Мистецтво

Steve McQueen found it hard to balance worldwide fame with a desperate need for solitude. Through performances that were effortless yet powerful, he connected with the people who saw him on stage, on television, in movie houses, and on magazine covers anywhere on earth. Sometimes more comfortable racing a motorcycle than in front of a camera, twice at the height of his stardom he took more than a year off from movies. Despite this, and despite dying young, he left an indelible imprint. Images, his own words, and the words of others chronicle his rise from juvenile delinquent to the highest paid star in Hollywood.

The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.

The popularity of sticker art has rocketed among contemporary urban artists, but the medium's history stretches back to the 1950s and is intertwined with the growth of the advertising industry. Countless urban artists have cited the fight against ubiquitous consumer manipulation as their reason for choosing to work so publicly in the streets.

In the early 20th century the medium became popular with the Dadaists; in the 1960s artists started to use large-size posters. In the late 1970s, the so-called 'Suicide Club' and 'Billboard Liberation Front' became known through their altered advertising posters. Only a few urban artists revealed their identities and they often felt ill at ease in the sterile atmosphere of galleries, chose their own paths and captured their own audiences.

However, the greatest creative act of rebellion in urban spaces was the graffiti movement ...

Stickerbomb is the first collectable, fully peelable sticker book featuring illustration, graffiti and graphics. It is filled with an amazing collection of more than 250 specially commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world. An essential part of the street art movement, inexpensive and easy to produce, stickers often act as an informal business card for graffiti writers, and a quick and effective promotional tool for many artists and illustrators. As more and more stickers are placed around major cities in the world, interest in the subject keeps growing. Many street art books to date have featured photographs of stickers spotted in urban environments. Packed with examples of the real thing, Stickerbomb offers the fun of peeling, sticking, owning and collecting cool stickers

With over 240 fully peelable stickers, Stickerbomb 3 presents the most exciting work from a fresh lineup of global artists, illustrators and graffiti writers. The book will appeal to existing fans of the Stickerbomb series, as well as new sticker enthusiasts discovering it for the first time.

About the Author:

The SRK (Studio Rarekwai) is a creative studio based in London and Jakarta. The SRK has worked with Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Channel4, Film4, MTV, SONAR, Spaceshower TV and a number of international NGOs. Their books include RackGaki, Graffiti Asia, and the Stickerbomb series (all Laurence King).

Stickerbomb Letters features an extensive assortment of cool and quirky font and typography designs. Including both alphabets on their own and type slogans, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their own words from individual letters.

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing collection of over 500 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world.

Selected artists include: Chato, Dabs, Darbotz, Helen Mycroft, Jo Contino, Niark1, Redy, Remi Rough, TuTu indo and the YokStickerbomb Letters features an extensive assortment of cool and quirky font and typography designs. Including both alphabets on their own and type slogans, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their own words from individual letters.

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing collection of over 500 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world.

Selected artists include: Chato, Dabs, Darbotz, Helen Mycroft, Jo Contino, Niark1, Redy, Remi Rough, TuTu indo and the Yok.

Stickerbomb Monsters features an extensive assortment of fantastic and scary monster designs. Including weird and wonderful creatures ranging from zombies and ghosts to spaghetti monsters and love bugs, the stickers are fun for everyone to play with, and to use to create their very own beastly collections.

Selected artists include: Vladimir Stankovic, Alex Young, Iain Burke, Johnny Ryan, Ronzo and Sunil Pawar.

This collectable, fully-peelable sticker book is filled with an amazing set of 250 stickers created by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world.

About the Author:

Stickerbomb creates collectable sticker books, featuring illustration, graffiti and graphics from around the globe. Since 2008 the team has released more than 10 publications, becoming an essential part of the street art and sticker movement.

This new book of fully peelable stickers, compiled by the Stickerbomb team, brings together the best skateboard stickers – both classic and new – from the 1970s to today.

From Jim Philip’s legendary drawings for Santa Cruz, to the innovative, graphic-led creations from Girl and Alien Workshop, Stickerbomb Skate illustrates the central role that stickers have played in skate culture.

Including five legendary skate brands – Alien Workshop, REAL, Toy Machine, Girl and Santa Cruz – and featuring interviews with key illustrators and artists; including Philips, Ed Templeton and Mike Hill; this is an indispensable collection for any skate obsessive.

About the Authors:

SRK is a creative studio based in London and Jakarta. Founded in 2006 with a focus on documentary films, the SRK has since grown in size to include a troupe of creatives whose skills encompass filmmaking, sound design, animation, illustration, publishing and events. Clients include Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Film4, MTV and SONAR.

The latest in our super-successful Stickerbomb line of books, Stickerbomb XL takes it to the next level, with large format and vinyl stickers.

Stickers are an essential part of the street art movement. Inexpensive and easy to produce, they act as a kind of informal business card for some graffiti writers, and a quick and effective promotional tool for many artists and illustrators. As more and more stickers are placed around major cities in the world, interest in the subject keeps growing.

Stickerbomb XL is filled with an amazing collection of more than 160 specially-commissioned stickers by artists, illustrators and graffiti writers from around the world, many of whom have not been featured in a publication before. It will appeal to a young market of designers, street artists and illustrators, plus street art fans and anyone who collects stickers.

About the author:

SRK is a creative studio based in London and Jakarta. Initiated by a director and producer partnership in 2006 with a focus on documentary films, SRK grew in size to house a troupe of creatives whose skills encompass filmmaking, sound design, animation, illustration, publishing, and events. The SRK has worked with Polydor Records, ARTE TV, the BBC, Channel 4, Film4, MTV, SONAR, Spaceshower TV and a number of international non-governmental organisations. Their books include RackGaki, Graffiti Asia, and the Stickerbomb series (all Laurence King).

STICKERS 2 – це нова біблія клейкого мистецтва – візуальна історія образотворчого мистецтва та вуличного мистецтва в одній з його найелементарніших, найдоступніших, найпровокативніших та найповсюдніших форм. – з 16 сторінками колекційних стікерів.

Завдяки понад 3000 зображенням стікерів книга ілюструє хронологію цього хобі, від контркультури до політики. Її розділи включають: музику: панк-рок до електронної музики, скейтбординг, вуличний одяг, графіті, образотворче мистецтво, політичний активізм, проте другий том йде ще далі, ніж його попередник, з розділами про витоки серф-культури та світ велосипедів BMX.

Книга, організована за категоріями та темами, містить роботи таких різноманітних художників, як Том Сакс, Дженні Хольцер, БЕНКСІ, Neckface, Мерілін Мінтер, ESPO та Баррі МакГі; до аматорів, які анонімно «тегують» вулиці.
Завдяки текстам письменників з багатьох відомих сфер життя, зокрема Джеффрі Дейтча, INVADER, C.R.Stecyk, Марка Мазерсбо, Пола Гормана та Стікмана, серед багатьох інших, «Стікери 2» розкривають не лише передові досягнення мистецтва стікерів, але й особисті стосунки, які поділяють з цим мистецтвом художники, вуличні художники та пішоходи. Книга чудово оформлена Феліс Колфлер.

Цей том може похвалитися неперевершеною колекцією зі 125 знімних стікерів, вкладених у його задні сторінки. Ці аркуші написані групами художників, що є справді надзвичайним. Список включає: Дженні Хольцер, Баррі Макгі, INVADER, Мерілін Мінтер, Ерік Паркер, SWOON, FUTURA, Роберт Лаццаріні, Кензо Мінамі, Костас Сереметіс, Крістен Лю-Вонг, Ентоні Лістер, Рон Інгліш, Райан Макгіннес, BAST, D*Face, Шепард Фейрі, FAILE, Skullphone, Тара Макферсон, Пітер Шуйфф, Swoon та Джеймс Гайд, а також інших.
«Невід’ємна культурна історія» – Джеффрі Дейтч «Обов’язкова книга для вибагливого колекціонера наліпок» – Ед Темплтон

«Кожна наліпка – це спогад для когось!» – Майя Хаюк

Про авторів:

Автор Д. Б. Беркеман закохався в наліпки ще в ранньому віці через скейтбординг та панк-рок, але він зробив собі ім’я, граючи як діджей між двома своїми будинками в Лондоні та Нью-Йорку. Він влаштував одні з перших рейв-вечірок у складських приміщеннях Великої Британії в Нью-Йорку, а на початку 90-х він заснував сумнозвісну клубну ніч NASA. Хоча його кар’єра була пов’язана з музикою, діджеїнгом та A&R, його пристрастю завжди було мистецтво.

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Погортати книгу Stickers Vol. 2: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. (aka More Stuck-Up Crap)

Among the pictorial genres, still life, which depicts in detail the common objects of domestic life (fruit, vegetables, food, but also animals and tableware), holds an important place. It is an art form which gives us valuable insights into changes of mentality and philosophy. Each still life is emblematic of a specific time and place and of a certain metaphysical perspective. This condensed, well-priced overview of the genre features some sixty works from antiquity to the present and analyzes the history and significance of each.

The still life, the most primordial of painting subjects, had its peak between the late Middle Ages and the 17th century. In this book, Norbert Schneider explores the still life's insights into changes of mentality and philosophy as well as its role in the history of scientific discoveries and the gradual replacement of the medieval concept of the world.

Setting up a still life may take no more than gathering a few objects on a table, but infusing its depiction with depth, texture, feeling, and even beauty takes great skill. The origins of the still life can be traced back at least to classical antiquity (such wall paintings have been found in the ruins of Pompeii) but the genre's name wasn't coined until the 17th century in Holland, a few centuries after it was re-popularized during the Renaissance. This book explores a stimulating selection of still lifes from the 15th century to the modern day, revealing the historical importance and creative possibilities of this genre.

Featured artists:
Meister der Maria von Burgund, Ludger tom Ring the Younger, Annibale Carracci, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Juan Sánchez Cotán, Jan Bruegel the Elder, Frans Snyders, Pieter Claesz Rembrandt, Sebastian Stoskopff, Jan Fyt, Evaristo Baschenis, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Willem Kalf, Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Jean-Siméon Chardin, Luis Eugenio Meléndez, Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, Adolph Menzel, Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, John Haberle, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio De Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Chaïm Soutine, Salvador Dalí, Daniel Spoerri, and Gerhard Richter

About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series features:

* a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, etc.) that took place during the time period
* a selection of the most important works of the epoch; each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work and brief biography of the artist as well as additional information such as a reference work, portrait of the artist, and/or citations

Michael Wesely caught attention with his Open Shutter project documenting the New York MoMA renovation with exposure times of up to two years. For his flower Still Lifes 7-day exposures sufficed to invoke the transitoriness of all flesh in pictures that seem to live a life of their own.

More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art. French provides charming narration for each project: how an idea came to be; how a stone-splitting technique is executed; even how one of his most difficult pieces, a three-year-long project, was saved from ruin the day it was completed. With its contemporary hearths of rustic slate, sculptured walls of both great granite slabs as well as stacked and rounded fieldstones, Stone By Design: The Artistry of Lew French will inspire design lovers to incorporate this material in home interiors and exteriors, whether as an artful writer's studio, a playful fireplace, or a carefully crafted garden pathway. More than just a stunning tribute to the work of Lew French and his unique vision and craft, this book celebrates both the function and form of stone. It's the perfect inspiration for anyone interested in adding the beauty of stone to their home or landscape.