August "Auggie" Pullman has been home-schooled all his life. Now he is starting fifth grade at a school in New York City. He doesn't want other students to look at him, but that isn't eas...
Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 - August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated mast...
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is hailed as the most important proponent of the Pop art movement. A critical and creative observer of American society, he explored key themes of consumerism, materialism, ...
Painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the ins...
Whether you’re thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out. This edition of 1000 Tattoos explor...
Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and ...
Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose br...
Sir Charles Baskerville is dead. Did the hound of the Baskervilles kill him? Can Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson stop the hound from killing again?Penguin Readers is a series of popul...
Being an original thinker can change the world. Learn how to recognize a great idea, to speak up for yourself, to choose the right time to act, and to manage fear and doubt by standing out from the...
No 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 the man Cezanne called "only an eye,...
Zaha Hadid was a revolutionary architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite winning critical acclaim. Some even said her audacious, futuristic designs were unbuildable.Du...
On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering region.What is the future of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement directed at Israel? Which ...
„Znamię dawnego, wielkiego dobrobytu i wypływające stąd prawdziwe zamiłowanie do okazałości pozostawiło tak głęboki ślad na moim mieście rodzinnym i do tego stopnia z całą jego istotą jest zw...
Ars longa, vita brevis – sztuka długa, życie krótkie – sentencja Hipokratesa, pierwotnie odnosząca się do medycyny, weszła trwale do kultury jako fundament myślenia o sztuce. Szt...
Ale tajemnicy Königsberga/Kaliningradu nie wyraża osiemnastowieczny filozof Kant, lecz Hannah Arendt, kobieta dwudziestowieczna. Przyszła na świat dwa wieki później, w 1906 roku, jeszcz...
„Dni 1941–1956" to najobszerniejszy wybór z dziennika Jorgosa Seferisa, jaki kiedykolwiek został upubliczniony. Te intymne i intensywne zapiski wyraziście odsłaniają nagą my...
Wyjściu do kina w przedwojennej Polsce towarzyszyła szeroka skala emocji – od łez wzruszenia po strach o zdrowie i życie. Rytuały publiczności tworzyły często spektakl ciekawszy od filmu. Peł...
Napisać po prostu, że Józef Olejniczak zebrał w całość dziesięć esejów o Schulzu i że zarówno ta całość, jak i poszczególne eseje są znakomite, to właściwie wykpić się o...
Helmut Newton (1920–2004) always showed a healthy disdain for the easy or predictable, so it’s no surprise that the SUMO was an irresistible project. The idea of a book the size of a pr...
In the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, information graphics have swept center ...