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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。

Internotionol Arts Crofts is o celebrotion of the designmovement thor storted in Britoin ond spreod around the world ot theend of the nineteenth centurg, Oepicting both well-known ond unusuo oft ondortefocts from this most foscinoting of eros, this book provides oweolth of informotion obout the ,lives ond times of the designers,orchitects nnd nrtists whn fronted them.

Turner, Whistler, Monet provides o fascinating portrait ofthree artistswho broke owou from artistic tradition to embrace onentirelu newwoy of painting, This book uncovers their legocLj atits glorious bestthe revolutionoru depiction of light and shade,and how it was possibleto capture the essence of a place oncanvas.

Dirk Pitt rides a tidal wave of intrigue in this classic Cussler. On an isolated Greek island, a World War I fighter plane attacks a modern U.S. Air Force base--a mysterious saboteur preys on an American scientific expedition--and Dirk Pitt plays a deadly game of hunter and hunted with the elusive head of an international smuggling ring.

Yves Klein (1928-1962) conquered the world of art, declaringthat "a new world calls for a new man". His idiosyncratic style andhuge charisma set him on a youthful career in the great artcapital, Paris. Soon his famous blue pictures, large-formatcanvases conceived as spaces for meditation, were making him a namefar beyond France. In a short but intense creative life of justseven years, Klein painted over a thousand pictures which are amongthe classics of modern art. This book offers a sample of hiswork.

Vintage presents the paperback edition of the wild andbrilliant writings of Lester Bangs--the most outrageous and popularrock critic of the 1970s--edited and with an introduction by thereigning dean of rack critics, Greil Marcus. Advertising in RollingStone and other major publications.

"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles you have given such a striking illustration of reincarnation.' I replied, 'Madame, if that's the way you see it, so be it, '" An engagingly sly comment by the renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)--the complex ambiguities of whose work leave hasty or single-minded interpretations far behind. Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images were thrilling the public, Escher was a master of the third dimension. His lithograph "Magic Mirror" dates as far back as 1946. In taking that title for this book, mathematician Bruno Ernst is stressing the magic spell Escher's work invariably casts on those who see it. Ernst visited Escher every week for a year, systematically talking through his entire oeuvre with him. Their discussions resulted in a friendship that gave Ernst intimate access to the life and conceptual world of Escher. Ernst's account was meticulously scrutinized and

From an exceptional collection of the finest examples of German ironwork comes this rich source of permission-free images for artists and craftspeople. More than 270 illustrations depict a broad variety of magnificent ironwork from the city of Dfisseldorf, with finely rendered examples of the craft ranging from elaborate castle gates to ornate weather vanes. Balustrades, screens, balcony railings, and other decorative ironwork abounds in this handsome compilation. Derived from a rare, turn-of-the-century portfolio, these splendid designs offer uncommon glimpses of a rich array of motifs that are sure to inspire and delight designers, architecture enthusiasts, antique lovers, and devotees of vintage ironwork. Dover (2005) original selection of plates reproduced from Die Schmiedekunst: zum praktischen Gebrauche fiir Schlosser und Schmiede, originally published in three volumes by F. Wolfrum, Dtisseldorf, 1892-1899. iv+92pp. 9 x 12. Paperbound. Free Dover Pictorial Archive and Clip Art Ca

The moral of this book is that behind every great engineeringsuccess is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular)engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best knownexamples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action-- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seentossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage),the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- andmany lesser known but equally informative examples. The line ofreasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized intohis quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in TheEvolution of Useful Things , but this book is arguably the moreilluminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these twotitles. Highly recommended.

ROBB WALSH has traveled the globe,immersing himself in some of the world s oddest culinary phenomena.And hes brought back some absorbing observations:Who knew that the ongo peppers of Trinidad looked like shrunken heads?That Buenos Aires had awesome pizzerias?Or that the best place to look for fading black Southern cooking tradi tions was on Texas prison farm? In this collection of essays and recipes,Walsh takes us along on more than a decade s worth of his sometimes esoteric,sometimes peculiar culinary expeditions.Whether eating lunch on a fishing boat off the coast of Chile ,or searching for the soul of sauerkraut in Alsace,his greatest satisfaction comes not from the eating itself ,but from understand-ing what the food and the cooking have to say about the people and culture. Onthe home front,Walsh ponders what happens when immigrants from Mexico,Pakistan when immigrants from Mexico,Pakistan,Vietnam and Manhattan bring their barbaco,brain masala,bong lau and bagels to Houston shopping centers,In th

The Blaue Reiter ("Blue Rider") group of artists was formed in Munich in 1911 on the initiative of two outstanding artists: Wassily Kandinsky,the fundamental pioneer of purely abstract painting, and Franz Marc, the creator of mysterious, abstract animal pictures. Together, the Russian, the German and many others in their circle strove towards an apotheosis of the spiritual in art. The outbreak of the First World War appeared to put a brutal end to what was at the time the most important avant-garde movement in Germany, but its influence continued unabated and inspired whole generations of international artists to create similar utopias.

Now in paperback, the fascinating, quirky, highly acclaimedbook about that indispensable object, the pencil. Petroski tracesits origins back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually andcharmingly about its development, and shows what the pencil canteach us about engineering and technology today.

《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。

Wassily Kandinsky was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the twentieth century. He brought an equal passion and commitment to his work as a painter, a theoretician and a teacher of art. After conventional beginnings in Munich, he devoted his intellectual and artistic energies to pioneering new dimensions of expression in art. He ultimately arrived at an abstract style of painting based on the inner properties of colour and form. Although Kandinsky may not be the first truly abstract artist, he was nevertheless the first to experiment with non-representational forms in a logical manner and to develop out of them a homogeneous style. His writings on art, including his ground-breaking work "On the Spiritual in Art", have lost none of their significance, and the Compositions which caused such a furore at the first Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1911 are full of the same dazzling power and modernity today.

Composed in 1910, The Firebird was the first of many successful ballets that brought Stravinsky international recognition. This edition is the composer's own reduction for solo piano. Originally intended for Ballets Russe rehearsals, it has become a popular and challenging part of the piano repertoire and an excellent study score.

"For lovers of pop art, Twiggy, the Beatles and everything retro, this book is mecca... Enough to turn the most stringent modernist into a hippy, this is the ultimate guide to the sixties." - Homes & Living, Sydney" Product De*ion "Sixties Design" is a documentation and analysis of the era during which belief in modernist design began to crumble. The work captures an interesting moment during which modernism and its refutations began to coexist. 作者简介：Philippe Garner is a Director of Christie's and is their International Head of Photographs and of 20th Century Decorative Art & Design. He is widely recognised as an authority within these fields and has written numerous essays and books on specific aspects of the history of photography and the applied arts. His books include studies of the life and work of Emile Galle and photographers Cecil Beaton and John Cowan, as well as thematic investigations such as his Sixties Design for TASCHEN. He has also curated museum exhibitions in Lond

To contemporaries, Amedeo Modigliani was the very definition of Parisian Bohemia, the controversial darling and target of the popular press and the model on which many a novel, play and film was based. As an artist, the scandalous Modigliani made his name chiefly with his celebrated pictures of women, with almond eyes and long necks and bodies. His style had ancient roots that lay deep in classical antiquity or Africa. But his portraits of intellectual giants of the age, friends such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau or Diego Rivera, were inimitable also. In Doris Krystof study, the scene Modigliani was the hero of comes alive, and his sensitive paintings and sculptures speak in tongues.