Victoria Hagan: Interior Portraits

Victoria Hagan: Interior Portraits
Author: Marianne Hagan
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0847834891

The first book to survey the work of this iconic designer, known for her serene "new American classic" look. One of today’s most influential designers, Victoria Hagan exploded onto the scene in 1988 when New York magazine devoted the cover of its design issue to one of her rooms. Since then she has become renowned for her intelligent integration of architectural and interior design, her refined use of materials, her sophisticated color palette, and her strong silhouettes. Always looking to the view, Hagan effortlessly makes a close connection of interior spaces to the surrounding landscape. The houses profiled—ranging from elegant urban residences to casual weekend retreats—reveal Hagan’s unerring attention to what Proust called "the unexpected detail," which makes her interiors beautiful as well as timeless. Throughout, Hagan discourses on the spirit of cherished objects—a print of birds in flight, a vintage star-shaped mirror, or a chair with an unusual silhouette—that add soul and modernity. With stunning photography and personal insights into Hagan’s design philosophy, Victoria Hagan: Interior Portraits is an artful and inspiring collection of this design superstar’s oeuvre.

Inner Portraits

Inner Portraits
Author: Stanislav Szukalski
Publisher: Last Gasp
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780867194944

Szukalski is now the subject of the critically acclaimed 2018 Netflix documentary Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski directed by Irek Dobrowolski and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio Stanislav Szukalski (1893 1987) was an artist, anthropologist, and member of Chicago's artistic elite during the 1920s who spent his last years in obscurity. Today he is remembered for his political and scientific views and his brilliant sculptures. Inner Portraits provides a major survey of his work as draftsman, painter, and sculptor.

The Art of Stillness

The Art of Stillness
Author: Pico Iyer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2014-11-04
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1476784728

"In The Art of Stillness, Iyer draws on the lives of well-known wanderer-monks like Cohen--as well as from his own experiences as a travel writer who chooses to spend most of his time in rural Japan--to explore why advances in technology are making us more likely to retreat. Iyer reflects that this is perhaps the reason why many people--even those with no religious commitment--seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi. These aren't New Age fads so much as ways to rediscover the wisdom of an earlier age."--Publisher's description.

Axel Vervoordt: Portraits of Interiors

Axel Vervoordt: Portraits of Interiors
Author:
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 2080203754

Seventeen homes demonstrate how Axel Vervoordt incorporates nature, art, and timeless interiors to create living spaces that encourage self-reflection, inspiration, and happiness. For a half century, Axel Vervoordt's vision has been defined by a continual quest for harmony, beauty, and the creation of interior atmospheres that are rooted in the past, connected to the future, and imbued with today's comforts. These eighteen residences--from an urban New York penthouse or Moscow apartment to a waterfront estate in New England, and from a Tokyo dwelling to a Bordeaux wine château or a Wabi-Sabi farmhouse--reveal how art complements architecture and the elements of nature in an alchemy of Vervoordt expression. Portraits of each residence--including the Vervoordts' own homes in Venice and Belgium--feature sweeping vistas of the surrounding landscape and a tour through the interiors. Each detail--from the materials used to the graceful placement of a well-chosen object--offers deep insight into the Vervoordt design approach and abiding principles for living and working well.

The Group Portraiture of Holland

The Group Portraiture of Holland
Author: Alois Riegl
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2000-03-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 089236548X

In The Group Portraiture of Holland, art historian Alois Riegl (1858-1905) argues that the artists of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holland radically altered the beholders relationship to works of art. Group portraits by artists such as Rembrandt and Frans Halls reflect an egalitarian viewpoint not found in the more hierarchically structured Italian works of the same period. First published in 1902 and here in English for the first time, the book opened up areas of inquiry that continue to engage scholars today.

The War of Art

The War of Art
Author: Steven Pressfield
Publisher: Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2002-06-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1936891042

What keeps so many of us from doing what we long to do? Why is there a naysayer within? How can we avoid the roadblocks of any creative endeavor—be it starting up a dream business venture, writing a novel, or painting a masterpiece? The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success. The War of Art emphasizes the resolve needed to recognize and overcome the obstacles of ambition and then effectively shows how to reach the highest level of creative discipline. Think of it as tough love . . . for yourself.

Behold!!! the Protong

Behold!!! the Protong
Author: Stanislav Szukalski
Publisher: Last Gasp
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-05
Genre: Art, Ancient
ISBN: 9780867198768

This book represents a partial reprinting of the classics 1980 publication. It is but a small review of the science of Zermatism realized by Szukalski since 1940. The drawings herein were chosen from over 40,000 illustrations made for the Zermatism oeuvre, representing, in particular, some of the most important subjects as Universal Pictograph, the Flood Scumline and Anthropolitical Motivations. This is the first book in 50 years to bring Szukalski's work to the light of the American public.

Camera Lucida

Camera Lucida
Author: Roland Barthes
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1981
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0374521344

"Examining the themes of presence and absence, the relationship between photography and theatre, history and death, these 'reflections on photography' begin as an investigation into the nature of photographs. Then, as Barthes contemplates a photograph of his mother as a child, the book becomes an exposition of his own mind."--Alibris.

Handcrafted Modern

Handcrafted Modern
Author: Leslie Williamson
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0847834182

An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others. Intimate as well as revelatory, Williamson’s photographs show these creative homes as they were lived in by their designers: Walter Gropius’s historic Bauhaus home in Massachusetts; Albert Frey’s floating modernist aerie on a Palm Springs rock outcropping; Wharton Esherick’s completely handmade Pennsylvania house, from the organic handcarved staircase to the iconic furniture. Personal and breathtaking by turn—these homes are exemplary studies of domestic modernism at its warmest and most creative.

The Portrait's Subject

The Portrait's Subject
Author: Sarah Blackwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781469652597

"Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms in the United States. ... images of human surfaces became understood as expressions of human depth during this era. Combining visual theory, literary close reading, and in-depth archival research, Blackwood examines portraiture's changing symbolic and aesthetic practices, from daguerreotype to X-ray. Considering painting, photography, illustration, and other visual forms alongside literary and cultural representations of portrait making and viewing, Blackwood argues that portraiture was a provocative art form used by writers, artists, and early psychologists to imagine selfhood as hidden, deep, and in need of revelation, ideas that were then taken up by the developing discipline of psychology"--