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Romain Morandi
Editions Norma, 2022
Published to accompany an exhibition at the A. Guillemain & R. Morandi Gallery in Paris, in November 2022, Chess Design presents an exceptional documentation on chess games made by artists, designers, architects, and craftsmen: chessboards themselves, but also artist's drawings, execution plans and photographs of archives. By presenting nearly 300 of these chessboards chronologically, the author offers a new perspective on the history of art and its evolution. Art Nouveau, Secession, Surrealism, Fluxus, Pop Art, most of the great movements that are born and follow one another in the Fine Arts find an echo with these chessboards and the 16 pieces that animate them. These chess games also reflect the evolution of techniques and materials used during this period: wood, glass, ceramics will give way, from the 1950s, to steel, plastic and composite materials.
At the border between the plastic arts and the decorative arts, these chessboards are made by big names in the art scene, design or architecture – Alexandre Rodtchenko, Jean-Michel Frank, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, or, more recently, Yoko Ono, Robert Filliou, Yayo Kusama, Victor Vasarely, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry or Damian Hirst – as by anonymous people. The synthesis offered by the author constitutes a valuable and innovative historian's work, supported by iconography that is both rich and mostly unpublished.
English - 304 Pages - 24 x 31 cm - 2.1 KgISBN 9782376660668
Vincent Farelly, Jean-Baptiste Martin
Flammarion, 2023
La maison Lescop à Port-Louis, en Bretagne, a conservé son décor d'origine du XVIII? siècle, elle est devenue le terrain de jeu du duo de restaurateurs créatifs d'À Paris chez Antoinette Poisson. Portés par la beauté poétique des motifs des papiers dominotés ¿ des fleurs à la faune et de la géométrie à l'ikat - ils ont aménagé leur nouvelle résidence avec ces élégantes touches décoratives. Célébrant un art de vivre tout entier tourné vers le charme du XVIII? siècle, ses objets, sa gastronomie, ses savoir-faire, ils partagent au coeur de cet ouvrage leur vie loin de Paris au rythme des saisons, entre pêche aux crustacés, marché estival, brocante, teinture de textiles à l'indigo et impression à la planche sur papier artisanal.
Français - 240 Pages - 24 x 32 cm - 1,6 Kg
ISBN: 9782080414809
Andrew Bolton
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 2015
For centuries, China’s export arts — jade, silks, porcelains, and, more recently, cinema — have fueled Western fantasies of an exotic East and served as enduring sources of inspiration for fashion. This stunning publication, which accompanied one of the most successful exhibitions in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's history, explores the influence of Chinese aesthetics on designers, including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, and Yves Saint Laurent. As in the game of “telephone,” the process of cultural translation transforms the source material into ingeniously original fashions that are products solely of the designers’ imaginations. In a similar way, contemporary Chinese film directors render fanciful, highly stylized evocations of various epochs in China’s history—demonstrating that China’s imagery is equally seductive to artists in the East and further inspiring today’s designers. Juxtaposing modern fashions and film stills with their forebears in fine and decorative arts and historical dress, this book reveals the rich and ongoing creative dialogue between East and West, past and present.
English - 256 Pages - 24.1 cm x 3.8 cm x 28.6 cm - 1.9 kg
ISBN: 9780300211122
Jessica Harrison-Hall
British Museum Press, 2023
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated extraordinary resilience at a time of intense external and internal warfare and socioeconomic turmoil. Innovation can be seen in material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles, fashion, jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, glass, arms and armour, silver, and photography) during a century in which China’s art, literature, crafts and technology faced unprecedented exposure to global influences. Until recently the 19th century in China has been often defined – and dismissed – as an era of cultural decline. Built on new research from a four-year project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and with chapter contributions by international scholars from leading institutions, this beautifully illustrated, 336-page book edited by Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell sets out a fresh understanding of this important era. It presents a stunning array of objects and artworks to create a detailed visual account of responses to war, technology, urbanisation, political transformations and external influences.
English - 336 Pages - 26 x 29 cm - 2,2 Kg
ISBN: 9780714124933
Collectif
5 Continents, 2014
En 2014, à l’occasion de son demi-siècle d’existence, la fondation Baur, musée des Arts d’Extrême-Orient, propose au lecteur un voyage dans la Chine de la dynastie Qing, à travers les célèbres collections des musées Guimet, du Quai Branly, de l’Armée, des Arts décoratifs, du Château de Fontainebleau, de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, de la Bibliothèque de Genève, ainsi que du Victoria & Albert Museum de Londres. Cet ouvrage est principalement consacré aux empereurs Kangxi (1662-1723), Yongzheng (1723-1736) et Qianlong (1736-1796). Il évoque le pouvoir impérial et conquérant, ses rites, le rôle des jésuites dans les sciences et les arts décoratifs, les peintures de cour, les jardins secrets des empereurs mandchous, ainsi que leur rôle de mécènes et collectionneurs. Peintures et gravures impériales côtoient les soieries, les porcelaines, les jades, auxquels s’ajoutent cloisonnés, verres et livres précieux.
French - 215 Pages - 21.2 cm x 1.9 cm x 27 cm - 1.1 Kg
ISBN: 9788874396924