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The world's love of skyscrapers is so great that architectural book publishers never will stop thinking of ways to create new books about them--as evidenced by this clever, colorful, and fun Filofax-shaped interactive number. It takes vertical shots of 27 of the world's most famous tall buildings; scales them all equally; cuts them into bottom, middle, and top; and, then, through the magic of a loose-leaf ring binder, allows you to flip around their various three parts to see, say, what New York's 1913 Woolworth Building--Cass Gilbert's legendary faux-Gothic "cathedral of commerce"--would look like with the base of its neighbor from a few blocks away, Emery Roth and Sons' 1972-3 World Trade Center (schizophrenic, to say the least)... or how Skidmore Owings & Merrill's 1969 Hancock Center in Chicago would look if it were topped off by the richly patterned minaret-like crowns of Cesar Pelli's twin Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur (a perfect geometric fit, actually (if not a stylistic stumper), thanks to the Hancock's ever-tapering shaft). The funny thing is that so many of the towers of the past few years look like Deco by LEGO, with their stepped-back stories and sexy chevron-like styling. Take, for example, Murphy Jahn's 1990 Messeturm in Frankfurt; or SOM's fabulous "space-age pagoda," the 1998 Jin Mao Building in Shanghai--these actually line up very nicely with the Chrysler and the Empire State, while that midcentury-modern chock-a-block batch in the middle of the book (Seagram, Sears, and Pei's Boston Hancock are among the usual suspects) truly don't jibe with the "phabulous phalli" of either today or the pre-WWII era.
Thanks to those brainy folks at Princeton Architectural Press, each 'scraper comes with some annotation that ranges from the very sharp (they astutely call the hastily erected and artfully set-back Empire State "a spectacular surrender of architecture to economic forces and zoning restrictions") to the academically overcooked (the small, 18-inch windows of the WTC's twin towers "minimize the occupants' acrophobia," we are gratefully informed, "thereby inscribing the notion of vertigo into the buildings themselves"). It's also hard to get a clear view of any one building whole, as the three parts of each wobble on their rings--suggesting rather chillingly what the edifices might look like moments after cracking into three pieces under the force of an earthquake--but, no matter, as you probably have seen coherent versions of all of these longtime and recent classics elsewhere. And the book is so much fun to play with that it's the perfect gift both for kids--whom it might turn into architects--and architects--whom, to the benefit of their careers, it might turn back into kids. --Timothy Murphy
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This playful book offers the most fun path to designing your own skyscraper. Twenty-five of the most famous skyscrapers have been scaled to the same size and cut into three pieces; these can be recombined to make 15,625 new buildings of your own creation. Fashion the Empire Trade Center or the Chrysler Hancock Tower by mixing and matching the pages. Each building is identified by name, date, and architect and includes a brief history, so this book is educational as well as interactive. The results are sometimes humorous, sometimes fortuitous, and always educational and entertaining. Colorful and affordable, 1,001 Skyscrapers is fun for builders of all ages.
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Not a good guide to skyscrapers.......2003-06-28
This is a book for 5 year-olds and that's about it. I really regret buying it.
1,001 Skyscrapers.......2000-12-01
Whoa, if its archiecture, and skyscrapers that your looking for, this could be the one for you! this particular book is crammed with pictures, information and stats about skyscrapers! i was very impressed with the great detail they used to brig this book together,
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1,001 Skyscrapers 10 Copy Display
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- Great views of Tudor hats and hoods!
- Great book of drawings
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ASIN: 0486249379 |
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Superb reproductions of 44 of Holbein's finest portrait drawings: Sir Thomas Moore, Jane Seymour, the Prince of Wales, Anne Boleyn, dozens more personalities from the court of Henry VIII. 44 black-and-white illustrations. Publisher's Note. Captions.
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Great views of Tudor hats and hoods!.......2006-06-02
I found this small book to be just the item I needed to help me make the most accurate Tudor period gable hoods for SCA events. The details of the portraits are quite impressive. All are done in B/W, but this actually goes a long way to show contrasting elements of various garb. This particular book is my most valuable resource (and I have quite an extensive collection!). The book is very well suited to those who would be interested in portraiture, historically based costume creation, and plain old artistic curiosity.
Great book of drawings.......2001-07-03
All of the Dover books have very good reproductions of drawings. These books are just the best deal for the money, and I use them all the time in the college where I teach to show students examples of great drawing and fantastic line. All the background an artist needs is there: size, media, year -- very little personal background; it's just a catalog of drawings (words would only slow you down anyway). There may be people who can draw as well as Holbein, but there's nobody better. His work, except for the give-away clothing, looks so modern that you could swear you've seen these people. His line and his observation are perfection. I have expensive books on him, but this book is my favorite.
RENAISSANCE PORTRAITURE AT ITS BEST.......2000-08-09
This was the third Dover Art Library book I bought; it covers the work of one of the most recognized names in Renaissance Art - Hans Holbien. If you don't recognize his name , you've probably seen one of his paintings in one of your history books back in High School. His subjects, as seen in this book, include many members of the court of Henry the VIII. As in the stylistic tradition of Renassiance portraiture, these are contour drawings, and Holbiens craftsmanship is evident in every line. If you can, I also recommend you buy his book of paintings.
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One of the greatest artists of sixteenth-century Europe, Hans Holbein the younger earned high acclaim for his work both in the city of Basel and in England for Henry VIII and other patrons. This book is the first to explore the full range of the artist’s English body of work as well as the relation of this work to the visual and material culture of Tudor England. Providing a detailed account of the paintings, drawings, and woodcuts that Holbein produced in England, the book demonstrates convincingly that that country was not as remote from a common European culture as is often assumed. Rather, it was an unmistakable part of that culture.
Susan Foister discusses not only Holbein's well-known portraits but also his decorative paintings and murals, now lost, his designs for goldsmiths, and the works that can be associated with the English Reformation. In addition, she considers Holbein's religious and secular images, his techniques and practices, his status as an official court painter, and a variety of other intriguing topics.
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Brilliant survey.......2007-03-17
This is an outstanding book by the world's leading expert on Holbein. The plates are superb, the color reproductions remarkably faithful.
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Hans Holbein the Younger: The Basle Years, 1515-1532 Christian Müller, Editor
Holbein is perhaps best known as the court painter of Henry VIII, but before he moved to England, this sixteenth-century German artist was a celebrated portraitist and painter of religious scenes and altar pieces. Focusing on a particularly fertile period in Holbein's career, this book features paintings, drawings and sketches that the artist completed in Basle, Switzerland. There, Holbein's talent blossomed as he was awarded numerous commissions to paint the leading figures of the Reformation, including Erasmus of Rotterdam. In fact, it was Erasmus who recommended him for a position in London. Scholarly essays and a brief biography reflect the latest research on the life and work of this important artist.
Christian Müller is a curator at the Kupferstichkabinett in Basle, Switzerland.
Exhibition: Tate Britain, September 28, 2006-January 7, 2007
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41 woodcuts on Memento mori theme; most celebrated of Holbein's works.
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Tiny images suitible for postage stamps.......2007-01-09
Holbeins illustrations are brilliant and fascinating. This book is very inexpensive. These two factors should make it a great addition to any library. But the images are something like 2 inches square. You can't see any detail really. I was disappointed and I guess I'll have to find another book as I would like to enjoy this macabre and fascinating series.
tiny woodcuts.......2005-05-23
The woodcuts are very small, maybe 2 inches each side.
The details are hard to see this small. The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer is fabulous for observing large woodcuts.
With their side aside, the playfully dark figures are amusing for those who enjoy the morbid.
affordable presentation of hard-to-find wood carvings.......2002-10-07
Again, the thrifty publisher Dover supplies us with an affordable classic, this time in the art of woodcuts. Hans Holbein's macabre and morbid series, "The Dance of Death," gives us a chilling view into Europe during the time when its denizens, well, weren't really expected to make it too far into life.
This Dover edition, though not as thorough as the complete 1538 French series (now out of print), provides a faithful reproduction of Holbein's masterpiece, with the original textual accompaniment in Latin (with English). In these marvelous woodcuts, the viewer can easily sense the feeling of dread within the European community during a time that death came all too easily.
Of course, death is a theme from which we can never truly escape, so I suppose Holbein's art speaks to all the ages. Until we ourselves come to meet the Eternal Footman, we have Holbein's "Dance of Death" to give us a glimpse into what we may expect.
excellent presentation of Holbein's Danse Macabre works.......1998-09-22
The woodcuts are beautifully reproduced. Included are the verses that originally accompanied each woodcut. The text is provided both in the original Latin and in modern translation. The Danse Macabre was originally a visual artistic presentation, and this book is faithful to that performance. The explanatory text before the woodcuts begin is short and to the point. Dover allows the art to speak for itself, rather than 'interpreting' it for the viewer.
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The Ambassadors' Secret is a radical reinterpretation of one of the worlds most famous paintings. Holbeins celebrated portrait of two French diplomats at the court of Henry VIII has usually been linked to the political and religious unrest of the day. John North shows that the painting has a very different, and previously undetected, central theme and many other meanings. Far from being random, the objects in The Ambassadors are deliberately, and very accurately, placed. In revealing exactly what they, and the painting, mean, The Ambassadors' Secret opens a remarkable window on the world of the Renaissance.
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Gives a Well-Known Work New Meaning Five Centuries Later.......2007-04-02
Author John North likens the title of the well-known National Gallery painting, "The Ambassadors" to calling a scene of the Christmas nativity, "Joseph and Mary". Indeed Holbein the Younger's 1533 painting of two French ambassadors at the English court of Henry VIII inspires thinking of symbolism immediately due to the array of scientific instruments depicted between the two subjects and the distorted scull placed below them. North exhaustively examines each item in the scene and ties each to themes dominating the politics of the day such as the growing friction between Henry VIII and Rome and the overall fascination of royal courts with science, alchemy, astrology, and astronomy. Several lines through the work are examined for their thematic relevance of the objects they connect and bisect, and other elements such as horoscopes are overlaid on the work for analysis. Included in the analysis is the setting of the exact time of the "sitting" to 4pm on Good Friday. It is clear that North came upon this subject from his past work investigating similar devices employed in the written works of Chaucer, and he presents a convincing argument here as well though his work is heavy of background information that tends to distract from the thesis rather than to support it in many ways. An interesting read, and true "fans" will be interested to know that Good Friday 2008 will mark the 25th 19-year Easter cycle since 1533. Is that some sort of silver jubilee?
Dissecting a masterpiece.......2006-06-29
Previous interpretations of this enigmatic painting, far more than a mere dual portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, focussed upon symbols of Catholic, melancholy momento mori. Reminders of death abound: the skull (anamorphic representations were common - note the NPG portrait of Edward VI), the broken lute string, a world turned upside down (alluding to the Reformation), references to a universe divided, and a crucifix to remind man of Jesus' sacrifice, death and redemption.
North offers a radical, thorough interpretation of the religious and secular objects, astronomical devices, geometrical patterns of the floor, and, of course, the floating diagonal skull, relating them all to April 11, 1533, at 4:00 pm, Good Friday. He shies away from the political/religious schism of the day, stating it cannot be proved nor disproved.
Far more sophisticated than Dan Brown's silly, simplistic "Da Vinci Code" (the bane of art historians, legitimate as seeing faces in cloud formations), North proposes the geometrical lines of the piece, once extended and analyzed, are repeatedly at 27 degrees; significant, as 27 is divisible by three, the number of the Holy Trinity. Jesus was supposedly crucified at age 33, precisely 1,500 years before this painting. One could conclude Holbein's work contains subtle references to the Crucifixion and Golgotha, often represented as a mount of skulls (the present day site of the supposed tomb in Jerusalem contains an enormous, naturally formed skull in the rockface). A spiritual reminder to remain moral during troubled times, but perhaps not the previously assumed political statement. It is intriguing to note that Holbein, the German born court painter of Henry VIII, was a friend of astronomer and mathematician Nicolaus Kratzer.
The arguments are brilliantly realized, although not easily followed unless one has extensive knowledge of the period.
Why this painting? Why did Holbein paint this in 1533? Fifteen hundred years after the Crucifixion, the End of Days, the Apocalypse, seemed imminent. Charles V sacked Rome in 1527, Luther's Protestant heresy threatened Catholicism, Renaissance humanism clashed with medieval piety, a pregnant Anne Boleyn (Holbein's patroness) would be crowned Queen of England in less than two months' time - the stability, security of the old order had disappeared in the blink of an eye.
This book, over 400 dense pages long and extensively annotated, is one of the finest examples of art historical research I have ever encountered - innovative, securely grounded in history, religious speculation, art, and mathematics. A perfect reflection, indeed, of the era.
Understand the difference between looking and seeing.......2002-06-15
Art, history, religion, alchemy - these and more are the tantalizing ingredients with which John David North creates a singular work. "The Ambassadors' Secret" is a look at Hans Holbein's painting of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, two important 27-year-old Frenchmen who were in London in 1533. Even on the surface of things, this portrait is an unusual work: the two Ambassadors stand at either side of a curious collection of bric-a-brac that seems to be the real focus of the painting. North shows us how these items can be interpreted to determine a number of things, such as the date on which the two men are depicted (April 11th, 1533 - Good Friday). He discusses the nature and significance of the rhomboid shape at the men's feet, a geometrically perfect distortion of a human skull. Was the artist merely showing off by throwing in such a diabolically complex element, or was the skull meant to be a comment on the fleeting nature of life compared to the higher forces (time, the elements, religion) alluded to by the knickknacks on the shelves? Why is one string on the lute broken? Why does the painting suggest so many multiples of 3, even the men's ages, 3 x 3 x 3? Possible answers to these and many other questions are addressed by North, and once you've read this book, you will delight in looking at the painting again and seeing all the things you overlooked whenever you first encountered it.
Whether you approach this book for serious inquiry into an obviously intentional riddle, or just for entertaining scholarly conjecture about the intent of one of history's great painters, you are sure to enjoy it.
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Hans Holbein: Paintings, Prints, and Reception
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This study brings together leading scholars from Europe and the United States to consider the art of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543) from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. Generously illustrated and based on the most up-to-date research, the book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Holbein the Younger and his magnificent art. In chapters relating to artistic exchange, the contributors discuss what Holbein knew of French and Italian art and how he utilized this knowledge. Conservation and technical chapters examine the materials and techniques in the painting The Ambassadors and documentary evidence on a series of festival paintings on canvas. Two contributors examine the artist's woodcuts, particularly Dance of Death, in the light of contemporary political and theological issues. In addition, the historical and theoretical circumstances and contexts of Holbein's portraits are investigated, notably their associations with classical antiquity and its revival in humanist thought. The book also considers the impact of the first scholarly monograph on Holbein's reception and how German Romantic literary art criticism of the early nineteenth century shaped an image of his life and art.
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Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger
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Hans Holbein the Younger (Taschen Basic Art)
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This fascinating biography gives a fresh account of Holbein’s paintings, suggesting that they included coded signals and propaganda about political figures of the time. This controversial interpretation suggests that the artist was inextricably bound up in the stirring events of a turbulent age.
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READABLE, OPINIONATED, NEVER DULL.......1998-08-01
The author attempts interesting 'symbolic' interpretations of some of Holbeins' more famous works in the visual context of the time. For example, Anna of Cleves' asymmetrical dress trim says "No social graces", to the initiated. One wonders why the King didn't see this if it was indeed common to include visual puns in paintings? I took issue with the author's rather silly descriptions of 16th century religious books as 'best-sellers', as if there was some sort of survey going on at the time. Otherwise, this is a very worthwhile addition to any Holbein fan's collection. It's written intelligently and attempts to place the artist in the various towns and countries with reason. And it will make you look twice at ALL the details in all the versions of a Holbein painting!
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