1892 products
Philippe Dagen
Schirmer/Mosel, 2008
Since the early 1980s, Bettina Rheims has been the most sought-after French photographer. From her very beginnings, the female body has been the central focus of her work. Her unusual and provocative portraits and nude images each reveal a hidden part of the subject. She regularly caused stirs with projects such as Chambre close (1992), the story of a Paris voyeur watching women in hotels; KIM, a documentary on a transsexual; I.N. R. I. (1999), a sequence on the life of Christ, Shanghai (2004), featuring women in the midst of a powerful cultural, economic and spiritual evolution, and, most recently, Heroines (2006). This volume is a Best Of... survey of Bettina Rheims' photographic oeuvre of 30 years.
English - 136 Pages - 22 cm x 1.4 cm x 26.8 cm - 0.5 Kg
ISBN: 9783829603645
Italo Tomassoni, Joseph Beuys
Silvana Editoriale, 2006
This publication, published on the occasion of the museum rearrangement of Palazzo della Penna in Perugia, created by Italo Tomassoni, offers an exhaustive and updated reading of Joseph Beuys, one of the most emblematic protagonists of post-World War II world art. In fact, the six blackboards made in Perugia by Beuys in 1980 during a meeting, which later became a historical one, have found a new location in the final museum aspect between the German master and Burri. The volume, due to its overall contents which go beyond the occasion of the inauguration of the Museum, is also an ultimate tool for studying and deepening the ideology and aesthetics of the German master.
English - 168 Pages - 68.8 cm x 1.6 cm x 27 cm - 1 Kg
ISBN:9788882156619
Beyond Extravagance: A Royal Collection of Gems and Jewels (2nd Edition)
Dr. Amin Jaffer
ASSOULINE, 2019
Awakening a new understanding of the diverse tradition of Indian jewelry spanning four hundred years, the first edition of Beyond Extravagance in 2013 revealed for the first time the exceptional Al Thani Collection of the most important royal Indian jewels from the Mughal Empire to the British Raj to the twenty-first century. Exploring the centuries-long tradition of fine jewelry and art objects in India, to contemporary interpretations that continue to evolve today, this spectacular volume has been expanded and updated to highlight over 400 items in this magnificent collection. Edited by Amin Jaffer, senior curator of The Al Thani Collection, each section includes a detailed catalogue raisonné of featured pieces. 400 color illustrations
English - 652 pages - 27.69 cm x 35.56 cm x 9.91 cm - 7.03 Kg
ISBN: 9781614284628
Collectif
Skira / Seuil, 2001
La crise des idéaux révolutionnaires, l'écroulement du songe universaliste de Napoléon et les modifications imposées par la Restauration favorisent en Europe la naissance de modèles de vie et de comportement, et d'un goût artistique alternatif au style Empire et aux sollicitations classiques, visant à encourager un repli dans l'intimité domestique, dans le petit univers du quotidien bourgeois et dans une conception de la nature édulcorée et doucement mélancolique : C'est ce qui définit le style Biedermeier en Europe centrale (l'Empire austro-hongrois) et plus précisément en Autriche, Bohême, Hongrie et Allemagne septentrionale. Plus qu'un style, c'est un art de vivre qui imprègne toute la production artistique européenne entre 1815 et 1848, surtout dans le domaine de l'ameublement et des arts décoratifs, avec des interprétations nationales, notamment en Russie, en Scandinavie, dans la France de Charles X et de Louis Philippe, dans l'Italie de Charles Albert de Savoie et dans l'empire britannique de Victoria. Ce volume propose une lecture critique et historique à jour, avec un très riche répertoire de peintures, verres, vêtements, meubles, orfèvrerie et des notes bibliographiques résumant le style Biedermeier, prélude à la culture bourgeoise européenne et au modernisme international
Français - 263 Pages - 29 x 2.2 x 25 cm - 3,9 Kg
ISBN: 9798881189129
Jiri Rak
Skira, 2001
This book sets out to investigate the wealth of the artistic production that developed in Central Europe (Austria and Bohemia in particular) in the first half of the 19th century, when Biedermeier appeared as an original attempt to give rise to a "universal" stylistic expression. Its simplicity of line, rigorous and simple although not lacking in elegance and refinement, the appearance of the first craft productions based on standard models and its unquestionable modernity all make Biedermeier the first example of design, the undisputed point of breakdown between Classicism and Modernism. Indeed, it is considered on the most fascinating genres of the 19th century. The volume offers a 360° view of Central European production using more than 300 objects of extraordinary originality, quality and workmanship from the National Gallery and Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts of Prague and from major Bohemian museums. Paintings, furnishings, sculptures, drawings, graphic works, artistic craftsmanship, jewels, ceramics and glassware that decorated the homes of gentry and bourgeois, miniatures, daguerreotypes... Remarkable pieces such as the refined lady's desk, designed and constructed in the workshop of the most important creator of Biedermeier furniture, the Viennese Josef Danhauser (1780- 1829), and a beautiful lyre- shaped secrétaire with walnut veneer and musical motif carvings that overcome the ostentation of Empire style.
English - 304 Pages - 25 x 2.5 x 28 cm - 1,7 Kg
ISBN: 9788881188666