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。
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。
《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。
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Renowned for his symphonic poems and the operatic masterpiece Samson et Dalila, French composer Camille Saint-Saenns (1835-1921) brought a polished craftsmanship and well-honed sense of form to the elegant pieces he composed for piano and violin. This handsome volume includes a pair of these well-known, melodious works: Havanaise, Op. 83, and Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28. Perennial standards of the violin repertoire, these colorful, attractive composi-tions are a new addition to Dover's popular series of chamber music scores featuring separate violin parts. Convenient and authoritative, this high-quality edition makes both pieces available to violinists, pianists, and all lovers of fine music. Original Dover (1999) compilation of two works originally published separately by Durand Editions Musicales, n.d.: Havanaise pour Violon, Op. 83, avec accom-pagnement d'Orchestre ou de Piano; Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso pour Violon et Orchestre, Op. 28 / Reduction pour Violon et Piano par Geo
A classic updated to include the developments of the 1990s-thefirst book to explore in detail how to create a Broadwaymusical Brimming with advice and techniques, this essential reference forbook and song writers clearly explains the fundamentals of thethree crafts of a musical-book, music, and lyrics. Using copiousexamples from classic shows, Frankel has created the quintessentialmusical writers' how-to. Among the topics: - Definitions of musical theater - Differences between musical books and straight plays andbetween poetry and lyrics - What a score is and how it develops - How to write for the voice - How to audition musicals for producers With a new introduction and revised text, Frankel's work is readyto guide a new generation of aspiring writers.
Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader. In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny he painted the Poplars, Grain Stacks and Rouen Cathedral series in which he addressed one motif in constantly new variations. Here, too, Monet laid out the famous garden with its water-lily pond which he was to paint on huge canv
Nowadays there is hardly an interior design publication which does not contain at least one article on Feng Shui, the one-thousand-year-old Chinese tradition of the harmonious arrangement of sacred buildings, graves, palaces and streets. The universal value systems of Buddhism and Zen and the principles these involve, such as an affinity with nature and life energy, have left a deep impression on Western lifestyle and have had an important influence on today's trends in design and architecture. This volume attempts, with its selection of particularly interesting and concise examples, to present the inexhaustible variety of Asian living and lifestyles.
The goats of Vigata once grazed on the trash-strewn site stillknown as the Pasture. Now local enterprise of a different sortflourishes: drug dealers and prostitutes of every flavour. Buttheir discreet trade is upset when two employees of the SplendourRefuse Collection Company discover the body of engineer SilvioLuparello, one of the local movers and shakers, apparently deceasedin flagrante at the Pasture. The coroner's verdict is death fromnatural causes - refreshingly unusual for Sicily. But InspectorSalvo Montalbano, as honest as he is streetwise and as scathing tofools and villains as he is compassionate to their victims, is notready to close the case - even though he's being pressured byVigata's police chief, judge, and bishop. Picking his way through alabyrinth of high-comedy corruption, delicious meals, vendettafirepower, and carefully planted false clues, Montalbano can berelied on, whatever the cost, to get to the heart of thematter.
Product De*ion The renowned art collection originally built up by the industrial magnate Samuel Courtauld in the 1920s, and since greatly expanded thanks to generous gifts and bequests, is now permanently housed in the splendid architectural surroundings of London's Somerset House. The nineteenth-century core of the collection reflects Samuel Courtauld's policy of buying paintings by the leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists. As a result of subsequent expansion, the collection bearing Courtauld's name now also embraces important paintings ranging in period from the fourteenth century to the twentieth, including works by Bruegel, Rubens, Gainsborough, Goya, and Modigliani. This invaluable survey includes a representative selection of 77 paintings from all periods, each reproduced in color and accompanied by an authoritative note. An illustrated account of the growth of the collection and of the history of Somerset House has been provided by the Director of the Courtauld Gallery, John Murdo
The ubiquitous chair in all its shapes and forms (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) More than any other piece of furniture, the chair has been subjected to the wildest dreams of the designers. The particular curve of a back-rest, or the twist of a leg, the angle of a seat or the colour of the entire artefact all reflect the stylistic consciousness of each era. From Gerrit Rietveld and Alvar Aalto via Verner Panton to Eva Zeisel; from Art Nouveau to International Style, from Pop Art to Postmodernism, the phenomenon of the chair is so complex that it requires a reference work as comprehensive as this to do it full justice. They are all here: Thonet's bentwood chairs and Hoffmann's sitting-machines, Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair and Ron Arad's avant garde armchairs. The book, a slightly abbreviated version of our classic title 1000 Chairs, devotes one page to each chair, displayed on its own as pure form, with biographical and historical information about the chairs and their designers. A special treat
Play the world's most beautiful classical music quickly and easily with this high-quality selection of short, favorite, accessible compositions by the world's greatest composers — Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Haydn, Liszt, Shubert, Tchaikovsky, and others. Includes Beethoven's Für Elise, Three Norwegian Dances by Grieg, Liszt's Consolation, Macdowell's To a wild rose, Schumann's Tr umerei, and many more.
Sparkling, graceful and tinged with an ineffable melancholy, Chopin's waltzes succeed in conveying an air of mystery while retaining their ballroom splendor. His scherzos are truly novel metamorphoses of the form — tumultuous emotional outpourings that frequently attain tragic heights. This volume includes 15 Waltzes and 4 Scherzos. Republication of works from an authoritative early edition.
As a tribute to the gardening of a unique region this volumeportrays 32 of the most celebrated gardens of the American South,ranging from the grand gardens of the Antebellum Plantations tostrikingly simple, creative plantings of the modern era. Drawingfrom primary sources as well as first-hand impressions of eachgarden featured, the author reveals the special beauty of southerngardens along with the personalities of their gardeners. Thisvolume, illustrated with 200 specially commissioned photographs incolour and many vintage prints, surveys the southern garden from1750 to the present. It includes early gardeners who introduced newplants and garden designs to the early coastal plantations;homesteaders who moved inland as far west as Tennessee and plantedsmall, practical gardens; industrialists who used new money tobuild large formal gardens, such as the Vanderbilt country estatein Asheville, North Carolina; and, finally, 20th-centuryindividuals whose rustic getaways consist of fantastic countrygrounds o
American Gargoyles: Spirits in Stone is thefirst pictorial essay on the many gargoyles found in the UnitedStates, featuring unique stories and breathtaking full-colorphotographs of these monstrous but delightful angels with a senseof humor. A number of books have showcased the medieval gargoylesof Europe, but never before has one been devoted to the thousandsof gargoyles that peer down from American buildings. Lewd orferocious, holy or humorous, these astonishing carvings aredistinguished by fine artistry, vivid imagination, and spiritualmystery. American Gargoyles puts us face-to-face with the wingedgriffins, fallen angels, and damned souls of Washington's NationalCathedral, as well as those adorning the Woolworth Building and theCathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, PrincetonUniversity, the University of Pennsylvania, Tribune Tower inChicago, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and many otherbuildings. Robert Llewellyn's glorious photographs reveal thecraftsmanship of the artisan
Yuletide favorites by 24 different composers appear in this compilation of traditional and classical works. Assembled by a noted musicologist and organist, its simplified arrangements include 6 settings of the traditional German carol "In Dulci Jubilo," plus Christmas music by Buxtehude, Guilmant, Berlioz, and many others.
Inspired by a primitive way of life, Paul Gauguin came to reject the world of the Impressionists, leaving Parisian society in search of paradise. Explore the life of this 19th-century French artist through his astonishingly vibrant and exotic paintings. The DK ArtBook series presents both the life and works of each artist within the cultural, social, and political context of their time. To make the books easy to consult, they are divided into three areas -- the life and works of the artist, historical and cultural background, and analysis of major works -- which are identifiable by side bands. Each spread focuses on a specific theme, with an introductory text and several annotated illustrations. Few art history texts contain such abundance of full-color illustrations. The index section is also illustrated and gives background information on key figures and the location of the artist's works. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Henri Matisse's adventures in color and light constitute a landmark in the history of modern art. From his apprenticeship in the studio of Gustave Moreau to the paper cutouts of the 1950's, the stages of his journey represent a triumph of artistic research and resolution. More than 300 reproductions grace this volume. The text provides a fascination survey of a complex life that crossed the paths of many legendary figures of the age.
Uniquely complex in both form and structure, this masterpiece of counterpoint is regarded as a pinnacle of Western music. This solo keyboard edition was edited by Carl Czerny, a student of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt, who wrote hundreds of piano études that remain staples of modern piano training today.
At the turn of the century, when Alessandro Longo began editing his ll-volume collection of the keyboard sonatas of Domenieo Scarlatti, the legacy of the brilliant composer was still overshadowed by that of his contemporary, Johann Sebastian Bach. Today, Scarlatti (1685-1757) is recognized by most scholars and musicians as "the founder of modern keyboard execution" (Grove's Dictionary). His inventive style--most notable in these "essercizi" or sonatas--exercised a powerful influence over later masters such as Mendelssohn and Liszt. This sturdy volume presents 40 of Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas in a handsome, affordable edition compiled directly from Longo's monumental ll-volume set. Written in the last fifteen years of his life while Scarlatti enjoyed the generous patronage of Queen Maria Barbara of Spain, the sonatas are the crowning achievements of an outstanding Baroque composer. Exciting experimental effects--consecutive fifths and octaves, crossing hands, internal repetitions, and extended chords
A singular figure in the avant garde of theearly twentieth century, Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was aself-taught painter who turned to art after retiring as a customsinspector at the age of 49. Although he never left Paris, Rousseaupainted a number of jungle scenes, drawing on images of the exoticas presented to the urban dweller through popular literature,colonial expositions and the Paris zoo. "The Dream" (1910) is theartist's last major work. Exhibited at the 1910 Salon desIndependants a few months before Rousseau's death in September ofthat year, it exemplifies that surreal juxtaposition of the exoticand the domestic, realized with an uncanny exactitude, for whichRousseau is so beloved today. The poet and art critic GuillaumeApollinaire praised the work, countering his detractors: "Thepicture radiates beauty, that is indisputable. I believe nobodywill laugh this year." In this volume, Ann Temkin, the Museum'sMarie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting andSculpture, guides readers in deci
