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 „Filozofii sztuki” (1865) Hippolyte Taine bada w sposób całościowy historię sztuki europejskiej na przestrzeni wieków. Filozofia sztuki nie jest jednak pracą wpisującą s...
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...
Michelangelo’s breathtaking drawingsVery few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). The nickname il divino (&ldqu...
Portrait of an ArtistA comprehensive chronicle of David Hockney’s life and workPop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and percep...
Tadao Ando’s complete works from 1975 until todayDiscover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: th...
„Jezus Niechrystus” to książka łamiąca gatunkowe konwencje i światopoglądowe stereotypy. Autor odwołując się do osobistych doświadczeń wiary i jej porzucenia, a także do swojej filozofi...
W roku 1945 Gdańsk stał się nowym miastem w podwójnym znaczeniu. Przestrzeń miejska została w znacznym stopniu zniszczona, a nowi osadnicy zastąpili starych mieszkańców. Z kolei rok 1...
Lektura tych listów pogłębia i komplikuje sylwetki Camusa i Chiaromontego oraz ich współczesnych. W ich dialogu odsłania się także coś, co można nazwać duchem epoki, w której f...
As special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the remarkable experience of witnessing legendary actors giving some of t...
On November 18, 1928, the world’s most famous Mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most expansive illustrated publications on the Disn...
One of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney created a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely any other classics of cinema, his astonishing collection of animat...
Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered b...
The first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at the Düsseldorf Kunstpalast served as a blank canvas for the photographer&rsqu...
Luminary design of the 20th centuryDesigned to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1,000 lights. Presented chronologicall...
In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a ...
In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school...
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper...
The story of modern fashion from couture to mass marketThe 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry empl...
Hailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek t...