George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial ...
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that fl...
Whether it's Double Indemnity, Kiss Me Deadly, or The Big Sleep, roam a screen world of dark and brooding elegance with this essential handbook to Film Noir. From private eyes and perfect crimes to...
Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming s...
Through ancient wonders, world capitals, and tiny places with infectious personalities, Europe packs some serious travel punches. The world’s second-smallest continent makes up for size with ...
Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of frien...
The history of nude photography is the history of people’s fascination with the topic. Indeed, the photographic depiction of the human body is the only subject that has enthralled photographe...
The life and work of the greatest Renaissance artistUnmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Re...
Dr Nina Seiler – studiowała literaturoznawstwo slawistyczne oraz kultury popularne w Zurychu i Krakowie. Podczas programu doktoranckiego Gender Studies przez półtora roku prowadziła ba...
Po raz kolejny – za sprawą rozległej kwerendy, przekonującej interpretacji, wiarygodnej syntezy – romantyzm pod piórem prof. Wojciecha Tomasika odsłania nowe oblicze. Tym razem j...
Poezja Wiedemanna przedstawia się czytelnikowi jako coś – powtarzając trafne określenie Macieja Topolskiego – specyficznego na tle zarówno kultury autentyczności, jak i kultury n...
Ks. dr Sebastian Jerzy Musiał – ur. 23 kwietnia 1983 r. w Dębicy. Kapłan diecezji tarnowskiej. Szkołę podstawową ukończył w Straszęcinie, a szkołę średnią w Dębicy. Święcenia kapłańskie w 201...
Welcome to HeimatAn enchanted trip through Bavaria with Ellen von UnwerthEllen von Unwerth’s puckish humor pervades the pages of Heimat, an enchanted tour around Bavar...
An epic pictorial history of the City by the BayStarting with an early picture of a gang of badass gold prospectors who put this beautiful Northern California city on the map, this ambitious ...
Explore centuries of timeless textiles from the Musée de l’Impression sur ÉtoffesIn the far east of France, close to the German and Swiss borders, lies the historic ...
Big ideas for small buildingsOver the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduce...
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected,...
Celem niniejszej książki jest podjęcie refleksji nad dalszymi losami – najczytelniej sformułowanego przez Dawida Grosmana i zaadaptowanego w obrębie izraelskiej narracji zbiorowej – par...
In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892–1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls a...
The Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous pass...