books about: modernist     books:     Modernist      Richard Neutra: Complete Works (Architecture & Design) Taschen, 2000 One of the great architecture books! Barbara Lamprecht and Julius Shulman have created one the great architecture books about this leading figure of 20th century modernism. As a fan of Lamprecht's excellent writing, the text in this book is, of course, excellent---full of information, opinion and wit. The ...             The Bauhaus: 1919-1933: Reform and Avant-Garde (Basic Art S.) Magdalena Droste Taschen, 2006 To know about Bauhaus deeply... This book has great studies. Lots of new details for me are in it. It helps you to study design and art histry.             Tiki Modern Sven A Kirsten Taschen, 2007 Tiki Modern & the height of American influence While its predecessor volume, The Book of Tiki, is a straight-forward exploration of the Polynesian popular culture that came to fruition in early 1960's America, Sven Kirsten's Tiki Modern... and the Wild World of Witco is a more ambitious attempt to place this ...             NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism Pierluigi Serraino Chronicle Books, 2006 Of both particular and general value; a fine piece of work. This is an accessible, well-written and thoughtful book; a rarity in current architectural discourse. Furthermore, it is handsomely designed and illustrated with beautiful archival photography. Though it focuses on the seemingly narrow topic of the ...             Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement (Schiffer Book for Collectors) Marbeth Schon Schiffer Publishing, 2004 Simply a Masterpiece My wife makes me read most of her dozens and dozens of jewelry books so I can help her out occasionally, but this one didn't need more than a quick browse to get me started. Modernist Jewelry, it seems as though there has never been enough information. Christie ...             Modernism Reborn: Mid-Century American Houses Michael Webb Universe Publishing, 2001 Fifties elegance I bought this interesting book because I wanted something that would cover, visually, the best of mid-century American architecture. As another reviewer has said, don't expect a full technical account of the background to these beautiful houses but if you want ...             Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered Julius Shulman, Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, ... Taschen, 2007 Shulman Modernism A fittingly huge tribute to the man who captured Modernism in western America and especially in California. I thought the beauty of these three large books (check out the weight and dimensions in the Product Details section) was the way they are organized: ...             The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann Vintage, 1996 Death and Amusement in the Mountains The Magic Mountain is a renowned classic of twentieth century literature, especially German and European literature. As a book, it is moderate to easy to read, and I highly recommend the novel. It is easier to read than some of Mann's other works. I recently purchased ...             A Modernist View of Plated Desserts (Grand Finales) Tish Boyle, Timothy Moriarty Wiley, 1997 An excellent book for creativity in pastry arts Many renowned Pastry Chefs share insights in creating and mastering their techniques. Although I am not a pastry chef, I do create desserts, and I was thrilled to not only see pictures and practically step by step procedures, but to also learn more about pricing and ...             The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press, 1986 prophetic insights anyway... As Hal foster... writes, miss Krauss cannot be blamed of the conceptual limitations of the time... if read within a historical context, this book Is very enlightening and very compromised with structural analysis, as it is with it's by- products (of wihch, we often ...             Asmara: Africa's Secret Modernist City Edward Denison, Guang Yu Ren, ... Merrell, 2007 Excellent for the arm chair traveler and history buff I spent several years living with my family in Asmara as a young boy. Now as an adult I've been searching for a book that would allow my to do some arm chair traveling back to my former home. Mr. Denison's book allowed me to do that in both word and picture. The book ...             Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist Yale University Press, 2007 Great muralist This is a great book one of America's great muralists. His artwork is beautifully reproduced and shows how current these murals are today. I wish they would have shown more of the murals he did at Fisk.             The Bauhaus Ideal: Then and Now: An Illustrated Guide to Modernist Design and Its Legacy William Smock Academy Chicago Publishers, 2004 Modernism V2.0 Today's design students are overloaded with too many skills and ideas to absorb. Unfortunately, as students race into the future, it seems that subjects like Design History are the first to suffer. This book addresses that problem. You could think of it as the 'cliff ...             Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics Jeremy Gray Princeton University Press, 2008 Plato's Ghost is the first book to examine the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. Jeremy Gray traces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in problem solving and theory to its interactions with physics, philosophy, theology, psychology, and ideas ...             The ABC's of Bauhaus, The Bauhaus and Design Theory Princeton Architectural Press, 2000 BAUHAUS FUNDAMENTALS This thin volume is a wonderful collection of essays on the typography, design and graphic design of this school that can be considered the heralding in of moderism. The layout of the book, sparse and clean, was designed by the editors, Joanne Savio and Mike Mills in ...          products you might be interested in search for books architecture, illustrated, mid-century, originality, rediscovered, transformation      geepe.com    web we recommend Death and Amusement in the Mountains randomly chosen The SAK Malibu Hobo