Author: Eva di Stefano
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: visionary, nouveau, art, klimt, gustav
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-10-07
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1402759207
ISBN-13: 9781402759208
Gustav Klimts decorative, seductive style, jewel-like colors, use of gold and pattern, and sensuous line, continue to captivate art lovers today. One of the masters of modern European painting, he helped found the popular Viennese Secession, or Art Nouveau, movement. This lushly illustrated volume explores his fascinating artistic career, covering Vienna at the time of Klimts creative peak. With more than 300 beautifully reproduced pictures, paintings, and photographs, it presents Klimts entire artistic production: posters for exhibitions, erotic drawings, and pictorial masterpieces such as
Author: Sabina Flanagan
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: life, visionary, bingen, hildegard
Number of Pages: 227
Published: 1998-06
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0415185513
ISBN-13: 9780415185516
Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegard’s life from the time of her entrance into an anchoress’s cell--where a woman would remain in pious isolation--to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegard’s vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and music.
Author: Neil Spiller
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Keywords: imagination, modern, blueprints, architecture, visionary
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-03-24
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0500286558
ISBN-13: 9780500286555
A complete and authoritative resource for professionals and students.The design of imaginary, conceptual, or radical buildings is as old as the practice of architecture itself. For centuries, architects such as Piranesi, Ledoux, and Sant’Elia have drawn on their creative abilities to produce breathtaking works of imagination. Since World War II, technology has caught up with our imagination: there are few buildings that can be envisioned but not built. For the past six decades, architects have created an astonishing range of constructs and urban utopias that have influenced generations o
Author: Michel Robert
Publisher: Quorum Books
Keywords: build, organizations, executives, visionary, ceo, strategist
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 1988-01-13
List price: $91.95
ISBN-10: 0899302688
ISBN-13: 9780899302683
This practical guide describes a unique and proven method for setting and implementing strategy and for dealing with the qualitative variables that face an organization. After the concepts have been clearly elucidated, Robert describes their implementation in a variety of corporate settings.
Author: Angela Nairne Grigor
Publisher: Carleton Univ Pr
Keywords: educator, art, visionary, lismer, arthur
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2002-06
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773522956
ISBN-13: 9780773522954
Arthur Lismer, well-known member of the Group of Seven, was also one of Canada’s most innovative educators. Using previously untapped correspondence and papers as well as interviews with Lismer’s teaching colleagues, child students, and art students, Angela Nairne Grigor examines Lismer’s Arts and Crafts Movement background in his native England, the evolution of the humanistic ideas and ideals that guided his work as both an artist and a teacher, and his international influence as an educator. She gives a vivid portrait of his approach to teaching in an illustrious fifty-yea
Author: Julio Fajardo
Publisher: Harper Design
Keywords: first, century, twenty, architects, visionary, starchitects
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2010-07-27
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0061968773
ISBN-13: 9780061968778
Starchitects: Visionary Architects of the Twenty-first Century offers a complete and detailed catalog of some of the world’s most brilliant architects working today. Featuring biographies and studio information as well as detailed plants, drawings, and photographs of each building, this book is a must-have compendium celebrating the work of the best and brightestthe stars of architecture.
Authors:Tim Dedopulos, Adam Tinworth, Tommy Lee Edward,
Publisher: White Wolf Publishing
Keywords: visionary, book, hunter, *op
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2001-01-22
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1565047478
ISBN-13: 9781565047471
