Author: John B. Ward-Perkins
Publisher: Phaidon Press / Electa
Keywords: architecture, world, history, roman
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2004-04-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1904313191
ISBN-13: 9781904313199

The first part of the book examines the developments that originated in central Italy. It then goes on to discuss the majestic complexes of the Republican era, and the Augustan buildings that culminated in the planning of the Roman Forum. The book explains how the Romans successfully developed and exploited a revolutionary building material called opus caementicium, a composite of stone and mortar. This material made it possible for them to effectively develop new forms of structures, such as amphitheatres, public bath-houses, villas, basilicas, and markets, which were to become essential feat

Author: Christian Norberg-Schulz
Publisher: Phaidon Press / Electa
Keywords: architecture, world, history, baroque
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06-25
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1904313108
ISBN-13: 9781904313106

The "History of World Architecture" series offers scholarship, accessibility, extensive illustration and international scope. This text examines the principal 17th-century architectural themes - "capital city", "church" and "palace" - using the most famous examples of the period in Rome, Paris, Turin and Versailles. A large section of the book is devoted to religious architecture, analysing works by Della Porta, Maderno, Mansart, Borromini, Bernini and Guarini, envisaged in both a local and European context. The book ends with a general survey of the diffusion of the Baroque in Europe, in its

Author: Michael Oliver
Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc.
Keywords: composers, century, stravinsky, igor
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0714847771
ISBN-13: 9780714847771

From his unhappy childhood in St. Petersburg through his years in Paris and the United States, from The Nightingale through The Owl and the Pussycat, British writer Michael Oliver traces the life and work of Igor Stravinsky. His landmark ballet, The Rite of Spring is thought of as a classic today, but it inspired riots at its Paris premiere in 1913. Oliver follows Stravinsky’s work from juvenilia through modernism and serialism and back to tonalism in an easily accessible biography, part of the Phaidon Press Limited 20th Century Composers series. This book, which never gets too technical

Author: Editors of Wallpaper Magazine
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: petersburg, guide, city, wallpaper
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2007-03-19
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0714847291
ISBN-13: 9780714847290

Wallpaper* City Guides not only suggest where to stay, eat, and drink, but what the tourist passionate about design might want to see, whether he or she has a week or just 24 hours in the city. The guides feature up-and-coming areas, landmark buildings in an `Architour’, design centers, and a selection of the best shops to buy items unique to the particular city. Wallpaper* City Guides present travelers with a fast-track ticket to the chosen location. The edited guides offer the best, the most exciting, and the most beautiful of the featured city. In addition to loo

Author: Anthony Bannon
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: phaidon, mccurry, steve
Number of Pages: 74
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0714844845
ISBN-13: 9780714844848

Born in Philadelphia, Steve McCurry studied history and cinematography at Pennsylvania State University before working as a freelance photographer in India. He is best known for his evocative colour photography, which has captured stories of human experience that, in the finest documentary tradition, cross boundaries of language and culture. His career was launched when he crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion to take the first pictures of the conflict. Since then many of McCurry’s images have become modern icons. A high point of his

Author: William Gaunt
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: library, colour, renoir
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1998-08-12
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0714827568
ISBN-13: 9780714827568

This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology.

Author: William Vaughan
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Keywords: ideas, art, amp, friedrich
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-11-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0714840602
ISBN-13: 9780714840604

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) was the pre-eminent artist of the German Romantic movement of the early nineteenth century. William Vaughan analyses the mysterious landscapes paintings with gothic ruins and silhouetted figures to reveal how the artist was influenced by the philosophical ideas and political events of his time.