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Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2004
ISBN 10: 3791331493ISBN 13: 9783791331492
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Olivier Widmaier Picasso set out on a journey to rediscover the famous grandfather whose works decorated the walls of his parents' home in Marseille. His research brought to light details of Picasso's life that had always remained hidden from the general public. These details are now revealed exclusively in this book. The author explains why certain myths have grown up around modern art's founder and he rebuts the slanderous attacks made against Picasso in the past. Picasso's grandson spoke to the people who really knew his grandfather - famous contemporaries and leading figures from the worlds of art and the law, as well as ordinary individuals who played a part in his life. The author paints an intimate portrait of the artist and provides a delicate counterbalance to the public perception of the artist.The author describes Picasso's relationships with the women in his life and his children and examines his views on love, sex, and family life, as well as money, politics, power, fame, death, and eternity. This book reveals the story of one man's life and dispels many of the myths that surround the prolific artist and insatiable man. For the first time, the reader is let into the secrets of the Picasso estate with its eventful history and the incredible value of the inheritance.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1998
ISBN 10: 3791319418ISBN 13: 9783791319414
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. An examination of Bruegel's piece also looks at Antwerp in the sixteenth century and includes reproductions of other works on the subject.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1997
ISBN 10: 379131808XISBN 13: 9783791318080
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised, Updated, Subsequent. With over 370 black-and-white photographs of startling clarity, this is an exciting book for movie buff and fashion aficionado alike. The book features film stills and studio portraits of all the major fashion designs of Hollywood. The hats, hairstyles, evening gowns, men's fashions, period costumes and films that started fashion trends, plus all the 'Oscar' winners for costume design upto the 1996 ceremonies, are included.This wealth of photo material will enthrall Hollywood fans. Fifty stars are featured in the evening gown chapter alone. Men's fashion includes such stars as Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, and Humphrey Bogart from the heyday of Hollywood, and modern-day movie idols Jack Nicholson, Eddie Murphy, and Kevin Costner.Fashion in Film includes the fabulous evening gowns worn by the Hollywood idols Grace Kelly, Mae West, Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor; the hats worn by Greta Garbo, Hedy Lamarr and Audrey Hepburn; and the gloves and hairstyles of the stars.The indexes are of particular value to the film connoisseur, facilitating access to all photographs listed under movie, costume designer, director and actor/actress. These pictures come from the Historical Film Archive Engelmeier Munich, the largest private collection of movie stills and stock photographs in Europe.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Pub, 2023
ISBN 10: 3791326104ISBN 13: 9783791326108
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated edition. Book by Prestel, Neumann, Hermann.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1999
ISBN 10: 3791324845ISBN 13: 9783791324845
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Over a period of seven years Reiner Leist traveled across America, photographing people from Rochester to Key West and from New York City to Los Angeles. Before making a portrait the photographer asked each person to provide him with a childhood photograph. This childhood image often supplied the initial visual framework for his portrait. The essays which accompany each pair of images reveal the subjects' own views on their lives and what it means to be an American.Like America itself, the book presents a diverse tableau of race and background, youth and experience, native born and immigrant, capturing the complex mix of American today.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1989
ISBN 10: 3791308475ISBN 13: 9783791308470
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Offers a profile of the German artist, shows examples of his paintings and photographs, and discusses his approach to art.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2005
ISBN 10: 3791333003ISBN 13: 9783791333007
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd. A penetrating exploration of the American realist painter, who was able to capture the many moods of the nation he called home.Edward Hoppers talent for depicting multiple aspects of the post-war experience is the focus of this flexi-cover edition of Edward Hopper: Portraits of America. From his images of deserted small towns and solitary figures in empty offices to his cheerfully tranquil New England landscapes, Hoppers most famous compositions are presented as products of a life spent observing human nature. Hoppers images evoke an enigmatic uncertainty, which speaks to the heart of the American experience.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Pub, 1999
ISBN 10: 3791311816ISBN 13: 9783791311814
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). Book by Van Der Ree, Paul, Smienk, Gerrit, Steenbergen, Clemens.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2005
ISBN 10: 3791332988ISBN 13: 9783791332987
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Revised, Updated. Foster and Partners is one of the most significant architectural practices in the world today, a fact recognised by Norman Foster's receipt of the Pritzker Prize in 1999 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2002 - marks of the highest international distinction for achievement in architecture and the arts.The last few years have seen some of Foster's most remarkable and ambitious projects around the world. In London, the Swiss Re headquarters - the capital's first ecological tall building - has become a popular landmark, while the arch of the new Wembley Stadium is already a familiar element on the skyline. In New York the distinctive headquarters tower for the Hearst Corporation pioneers new environmental standards for Manhattan office buildings.This new catalogue documents the practice's work over the last four decades. With detailed descriptions of more than eighty buildings and projects, it offers a comprehensive survey of the practice's diverse activities as urban planners, architects and industrial designers, covering a spectrum from the scale of the city masterplan to the detail of a door handle. It includes designs for airports, railway stations, bridges, museums, schools, universities, offices, private houses, furniture and products.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2002
ISBN 10: 3791327712ISBN 13: 9783791327716
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. From Daguerre's early experiments, Fenton's photographic documentation of the Crimea, and Brady's portrayals of America's Civil War, to Muybridge's galloping horses or Julia Margaret Cameron's romantic portraits - Icons of Photography: The 19th Century presents the geniuses who helped transform a scientific discovery into a means of artistic expression.The invention of photography in the nineteenth century ignited an artistic and scientific frenzy. Icons of Photography: The 19th Century includes works made using an extensive range of early photographic techniques and examines the enduring legacy of photography's pioneers.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1997
ISBN 10: 3791312537ISBN 13: 9783791312538
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book by Welch, Stuart Cary.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2005
ISBN 10: 3791329677ISBN 13: 9783791329673
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This sumptuously illustrated book surveys five hundred years of artistic output from a pantheon of women who broke rules, defied convention, and paved the way for generations to follow.Why over the course of history have so few women been recognized as "great" artists? Explanations and rationalizations for this phenomenon abound, but women have been producing brilliant works of art for as long as their male contemporaries. This latest volume in the successful Icons series profiles forty-five female artists and their significant contributions to the canon of art history.This book starts in the sixteenth century, when women were first formally allowed to participate in the period's artistic enlightenment, and continues through today, when artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer have firmly established themselves as critically and commercially important. Icons of Art: Women Artists uses elegantly designed double-paged spreads to examine the life, challenges and accomplishments of its subjects. Each entry includes a large-scale four-color reproduction of a specific work, a brief, illuminating biographical sketch, and accompanying illustrations, photographs and documents. Written with a scholar as well as the layperson in mind, this attractively designed, wide-ranging volume offers incontrovertible proof of the power and range of women artists.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2004
ISBN 10: 3791329294ISBN 13: 9783791329291
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Mathew Brady and his famous photographers, including Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, and James Gibson, created an indelible record of bravery, suffering and sacrifice during the American Civil War. With more than 400 photographs, ranging from seminal Civil War images to never-before published pictures, In the Wake of Battle: The Civil War Images of Mathew Brady is one of the most comprehensive collections of Civil War photography ever published.Arranged by battle site and event, each of which is introduced by a brief explanatory essay, the volume offers carefully researched archival information about the images and their photographers. In addition, lists of Library of Congress and National Archives order numbers make this volume a most valuable and unique resource.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2002
ISBN 10: 3791327941ISBN 13: 9783791327945
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Giorgio de Chirico's idiosyncratic symbolic style had a powerful influence on 20th-century art, and in particular on Surrealism. His strange dreamscapes, featuring classical statues, Italian piazzas, sinister shadows, geometric objects, and mannequins are filled with enigma. This richly illustrated book focuses on the artist's mysterious and fascinating representations of the human form and describes how events and friendships in his life influenced his artistic development.At a young age de Chirico was deeply impressed by Arnold Boecklin's painting of Odysseus on the island of Calypso. De Chiroco appropriated Boecklin's Odysseus for his own paintings, at first with little modification, then pushing it ever further into the background until it appeared only as a shadow. The author explains how the figure underwent numerous additional alterations in later paintings before returning to centerstage as the famous "manichino" figure, the faceless tailor's dummy.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2001
ISBN 10: 3791322168ISBN 13: 9783791322162
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Revised. English (translation)Original German.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2005
ISBN 10: 3791333259ISBN 13: 9783791333250
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Published to coincide with the grand opening of Grant Woods studio at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa, this in-depth exploration of the artists most fruitful period brings together some of his best-known paintings and rarely seen decorative art works. The modest nineteenth-century red brick carriage house in a small Midwestern city offers no indication that it once housed one of Americas most revered artists. But step inside the doors of 5 Turner Alley and discover a space which exudes the essence of American utility, simplicity and inventiveness that distinguishes Woods work.By carefully tracing the development of Wood's work, from his decorative interiors and objects designed for his studio to his most famous paintings, such as American Gothic, this exquisitely produced volume provides new clues to Wood's success as a painter, craftsman and designer. Thoughtful essays examine how Wood's drawings and paintings, alongside his work in metal, wood, and interior design, together best represent the culmination of his personal experience as well as his taste and sense of humor.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1997
ISBN 10: 3791318756ISBN 13: 9783791318752
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Presents some of Paul Klee's paintings and explains how they represent different ways of seeing.
Published by Brand: Prestel Pub, 1999
ISBN 10: 3791319965ISBN 13: 9783791319964
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Book by.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2009
ISBN 10: 3791342290ISBN 13: 9783791342290
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Globalization in the fashion world has taken many forms an increasing number of the worlds fashion dynasties outsource their finishing work, and many of them are turning to the embroidery artisans of mumbai the embroidery of india traces its history to the regions mogul emperors of the twelfth century these days much of the handiwork is done in clean, well-lit studios in mumbai, usually by men from villages outside the large city aurore belkins thoughtful photographs of these workers depict their daily labors and the careful work that has gone into each piece a large section of close-up photographs examines the intricate details of the embroidery the book rounds off with a section on how the handiwork is incorporated into the latest fashion designs through this book readers are introduced to an art form that is centuries old, but adapting itself to twenty-first century realities.
Published by Brand: Prestel Pub, 1990
ISBN 10: 3791310992ISBN 13: 9783791310992
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Later Printing. Book by Sempe, Jean J.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1999
ISBN 10: 3791316834ISBN 13: 9783791316833
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. King Leopold II of Belgium founded the Tervuren Museum in 1897 as a "window on Central Africa" for the Belgian people, to draw attention to the opportunities for trade that existed there. He had ruled the Congo Free State (now Zaire) from 1885 and was still king of Belgium when it annexed the territory in 1908 as the Belgian Congo.The Congo was the destination of many scientific and ethnographic expeditions; among the most notable was one undertaken by E. Torday and T.A. Joyce of the British Museum from 1907 to 1909. The most famous, however, was the first of all: in 1877, six years after his legendary meeting with Dr. Livingstone in neighboring Tanzania, Henry M. Stanley traced the hitherto unexplored Congo River as a reporter with the New York Herald.Missionaries, civil servants, scientists, and travelers brought back a plethora of indigenous artifacts, cultural treasures and some superb photographic records from these expeditions, including material that documented decades of cultures that had already disappeared. For many years, until interest in 'ethnographica' grew in the art world, the aesthetic value of this 'Aladdins's Cave' of objects went unrecognized by all the but specialists. So many dossiers were compiled and objects collected that much of the material has remained unseen by the general public for over three generations.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1999
ISBN 10: 3791326872ISBN 13: 9783791326870
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ever since the first hot-air balloons sailed over the French countryside in the eighteenth century, both delighting and terrifying those watching below, the world has had ambivalent feelings towards air-filled forms. This first up-to-date history explores the fear and wonder evoked by inflatable technologies in all aspects of life: from children s toys to military craft and everything in between.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2003
ISBN 10: 3791328441ISBN 13: 9783791328447
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The exploits of Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, and Neil Armstrong ignited a worldwide obsession with futuristic living, but where did it all go? Intense optimism for a space-age future invaded every aspect of design, from fashion and furniture to architecture and typography. But, all of a sudden, it vanished, and euphoria about the future gave way to anxiety. Where's My Space Age? charts the rise and fall of the space age aesthetic and highlights a trend among contemporary artists to question this deceptively complex period. A unique examination of a fascinating era, Where's My Space Age? is one giant leap into a world of nostalgia.Featured artists and designers include: Joe Colombo, Verner Panton, Quasar Khanh, Eero Saarinen, AJS Aerolande, Pierre Cardin, Courreges, Paco Rabanne, Frutiger, Haus-Rucker-Co, Archigram, Matti Suuronen, Jean Maneval, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Kisho Kurokawa, Andrew Grassie, Mariko Mori, Brian Cyril Griffiths, Fergal Stapleton, Anthony Dunne and Flona Raby, Aleksej Iskos, LOT/EK, Martin Ruiz de Azua, Monica Forster, Softroom, Ushida Findlay.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Pub, 1999
ISBN 10: 3791316729ISBN 13: 9783791316727
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Condition: very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 1999
ISBN 10: 3791321765ISBN 13: 9783791321769
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The Chinese-born American architect Ioeh Ming Pei is one of the most prolific architects of our times. Best known for such as the East Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and his controversial and critically acclaimed Grand Louvre glass pyramid in Paris (1983-89), his architectural oeuvre is characterized by the importance of light. In a series of intimate interviews with filmmaker Gero von Boehm, this volume explores the origins, ideas, and motives behind Pei's work.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2006
ISBN 10: 3791335456ISBN 13: 9783791335452
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In the shallow waters off the coasts of Egypt, the French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio discovered and excavated parts of three ancient cities: Alexandria, Herakleion, Egypt's ancient gateway to the Mediterranean, and the old port of Canopus. Modern technology has made it possible to recover relics, including statuary, jewellery, pediments, stone tablets and fragments of buildings, all lost for nearly two thousand years. Like a giant puzzle, the individual pieces have been fitted together and breathed new life into Egyptian history.In photographs of the excavation process, Egypt's Sunken Treasures enables the reader to follow the fate of three ancient cities in the Nile Delta and to look at the valuable clues as to how their citizens lived and worshipped.
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2003
ISBN 10: 3791329685ISBN 13: 9783791329680
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Presents 150 images of moths, produced by high-resolution scans, which emphasize the remarkably complex designs of nature.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2002
ISBN 10: 3791327844ISBN 13: 9783791327846
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2006
ISBN 10: 3791335294ISBN 13: 9783791335292
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Hardcover. Condition: used. Product Description Housing in the 20th and 21st Centuries Wolfgang Frster This wide-ranging book examines the worlds most significant large-scale housing complexes, which point the way for the future of housing design. The seventy residential complexes featured here are recognized as architectural milestones, embodying forward-thinking attitudes towards urban planning. This book chronicles the evolution of these structures, revealing how each best represented its eras goals: housing a new society in the 1920s and 30s; the 40s and 50s leap toward functionality and the future; the high-density urban projects of the 60s and 70s; and diversity and environmental awareness in the 80s and 90s. It also looks at this centurys most progressive developments: Beijings Looped Hybrid, a city within a city; Indias Aranya township, which provides housing for impoverished residents; and the environmentally friendly Solaire Apartments in Manhattan, among others. As todays cities face myriad global challenges, this book provides ample food for thought for anyone concerned with socially responsible architecture. Wolfgang Frster oversees several European Union projects in the field of residential construction and has published widely in the field of housing and urban renewal. From the Publisher Library Journal, July 2006 "The works value lies not only in its comprehensive collection of major urban-housing projects, but also in the ways it identifies and traces how these innovative complexes address and embody prevailing societal goals of sustainable urban density, diversity, environmental consciousness, and social responsibility.".
Published by Brand: Prestel Publishing, 2007
ISBN 10: 3791338862ISBN 13: 9783791338866
Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
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