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by Andrey Tarkovsky (Editor, Photographer), Hans-Joachim Schlegel (Editor), Lothar Schirmer (Editor),

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With luscious film stills and superb essays by the director and his admirers, this is the essential Tarkovsky compendium

Between 1962 and 1986, Andrey Tarkovsky (1932–86) directed seven feature-length films, all acclaimed as masterpieces of cinema: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalgia and Sacrifice. Evading censorship and mounting pressure by Soviet authorities, Tarkovsky decided not to return to the Soviet Union after completing Nostalgia in Tuscany, three years before his death; his final film, Sacrifice, was shot in Sweden in 1985.
This new smaller-format edition of a 2012 publication was compiled and edited by Tarkovsky's son Andrey Jr., along with film historian and critic Hans-Joachim Schlegel and Lothar Schirmer. Beautifully designed and printed, Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work pays homage to a great visionary who produced poetic and sometimes disturbing images of near biblical intensity through his films. Featuring stills from each of his films, a selection of his influential writings, private photographs from the family album, as well as Polaroids from Russia and Italy, it is buttressed with comments from prominent voices who have commented on Tarkovsky's work and personality, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Ingmar Bergman and Aleksandr Sokurov.

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February 19, 2019
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Andrey Tarkovsky: Life and Work succeeds in compressing the late Russian director's monumental legacy into portable form-a slender volume a pilgrim could easily slip into a backpack. The book succeeds in distilling Tarkovsky's sound-and-visionary, contrarian essence with an approach that is at once capacious and compact: It's more imagistic gospel than catalogue, more consecrated poetry than academic contextualization. -- Howard Hampton ― Bookforum

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Schirmer/Mosel (February 19, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 382960811X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3829608114
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.6 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.7 x 1.1 x 9.7 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #223,156 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #47 in Individual Directors
- #401 in Movie History & Criticism

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Carlos

A gorgeous book of the world through Tarkovksy's eyes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2021

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I'm a huge fan of Tarkovsky and the legacy he's impacted not only in the cinema world but as an incredible philosophizer. His life aesthetic was so rich and pure, and he only set out to do his heart's desires. He wasn't a man of excess or pride, he just wanted to create art and he genuinely did. This book is a wonderful companion to his films and overall view on life.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 20, 2019

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High quality pages and hardcover. It is a mystical experience everytime I open the book

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David Matheny

Poor image quality. Looks like a rip from a DVD.

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Would be an interesting book if the images were higher quality. The images look like they were ripped from a DVD. Very disappointed in this book. I guess I’ll keep it for composition reference. But it’s hard to be inspired by stills that are such low quality.

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Worthless. Do not buy. Look away.

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At first glance this is a beautiful book. But then you open it. The only things of even marginal interest or value in this volume are 32 of Tarkovsky’s Polaroids, relegated to the back of the book, in decent reproductions (all of which are available in better quality on the web) and some brief, previously published recollections and impressions of Tarkovsky by Sartre, Bergman, Sven Nykvist and others. Otherwise it’s page after page of DVD-quality (and really, that’s being generous) screengrabs from Tarkovsky’s films. Tarkovsky produced some of the most beautiful and iconic images in world cinema and the arbitrary selection of fuzzy, low-res and often random-ass shots found in this book makes them all thoroughly ugly. No insight, no taste, no passion. Rather, a disservice to the uninitiated, a rip-off of the appreciators, and a disgrace to the man and his work. Whoever you are, you don’t want this book.

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useless book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2020

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i guess most of you have got the sculpturing time. so you don't need to buy this one. no real content but just some random screenshots from the movie, not at a level of selection and taste that I would do after watching the movies, but quite random and chaotic screenshots. low res images.

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Sorry, but this is just a montage of screen grabs from films and a very small amount of excerpts from Sculpting in Time.

Returned immediately as in no way is it worth the cost and i see not what the artistic value is when these frames were constructed to be viewed in continuous time, not as (poorly printed) photographs.

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Imágenes que dejan que desear

Reviewed in Mexico 🇲🇽 on March 5, 2019

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La imágenes tienen poca definición, es bastante triste debido a que es una nueva edición y ya se encuentran disponibles las películas en alta resolución, el material del libro es muy bueno, los artículos excelentes, no lo devuelvo porque a pesar de lo negativo hay que apoyar el legado de un gran ser humano

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