《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。

This lavishly illustrated book chronicles the remarkablehistory of anatomical illustration from the Renaissance to thedigital Visible Human project of today. Its survey of five and ahalf centuries of meticulous visual de*ion by anatomists andartists will be a welcome addition to the libraries of artists, artstudents, doctors and anyone interested in the history ofscience.

What do you getwhen you cross a snail with the Indianapolis 500? If you’reDreamWorks, then the result is Turbo, an uplifting—andgear-shifting—story about the ultimate underdog, delivered with thedigital mastery, storytelling skill, and spellbinding imagery we’vecome to expect from the studio behind the Shrek and Madagascar.

New in the bestselling "Way We Live" series is this visuallythrilling exploration of the way people around the world live withthe things they love. Divided into seven main sections, the bookshowcases Gilles de Chabaneixs eagle-eye for a good idea orintriguing detail, offering an international tour of how peopleframe, hang and place objects, as well showing the best ways ofcombining and balancing them, and displaying them with wit orirony. Every opportunity to make cross cultural comparisons andconnections is taken within this book to provide a trulyinternational vision of the ways in which our lives are reflectedby the things we love.

The Artists Laboratory series presents the more experimentaland less familiar work of contemporary artists, opening up thecreative process to explore the conceptual, visual and practicalissues with which they engage. This book, the sixth in the series,charts the production of Stephen Chamberss experimental project tocreate an immense print covering one wall of the Royal Academysstately galleries. Filled with the intriguing narratives that wehave come to know in Chamberss work, and executed with his familiardecorative style, this technically complex piece has posed entirelynew challenges to his skills. Illustrated with photographs andvideo stills that document this ambitious venture from conceptionto drawing, printing, framing and installation, this book revealsthe risks and rewards of making art on a monumental scale.

Designing a final degree collection is a fashion students first chance to approach the reality of the industry. This handbook provides a step-by-step guide to creating this collection, with each chapter exploring a different step of the project: from unde

In his highly acclaimed text, Robert Hughes points out that thereality pursued in Freud's paintings goes far beyond naturalism. Itis both startling and disconcerting, producing some of the mostpowerful and moving visual images to have appeared in the lastthirty years. Freud—once dubbed "the Ingres ofexistentialism"—has almost single-handedly redefined the figurativepainting of our time. No other living artist possesses his abilityto paint the texture and thinness of skin over flesh, and hisdistinctive portraits have a haunting quality that makes themimpossible to forget. This volume, with over one hundred superbreproductions of his greatest paintings, pays tribute to one of themost original and accomplished artists of the twentiethcentury.

Simple country style in a modernsetting is becoming increasingly popular as it tempers hard-edgedurban minimalism. With an emphasis on comfort and natural shapes,the look is easy to achieve with a minimum of fuss and expense.Hence 12 practical step by step projects show you how to recreatesome of the essential features of modern country style fromcurtains to cushions to bedhead covers. Instead of breaking downinto room by room chapters, the book is organized by the mainingredients of style; colour, texture, pattern andatmosphere.

Cant decide what to wear in the morning? Why not mix a punk hairdo with a period dress? The pages of this interactive book (split into four parts) will take you from fashion faux-pas to fabulous in one flip. From grunge and pirate to disco queen and street style, create over 100,000 of your own fashion fantasies (and nightmares) with this colourfully illustrated and carefully researched flipbook. With magazine-style captions for each outfit there are words to play with too.

In 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of ModernArt s second monographic exhibition, which set new attendancerecords in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New Yorksix weeks before the show s opening and gave him on-site studiospace. There he produced five "portable murals" --large blocks offrescoed plaster, slaked lime and wood that feature bold imagesdrawn from Mexican subject matter and address themes of revolutionand class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Riveraadded three more murals, now taking on New York subjects throughmonumental images of the urban working class and the city duringthe Great Depression. Published in conjunction with an exhibitionthat brings together key works made for Rivera s 1931 show, thiscatalogue casts the artist as a highly cosmopolitan figure whotraveled between Russia, Mexico and the United States and examinesthe intersection of artmaking and radical politics in the 1930s.Illustrated with reproductions of each panel as well as r

《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。

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New in the bestselling "Way We Live" series, is this visuallythrilling exploration of the way people around the world live withcolour. Divided into five main sections, the book showcases Gillesde Chabaneixs eye for the telling use of colour in interiors in amultitude of places and cultures, from startling coastal blues tothe subtle monochromes of minimalist urban styles, from thesumptuous and grand reds and purples of palatial dwellings to thesunlit yellows of country life. Every opportunity to makecross-cultural comparisons and connections is taken within thisbook to provide a truly international vision of the ways in whichlifestyles are reflected in colour.

Stephen Sondheim has won seven Tonys, an Academy Award, sevenGrammys, a Pulitzer Prize and the Kennedy Center Honors. His careerhas spanned more than half a century, his lyrics have becomesynonymous with musical theater and popular culture, and in Finishing the Hat —titled after perhaps his mostautobiographical song, from Sunday in the Park withGeorge —Sondheim has not only collected his lyrics for the firsttime, he is giving readers a rare personal look into his life aswell as his remarkable productions. Along with the lyrics for all of his musicals from 1954 to1981—including West Side Story, Company, Follies, A Little NightMusic and Sweeney Todd —Sondheim treats us tonever-before-published songs from each show, songs that were cut ordiscarded before seeing the light of day. He discusses hisrelationship with his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II, and hiscollaborations with extraordinary talents such as LeonardBernstein, Arthur Laurents, Ethel Merman, Richard Rodgers, AngelaLansbury, Harold Prince an

Digital Textile Design, Second Edition covers everythingstudents and practitioners of textile design will need to learnabout designing and printing digitally. Written specifically fortextile designers, Digital Textile Design, Second Edition providesthe know-how for students and professionals who wish to use AdobePhotoshop and Illustrator as design tools. A series ofinspirational tutorials, presented in step-by-step format, guidethe reader through the process of creating designs that will besuited to both the traditional textile production process and todigital printing onto fabric. The book examines how designers canaccess this technique, looking at the work of those currentlyexploring its possibilities, and provides an insight into thetechnology involved in digital textile printing.

对于提琴制作的业内人士来说，本书可以说是书。读了本书，才会知道斯特拉蒂瓦里这个人以及他的琴是怎么回事。《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》对所有知名的斯特拉蒂瓦里琴，它的出处，流传，以及它的特点都有描述。一些重要的琴都有尺寸。书后有索引，可以找到你要查的琴。对于拉琴的人来说，你应当了解你拉的琴是怎么回事。小提琴绝非只是一件乐器那么简单。它有深刻的文化内涵，有许多讲究，有许多故事。《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》就是好的入门。对音乐爱好者来说，看《小提琴巨匠斯特拉蒂瓦里：他的生平和作品（1644-1737）》可以知道许多关于琴的知识。小提琴是一种艺术品，她诞生于文艺复兴时期，成为乐器之王，为什么她会迷倒那么多人，为什么一把斯特拉蒂瓦里的琴现在动辄几百万

Pattern Magic Stretch Fabrics is the third in the series ofcult Japanese pattern making books, now translated into English.The new volume looks at working with stretch and jersey fabric.Material that stretches lengthways or sideways can be magical initself. This book takes the special qualities of jersey and stretchfabrics and uses them to create stunning, sculptural designs. Intwo parts, the book shows how to work with stretch fabrics and howto cut patterns that exploit their properties with truly originalresults. The book is accompanied by a basic paper patternblock.

School buildings are constantly evolving to meet the needs ofthe next generation of teachers and students. This book presentsmore than 40 projects from the USA, showcasing leading elementaryand secondary school design. Featred projects factor in importantdesign elements including security and safety, new technology,resource centres and energy conservation. They must also accomodateflexible learning environments for a range of student groups.Full-colour photos, plans, drawings and de*ive text accompanythe projects.

The Books That Shaped Art History reassesses the impact ofsome of the most important texts of art history published duringthe twentieth century. Each of the sixteen incisive chaptersfocuses on a single title and is written by a leading arthistorian, curator or one of the promising scholars of todaysgeneration. In bringing these cross-generational contributionstogether, this book provides a varied and invaluable overview ofthe history of art, told through its seminal texts. The sixteenbooks include Nikolaus Pevsners gospel of Modernism, Pioneers ofthe Modern Movement, Alfred Barrs now legendary monograph onMatisse, E.H. Gombrichs Art and Illusion, Clement Greenbergs Artand Culture, which had a seismic impact when it was published in1961 and Rosalind Krausss The Originality of the Avant-Garde andOther Modernist Myths, which introduced structuralist andpost-structuralist philosophy into art historical study. Initiatedby and and prepared under the auspices of The Burlington Magazine,each chapter - with wri

A showcase for the world's most eye-catching window displays,this book offers inspiration and guidance to visual merchandisersand retailers, helping them to create windows that not only lookgood but also help to increase sales. Seven chapters cover keytopics for the visual merchandiser, each with a gallery ofphotographs demonstrating how and why each window is successful. Amust for anyone involved in bricks and mortar retail.

Ever been overwhelmed by a closet that feels as if it's filledwith all the wrong pieces? "Instant Style" is the ultimate guide tostreamlining, shopping for, and maintaining your ideal wardrobe allyear round. The book starts with the basics, outlining essentialclothing items for each season-winter coats, spring skirts, summersandals, fall sweaters-then shows how to complement them withpieces that accentuate personal style. Learn which tops go withwhat pants, what boots look best with different skin shapes, howthe right bag can change the entire look of an outfit, and how toflatter your colouring and figure. Find out when to hit the bestsales, what's worth splurging on, and how to recognize quality inclothes. Finally, benefit from the book's listing of recommendedstores around the country: "Instant Style" is filled with hundredsof colourful photographs of clothes and celebrities that willinspire and delight. It is the first book that gives readerseverything they need to make getting dressed, no matter wh

The Must-Have Guide for Breaking into the Music Business Completely revised and updated for the twenty-first century, TheMusic Business provides essential career advice and information onhow to get started and advance in all areas of the musicindustry—from an author who’s had careers in music as an artist andprofessor for more than two decades. This comprehensive volumegives you guidance and information on: · Starting your music career · The ins and outs of recording contracts · Record producing and music engineering · The distribution and sale of records · The Internet and MP3s, and their effects on the musicindustry · The latest computer programs · Copyright law · Composing music and songwriting · Music education · The international music industry · And much more The Music Business is an indispensable reference for anyone whowants to begin a career in any of the industry’s facets, as well asan invalua

By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea thatan interior and its furnishings should form a complete design -- a"total look" -- dominated the thinking of both designers and theirsophisticated clients. In the later 1920s and 1930s, whole studioswere established, notably in France and the United States, to servethe needs of a design- and style-conscious middle class-intent onshowing off its newly refined taste for things modern and exotic:the richly lacquered screen, the tubular steel chair, the vividgeometric carpet.Art Deco Interiors documents this flourishing ofdesign ingenuity in Europe and America. Using contemporaryphotographs and illustrations of interiors, juxtaposed with modernphotographs of individual pieces, it traces the stylistic evolutionand dominant motifs of Deco. Patricia Bayer illustrates the triumphof the 1925 exhibition and the establishment of the pure high styleof the leading Paris ensembliers, and assesses the tremendousgrowth of jazzy, Streamline Moderne offshoots in t