Art Forms in the Plant World: 120 Full-Page Photographs (Dover Pictorial Archive) - Softcover

Blossfeldt, Karl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486249905 ISBN 13: 9780486249902

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc, 2000

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Originally intended as reference for his work as architect, sculptor, and teacher, Blossfeldt's exquisite sharp-focus photo studies of plant form ― leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils and twigs ― won acclaim with publication of the 1928 edition of this book. 120 full-page black-and-white plates. Original introduction. Publisher's Note. Captions.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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At first intended as personal reference material in his work as sculptor and teacher, the remarkable nature photographs of Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932) attained critical acclaim in 1928 when he published Urformen der Kunst (Archetypes of Art). His work influenced and helped to establish modern German photography. While the style of the time was soft-focus, impressionistic photographs, Blossfeldt's purpose governed his photographic method and resulting magnificent prints: direct lighting to define form, sharp focus to expose detail and texture, enlarging up to 27 times actual size to reveal structure that previously was invisible or overlooked by the naked eye.
His subject matter?the leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils, and twigs of plant life?sparkles with an honest simplicity and clarity that discloses not only the wonder and science of nature, but also the distinct similarities between the form developed by nature and that produced by man. In the infinite variety of form in the plant world, Blossfeldt found many examples of shape and structure that, when photographed his way, resemble the forms of man's artistic (particularly architectural) styles?from Gothic through Art Nouveau. His images imply that man's art mirrors nature and suggest that nature, in its continuous reproduction and adaptation, also creates its own art.
Blossfeldt's exquisite and historically important photographs continue to be prominently exhibited and acclaimed throughout the world. Painstakingly reproduced for this edition, his 120 unretouched plates will delight artists and illustrators, naturalists and philosophers, photographers, and anyone who is intrigued by the beauty, form, and design of nature.
Unabridged and slightly altered republication (1985) of Art Forms in Nature, published by E. Weyhe, New York, 1929. (First German edition: Urformen der Kunst, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A. G., Berlin, 1928.)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486249905
• ISBN 13: 9780486249902
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar