Energies in the Arts (Kahn Douglas)(Pevná vazba)

Energies in the Arts (Kahn Douglas)(Pevná vazba)

Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text.This book investigates energies--in the plural, the energies embedded and embodied in everything under the sun-- as they are expressed in the arts. With contributions from scholars and critics

Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (Kahn Douglas)(Paperback)

An examination of the role of sound in twentieth-century arts.This interdisciplinary history and theory of sound in the arts reads the twentieth century by listening to it--to the emphatic and exceptional sounds of modernism and those on the cusp of postmodernism, recorded sound, noise, silence,

The Arts of Cinema (Seel Martin)(Pevná vazba)

In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguishe it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of films--from

Louis I. Kahn (Rosa Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901–1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that suffused his

Arts & Crafts Churches (Hamilton Alec)(Pevná vazba)

Arts & Crafts Churches provides a definitive guide to 735 of the finest Arts & Crafts churches in Britain, including detailed descriptions of

The Essential Louis Kahn (Emden Cemal)(Pevná vazba)

This visual tour of every one of the buildings designed solely by Louis Kahn represents the architect's greatest accomplishments. Exemplifying his vision and principles this book focuses on the more than twenty buildings that were designed solely by Louis Kahn. From his native city of Philadelphia

The Houses of Louis Kahn (Marcus George H.)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning celebration of the architect's residential masterpieces Louis Kahn (1901-1974), one of the most important architects of the postwar period, is widely admired for his great monumental works, including the Kimbell Art Museum, the Salk Institute, and the National Assembly Complex in

Zeppelin in Combat: a History of the German Naval Airship Division (Robinson Douglas H.)(Pevná vazba)

Pewabic Pottery: The American Arts and Crafts Movement Expressed in Clay (Brunk Thomas W.)(Pevná vazba)

Pewabic Pottery is a significant manifestation of the international Arts and Crafts movement in Michigan. As ceramic expert Martin Eidelberg points out in his introductory essay, it was also a striking example of the coterie of talented American female ceramists who broke with traditional norms,

Designa - Technical Secrets of the Traditional Visual Arts (Tetlow Adam)(Pevná vazba)

The Sourcebook for Design in the Traditional

Denial - The Unspeakable Truth (Kahn-Harris Keith)(Pevná vazba)

Kahn-Harris sets out not to unpick denialists' arguments, but to investigate what lies behind them. The conclusions he reaches are shocking and uncomfortable. In a world of `fake news' and `post-truth', are the denialists about to secure

Statement - The Ben Moon Story (Douglas Ed)(Pevná vazba)

In Statement, Ben Moon's official biography, award-winning writer Ed Douglas paints a portrait of a climbing visionary and dispels the myth of Moon as an anti-traditional climbing renegade. Interviews with Moon are complemented with insights from family and friends and extracts from magazines and

The Letter to the Romans (Moo Douglas J.)(Pevná vazba)

Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Tankard Judith B.)(Pevná vazba)

In this thoroughly revised edition of Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during the movement. Tankard presents a selection of houses and gardens of the era from Great Britain and

Driftwood Shacks: Anonymous Architecture Along the California Coast (Kahn Lloyd)(Pevná vazba)

Lloyd Kahn has been hiking and camping on Northern California beaches for the last dozen or so years and, given his background in publishing books on building, it's only natural that he would notice the unique and whimsical beach shacks constructed by anonymous builders. Here are some 60

Teardrops and Tiny Trailers (Keister Douglas)(Pevná vazba)

Buckle up as Douglas Keister takes you for a decidedly retro ride in the world of diminutive travel trailers in Teardrops and Tiny Trailers. The demand for vintage trailers-the smaller the better-has risen dramatically in recent years, with the most in-demand trailers being 'teardrops,' first

Lump: The Dog who ate a Picasso (Douglas Duncan David)(Pevná vazba)

David Douglas Duncan introduced Lump, a stray dachshund, to Pablo Picasso in 1957. It was love at first sight, and Lump became the artist's inseparable companion and sometime muse. This collection of photographs, celebrating Picasso and Lump's relationship, is a record of mini-chapter in the

Bloodless (Preston Douglas)(Pevná vazba)

In this latest installment of the #1 NYT bestselling series, FBI Agent Pendergast faces the strangest, most challenging puzzle of his career, when bodies--drained to the last drop of blood--begin appearing in Savannah, GA. A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper

Trivium - The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric (Michell John)(Pevná vazba)

The modern guide to ancient arts of

The Disciplined Trader: Developing Winning Attitudes (Douglas Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic (Kahn Sandra)(Pevná vazba)

There's a silent epidemic in western civilization, and it is right under our noses. Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can

The Sound of Life's Unspeakable Beauty (Schleske Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Christianity Today Book Award in Culture and the Arts (2021) 'In the final analysis, music is prayer cast into sound.' One of the greatest luthiers of our time reveals the secrets of his profession--and how each phase of handcrafting a violin can point us toward our calling, our true selves, and

Young Poland: The Arts and Crafts Movement, 1890-1918 (Griffin Julia)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the decorative arts and architecture of Polish Modernism and its relationship to the Arts & Crafts movement in

Commentaries (Pius II)(Pevná vazba)

The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the Renaissance popes. Pius II (1405-1464) began life as Aeneas Silvius