Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching som...więcej »
Książka Weroniki Szwebs opiera się na bardzo ciekawym pomyśle. Autorka wybiera do analizy przykładowe tłumaczenia znanych tekstów wybitnych twórców-teoretyków huma...więcej »
William Morris (1834–1896) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneer...więcej »
The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This co...więcej »
Discover a world of decorative ideas with this compendium of history’s most elegant patterns and ornamental designs.The World of Ornament brings together the two greatest encyclop...więcej »
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops t...więcej »
Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a...więcej »
Słownik zawiera ok. 10000 angielskich terminów z dziedziny budownictwa i architektury, a także dziedzin z nimi powiązanych, takich jak spawalnictwo, inżynieria lądowa i wodna, inżynieria san...więcej »
To arcydzieło, zamykające tak wiele na tak niewielu stronach. Doskonale ukazuje najważniejsze aspekty liczących dwa tysiące lat sztuki, kultury i religii (np. ceremonię herbacianą) jednego z najbar...więcej »
Znakomite pod względem dydaktycznym dzieło, przede wszystkim z powodu rzadko w polskiej historiografii wykorzystywanej fikcji literackiej jako podstawy źródłowej. (…) Także dla profes...więcej »
Celem niniejszej pracy było dokonanie analiz i interpretacji, które ujawnią potencjał poznawczy trzech powieści: Lalki Bolesława Prusa, Bez dogmatu Henryka Sienkiewicza oraz Bene nati Elizy Orzeszk...więcej »
Albertus Seba’s unrivalled catalog of animals, insects and plantsThe Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements and remains ...więcej »
40 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible editionWhen Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pic...więcej »
The essential ImpressionistNo other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was th...więcej »
A world of music, dance, and the Moulin RougeIn our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, poste...więcej »
The complete works of Hieronymus BoschA bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 paintings and nine draw...więcej »
Making sense of revolutionary new formsAbstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audie...więcej »
Delicate illustration that defined an eraWith his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) defined the look of the fin-de-...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 »
Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world ...więcej »