books by Phaidon Press     books:       The Art Book33 reviews Editors of Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 2006 Fantastic reference This little book couldn't be any more straightforward or useful. Over the span of 500 pages, each page is devoted to a different artist, with one representative work by that artist and a short description of his or her life and work. At the end, an invaluable 6-page glossary provides short and informative descriptions of the major genres and schools of art (e.g., Fauvism, Constructivism, ...             Nicholas18 reviews René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé Phaidon Press, 2005 Simply the best. If you have boys in your life, you need this book. I bought this book for my Nicholas. I love it more than he does. What a wonderful book. You will enjoy reading it to your children.             J.W. Waterhouse19 reviews Peter Trippi Phaidon Press, 2005 The best book out there on J.W. Waterhouse! This is the best book I have found on J.W. Waterhouse. Not only does this book talk about the painter's life, but more importantly, each of J.W .Waterhouse's paintings are described in very full detail (eg: OPHELIA). I was so intrigued by reading about Waterhouses' pictures, because the author of this wonderful book (ie: PETER TRIPPI) elaborated in great detail about each work of Art, by ...             Andy Warhol: Giant Size19 reviews Editors of Phaidon Press, Dave Hickey Phaidon Press, 2006 Great book This is a real great (and large ;-) ) book with beatiful reproductions of Andy Warhol. My children love to go through it. It was also for sale on the Warhol exhibition in the "Stedelijk Museum" in Amsterdam last year.             Vitamin P14 reviews Barry Schwabsky Phaidon Press, 2002 Fulfilling Requirements Schwabsky manages to pull together precise & intelligent critical essays of an enlightening array of painters from all over the world. The selection of images from each artist's oeuvre is generous. Big names like Currin and Ghada Amer appear alongside lesser-knowns with little academic biases. The only beef, really, I have with this wonderful volume of contemporary painters is the miniscule ...             David Doubilet: Water, Light, Time: Postcards27 reviews Phaidon Press, 2002 Absolutely amazing! Not only the pictures are artistically and beautifully photographed, but one cannot not wonder how Mr. Doubilet could be right there at the moment, with the right lights and the right angles to capture such incredible photos. If you appreciate nature's beauty and photography, this book is a must.             Area12 reviews Editors of Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 2003 An Eye-Opening Experience for the Contemporary Designer This book is full of new and refreshing design from around the world. It helps to educate someone like me who, while getting a Graphic Design education, is getting a more traditional rundown of the field and less of a modern-day acknowledgment. "Area" addresses the artists' perspectives and shows a wide variety of visual styles and formats, and will have something extremely interesting for ...             Heaven and Earth: Unseen by the Naked Eye12 reviews David Malin, Katherine Roucoux Phaidon Press, 2007 Heaven and Earth - What a fantastic book This book contains one of the best set of images I have ever seen. There are pictures of different subjects on a whole variety of scales and colours, which are fantastic design sources for many arty/crafty people who lack inspiration for various projects. Some images are unidentifyable and are impossible to understand without reading the blurbs - I spent a while guessing what some of the pictures ...             Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive27 reviews Joel Meyerowitz Phaidon Press, 2006 A True Memorial Aftermath represents the efforts of Joel Meyerowitz to document the destruction and cleanup of the World Trade Center following 9/11. This is a beefy coffee table book that is large enough to give his photos some real impact. Unlike most photo essays, however, you won't find hundreds of beautiful images. After a couple of pages show what New York's skyline once looked like, you are confronted ...             Contemporary10 reviews Lesley Jackson Phaidon Press, 1998 Great grainy pictures! This is a pretty cool book. The photos are honest, as they're from the era instead of reconstructed rooms today. Very in depth also; it covers furniture, architecture, glassware, kitchens, textiles and other home furnishings.             Magnum7 reviews Editors of Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 2004 A great album, can be a great Christmas present This collection of Magnum photographs is amazing. The pictures are broken into differnet thematic or geographic categories--war, environment, famine, etc. While there is very little text and almost no captions at all, the pictures are enough to speak to the subject. It contains both recent photographs and old ones, becoming something like an encyclopediea of photography. It is a beautiful ...             A History of Illuminated Manuscript12 reviews Christopher De Hamel Phaidon Press, 1997 Fabulous book and indispensable resource! I loved this book! I used it for a graduate course on Illuminated Manuscripts, and it was one of the main textbooks we used, but I used it often after the course as well. I really enjoyed reading it, and found that it was unlike most of the typical text books I had formerly used. For any art history student, it is an outstanding resource. For anyone who loves illuminated manuscripts, book arts, ...             Steve McCurry: Looking East: Portraits by Steve McCurry10 reviews Steve McCurry Phaidon Press, 2006 Wonderful and Haunting Images This is a magnificent book full of stunning portraits. McCurry has captured the soul of his subjects using simple yet finely tuned techniques of a master photographer. Opening this large book to page 48 we see the Kuchi Shepherd from Kashmir, his orange beard jumps from the page while his sage blue eyes reflect the years. The Afghan Girl is here too. Her blue green eyes tinged with ...             River of Colour8 reviews Raghubir Singh Phaidon Press, 2000 How do you capture India ???!!! India is a difficult country to understand and even more difficult to explain, in words or pictures! Rughubir Singh has captured the chaos of India which take you right into the bylanes of Varanasi/Banaras. This is my favourite(infact the only picture book) gift to a lot of my western friends, most of whom have visited India before. The pictures are simply too powerful. If you have any facination ...             The House Book (Architecture)9 reviews Editors of Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 2001 Architecture as Anthropology! Fascinating tour of homes, with most of the really rewarding images revealing the indigenous styles of homes across the globe, including the iglu, the long house, dung hovels, and dozens of other styles that incorporate the folk wisdom of humans across the centuries. The modernist austerities were the least interesting, even more boring than castles from the Hapsburgs. Some of the contemporary ...             Architecture Today10 reviews James Steele Phaidon Press, 2001 Comprehensive Overview Of Contemporary Architecture James Steele's mammoth compendium of modern architecture is as definitive as can be imagined. The book combines fascinating text, highlighting his years of professional knowledge, with amazing color photographs, to yield one of the most breathtaking large-format architectural books I have ever seen. Most stunning in this book is the photography. The breadth of buildings photographed is ...             Advertising Today7 reviews Warren Berger Phaidon Press, 2001 rave reviews for this book As the proud author, just wanted to share w/readers some of the recent press reviews for Advertising Today: "An amazing book," says Esquire magazine; a 4-star rating from Maxim magazine; Village Voice says "media archaelogists will pore over it for decades to come"; praised on ABC World News; on her radio show, Joan Rivers called it "fabulous" & the hot new coffee table book; J. Walter Thompson ...             John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Life In Pictures7 reviews Editors of Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 2003 All pics, few words. This collection of over 300 pages of the usual suspected photographs, as well as many unseen or rare ones, was published to commemorate the passing of 40 years since our 35th President was vicously cut down in his prime. The layout of the photographs is great. You see JFK throughout his life, from childhood, to Presidencey and every passing moment between. The photos are powerful, moving, show ...             Frank O. Gehry: The Complete Works10 reviews Francesco Dal Co, Kurt W. Forster Phaidon Press, 2003 A really good book for architects and everyone! I like how this book shows how Gehry's architecture progressed from his Senior Thesis Project to his recent works. It's interesting how simple his architecture once was, to how much more complex it is now. Buy this book, you will always enjoy it.              search for books advertising, aftermath, architecture, archive, center, colour, complete, contemporary, david, doubilet, fitzgerald, heaven, history, house, illuminated, kennedy, looking, magnum, manuscript, mccurry, naked, nicholas, pictures, portraits, postcards, river, unseen, vitamin, warhol, waterhouse books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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