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TASCHEN Tear-off Calendar: Van Gogh 2014About the Series: The
TASCHEN Tear-off Calendar - on your desk 365 days a year. Sumptuous
colour images, a big and bold dateline and all national holidays
make this Calendar an indispensible day-to-day desktop accessory.
Comes complete with stand in a presentation box.
In Maldicidade, the city never sleeps. By dawn or dusk, in New
York, Havana, Salvador da Bahia, or Tokyo, it is an environment
fraught with yearning, aching with solitude, and fretful with
fortunes never made. This searing urban portrait from visual artist
Miguel Rio Branco draws upon his itinerant early years as the son
of diplomats to reveal the common threads of struggle and
loneliness in metropolises around the world. The images are
impeccably captured, but the pictures are not always pretty. Rio
Branco is not interested in documenting historic city landmarks, an
impressive skyline, or the aspirational dreams that soar up towards
it. Instead, he focuses his camera on the city's refuse and
margins-on that which it has thrown away and on those it has cast
aside and disappointed. In stark frames or soft impressions, it is
street sleepers, beggars, prostitutes, stray dogs, smashed cars,
and shattered glass that characterize his urban impressions. While
subtle details reveal the specificity of place, it is the
commonality of urban experience at the heart of Rio Branco's
project. Light on local context or explanatory narrative, the
images are instead meticulously arranged into one redolent sequence
of a universal city. Working as if in the cutting studio, Rio
Branco excels in the rhythm and succession of pictures, crafting
evocative patterns of motif (decrepit buildings, lone figures,
smashed-up cars); color (rich reds, dusty pinks, stark whites and
blues); and form (an anguished street sleeper beside an ecstatic
statue of a saint). Throughout, occasional pictures of women are
proffered as sensual, hopeful reprieve, interspersing the grit and
the grime in commanding portraits or up-close, supple nudes. At
once incisive in its message and lyrical in its arrangement,
Maldicidade focuses attention on the city's ineludible magnetism,
as much as on its alienation and inhumanity. Biting, bare-faced,
and achingly beautiful, it is a collection in which all city
dwellers will find something of themselves, or something they long
to escape.
Depuis l'aube de l'histoire humaine, des individus de cultures et
de systemes de pensee divers levent les yeux vers le ciel en quete
de reponses. Les mouvements des corps celestes et leur influence
sur nos vies de mortels sont au coeur de l'astrologie, discipline
millenaire respectee, voire reveree, qui a permis a l'Homme
d'approfondir sa comprehension de lui-meme et du monde qui
l'entoure. Si l'horoscope est la forme la plus triviale
d'information astrologique que nous connaissions aujourd'hui, elle
puise son origine en Mesopotamie. Comme le rappelle Andrea Richards
dans Astrologie, le deuxieme volume de la Bibliotheque de
l'Esoterisme de TASCHEN, l'astronomie et l'astrologie etaient
autrefois des sciences jumelees: la Chambre du Roi de la grande
pyramide de Gizeh a ete batie dans l'alignement des constellations,
les Perses ont erige le premier observatoire et meme Galilee
livrait leur horoscope aux Medicis. Avec la Renaissance et
l'avenement des sciences exactes, cependant, la pratique
astrologique a glisse dans les domaines ou le mystere etait encore
permis, impregnant la litterature, les arts et la psychologie,
inspirant des artistes et des penseurs comme Goethe, Byron et
Blake, pour etre finalement vulgarisee a l'ere moderne par les
Theosophes et autre adeptes du New Age. Compose sous la direction
editoriale de Jessica Huntley, cette trepidante histoire visuelle
de l'astrologie occidentale est le premier recueil d'envergure
jamais publie sur le sujet, qui s'interesse a la signification
symbolique de quelques 400 images, des temples egyptiens a l'art
contemporain en passant par les manuscrits enlumines. Les oeuvres
d'Alphonse Mucha, Hilma af Klint, Arpita Singh ou Manzel Bowman se
suivent en sequences qui refletent la revolution des planetes et le
cycle du zodiaque. Enrichi d'extraits d'entretiens avec de grands
astrologues actuels comme Robert Hand, Jessica Lanydoo et Mecca
Woods, Astrologie celebre les etoiles et l'influence mysterieuse
qu'elles exercent sur notre quotidien. A propos de la collection La
Bibliotheque de l'Esoterisme s'interesse aux artistes qui, au fil
des siecles, ont transpose l'esoterique et l'obscur pour donner
corps au mysticisme par des oeuvres visionnaires, a l'epreuve du
temps. Chaque theme est presente a travers une imagerie ancienne et
moderne, des pieces puisees dans les collections privees,
bibliotheques d'archives et musees du monde entier. L'ensemble
forme une histoire visuelle coherente, une etude de l'attraction
primaire qu'exercent sur nous le reve et le cauchemar et des moyens
imagines pour entrer en contact avec le divin.
Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in
1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable
window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create
an intricate picture of how the ancient Egyptian people viewed the
perilous journey to paradise, a utopian Egypt that could only be
entered following the final judgment. When acclaimed photographer
Sandro Vannini started his work in Egypt in the late '90s, a
technological revolution was about to unfold. Emerging technologies
enabled him to document murals, tombs, and artifacts in
unprecedented detail. Using the time-consuming and strenuous
multi-shot technique, Vannini produced complete photographic
reproductions that revealed colors in their original tones with
vivid intensity. Through these extraordinary images, we discover
the objects' quintessential features alongside the sophisticated
and cleverly hidden details. In collaboration with a series of
international exhibitions, starting with King Tut: Treasures of the
Golden Pharaoh at the California Science Center in March 2018, this
comprehensive guide marks the centenary of Carter's first
excavations in the Valley of the Kings. These inestimable works
endure through Vannini's photographs in their full, timeless
splendor. From offerings and rituals to Osiris and eternal life,
Vannini's portfolio covers all facets of ancient Egyptian
culture-but it is Tutankhamun's unique legacy that dominates these
images. With texts by the photographer, captions by specialist
Mohamed Megahed, and chapter introductions from scholars in the
field, King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld puts
much-debated mysteries to rest. The learned yet accessible
forewords come from distinguished Egyptologists including Salima
Ikram and David P. Silverman. Insightful narratives, resplendent
images, and a contemporary standpoint make this title a fitting
tribute to the Boy King's odyssey, illuminating an epoch that
spanned an unimaginable 4,000 years.
The last decade of the 20th century consolidated once again the
fascinating power of the silver screen, both by looking to the
future and drawing on the past. It's no exaggeration to say that
never before had there been a time when the cinema focused so
ironically on its own vanity, and never had it been so intensely
preoccupied with itself as a medium. Filmmakers like Steven
Soderbergh, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and Ang Lee created
worlds that were as cryptic as they were disorientating, while
James Cameron and Steven Spielberg conjured up ever more
spectacular special effects. Do you dream of wandering the desert
with The English Patient? Could you save yourself from the doomed
Titanic? Are you still convinced that There's Something About Mary?
100 Movies of the 1990s reviews cinema's most important events from
1991 to 2000 and brings to life a rich variety of movie highlights.
The storyline and aesthetic characteristics of each film are
presented in an incisive and informative way. Commentaries on
actors, directors, and historical or technical aspects of cinema
introduce additional features of interest. 100 Movies of the 1990s
is specialized yet entertaining, clear yet challenging. A work
resembling a great moment of cinema, unforgettable and utterly
gripping.
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Maria Antonietta Crippa; Edited by Peter Goessel
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