Art Architecture category: 42682 books
House of Fashion
Haute Couture and the Modern Interior
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Since Charles Fredrick Worth established his luxurious Maison de Couture in 1858, the interior has played a crucial role in the display of fashion. House of Fashion provides a full historical account of the interplay between fashion and the modern interior, demonstrating how they continue to function...
Bramante et l'architecture renaissante
L’art de ressusciter le classicisme antique
Language: French
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Décryptez l'art de Bramante en moins d'une heure!
by Alan Colquhoun
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
This new account of international modernism explores the complex motivations behind this revolutionary movement and assesses its triumphs and failures. The work of the main architects of the movement such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, and Mies van der Rohe is re-examined shedding...
by Patrick Dougherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlessly intertwined with their context, his sculptures evoke fantastical...
The Spencer Mansion
A House, a Home, and an Art Gallery
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Built in 1889 and now home to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Spencer Mansion is a magnificent building with a rich and layered history. With detailed research, historian and author Robert Ratcliffe Taylor describes the original appearance of the house, designed by William Ridgway Wilson...
by Roger Fry
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Twenty-five art-related essays by distinguished British art critic and painter reveal his wide-ranging interests. Writings explore relationships between ancient and modern art and between art and life, examining such diverse topics as the art of the Bushmen, African sculpture, ancient American art,...
101 Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour
1001 Unforgettable Works of Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
A new and massively enlarged and revised version of a much praised book first published by Umberto Allemandi in 2008 (then titled ’52 Places in Italy’)
A distinguished and well-connected author with powerful and influential media and art-world friends—he is deputy chairman of Christies.
A...
Shadow-Makers
A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The making of shadows is an act as old as architecture itself. From the gloom of the medieval hearth through to the masterworks of modernism, shadows have been an essential yet neglected presence in architectural history.
Shadow-Makers tells for the first time the history of shadows in architecture....
George Washington's Eye
Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
On the banks of the Potomac River, Mount Vernon stands, with its iconic portico boasting breathtaking views and with a landscape to rival the great gardens of Europe, as a monument to George Washington’s artistic and creative efforts. More than one million people visit Mount Vernon each year—drawn...
by Giorgio Vasari
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1571) is well known for his celebrated work on the lives of the Renaissance artists. But not many people know that Vasari was a painter and architect as well as a biographer, and that he wrote one of the most valuable treatises on the technical methods of the painters, architects,...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav...
American Arcadia
California and the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored...
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw...
West of Center
Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965–1977
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American West—from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Southwest—broke the barriers between art and lifestyle and embraced the new, hybrid sensibilities of the...