In a world of starchitects competing to design ever taller glass and steel megaliths, there are still some architects designing with natural materials at a human scale, for comfort, longevity and v...więcej »
An in-depth overview of Ukrainian art from the dawn of Modernism in the late nineteenth century to the start of the Russian invasion in Spring 2022.Ukraine is at a historic crossroads, ...więcej »
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the worldCapitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism.In his boldest and most ...więcej »
A unique reframing of human history as shaped by our physical abilities and limitations - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of OriginsBeing Human is history made flesh. It will cha...więcej »
Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to discover our place in the cosmos.'An electrifying new hist...więcej »
A new selection of letters, statements, and interviews reveals the preoccupations, thoughts, and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the twentieth century’s most influential and important artists....więcej »
ROCZNIK STRATEGICZNY jest jedyną w Polsce i w Europie Środkowej publikacją, która systematycznie i całościowo przedstawia główne wydarzenia i tendencje w życiu międzynarodowym mijając...więcej »
An updated edition of this classic title on the origins of 20th-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of i...więcej »
A fascinating, narrative biography of the art movement that transformed the modern world, tracing the lives and activities of the key protagonists as they set about a revolution in art....więcej »
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence, his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His landscape paintings and drawings broke with trad...więcej »
Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series celebrates writers and thinkers who have helped shape the conversation across the arts. Mixing classic and contempora...więcej »
In this classic essay, renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late 18th century, fragmented, mutilated and fetishized representations of the human body ...więcej »
This book is a celebration of LGBTQIA+ activists, artists, comedians, writers, musicians and pop culture giants who have shaped our worlds, expanded our horizons and radically increased queer visib...więcej »
The most sensational and intriguing murders from across the USA are re-examined in this disquieting volume, which introduces readers to the most lethal killers from every state. Spanning the period...więcej »
In Artists’ Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspaces, from a music producer’s studio in Hackney to an eco-war...więcej »
Stencils are ubiquitous in the fields of industry, military, traffic and transportation, as well as in the home, often applied as ornamental patterns on cabinets, walls and floors. And because they...więcej »
No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte and Miró. This is because Surrealism was not in origin an art movement, but a philosophical strategy. It w...więcej »
Edvard Munch occupies a pivotal place in artistic modernity. His work is permeated by a singular vision of the world, with a powerful symbolist dimension that goes beyond the masterpieces he create...więcej »
Destined to become a new classic' Chris KrausA dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them.For decades, feminist artist...więcej »
An essential guide to how the power of art has been harnessed to effect political change across the modern world, from the struggle for universal suffrage to Black Lives Matter.A well-r...więcej »