The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and fin...więcej »
Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter: to get the most out of modern art, it pays to revisit and reconsider, to reflect and to scrutinize in detail. It is also helpful...więcej »
Unfortunately, we seem to have succumbed to the idea that the story of our art, literature and culture, should be written after its main protagonists have died. We have likewise gotten used to the ...więcej »
Learn how to make art like Wassily Kandinsky, one of the most famous twentieth-century artists. From learning how to draw from your imagination to listening to music for inspiration and using shape...więcej »
Are you an artist struggling to figure out the "business" of being an artist? Did you go to college or grad school to refine your talent but have a hard time getting your work seen or recognized...więcej »
One of the finest chess books ever written, now in the revised algebraic edition. The author expounds both the basic principles and the most complex forms of attack on the king. A study of this ...więcej »
The first American edition of this staple of the American household during the Revolutionary War. How to market. How to roast and broil and fry. Gravies, sauces, hashes, fricasses,
ragouts.
The ...więcej »
John Marciari tells the story of the monuments, artists and patrons of Renaissance Rome in this compelling book. In no other city is the ancient world so palpably present, and nowhere else is the m...więcej »
A collection of essays by noted naturalist John Burroughs in which he contemplates a wide array of topics including farming, religion, and conservation. A departure from previous John Burroughs ...więcej »
Art of Shadows is set after a great war that ended in the Kingdom of Tokai. The kingdom is currently experiencing a time of peace, but in an age of kings that are determined to keep power, al...więcej »
The Baltic States – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – retain strong cultural identities that have survived despite centuries of colonization by powerful neighbouring lands. Following the ...więcej »
In The Art of Touch: Prose and Poetry from the Pandemic and Beyond, the unique voices of thirty-nine of some of the most creative thinkers of our times have been brought together to consi...więcej »
An unprecedented collection of artists’ record covers from the 1950s to todaySince the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From...więcej »
Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo’s 1913 Futurist manifesto L’Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise)...więcej »
For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of how to think about art is a perenn...więcej »
Why is the publication of these writings so important? What doesRookmaaker's legacy have to offer us in the new millennium?First, his books and essays stand as a monument to the im...więcej »
At a time when every cultural value has been questioned, when there seem to be no limits to what can be described as 'art', and when doubt has been cast upon truth itself, this book argues for the ...więcej »