Искусство

This uniquely exhaustive survey of the leading artist of Viennese Art Nouveau style offers art lovers an irresistible opportunity: page after page of Klimt's paintings and frescoes along with illuminating commentary about his life and career.

The author presents Klimt's entire painted oeuvre on an unprecedented scale. His commentary reflects the latest academic findings, such as Klimt's newly discovered church frescoes in Istria, in chapters featuring a wide range of topics, including Klimt and women, the Viennese Secession, landscapes, portraits, and allegories.

This volume's remarkable packaging reflects the magnificence of the work within. The book's large format allows close examination of the exquisite detail and luminescent quality of the work for which Klimt is renowned, making it a perfect gift or collector's item. Best of all, it provides viewers with an all-encompassing perspective on one of history's greatest painters.

The feminine world. The work of the great Austrian symbolist

Gustav Klimt’s ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna’s upper-middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century — a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure.

The ecstatic joy which Klimt (1862–1918) and his contemporaries found — or hoped to find — in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death, therefore, plays an important role in Klimt’s art. Klimt’s fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his times. His drawings in particular, which have been widely admired for their artistic excellence, are dominated by the sensual portrayal of women.

About the Series:

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art Series features:

- a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
- a concise biography
- approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions

The author:

Gilles Néret (1933–2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'Œil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, Matisse, and Erotica Universalis.

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Gold, flowers, and female beauty. The work of the decadent Austrian symbolist

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, ageing, and death.

The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate and jewel-like luminosity which show influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is defined by radiant colour, fluid lines, floral elements, and mosaic-like patterning.

With a number of subjects dealing with sensuality and desire as well as anxiety and despair, all this iridescence is also suffused with feeling. Klimt's numerous images of women, characterized by curvaceous forms, tender flesh, red lips and flushed cheeks, were particularly charged with passion, at a time when such frank eroticism was still taboo in Viennese upper-middle-class society.

This book presents a selection of Klimt's work, introducing his pictorial world of decoration and desire, as well as his influence on artists to come. 

About the series:

Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features:

 - a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
 - a concise biography
 - approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

Eloquent and provocative drawings, exquisitely reproduced, provide an intimate encounter with these two daring Austrian masters.

Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were two of the most daring and controversial artists in Vienna during the culturally turbulent decades around the turn of the 20th century. They worked out their provocative depictions of the human body, created in a search for psychological truth as well as physical realism, in the direct and intimate medium of drawing. In Klimt’s studies, the distinctive character or unsettling emotional resonance of the person portrayed comes through in the artist’s delicate, sinuous lines. The striking presence of the individual in Schiele’s more finished drawings, often rendered with extreme frankness and bold colouration, pulses with dramatic immediacy. Although Klimt was almost thirty years Schiele’s senior, he quickly recognized and encouraged the younger artist’s extraordinary talent.

The sixty important works exquisitely reproduced in large format in this volume reach from each artist’s early academic studies to more incisive and unconventional explorations of nature, psychology, sexuality and spirituality. By giving viewers access to these artists’ worlds, this album of unforgettable drawings provides a direct connection to the minds of two master draftsmen exploring the limits of representation, as well as the shock of recognition at seeing our own inner lives caught on paper.

Since the 1950s, German painter Konrad Klapheck has been producing a rigorous body of work. The bulk of his extraordinarily focused artistic career comprises a continued painterly investigation of technological machines and everyday objects such as typewriters, sewing machines, and ventilators. The artist’s canvases, however, are not mere depictions; the objects Klapheck presents are subtly anthropomorphized and charged with psychological, social, and political meaning. A telephone, for example, takes on a playful, eroticized quality in one canvas, while a typewriter becomes a menacing object evocative of brute power in another. An artist’s artist, Klapheck has never painted according to fashions dictated by the art world; he is a painter guided by his own obsessions. However, his work bears a number of crucial relationships to the history of painting and to the artistic and intellectual concerns of postwar art. In its unexpected combination of deadpan depiction and evocative playfulness, Klapheck’s canvases forge an important link in twentieth-century art, melding elements from Surrealism and Pop Art with a singular painterly sensibility to create a uniquely influential body of work.

This long-overdue English-language monograph comprises an in-depth examination of Klapheck’s work, bringing together an extensive group of paintings that span the continued course of his career. The publication provides an overview of important paintings of technological devices and machinery, while also presenting examples of more recent evocative, figurative work.

Konrad Witz (c. 1400 – c. 1446) counts among the most radical revivalists of painting in the first half of the fifteenth century. While his achievements testify to his knowledge of the Old Netherlandish painting of his time, they also constitute Witz’s extraordinarily original signature. The uncontested highlight of his work is the Geneva Altar (1444), which features the Biblical scene of Peter fishing embedded in a veduta-like view of Lake Geneva - the first topographically accurate, identifiable landscape in the history of German painting.

There is hardly any doubt among researchers that the approximately twenty panels for four commissioned altars were made by Witz himself. All the more diverse, then, are the opinions about his education, career, sphere of influence, and successors. This publication discusses new theses with respect to Witz’s artistic background.

В творческой среде современных московских художников живописная манера Константина Батынкова не имеет аналога. Соединяя каллиграфическую точность рисунка с зыбкостью акварели, он «строит» монохромный мир своих полотен из мегаобъектов и микромножеств. На первый взгляд воспринимаемые как безобидные натурные этюды, его работы имеют отношение скорее к социальному пейзажу России. Немного мрачные депрессивные полотна притягивают особой эстетикой письма – живым мазком и потеками туши. Открывая экзистенциальную неустроенность жизни, являя зрителю фантомы коллективного бессознательного, Константин Батынков остается одним из самых востребованных персонажей культурной жизни российской столицы.

Craig Costello, aka KR, grew up in Queens, New York, where graffiti was part of the landscape and a symbol of the city.

While living in San Francisco, he quickly garnered attention when his signature "KR" tag popped up throughout the city. As he became one of the more prominent figures on the streets on NYC and San Francisco, he began to hone his craft by creating better tools launching his own line of homemade markers and mops, combining his moniker KR with the word INK. In KRINK: GRAFFITI, ART, AND INVENTION, Costello has compiled a visual memoir: from his early days of the '80s and '90s and launch with the hip New York City retailer Alife, which put his brand on the map, to his evolution as an artist and high-fashion collaborator.

The book showcases Costello's seminal style and his extensive body of work, including site-specific installations around the world. It also chronicles his myriad collaborations with Alife, Nike, Coach, Moncler, Modernica, Marc Jacobs, Levi Strauss & Co., Mini (BMW), Casio, Smith Optics, Carhartt, Kidrobot, Medicom Toy, agnès b., and Colette, among many others. Today, Costello's reach and influence goes far beyond urban street culture. Krink has grown exponentially into a global artist materials brand with expanding collections of apparel, tools, and accessories, while Costello's unique aesthetic can be seen on objects from sneakers to luxury goods to cars.

KRINK is both stylish and informative, capturing the ethos of punk and hip-hop culture, and is sure to appeal to the fans of high/low cultural crossovers, as well as die-hard fans of street art and fashion.

About the Authors:

KR, aka Craig Costello, is an artist who created the popular Krink markers and artist materials. Sarah Andelman is the founder and former creative director of the Parisian fashion concept store Colette. agnès b. is a French clothing designer. Rob Cristofaro is the co-founder of Alife. Kunle Martins (aka Earsnot) is a graffiti artist and a founding member of the IRAK crew. Shantell Martin is a visual artist. Carlo McCormick is a cultural critic and curator. Barry McGee is a contemporary artist. Ryan McGinness is a contemporary artist. Tom Sachs is a contemporary artist.

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An exploration of the rivalry between Kuniyoshi and Kunisada, two of the most popular Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artists of the nineteenth century, based on masterworks from the peerless Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Rival ukiyo-e masters Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were the two most admired designers of figure prints in nineteenth-century Japan. Famous for the realism of his portraits of Kabuki actors, the sensuality of his beautiful women and the luxurious settings he imagined for historical scenes, Kunisada was the popular favourite during his lifetime. Kuniyoshi is loved by connoisseurs and collectors today for his dynamic action scenes of warriors and monsters (which foreshadowed present-day manga and anime), his comic prints, and even a few especially daring works that included forbidden political satire in disguise. With scores of illustrations in glorious full colour, this beautifully produced volume presents Kuniyoshi and Kunisada’s artistic rivalry through a selection of outstanding works from the unparalleled Japanese art collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Readers are invited to decide for themselves which of the two is their personal favourite.

This opulent volume features large-format plates of an impressive selection of masterpieces from the Kunsthaus Zurich: fascinating paintings from the late Gothic period, the Golden Age of the Netherlands, the Italian Baroque, and the Venetian Settecento. Icons of Swiss art, including Fuseli, Böcklin, Hodler, Segantini, Vallotton, and Giacometti are among the highlights of the collections. First-class works by leading painters draw the viewer into the colorful world of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, at whose center stands a group of works by Monet. Besides pieces by Munch, there are important works by Kokoschka, Beckmann, and Corinth. Last but not least, this splendid book presents an excellent array of early 20th-century works by Picasso, Matisse, and Chagall, as well as American post-war art, Pop art, and other works up to the present time: Twombly, Beuys, Bacon, Baselitz, and Fischli/Weiss set the tone here.

In July 1993, Nirvana was the biggest band in the world, and Kurt Cobain was subject to an intense level of celebrity and public scrutiny.

In New York City to play the famed Roseland Ballroom and promote their new album In Utero, Cobain and Nirvana were photographed by Jesse Frohman and Cobain gave a candid interview to Jon Savage for an article in the Observer.

Only nine months later, Cobain killed himself. It was the last formal photo shoot Nirvana ever did, and one of the last major interviews Cobain ever gave. Twenty years after his death, they are published here together for the first time since the Observer article, including previously unpublished material, and accompanied by new commentary from Frohman and Savage about that day, and an essay by pop culture maven Glenn OBrien on what it all might have meant.

Frohman's 100-plus photographs, including contact sheets, get to the heart of one of the most beloved bands of all time, at the height of their success and the moment when everything was starting to unravel. We see Cobain as he was just months before his death, by turns feral and refined, posing on his own, goofing around with his band mates, engrossed in his music and always ambivalent about the spotlight. Savages interview reveals an optimistic side of Cobain seemingly at odds with his public image, and particularly poignant as we look back on his life.

This book offers a powerful, moving portrait of Kurt Cobain and will be an important contribution to the literature of rock and roll.

Illustrations :  316 en couleur et 821 en noir et blanc

Voilà un ouvrage qui aura incontestablement fait date. Il y a vingt ans, les auteurs, Jean-Louis Paudrat, Lucien Stéphan, Françoise Stoullig-Marin, mobilisés autour de Jacques Kerchache, tentaient la synthèse qui manquait jusqu’alors sur l’art africain et qui était évidemment attendue dans la collection « L’Art et les grandes civilisations ».
L’entreprise précédait toutes les publications globales ou partielles réalisées au cours des années 1990 autour d’expositions sur les arts africains.
Avec l’ouverture du musée du quai Branly, une édition totalement remaniée et enrichie d’une centaine de pièces s’imposait. La plupart d’entre elles proviennent de ce nouveau musée, mais aussi de musées allemands, anglais ou américains.
Donner à voir l’art africain dans son contexte artistique même, c’est le principe qui guide l’approche ici proposée. Les œuvres ne sont pas perçues de manière isolée mais confrontées les unes aux autres, ce qui permet d’appréhender par le jeu des oppositions et des similitudes, des redondances et des variations, l’univers dont elles émanent et ce qu’elles en représentent.
Loin de la contemplation dévote ou de la curiosité purement ethnographique, ce livre offre une approche globale sur la sculpture africaine en abordant aussi bien les questions de style que celles des fonctions.

Ce livre, publié pour la première fois en 1897 et constamment réédité depuis, est une véritable encyclopédie du travail du bois. Il comporte trois volumes soit plus de 200 planches qui rassemblent les principes de base nécessaires à l’exécution des ouvrages de menuiserie traditionnelle. À l’origine destiné aux apprentis menuisiers, il est devenu aujourd’hui un classique incontournable qui présente des réalisations simples et d’autres exceptionnelles, réalisées avec des techniques de toujours : l’art du trait et du dessin, rarement abordé en menuiserie, est ici développé clairement.

 Tome 2 : après les indispensables fondamentaux du tome 1, l’auteur rentre maintenant dans le vif du sujet pour cette étude des
pièces de menuiserie.

Il commence par un survol de l’outillage nécessaire au menuisier, puis décrit les principaux assemblages, y compris certains qui
semblent impossibles à première vue, les soi-disant’’secrets du compagnon ’’. Suivent une étude des coupes, puis celle des principaux
ouvrages de menuiserie, depuis les croisées jusqu’aux plafonds.

Le second volume se termine par un traité des escaliers : leur histoire et leur réalisation, en commençant par des ouvrages simples comme des escabeaux ou des escaliers à limons droits, pour se terminer par des prouesses de l’art du trait comme l’escalier qui tourne autour d’une bouteille ou celui à double départ enlacé. Les plafonds rampants ne sont pas oubliés car ils présentent des difficultés spécifiques de tracé que l’auteur résout avec simplicité.

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De la menuiserie :

Outillage, assemblages, secrets du compagnon, coupes diverses.
Croisées, persiennes et jalousies, parquets, portes, devantures de boutique, casiers, stalles, volets, plafonds.

Des escaliers, des plafonds d’escaliers :

Marchepied, escabeau, échelle double, échelle de meunier, escabeau à rampes pour bibliothèque, escaliers divers et leur mise au
plan, volutes, limons, escaliers doubles, plafonds rampants, lambris rampants.

Ce livre, publié pour la première fois en 1897 et constamment réédité depuis, est une véritable encyclopédie du travail du bois. Il comporte trois volumes soit plus de 200 planches qui rassemblent les principes de base nécessaires à l’exécution des ouvrages de menuiserie traditionnelle. À l’origine destiné aux apprentis menuisiers, il est devenu aujourd’hui un classique incontournable qui présente des réalisations simples et d’autres exceptionnelles, réalisées avec des techniques de toujours : l’art du trait et du dessin, rarement abordé en menuiserie, est ici développé clairement.

Tome 1 : ce premier volume propose un retour auxnotions de bases (le nom des choses, tracer une ligne, le contexte architectural d’une pièce de menuiserie) pour les éclaircir et les approfondir.

Il commence par un dictionnaire qui concerne à la fois le travail du bois (outillage, assemblages, pièces de menuiserie diverses) et l’architecture (éléments de construction, charpentes). Il se poursuit avec un traité de géométrie : l’histoire de cette science est suivie d’un long développement sur la géométrie descriptive, la plus utilisée dans le travail du bois. Sont successivement passés en revue les instruments de tracé et de dessin ; les tracés des lignes, des courbes, des surfaces, des volumes ; leur développement, les pénétrations. Ce précis de géométrie appliqué au bois est complété par un court traité de perspective et de dessin des ombres.

Pour terminer ce premier volume, l’architecture, que Léon Jamin considère comme indissolublement liée à la menuiserie qui est son« soutien indispensable », est décrite en détail à travers son histoire et une étude approfondie des ordres d’architecture. Même si l’auteur semble s’éloigner de son sujet, il a toujours en tête le travail du bois, et chaque détail mentionné concerne directement le menuisier.

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Dictionnaire des principaux termes employés dans la menuiserie, la charpente, l’architecture et la géométrie.
De la géométrie
Ce qu’il faut pour dessiner
Des lignes, des angles, des triangles, des quadrilatères, du cercle, des polygones réguliers, de la scotie, des étoiles, des courbes (oves, ovales, ellipses, l’ellipsographe).
Des solides
développements, surfaces, projections, pénétration, volumes.
De la trigonométrie
mesures des distances, des hauteurs, les coupes.
De la perspective
Des ombres
De l’architecture
Historique
Des ordres d’architecture : origines, proportions, module.
Tracé de l’ordre dorique grec, ionique, toscan, corinthien, composite.
Les colonnes torses.
Entre-colonnes et portiques.