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Yohji Yamamoto: Talking to Myself
Peter Lindbergh , and Nick Knight Manufacturer: Steidl/Carla Sozzani ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 3882438258 Release Date: 2002-11-02 |
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French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre once defined Yohji Yamamoto's style like this: "For me, a woman in Yohji is like a nymphomaniac nun. His clothes are at once sensual and very ritualistic." This about a man whose reputation marks him as a designer of clothes for earnest intellectuals. This about a man whose 1998 "wedding" show featured a bridal striptease which took models from inflated Victorian crinolines down to slim-line dresses and pants. This about a man who is one of the most revered and idiosyncratic of 20th century designers. In Talking to Myself, Yamamoto has created an illustrated notebook that recounts the phases of his life. A work in progress punctuated with multiple images, Talking to Myself is the only book in which Yamamoto has become personally involved, making it a veritable extension of his own private world. In it, he "talks to himself" and with philosopher and art/fashion critic Kiyokazu Washida about himself and the objects he creates, objects that meld, blend with, and are assimilated by the person they seek to enhance. Pages marked by Yamamoto's pen and brush with Japanese ideograms, striking sketches, and abstract compositions help decipher his desire to achieve anti-fashion through fashion itself. Yamamoto's world is one of black and white symbols, a world in which color makes only a fleeting appearance.Customer Reviews:
A must have for the Yohji Fan.......2003-11-28
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The Art of Peter Max
Charles A. Riley II , and Peter Max Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0810932709 |
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Colorful and cosmic, Peter Max's art has been an integral part of contemporary American culture for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1960s, when his bold, bright paintings embodied the spirit of the times, up to the present day, his prolific output has inspired people in every corner of the world. Premier art institutions regularly exhibit solo shows of his work, and his trademark posters have achieved international popularity. From being named Official Artist of the Grammy Awards for five successive years to painting a Continental Airlines 777 plane, Max's projects always garner enormous media attention.In this comprehensive Max retrospective, 350 full-color images-many never before published-illustrate the artist's life and prolific career. Author Charles A. Riley II considers Max's uncanny ability to create fine art with tremendous popular appeal.
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Not enough of the psychedelic works.......2007-09-29
Excellent overview.......2007-03-16
10 Star Rating.......2007-01-15
Love the Peter Max book.......2007-01-09
Quality assured.......2006-08-10
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Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers
Max S Peters , Klaus D Timmerhaus , Ronald E. West , and Max Peters Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0072392665 |
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The fifth edition of Plant Design and Economics for Chemical Engineers is a major revision of the popular fourth edition. There are new chapters on process synthesis, computer-aided design, and design of chemical reactors. A traditionally strong feature of the text, economic analysis, has been revamped and updated. Another strength, equipment sizing and cost estimation, is updated and expanded as well. These improvements also reflect changes in equipment availability.The numerous real examples throughout the book include computer or hand solutions, and often both. There is a new increased emphasis on computer use in design, economic evaluation, and optimization. Concepts, strategies, and approaches to computer use are featured. These concepts are not tied to particular software programs and therefore apply to wide a range of applications software, of both current and future release.
This widely used text is now more useful than ever, providing a “one-stop” guide to chemical process design and evaluation.
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Good Seriver.......2007-02-14
Best learning book.......2007-01-08
PLANT DESIGN AND ECONOMICS FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERS.......2006-02-26
Should this text be Regarded like its Predecesors.......2004-09-09
Good for engineers starting the career.......2002-01-03
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Max Beckmann
Susanne Bieber , Barbara Buenger , Charles Haxthausen , Jill Lloyd , Nina Peter , Ortrud Westheider , Anette Kruszynski , Robert Storr , Max Beckmann , Leon Golub , Ellsworth Kelly , and William Kentridge Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0870702416 Release Date: 2003-05-02 |
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Max Beckmann was among the greatest painters of the 20th century, yet no retrospective of his work has been mounted in the art capitals of New York, London, and Paris in over 30 years. Perhaps the lapse of attention has to do with the importance of abstraction in 20th-century art, and Beckmann's work is always figurative, simultaneously muscular and enigmatic and has enormous and unsettling power. Beckmann began his career as a naturalist and Symbolist in the period before World War I. After the war he developed a unique pictorial style that mixed expressionist color and gesture, mythological and mystical allegory, and the harsh new objectivity of his portrayal of modern life throughout the Nazi reign of terror. A prolific artist in painting, drawing, and printmaking--as well as a powerful sculptor--Beckmann created mysterious images and dense tableaux of unparalleled intensity and complexity during an odyssey that took him from his native Germany to Paris, Amsterdam, St. Louis, and New York. A new examination of Beckmann's role and reputation during the first half of the 20th century has been eagerly awaited. Making use of new scholarship and previously unavailable research materials, this book sheds light on Beckmann's work and his influence on and interactions with the artists of his day. Essays include discussions of Beckmann's Frankfurt cityscapes, his pictures from Italy, his triptychs, his group portraits, and his relationship with cultural politics in the 1920s and 1930s; texts and interviews by artists Leon Golub and Ellsworth Kelly; curator Robert Storr on "The Beckmann Effect"; and artist William Kentridge on Beckmann's Death. This sumptuous volume is published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition mounted jointly by the Tate Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of Beckmann's work to be seen in the United States since 1984, and the first in New York since 1964.Customer Reviews:
comprehensive but...........2007-08-26
The definite Beckmann monography.......2007-04-26
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Surrealism Usa
Scott Rothkopf , Robert Lubar , Michael Duncan , Robert Hobbs , Peter Blume , Arshile Gorky , Andre Masson , Kay Sage , Joseph Cornell , Salvador Dali , Isamu Noguchi , Jackson Pollock , Yves Tanguy , and Max Ernst Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 377571524X Release Date: 2005-03-15 |
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While Surrealism became unfashionable in Europe in the 1930s, it enjoyed increasing popularity across the Atlantic at the same time. Surrealism USa, the catalogue to the exhibition at the National Academy of Design, Surrealism USA, traces the history of this movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s by examining its manifestations throughout the country--from Social Surrealism and California Post-Surrealism to Magic Realism and the beginning of Abstract Expressionism. It chronicles the wide influence of Dal' on American art, the Surrealists' response to war and fascism, and the relationship between Surrealism and abstract art. With over 100 paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings, this definitive survey brings together the work of American artists like Joseph Cornell, Peter Blume, Kay Sage, Isamu Noguchi, Arshile Gorky, and Jackson Pollock--with that of Europeans in exile during World War II, including Salvador Dal', Yves Tanguy, Andra Masson, and Max Ernst.Customer Reviews:
Museum Quality.......2005-09-05
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Secrets of Award-Winning Digital Artists: Creative Techniques and Insights for Photoshop, Painter and More
Jeremy Sutton , and Daryl Wise Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764536915 |
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* This book is both instructional and inspirational.Customer Reviews:
Eye opener.......2007-09-05
Good Book!.......2007-02-01
Digital Arts.......2006-11-16
a book of artists' works, not a technique book.......2005-11-03
excellent.......2004-01-16
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Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism In Contemporary Art
Rainer Metzger , Beate Suntgen , Peter Doig , and Laura Owens Manufacturer: Hatje Cantz Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 3775715908 Release Date: 2005-07-15 |
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In an age of increasing mobility and dissolving social bonds, the yearning for intimacy and security grows steadily stronger in western society. Plagued by uncertainty in the face of turbulent social and political systems and a sense of vulnerability generated by endless reports of war and horrific images of terror, many people are turning away from reality in search of safe havens and newly hopeful perspectives. Ideal Worlds explores the parallel reflection of this social trend in contemporary visual art. A new spirit of Romanticism is being revived in earnest by a number of young artists, from painters to new media practitioners, each of them in search of beauty, paradise lost, and the fictional world of fairytales. In some works, an emphasis on the individual and individual feelings goes hand in hand with a re-awakening interest in the landscape and its symbolic qualities. New Romanticism in Contemporary Art presents the work of some 15 artists, among them Justine Kurland, Catherine Opie, Laura Owens, and Christian Ward.
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Max Beckmann (Modern Masters Series, Vol. 19)
Peter Selz Manufacturer: Abbeville Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1558598898 |
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Max Frisch: Three Plays
Max Frisch Manufacturer: Ronsdale Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1553800001 |
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The three plays collected in this volume were the first of Max Frisch's dramatic works to reach the public. Now for the first time they appear in English, thanks to the translation skills of Michael Bullock. These plays are of special interest both to students of modern drama and admirers of Frisch. Santa Cruz (1944), Frisch's first dramatic effort, has as its subtitle "A Romance," and represents an element of fantasy that runs through all his writing, but was never again to occupy such a pre-eminent position. Now They're Singing Again (1945), written under the immediate impression of World War II, tells of a soldier who is traumatized by what he sees, hears and feels on his journey through the smouldering battlefields of Central Europe. The radio play Rip Van Winkle (1953), written after Frisch heard the legend during his stay in the USA, foreshadows his novel Stiller. A famous sculptor returns to his native Switzerland after a long absence, during which he feels that his experiences have changed him into another person. He vehemently denies being the man everyone, including his wife, believes him to be. The theme, the imposition of identity, underlies virtually all Frisch's writing and became a central element in his philosophy.
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Benzin:Young Swiss Graphic Design [Lars Muller Publishers]
Max Bruinsma , Meret Ernst , Raphael Urweider , and Ruedi Widmer Manufacturer: Lars Muller ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 3907078349 |
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Michel Fries and Thomas Bruggisser voyage through Switzerland in search of a new generation of young Swiss graphic designers. What they find is a Swiss design scene as "hip" as anything in London or Berlin. Influenced by the famous "Swiss School" of the 1950s and 60s, young Swiss designers today still hold concept and structure as functional beliefs, allowing artistic freedom in counterbalance to the service aspects of design.Beautifully designed by the editors, Benzin is itself a statement on these theoretical questions. It includes detailed portrayals of twelve selected studios and images from 36 other designers making it a great sourcebook for anyone interested in graphic design today.
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A beautiful design collection.......2001-06-11
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