One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sens...
Secret SocietyThe Victorian rebelsFounded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what...
Fast and FuriousThe action men of modernismWith motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Gi...
With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miró (1893–1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ...
Rzadko mówimy w Polsce o tym, że surrealizm nie skończył się w dwudziestoleciu, a jego istota jest transoceaniczna. Romantyczno-antykapitalistyczny charakter surrealnego eksperymentu inspirował po ...
Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who liv...
Sebastião Salgado on the traces of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforestSebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of thi...
Pivotal paintings of modernityLampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) is now considered a crucial figu...
Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian’s “Boterismo” technique has captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces worldwid...
The life’s work of an infographics pioneerFritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by ...
Playthings From the Past For the PresentUp until the 20th century, children’s play was not a subject that demanded much attention. While objects that entertained children have been pres...
Teorie i historie nowoczesnej komparatystyki od Herdera do szkoły amerykańskiej. Proponuje czterdzieści pięć wędrówek po najnowszych dziejach literaturoznawstwa porównawczego. Zamieszczone teksty –...
Nie ulega wątpliwości, że redaktorzy oraz autorzy tomu wkroczyli na pole słabo rozpoznane w polskiej humanistyce. Poszukiwanie afrokaraibskich monografii i analiz napotyka u nas zasadniczą trudn...
Pieśni mniszek (Therigatha) to antologia poezji przypisywana starszym mniszkom buddyjskim (theri), które żyły w czasach historycznego Buddy. Ze względu na autorstwo kobiet jest to dzieło unikatowe ...
Georg Büchner to postać niezwykła, której aktywność na czterech scenach nowoczesności (nauki przyrodnicze, filozofia, polityka, literatura) stanowi splot nici w istocie nie do rozplątania. […] Kim ...
It’ll knock both your eyes out!Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts, Dia...
Książka przedstawia Boską komedię Dantego Alighieri jako źródło wiedzy na temat współczesności. To punkt wyjścia do nieustannie ponawianych prób poznania, kontestowania czy rewolucjoniz...
Stories and speculations on office spaceImmerse yourself with architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen as they journey through a wide-ranging collection of the objects, systems, and buildi...
The evolution of style from antiquity to 1888Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet’s Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incis...