Literatúra faktu sa teší veľkej obľube už od konca druhej svetovej vojny. V širšom slova zmysle označuje širokú škálu nefiktívnej literatúry, ktorá využíva biografické, reportážne, cestopisné, memoárové a denníkové prvky. Má obrovský význam pre kultúru, keďže sú v nej príťažlivo spracované udalosti dejinných a súčasných vedeckých materiálov. Najslávnejšími autormi sú napr. E. von Däniken, L. Souček či V. Zamarovský. Ak ste fanúšikom tejto literatúry a okrem čítania sa radi dozvedáte množstvo zaujímavostí, kníhkupectvách zoženiete rôzne knihy, ktoré si vás určite získajú.
Lebhafte Farben, organische Formen und eine Abscheu gegenüber der geometrisch geraden Linie waren nur ein paar der konstanten Eigenschaften in den Werken von Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). D.
Published to accompany a major year-long exhibition, Making Nature at the Wellcome Collection, Animal Vegetable Mineral celebrates the beauty and strangeness of…
In a new compact and portable format – the accessible, award-winning A-Z guide to the world’s great painters and sculptors. The Art Book is a landmark in the world of publishing. Available in a range of different formats and in over 20 different languages, it has received rave reviews since its first ...
Behind the Mask. The intrigue, drama, and covert messages hidden in the faces of powerful men and women, Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history''s most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individual represented ...
What is fashion? This engaging book from the Metropolitan Museum of Art offers myriad answers to that question, pairing selected works in the museum\''s collection with concise observations. The simple reflections accompanying the illustrations encourage readers to think about the role of fashion in ...
Amadeo Modigliani displays the dialogue that the young Italian artist maintained with antic and extra-Western sculptures from 1910 to 1914. It specifically highlights studies of heads and caryatides, and Modigliani\''s patient analysis work, such as modulating facial features. Health and financial conditions ...
There''s a running joke among radiologists: finding a possible tumour in a mammogram, they say, is akin to finding a snowball in a blizzard. The result? Up to 30% of breast cancer surgeries are done on those who have no cancer at all. In this landmark book, medical professor Steven Hatch reveals that ...
The Aquarium is filled with majestic marine creatures to colour in. From a pearlescent parrotfish to a spotted stingray and much more, colouring enthusiasts and animal lovers can decorate each magnificent artwork in this intricate aquatic collection. The fully foiled cover adds a touch of elegance and ...
Artless presents some of the most compelling images created by contemporary artists and illustrators using the simplest of tools, such as colour pencils, crayons, watercolour, scissors and glue. Work produced in this manner represents a growing and particularly resilient trend in the visual arts world. ...
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Anna Solidarita, Autoři : Slawomir Cenckiewicz, Rok vydania : 2016,
A comprehensive monograph dedicated to one of the most influential Arab artists of our time. Contemporary book art makes possible a myriad of encounters across vast spaces of time and geography as well as between the book and the reader. Intimate in nature, the latter forge new ways of seeing and reading ...
An enthralling journey through 40,000 years of art, from prehistoric cave paintings right up to the present day. Discover artists and their art around the world…
Cena:12.23€ | Autor:Honore, Carl | Rok vydania:2005 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:momentálne vypredaný | ISBN:9780752864143 | Vydavateľ:Orion
With work by Klimt, Schiele and others, Ver Sacrum set the standard for magazine design This book gathers the covers of Ver Sacrum, the official magazine of the Vienna Secession, which ran from 1898 to 1903. Published for the 120th anniversary of this historic magazine, it reproduces all 120 regular ...
What is contemporary art? What makes it ''contemporary''? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? The contemporary art world can be a baffling place, but Kyung An and Jessica Cerasi are on hand to bring you up to speed. From museums and the art market to biennales and the next big thing, Who''s Afraid ...
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in ...
Kniha je nielen nahliadnutím do poslednej knihy Gastona Bachelarda, ktorá vyšla ešte počas života tohto francúzskeho filozofa, ale je aj rozvíjaním úvah o slabom svetle, ktoré dáva nezvyčajnú hodnotu okolitej tme. Plameň sviece je podľa autora komentára určitou formou vyznania, ku ktorému sa Bachelard ...
Závěrečný díl publikace, věnované fonoménu Moravy a známým i méně známým osobnostem, které spoluurčovaly její tvář. Čtvrtý díl volné tetralogie, který připravil autorký kolektiv pod vedením profesora Jiřího Malíře, mapuje pro historika citlivé období, totiž období poválečné. Tato doba probíhala nejen ...
Penguin: 'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be issued as a set text in every school' Lynn.
