From The Book of Kells to Boccaccio’s Decameron, from the Vienna Genesis to Dante’s Divine Comedy: to open Codices illustres is to open the door into a precious, private world. Now in a...więcej »
Man Ray (1890–1976) was a polymath modernist, working in painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, and poetry. But it was his work in photography, with nude studies, fashion work, and portraitu...więcej »
From Aliens to Amadeus, get your fill of ’80s nostalgia with this movie bible of all things bold, bizarre, and boisterous. We've diligently compiled a list of the most influential films of th...więcej »
Rarely seen outside the United States, The Phillips Collection's American masterworks trace the development and diversity of modern art in America from the end of the nineteenth century through the...więcej »
To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541 -1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Thro...więcej »
They say that in life, there are winners and there are losers. Though the movies we selected for this two-volume collection are winners indeed, those that didn’t make the cut aren’t los...więcej »
It might seem like the sitters and subjects of art history's greatest nude paintings have little left to show, but don't be fooled: there is more than meets the eye in these naked masterworks. Rose...więcej »
As a boy, Tom’s first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in...więcej »
A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved.więcej »
Słynna książka Magdy Dygat-Dudzińskiej Historia rodzinna, a zarazem barwny obraz życia artystycznego lat 50., 60. i 70. XX wieku Wśród wielu pojawiających się na rynku książek wspomnieniow...więcej »
“Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.” ―Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir’s timelessly charming paintings still reflect our...więcej »
Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Ang...więcej »
Lucian Freud (1922 2011) was interested in the telling of truth. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen...więcej »
With his smooth, warm, red face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People s Republic in 1949 a...więcej »
Mario Testino is recognised as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The consequence of two decades of extraordinary friendship, and p...więcej »
Impressionism continues to be one of the most fascinating movements in the history of modern art. It is also the most popular with the general public. Proof of this has been provided in recent year...więcej »
Tom’s taste for police officers and felons―and for sexual tension between the two―developed late in his career. “I’ve never been to prison,” he told a class at the Californi...więcej »
Elmer Batters (1919-1997) was the grand master of leg and foot art. While others preferred the thrill of an inviting cleavage, the maestro’s eye was on lower things—trim calves, the arc...więcej »
Przecenia Pani z pewnością wpływ moich książek na Panią, jego siłę i znaczenie; żadna książka, tak samo jak żadne słowne wsparcie, nie może zdziałać nic decydującego, jeżeli ten, do kogo ona trafia...więcej »
Niezwykła książka najwybitniejszego żyjącego artysty Davida Hockney’a napisana we współpracy z Martinem Gayfordem wybitnym historykiem sztuki.Historia obrazów rozpoczęła s...więcej »