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"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.
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Schindler
(Hardcover)
James Steele; Edited by Peter Gossel
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R477
R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
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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)
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Titian
(Paperback)
Ian G Kennedy
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R475
R437
Discovery Miles 4 370
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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.
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
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Calatrava
(Spanish, Hardcover)
Philip Jodidio; Edited by Peter Goessel; Contributions by Santiago Calatrava
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R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
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Calatrava
(French, Hardcover)
Philip Jodidio; Edited by Peter Goessel; Contributions by Santiago Calatrava
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R545
Discovery Miles 5 450
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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'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."
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.
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
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
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