Niniejsza monografia wpisuje się w trwające dziś na wielu polach dyskusje dotyczące koncepcji antropocenu. Podejmuje także temat alternatywnych wobec niej ujęć obecnej epoki w dziejach Ziemi, kiedy...
The sky’s the limit with 50 ingenious tree houses around the worldThe idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In t...
W XXI wieku problem Europy Środkowej wraca niczym bumerang i przyjmuje nowe oblicza. Warto zauważyć, że tożsamość środkowoeuropejska ma swoją długą tradycję, która poprzedza okres jej największej ś...
Żyj w deszczu błogosławieństw Ducha Świętego Wyznajemy wiarę w Ducha Świętego, tak samo jak w Ojca i Syna. Czy jednak nie przyzwyczailiśmy się do Jego istnienia? Czy naprawdę w Niego wierzymy? Czy ...
When traditional craft met blossoming ModernismPoets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, wal...
Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest...
The making of the Eiffel Tower“The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is no journey to France which isn&rsq...
Abstract pioneerHarmonies in red, yellow, and blueA key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading a...
Porzuć swoje ego przebrane za Boga. I zacznij wierzyć naprawdę Jako wierzący przyzwyczajeni jesteśmy do myśli, że wiara wyzwala – z niewoli grzechu, złych przywiązań, błędnych przekonań na temat St...
When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist’s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in ...
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 ...
Absurdity against the establishmentEmerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the m...
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 ...
Ale petarda! Ks. Kaczkowski w trzech odsłonach Pokochała go cała Polska, zawsze żył pod prąd, wierzył w ludzi. O sprawach wielkiej wagi potrafił mówić z luzem i bez spiny. Poznaj ks. Jana Kaczkowsk...
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,...
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...