Книги издательства Phaidon Press
Название: The Anatomy of Fashion
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2013
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Why do we dress the way we do? Why has fashion changed and evolved over the centuries? How did the 3-piece suit come about? Why have hemlines risen and fallen over time? In The Anatomy of Fashion, respected fashion commentator Colin McDowell goes beyond standard fashion histories and narrative surveys to answer these questions and many more. Uniquely structured, taking the reader through fashion and dress from head to toe — the whole body is anatomized into sections including 'The Body Unclothed' (Skin and Body Adornment, Materials and Texture, and Colour and Pattern), 'The Body Anatomized' ('Head to Waist'and 'Hips to Feet'), and 'The Body Clothed' (Looks and Themes in Dress). Visually rich, with over 500 photographs, illustrations, paintings and film stills, the book includes work by designers and labels such as Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, Versace, Carhartt, Diesel and more. The book's dynamic structure and layout are equally suited for browsing and for serious reference, but The Anatomy of Fashion is not simply a picture book. It is a sourcebook by one of the world's leading fashion scholars that seeks nothing less than a thorough analysis of the roots of every aspect of fashion today.
Название: The Big Book of Art
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2013
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This is your first book of art. Grab it, hold it, flip through the pages, turn it upside down...there's no limit to what you can make with it. What can you see? Scribbles and splodges, shapes and letters, signs and lines. Now you're the artist: mix and match the patterns and paintings by simply turning the pages. Use your creativity and your imagination, and most importantly, have fun while finding out what you can create with this book! From the New York Times bestselling author of Press Here comes The Big Book of Art. This interactive book encourages children to mix and match hundreds of colours, shapes and patterns and to use their imagination to create art. It leaves plenty of room for kids to add their own stories and serves as a tool they can use in expressing themselves. Sure to delight children and parents alike, The Big Book of Art will make learning fun and exciting for everyone involved.
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2010
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Salon to Biennial documents the most important international group art exhibitions from 1863 to today, and will become the key and most comprehensive reference book on the subject of contemporary art group exhibitions. Salon to Biennial will be published in two volumes; Volume 1, scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2007, begins with the Salon des Refuses, Paris, 1863, and the beginning of the evolution of the exhibition format, and ends with the 'The New American Painting,' a multi-location international exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1958-59.
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A companion piece to Noma, A Work in Progress is a personal account of life at the now famous restaurant. Written by Rene Redzepi as a series of journal entries the text will be accompanied by approximately 75 brand new recipes worked on during the year. Illustrated with a combination of candid photography shot by Rene and his team (125 images), plus final dish shots (90), A Work in Progress promises to be a unique insight into the inner workings of the restaurant and its highly creative team of chefs.
Название: David Gilbertson's Wine Bar Theory
Жанр: Phaidon Press
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Wine Bar Theory is an attitude and an approach to work. It's not about cutting corners, it's about wanting the very best and not settling for less. It's a theory that can pave your road to success. Author David Gilbertson built a failing company into a successful multi-billion dollar business without getting up at 4:00am or working until midnight. He knows how to work better, and get brilliant results. Now in just 28 simple rules, he spells out the secret of his success; everyday accessible strategies for creative professionals, managers, students, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to get ahead in life. As one rule follows another, he builds a compelling narrative on paving the way to success (and getting that all-important time to go to a wine bar with friends, or just time to think). Covering workplace issues and business strategy, Wine Bar Theory shows you things you can do more easily, and things you don't need to do at all. It's about being effective and not just busy. This affordable, pocket-sized book is a business book like no other. Its creative illustrations are by Bill Butcher, whose work is seen in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, Fortune and the Economist
Название: The Design Book
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The Design Book is the greatest collection of inspirational product design in one affordable and collectable book. It showcases 500 of the most innovative, beautiful and influential products from the last five centuries that are still in production today. Each entry includes an image and a descriptive caption, providing accessible information about the product, designer, manufacturer and history. The book includes not only classic objects by Breuer, Le Corbusier, Eames, Castiglioni and more, but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the paper clip, the deck chair, and the corkscrew. It is an extraordinary journey through the objects that have shaped our society, from the first attempts to combine function and beauty in the 19 century, through the advent of plastic and other new materials of the 1950s and 60s, right up to the design classics of today.
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For two months before, during and after the coup that toppled the Communist government, the author travelled the Soviet Union taking photographs of a society in turmoil. He used his camera and journal to create this book, which is both intimate and epic.
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2013
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'I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.' Alex Atala 'A cuisine unlike anything I've ever had in my life.' Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park 'Whenever I see that Dos Equis commercial — the most interesting man in the world — I always think, no, that's not true. The most interesting man in the world is Alex Atala.' David Chang, Momofuku At D.O.M. in Sao Paulo, widely regarded as one of the best restaurants in the world, you won't find traditional staple ingredients of fine dining. Caviar, foie gras, and truffles are all absent from the menus. For the past 15 years, acclaimed Chef Alex Atala, a native of Brazil and the only chef named one of TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013, has refused to import any ingredients traditionally found in the European kitchens in which he trained. Instead, he has scoured the lush bounty of the Amazon for indigenous produce and proteins, and crafted a cuisine steeped in classical techniques but distinctly and uniquely Brazilian. D.O.M: Rediscovering Brazilian Ingredients is the first major cookbook by Alex Atala, offering an in-depth look at the products and creative process that make up his innovative cuisine. The book features 65 recipes such as Fresh Heart of Palm With Scallops and Coral Sauce; Lightly Toasted Black Rice with Green Vegetables and Brazil Nut Milk, Lamb Hind Shanks with Yam Puree and Pitanga, and Priprioca, Lime and Banana Ravioli. 150 stunning colour photographs bring each dish to life while revealing the vibrant, landscapes of Atala's Brazil. The result is an immersive experience that transports readers into the streets of Sao Paulo and the rainforests of the Amazon, while getting inside the mind of one of the world's best chefs as he captures flavours that can be found nowhere else in the world. The book features an introduction by chef Alain Ducasse.
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2013
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Art & Place is an extraordinary collection of outstanding art destinations in the Americas, visited by millions of people every year. The book features hundreds of powerful and spectacular art works, all created by an artist specifically for their location — whether indoors, outdoors, desert, in the mountains or in the middle of a city. This is art to experience — in an immersive way — presented together in a single book for the first time. From the monumental sculptures of Richard Serra to the grand land art of Robert Smithson, and from the to the oversized public installations of Claus Oldenberg to Diego Rivera's History of Mexico in Mexico City, Art & Place is the only book to compile all the best of site specific art of North, Central and South America. Featuring beloved site-specific art in 60 cities — from Albuquerque to Washington, DC and from Baja to Rio de Janeiro — Art & Place features maps pinpointing the location of sites and specially commissioned plans show the layout of complex sites. Each of the works has a dedicated entry that includes large-format images with an explanation of how the artist adapted their work to its environment. Art & Place presents works geographically rather than chronologically, allowing fresh juxtapositions and exciting opportunities for comparison to arise, as a spread of rock art may appear next to a contemporary sculpture. Covering everything from carving and painting, murals and frescos, mosaics, altarpieces, tapestries, integral sculpture, stained glass, earthworks and land art, there is something for everyone in this one-of-a-kind book.
Название: Art as Therapy
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2013
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There is widespread agreement that art is 'very important' — but it can be remarkably hard to say quite why. Yet if art is to enjoy its privileges, it has to be able to demonstrate its relevance in understandable ways to the widest possible audience. Alain de Botton and John Armstrong have a firm belief that art can help us with our most intimate and ordinary dilemmas, asking: What can I do about the difficulties in my relationships? Why is my work not more satisfying? Why do other people seem to have a more glamorous life? Why is politics so depressing? The purpose of this book is to introduce a new method of interpreting art: art as a form of therapy. It's the authors' contention that certain art works provide powerful solutions to our problems, but that in order for this potential to be released, the audience's attention has to be directed towards it in a new way (which they demonstrate), rather than towards the more normal historical or stylistic concerns with which art books and museum captions are traditionally associated. The authors propose that the squeamish belief that art should be 'for art's sake' has unnecessarily held back art from revealing its latent therapeutic potential. This book involves reframing and recontextualising a series of art works from across the ages and genres, so that they can be approached as tools for the resolution of difficult issues in individual life.
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2013
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Today the art world is more of a world in every sense, with a larger population, a wider territory and a greater number of nationalities. Its prevailing conversation, however, has yet to catch up. Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes uncovers twelve distinct avant-gardes that have emerged around the world in recent decades. The format is simple — twelve curators each selected eight artists to represent the avant-garde of twelve specific cities. Exploring the artistic heritage, cultural climate and contemporary milieu of these emerging cities, this ground-breaking book features a variety of media including photography, painting, sculpture, installation, video, performance and new media works, by a new generation of artists gaining prominence on the international art circuit. Cities highlighted in the book include: Beirut, Bogota, Cluj, Delhi, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Lagos, San Juan, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Singapore and Vancouver. Lively, thought-provoking, comprehensive, and packed with more than 500 images, this book is sure to widen the historical narrative, allowing us to imagine a future of diverse aesthetics and shared concerns in the common language of contemporary art.
Название: A Day at ElBulli
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2012
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A Day at elBulli, Classic Edition is an exclusive look behind the scenes at elBulli, voted 'Best Restaurant in the World' for the last three years, and into the mind of Ferran Adria, the most creative chef working today. With two million requests for reservations every year, it is notoriously difficult to get a table there. Now, for the first time, A Day at elBulli opens the doors to everyone and reveals the inner workings of the kitchen and the gastronomic innovations that have helped create the spectacular food. Illustrated with over 1,000 colour photographs, the book includes recipes and innovative inserts explaining the creative methods and food philosophy, the reservations policy, the history of elBulli and the life of Ferran Adria. Aimed at all food enthusiasts as well as industry professionals, the book starts with daybreak at 6.15 am, then shows visits to the local markets to source ingredients, Ferran's arrival at the workshop, his morning creative experimentation session, the arrival of the rest of the brigade at 2.30 pm to begin the mise-en-place for the evening, the daily tasks of the front of house team, and the arrival of the first guests for dinner from 7.4 5 pm until the last guests' departure by 2.00 am. With its innovative structure and striking design, A Day at elBulli provides a fascinating insight into the rare and magical experience of eating at elBulli.
Название: Wild Art
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2013
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Wild Art is an incredibly brash and current collection of over 300 extraordinary artworks that are too offbeat, outrageous, kitsch, quirky or funky to 'make it' in the formal art world of galleries and museums. From pimped cars and graffiti to extreme body art, ice sculpture, flash mobs, burlesque acts, portraits made from bottle tops, paintings made by animals, light shows, carnivals and giant artworks that can only truly be appreciated from the air, this book has it all. The works featured here are variously moving, funny or shocking, celebrating the beauty and art in anything and everything. Authors David Carrier and Joachim Pissarro have studied alternative and underground art forms and cultures for years and have compiled the ultimate collection of creative works to challenge and engage every reader's perception of what is and isn't art.
Название: Cindy Sherman
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2014
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The perfect introduction to the life and work of Cindy Sherman.
Название: Georgia O'Keeffe
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2014
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The perfect introduction to the life and art of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Название: Magnum Stories: 61 Magnum Photographers
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2014
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This book explores the 'photo story' through 61 master classes by some of the world's greatest photographers, all members of the international photographic agency Magnum.
Название: Al Pacino
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2014
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Anatomy of an Actor titles are comprehensive studies on the craft of the world's greatest actors, through the analysis of ten of their most iconic roles. The authors examine why and how these famous actors have become some of the most respected and influential in the film world. Each title is divided into 10 chapters, each one dedicated to a specific role and fully documented with film stills, on-set photography and film sequences.
Название: Notes from the Couch
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2006
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This hardback notebook features cartoons and illustrations on the theme of psychoanalysis by New Yorker cover artist Jean-Jacques Sempe, who is one of the best-loved illustrators in the world today, as well as lined and blank pages to write down thoughts, ideas and dreams. The illustrations collected in Notes from the Couch explore the complex and sometimes absurd relationships between therapists and their patients, captured with Sempe's signature insight, wit and lightness of touch.
Жанр: Phaidon Press
Год: 2010
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Begun in 1973, Audio Arts is a one-of-a-kind venture: an audio magazine of new interviews with the world's most important contemporary artists. Distributed in cassette format until 2002 and on CD from 2003-07, the interviews in Audio Arts have never before been published. Speaking of Art collects the c. 50 best interviews from the Audio Arts archive. These range from towering figures in art history (Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, John Cage) to the current stars of the contemporary scene (Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Demand, Mike Nelson). At a future date all c. 350 interview transcripts from the Audio Arts archive will be unveiled on the Phaidon web site, creating an unparalleled online resource that will be a trove for artists, students, researchers and art fans everywhere.
Название: Sempe: A Question of Balance Postcards
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A set of 24 postcards on a cycling theme, presented in a cloth-covered clam shell box, featuring illustrations by Jean-Jacques Sempe, one of the most successful and best-loved cartoonists in the world. Sempe's drawings and watercolours are funny, charming and instantly appealing. The postcards feature cyclists of all shapes and sizes: there are professional racers as well grannies with baskets full of shopping, small children wobbling along on two wheels for the first time and couples in love who are more than happy to squeeze onto a bicycle made for one.
