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 ...
The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950sMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics ...
Bycie Ukraińcem z Polski to ciągłe odnajdywanie nici i splotów łączących mnie z historią, kulturą i tradycją mojej małej ojczyzny. To też przyjmowanie aktywnej postawy w poszukiwaniu tych sp...
A visual journey through Vienna’s dazzling historyVienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danub...
A personal portrait of Paul McCartney by Harry BensonHarry Benson began photographing Paul McCartney in 1964, when the Beatles took America by storm, toured the world, and made their movie de...
A catalogue raisonné of “the painter’s painter”Manet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that...
One of the greatest pioneers in the history of architectureAcclaimed as the “father of skyscrapers,” the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) was an...
The roaring twenties in BerlinIt was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret,...
Wolfgang Tillmans compiles 30 years of his workto draw a picture of where we are todayLike hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the ...
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...
Lyrical forms from FinlandAlvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, ...
Troll 2 obejmuje średnio zaawansowany poziom gramatyki języka duńskiego. Kolejne rozdziały rozwijają problematykę omówioną w pierwszej części Trolla, ale także wprowadzają nowe zagadnienia.<...
A Revolution in PaintingThe mysterious genius who transformed European artCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was always a name to ...
Space ShapersAn encyclopedia of modern architectureWith more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensabl...
Johannes Vermeer, creator of life from oil paintDespite numbering at just 35, his works have prompted a New York Times best seller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record ...
The Museum Ludwig’s handbook of photography in the 20th centuryThe history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognized as a medi...
Urodzone na początku XX wieku w rodzinie mandżurskiego wieśniaka dziecko zostaje polskim katolickim księdzem – tak w jednym zdaniu streścić można żywot Józefa Kaingby (1900-1988). Nawe...
W trzech tomach „Historii męskości” autorzy podejmują próbę opisania tego, jak tytułowa kategoria funkcjonowała w kulturze europejskiej w ciągu ponad dwóch i pół ty...
A monumental retrospective of the Case Study Houses programThe Case Study House program (1945–66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remain...
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...