe everyday. DED Ass. transfers these into breathtaking graphicillustrations. The result is an elegant and experimentalcombination of graphics and text, full of bittersweet irony andhumour. In 1991, Nic and Jon Daughtry founded DED Associates inSheffield. DED`s commitment has seen the company shoot into everycorner of the cr
Mexico Handcrafted Art Northern Region is aspectacular photographic account of northern Mexico's architecturaltreasures, wealth of flavors, colorful regional costumes, and finelocal handcrafts. This journey starts in the mountainous landscapesand cactus-dotted deserts of Baja California, and treks to thesplendid, luxury-hotel–lined beaches of the Pacific, the stunningbeauty of the Sierra Madre mountain range, and cultural heritagecities.