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Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (English, German, Hardcover, Bilingual edition): Gay Talese Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (English, German, Hardcover, Bilingual edition)
Gay Talese; Photographs by Phil Stern
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel-only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence." - Gay Talese In the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese set out for Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to write a major profile on Frank Sinatra. When he arrived, he found the singer and his vigilant entourage on the defensive: Sinatra was under the weather, not available, and not willing to be interviewed. Undeterred, Talese stayed, believing Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and used the meantime to observe the star and to interview his friends, associates, family members, and hangers-on. Sinatra never did grant the one-on-one, but Talese's tenacity paid off: his profile Frank Sinatra Has a Cold went down in history as a tour de force of literary nonfiction and the advent of the New Journalism. In this illustrated edition, Frank Sinatra Has a Cold is published with an introduction by Talese, reproductions of his manuscript pages, and correspondence. Interwoven are photographs from the legendary lens of Phil Stern, the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over four decades, as well as from top photojournalists of the '60s, including John Bryson, John Dominis, and Terry O'Neill. The photographs complement Talese's character study, painting an incisive portrait of Sinatra in the recording studio, on location, out on the town, and with the eponymous cold, which reveals as much about a singular star persona as it does about the Hollywood machine.

Schindler (Hardcover): James Steele Schindler (Hardcover)
James Steele; Edited by Peter Gossel
R477 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angeles, Schindler took cues from notions found in Cubism and the International Style to shape his unique vision: a style he called "space architecture," combining geometrical shapes, bold lines, and materials such as wood and concrete, with space as a medium in its own right, one to be controlled just like color or mass. This radical approach earned Schindler little recognition in his lifetime-but today, he is hailed as one of America's most important Modernist pioneers. Discover such key projects as the Wolfe House, nestled in a steep hillside; the tree house-like Falk Apartment Building; the Lovell Beach House, recognized as one of the foremost examples of the Modernist canon in America; the Schindler/Chace House, Schindler's most crucial work and his personal practice and home, which he shared with his family and that of Neutra. From private homes to small commercial buildings, Schindler's groundbreaking designs heralded a new era of contemporary construction. This collection is complete with a map locating all of the architect's most renowned projects, detailed entries, floor plans, as well as crisp photography of each structure and its interiors. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Architecture series features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)

Titian (Paperback): Ian G Kennedy Titian (Paperback)
Ian G Kennedy
R475 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R38 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488-1576), commonly known as Titian, and the figurehead of 16th-century Venetian painting. With his bold approach to form and startling, opulent colors, Titian worked with a number of prestigious commissions and left behind an astonishing repertoire of portraits, mythological scenes, altarpieces, and landscapes that remains one of the most important legacies of Renaissance art. This dependable artist introduction traces Titian's complete career and its trailblazing influence on successive generations of artists, from Diego Velazquez to van Dyck. From the rippling sensuality of Venus of Urbino (c. 1488-1576) to the airborne dynamism of Bacchus and Ariadne (1520-1523), all the major works are here, charting the artist's stylistic experimentation over time as well as his consistent and unique ability to work across genres and to bring a defining new level of emotional and spiritual aspect to his subjects. "Titian has the finest talent and a very pleasant, vivacious manner." - Michelangelo.

Hopper (French, Hardcover): Rolf G Renner Hopper (French, Hardcover)
Rolf G Renner
R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

La vie d'Edward Hopper (1882-1967) ressemble un peu a une success story a l'americaine, sauf que son succes s'est fait attendre. A l'age de 40 ans, l'artiste peu connu luttait pour vendre le moindre tableau. A pres de 80 ans, il a fait la couverture du magazine Time. Aujourd'hui, un demi-siecle apres sa mort, Hopper est considere comme un geant de l'expression moderne, au sens de l'espace et de l'atmosphere tout a fait singulier, a la fois inoubliable et troublant. Une grande partie de l'oeuvre d'Hopper met au jour l'experience de la ville moderne. Toile apres toile, il a represente diners, cafes, vitrines, stations service, gares, chambres d'hotel et lumieres de la ville. Ses tableaux sont marques par des juxtapositions de couleurs vives et un eclairage theatral et cru, ainsi que des silhouettes tres marquees qui semblent aussi integrees qu'etrangeres a leur environnement. L'atmosphere qui se degage de cet univers est un melange de trouble etrange, d'alienation, de solitude et de tension psychologique, meme si les scenes rurales ou cotieres de l'artiste peuvent offrir un contrepoint de tranquillite ou d'optimisme. Ce livre presente des oeuvres cles de Hopper pour mettre en valeur un acteur essentiel, non seulement de l'histoire de l'art americain, mais aussi de la psyche americaine. A propos de la collection Chaque volume de la Basic Art Series de TASCHEN contient: une chronologique detaillee de la vie et de l'oeuvre de l'artiste qui rend compte de son importance culturelle et artistique une biographie concise une centaine d'illustrations couleur accompagnees de legendes explicatives

Brujeria. La Biblioteca de Esoterismo (Spanish, Hardcover): Jessica Hundley, Pam Grossman Brujeria. La Biblioteca de Esoterismo (Spanish, Hardcover)
Jessica Hundley, Pam Grossman; Designed by Thunderwing
R915 Discovery Miles 9 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Frida Kahlo. Obra Pictorica Completa (Spanish, Hardcover): Luis-Martin Lozano, Andrea Kettenmann, Marina Vazquez Ramos Frida Kahlo. Obra Pictorica Completa (Spanish, Hardcover)
Luis-Martin Lozano, Andrea Kettenmann, Marina Vazquez Ramos; Edited by Luis-Martin Lozano
R4,835 Discovery Miles 48 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sebastiao Salgado. Amazonia (Spanish, Hardcover): Sebastiao Salgado Sebastiao Salgado. Amazonia (Spanish, Hardcover)
Sebastiao Salgado; Edited by Lelia Wanick Salgado
R3,228 Discovery Miles 32 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tarot. La Biblioteca de Esoterismo (Spanish, Hardcover): Jessica Hundley, Johannes Fiebig, Marcella Kroll Tarot. La Biblioteca de Esoterismo (Spanish, Hardcover)
Jessica Hundley, Johannes Fiebig, Marcella Kroll; Designed by Thunderwing
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The New York Times 36 Hours. Europa. 3.a Edicion (Spanish, Hardcover): Barbara Ireland The New York Times 36 Hours. Europa. 3.a Edicion (Spanish, Hardcover)
Barbara Ireland
R1,321 Discovery Miles 13 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Gustav Klimt. Obra Pictorica Completa (Spanish, Hardcover): Tobias G. Natter Gustav Klimt. Obra Pictorica Completa (Spanish, Hardcover)
Tobias G. Natter
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cine Negro (Spanish, Hardcover): James Ursini, Alain Silver Cine Negro (Spanish, Hardcover)
James Ursini, Alain Silver; Edited by Paul Duncan, Jurgen Muller
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Los Archivos Personales de Stanley Kubrick (Spanish, Hardcover): Alison Castle Los Archivos Personales de Stanley Kubrick (Spanish, Hardcover)
Alison Castle
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Calatrava (Spanish, Hardcover): Philip Jodidio Calatrava (Spanish, Hardcover)
Philip Jodidio; Edited by Peter Goessel; Contributions by Santiago Calatrava
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Calatrava (French, Hardcover): Philip Jodidio Calatrava (French, Hardcover)
Philip Jodidio; Edited by Peter Goessel; Contributions by Santiago Calatrava
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Personnalite visionnaire, l'Espagnol Santiago Calatrava est un architecte, ingenieur en structure, sculpteur et artiste reconnu dans le monde entier. Celebre pour ses ponts autant que pour ses batiments, il s'est fait connaitre par des structures neo-futuristes qui combinent prouesses d'ingenierie et effet visuel spectaculaire. Du Complexe des sports olympiques d'Athenes en 2004, en passant par le musee de Demain a Rio de Janeiro, le pont de la Paix a Calgary, le pont Alamillo a Seville et le pont de la Mujer a Buenos Aires, les creations de Calatrava temoignent de son interet particu-lier pour saisir le point de jonction entre dynamisme et equilibre. Fortes d'influences puisees dans le design spatial de la NASA aussi bien que dans les etudes d'apres nature de Leonard de Vinci, ses construc-tions eblouissent par leur legerete, leur grace et leur aero-dy-na-misme, dans un accord toujours parfait avec leur environnement. Cet ouvrage introductif compact explore l'esthetique unique de Calatrava en presentant des projets phares de sa carriere, depuis ses premieres innovations jusqu'a ses oeuvres les plus recentes. Les batiments culturels, religieux ou dedies a la science, ainsi que ses nombreux ponts celebres, nous devoilent la facon dont l'architecte integre les formes naturelles et les mouvements du corps humain dans un style futuriste fluide et unique, resolument tourne vers le futur. A propos de la collection Chaque volume de la Basic Architecture Series de TASCHEN contient: en introduction, des textes qui explorent l'origine, la vie et l'oeuvre de l'architecte ses realisations majeures, presentees dans l'ordre chronologique des informations sur les commanditaires, les conditions architectoniques prealables ainsi que les problemes de construction rencontres et les solutions qui leur ont ete apportees une liste de toutes les realisations selectionnees et une carte sur laquelle sont indiquees les constructions les plus celebres de l'architecte environ 120 illustrations (photographies, esquisses, dessins et plans)

Sebastiao Salgado. Genesis (Spanish, Hardcover): Taschen Sebastiao Salgado. Genesis (Spanish, Hardcover)
Taschen
R614 R520 Discovery Miles 5 200 Save R94 (15%) Out of stock

Sebastiao Salgado's haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of modern society and development. Salgado calls GENESIS "my love letter to the planet."

Leonardo (Spanish, Hardcover): Frank Zoellner Leonardo (Spanish, Hardcover)
Frank Zoellner
R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bauhaus (Spanish, Hardcover): Magdalena Droste Bauhaus (Spanish, Hardcover)
Magdalena Droste; Edited by Peter Goessel
R977 Discovery Miles 9 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sebastiao Salgado. Genesis (Spanish, Hardcover): Lelia Wanick Salgado Sebastiao Salgado. Genesis (Spanish, Hardcover)
Lelia Wanick Salgado; Photographs by Sebastiao Salgado
R2,654 Discovery Miles 26 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Orson Welles - The Misunderstood Genius (German, French, English, Paperback): F.X. Feeney Orson Welles - The Misunderstood Genius (German, French, English, Paperback)
F.X. Feeney; Edited by Paul Duncan 2
R157 Discovery Miles 1 570 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

A recognized prodigy at age 10, world famous by age 23, Orson Welles was a triple magician of theater, radio, and film - and by age 25 a promising figure in American politics. President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged him to try a run for the Senate; newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst branded him a pariah. But by the time he turned 30, Orson Welles' professional success ended irreversibly; from then until the day he died, he endured ridicule and reproach over what many judged his "failure." Few knew how feverishly he had persisted as an independent filmmaker. Now, decades after his death, "new" work keeps emerging, and his reputation as an undefeated genius and creator only grows. 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. "Hollywood Icons" is a series of photo books that feature the most famous movie icons 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.

Stanley Kubrick. Barry Lyndon. Coffret Livre & DVD (French, Book): Alison Castle Stanley Kubrick. Barry Lyndon. Coffret Livre & DVD (French, Book)
Alison Castle
R774 R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Save R177 (23%) Out of stock

Adapte du roman picaresque de William Makepeace Thackeray publie en 1844, Barry Lyndon raconte l'histoire d'un arriviste opportuniste (Ryan O'Neal) qui parvient a son but en epousant une magnifique aristocrate bien au-dessus de son rang social (Marisa Berenson), pour voir sa fortune perdue par l'avarice et la malveillance. Meticuleusement concu et admirablement photographie - grace a une lentille modifiee a dessein et un usage presque exclusif d'un eclairage aux chandelles ou a la lumiere naturelle -, Barry Lyndon est un portrait a la fois satirique et compatissant d'un anti-heros etrangement attendrissant. (Parce qu'il "a du charme et du courage", expliquait Kubrick, "il est impossible de ne pas l'aimer, en depit de sa vanite, de son insensibilite et de sa faiblesse".) Malgre un accueil public et critique decevant a sa sortie en 1975, epoque ou les films historiques n'ont plus la cote, Barry Lyndon a peu a peu acquis une place preponderante dans la filmographie de Kubrick et est aujourd'hui considere comme une de ses plus belles reussites, mais aussi un chef-d'oeuvre cinematographique sans egal. Cet ensemble fait partie de la collection Making of a Masterpiece qui offre une plongee dans les coulisses d'oeuvres marquantes du cinema. Ce coffret inclut: des images extraites du film, des photos de plateau et des coulisses, des extraits du scenario a differentes etapes et d'autres documents exclusifs puises dans les archives de Stanley Kubrick des informations sur la production et la realisation du film, des interviews de Kubrick et une biographie et filmographie illustree une affiche du film un DVD de la version remasterisee

Stanley Kubrick. Orange Mecanique. Coffret Livre & DVD (French, Book): Alison Castle Stanley Kubrick. Orange Mecanique. Coffret Livre & DVD (French, Book)
Alison Castle
R774 R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Save R177 (23%) Out of stock

Adapte du roman futuriste d'Anthony Burgess, Orange mecanique est un bijou de satire cinematographique. Lorsque l'extravagant chef d'une bande de tueurs obsede par Beethoven accepte de servir de cobaye pour une therapie experimentale de rejet de la violence en echange de sa liberation anticipee, il se retrouve "gueri" de son propre libre-arbitre. Les decors stylises a l'extreme, la brutalite choregraphiee et la composition au synthetiseur de Moog - concue pour amplifier l'effet de chaque scene - etaient tellement en avance sur leur temps que, pour beaucoup, le message general en fut brouille. La polemique sur les scenes de violence a meme ete si intense que sa reputation a fait entrer le film dans la legende. Ce qui reste par-dessus tout, c'est l'extraordinaire talent de Kubrick pour nous divertir tout en nous faisant reflechir. Pour citer Burgess: "l'homme qui choisit le Mal est-il peut-etre, en un sens, meilleur que celui a qui on impose le Bien?" Les questionnements ethiques qui occupent une place si centrale dans ce film visionnaire sont tout aussi pertinents aujourd'hui, et il est tout aussi difficiles d'y repondre. Cet ensemble fait partie de la collection Making of a Masterpiece qui offre une plongee dans les coulisses d'oeuvres marquantes du cinema. Le coffret inclut: des images extraites du film, des photos de plateau et des coulisses, des extraits du scenario a differentes etapes et d'autres documents exclusifs puises dans les archives de Stanley Kubrick des informations sur la production et la realisation du film, des interviews de Kubrick et une biographie et filmographie illustree une affiche du film un DVD de la version remasterisee

Latin American Graphic Design (Spanish) (Address book): Latin American Graphic Design (Spanish) (Address book)
R1,244 R1,105 Discovery Miles 11 050 Save R139 (11%) Out of stock
Advertising Now! TV Commercials (Spanish) (Address book): Advertising Now! TV Commercials (Spanish) (Address book)
R1,189 R1,051 Discovery Miles 10 510 Save R138 (12%) Out of stock
Henri Matisse - Cut-Outs (Spanish) - Drawing with Scissors (Hardcover): Henri Matisse - Cut-Outs (Spanish) - Drawing with Scissors (Hardcover)
R5,716 R4,703 Discovery Miles 47 030 Save R1,013 (18%) Out of stock
Design Now! (Spanish) (Address book): Design Now! (Spanish) (Address book)
R1,251 R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Save R139 (11%) Out of stock
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