Anne Hoy Books

A lively and lavishly illustrated history of decorative arts from 1950 through 2000, this survey presents 130 key examples of later twentieth-century design in their cultural contexts. The primary focus is furniture-- both one-of-a-kind examples and mass-produced works-- by international designers and architects. Here are classic designs for chairs, shelving units, and lamps by well-known masters from Aarnio to Zanuso, as well as provocative works by newcomers. All the works in Design for Living are from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection of the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts/Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.The furniture is presented in five chapters which establish decade by decade, the historical, artistic, and technical currents that led from Good Design and traditional Modernism to Pop Art and Post-Modernism, and to concerns for ecology, pluralism, and spirituality. Full-color photographs and entries on each object profile the design process and the designer, while illustrations show these works in their original period settings. All this recommends Design for Living to the general reader, as well as to the designer, collector, and scholar. Here is an accessible guide and resource to the fifty years of exuberant creativity that mark the second half of the twentieth century.

Gathers examples of tableaux, portraits, still-life constructions, and photo-collages, and provides information about each photographer

[ Skira/ Vitra Design Museum, 1998, first edition] COLLECTORS VERY FINE w/ fine dustjacket (small tear at corner) -protected in mylar cover. Interior pages like new. 334pp., illustrated throughout in color with some b/w photos. --Near the end of his life, in 1958, Wright published The Living City, the final version of his vision of an ideal social order. Indeed, all of his building and projects can be seen, retrospectively, as prototypes and proposals, models for the new, decentralized pattern of living that he offered as a blueprint for the future and from which we have much to learn today. This book is an innovative survey of Wright's career focused upon the nine basic building types found in the Living City and pursuing the evolution of each throughout his career.

Die Arbeiten von mehr als 200 Fotografen aus der ganzen Welt verschaffen Ihnen in dieser Enzyklopädie ein umfassendes Bild der Fotografie in ihrem historischen und technischen Kontext. Bilder bestimmen unser Leben und halten es fest in einem Moment, der zur Ewigkeit wird. Entdecken Sie dieses spannende Thema aus seinen unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln im Laufe der Zeit und die Perspektiven der Technik, die die Fotografie immer wieder neu geprägt haben. Diese Werk bringt Ihnen die praktischen, geschichtlichen und ästhetischen Standpunkte der Fotografie auf eine unterhaltsame, fundierte und verständliche Art und Weise näher - Profis wie Amateuren.