Download or read book Greece Gods and Art written by Alexander Liberman and published by New York : Viking Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The artistic expression of religion and myth, the core and center of Greek civilization, is the focus of the book." -book jacket.
Download or read book The Artist in His Studio written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Then written by Alexander Liberman and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Then is the record of a remarkable life and the people with whom it was lived. Spies, fashion designers, aristocrats, dancers, editors, publishers, and Nobel laureates come and go in this photographic chronicle of half a century. The cast of characters includes Baryshnikov, Brodsky, Braque, Chanel, Raymond Lowey, Picasso, Dior, Horowitz, Jasper Johns, Truman Capote, Babe and Bill Paley, Irving Penn, and many other talented friends and family members. Alexander Liberman began taking photographs as a boy in revolutionary Moscow, and he has kept his camera with him throughout his life. He is a distinguished sculptor and painter, but has also spent much of his life making magazines. As he notes in his introduction, perhaps a million photographs - other people's photographs - have passed under his discerning gaze. "I look at a sheet of contacts for the unplanned, unpremeditated vision", Liberman says. Most of his own photographs were unplanned, in that they were taken to document a moment, but they reveal a life full of charm and valor and creative energy, and a time that shaped the world we know now.
Download or read book Alex written by Dodie Kazanjian and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1993 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant, elegant, and shy, Alexander Liberman was twenty-eight when he left war-torn Europe in 1940 to make a new start in New York. This is the fascinating biography of the Russian-born painter, sculptor, and photographer who - from 1943 to 1962 as art director of Vogue and from 1962 to the present as editorial director of all Conde Nast magazines - has been the mysterious and legendary force responsible for shaping the look and content of the most powerful magazine publishing empire in the world. Having witnessed the Bolshevik revolution as a child in St. Petersburg, he spent his turbulent youth in Moscow, London, and Paris, where evenings at home included, among others, Leger, Cocteau, Chagall, and Bronislava Nijinska. His life would be marked by two strong and exotic women: his mother, Henriette Pascar, who would push him to paint, and his second wife, Tatiana, who would push him to succeed." "Here is the inside story of Conde Nast, the publishing colossus that has played such an influential role in defining American culture. For half a century, Liberman has overseen the editorial content, from articles to layout, of Vogue, House & Garden, Glamour, and all the other Conde Nast magazines. He was also an important catalyst for the careers of photographers Irving Penn, Erwin Blumenfeld, Andre Kertesz, William Klein, Helmut Newton, and Deborah Turbeville. Here, too, is the New York art world in which Liberman was able to establish a separate and important career: openings at the Betty Parsons and Andre Emmerich galleries; friendships with Barnett Newman, Robert Motherwell, and Helen Frankenthaler, as well as the cream of New York's Russian society and artists-in-exile - Valentina, Iva Patcevitch, Joseph Brodsky, and Mikhail Baryshnikov." "Dodie Kazanjian and Calvin Tomkins not only evoke a fascinating portrait of a man who has contributed to the worlds of high fashion, publishing, and art, but also give us an incisive look into a hugely successful media empire and the people who run it."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Them written by Francine Du Plessix Gray and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatiana du Plessix, the wife of a French diplomat, was a beautiful, sophisticated "white Russian" who had been the muse of the famous Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Alexander Liberman, the ambitious son of a prominent Russian Jew, was a gifted magazine editor and aspiring artist. As part of the progressive artistic Russian émigré community living in Paris in the 1930s, the two were destined to meet. They began a passionate affair, and the year after Paris was occupied in World War II they fled to New York with Tatiana's young daughter, Francine. There they determinedly rose to the top of high society, holding court to a Who's Who list of the midcentury's intellectuals and entertainers. Flamboyant and outrageous, bold and brilliant, they were irresistible to friends like Marlene Dietrich, Salvador Dalí, and the publishing tycoon Condé Nast. But to those who knew them well they were also highly neurotic, narcissistic, and glacially self-promoting, prone to cut out of their lives, with surgical precision, close friends who were no longer of use to them. Tatiana became an icon of New York fashion, and the hats she designed for Saks Fifth Avenue were de rigueur for stylish women everywhere. Alexander Liberman, who devotedly raised Francine as his own child from the time she was nine, eventually came to preside over the entire Condé Nast empire. The glamorous life they shared was both creative and destructive and was marked by an exceptional bond forged out of their highly charged love and raging self-centeredness. Their obsessive adulation of success and elegance was elevated to a kind of worship, and the high drama that characterized their lives followed them to their deaths. Tatiana, increasingly consumed with nostalgia for a long-lost Russia, spent her last years addicted to painkillers. Shortly after her death, Alexander, then age eighty, shocked all who knew him by marrying her nurse. Them: A Portrait of Parents is a beautifully written homage to the extraordinary lives of two fascinating, irrepressible people who were larger than life emblems of a bygone age. Written with honesty and grace by the person who knew them best, this generational saga is a survivor's story. Tatiana and Alexander survived the Russian Revolution, the fall of France, and New York's factory of fame. Their daughter, Francine, survived them.
Download or read book Modern Look written by Mason Klein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at mid-century This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European émigrés, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue—whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished photographers—emerged from a distinctly American combination of innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the mass media.
Download or read book Alexander Liberman written by Alexander Liberman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Act of Betrayal written by Edna Buchanan and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2014-04-27 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a hurricane bears down on Miami, a crime reporter confronts the mystery of her own father’s past: “[An] irresistible series” (Kirkus Reviews). When Miami crime reporter Britt Montero reports a missing teenager, she discovers that the case may be related to a string of unsolved disappearances. As Britt delves into the baffling case, an old mystery opens new wounds: she unexpectedly meets two men who knew her deceased father—who was executed long ago in a Cuban jail. Through them, Britt learns that he left a diary identifying the man who betrayed him. But the diary isn’t easily possessed: Anyone who finds it seems to be marked for murder. At the height of a terrifying category five hurricane, Britt needs to face the man who betrayed her father in order to uncover more than one truth, but her hunger for justice may turn her into the next victim. From the Edgar Award–nominated and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face, this compelling crime thriller “deftly captures the matter-of-fact quality of the police beat” (The New York Times). “[An] extremely likable heroine.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Passage written by Irving Penn and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive retrospective of America's preeminent photographer. This book reveals for the first time Penn's own view of his extraordinary and diverse career. Accompanied by his fascinating and insightful commentaries and examples of his portraits, still lifes, and fashion drawings. Printed in 11 colors with 468 black-and-white and color plates.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1981-10-12 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Campidoglio written by Alexander Liberman and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts Rome's Piazza del Campidoglio, its statue of Marcus Aurelius, and its palaces designed by Michelangelo
Download or read book Alexander Liberman written by Alexander Liberman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Wrap Five Eggs written by Hideyuki Oka and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Japanese packaging is an art form that applies sophisticated design and natural aesthetics to simple objects. In this elegant presentation of the baskets, boxes, wrappers, and containers that were used in ordinary, day-to-day life, we are offered a stunning example of a time before mass production. Largely constructed of bamboo, rice straw, hemp twine, paper, and leaves, all of the objects shown here are made from natural materials. Through 221 black-and-white photographs of authentic examples of traditional Japanese packaging—with commentary on the origins, materials, and use of each piece—the items here offer a look into a lost art, while also reminding us of the connection to nature and the human imprint of handwork that was once so alive and vibrant in our everyday lives. This classic book was originally published under the title How to Wrap Five More Eggs in 1975. The eminent American designer George Nelson praised the work featured here, saying, “We have come a long, long way from the kind of thing so beautifully presented in this book. To suit the needs of super mass production, the traditional natural materials are too obstreperous . . . and one by one we have replaced them with the docile, predicable synthetics. . . . What we have gained from these [new] materials and wonderfully complicated processes to make up for the general pollution, rush, crowding, noise, sickness, and slickness is a subject for other forums. But what we have lost for sure is what this book is all about: a once-common sense of fitness in the relationships between hand, material, use, and shape, and above all, a sense of delight in the look and feel of very ordinary, humble things. This book is thus . . . a totally unexpected monument to a culture, a way of life, a universal sensibility carried through all objects down to the smallest, most inconsequential, and ephemeral things.” Now, over thirty years later, this revived classic on the art of traditional Japanese packing may leave us with the same response, and the same appreciation for the natural and utile packaging presented in this book.
Download or read book Stoppers written by Phyllis Posnick and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phyllis Posnick, Executive Fashion Editor at Vogue since 1987.
Download or read book Irving Penn written by Irving Penn and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a catalog of an exhibition of photographs focusing on blue collar workers.
Download or read book Day of the Artist written by Linda Patricia Cleary and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!
Download or read book The Education of an Art Director written by Steven Heller and published by Allworth Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative anthology provides inspiration on teaching and discussing art direction in the classroom and beyond. Essays, interviews, and images from more than thirty teachers and leaders in the field provide an in-depth view of every facet of art direction; concrete examples reveal how to create classes that are fun to teach and inspiring to students and department chairs alike. A boon to instructors, a boost to anyone interested in graphic design, this book is educational in the best sense of the word. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.
