Sebastião Salgado on the traces of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon rainforestSebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of thi...więcej »
The godfather of Italian designItalian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891–1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre rema...więcej »
Pivotal paintings of modernityLampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) is now considered a crucial figu...więcej »
Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian’s “Boterismo” technique has captured collectors, institutions, and public spaces worldwid...więcej »
The life’s work of an infographics pioneerFritz Kahn (1888–1968) was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer. Chased out of Germany by ...więcej »
Playthings From the Past For the PresentUp until the 20th century, children’s play was not a subject that demanded much attention. While objects that entertained children have been pres...więcej »
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 ...więcej »
Volume two of the definitive exploration [br]of the [i]Star Wars[/i] galaxyFrom the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled ...więcej »
Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years: the forest, the rivers, the mountains, the people who liv...więcej »
...Sztuka wydaje mi się inną rzeczą, niż tym czym jest dla drugich, bo ja nienawidzę opisywaczy rzeczywistości, nienawidzę niekończącego się określania mebli, piękności bohaterów i bohaterek, krótk...więcej »
40 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible editionWhen Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pic...więcej »
The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This co...więcej »
Nie ulega wątpliwości, że redaktorzy oraz autorzy tomu wkroczyli na pole słabo rozpoznane w polskiej humanistyce. Poszukiwanie afrokaraibskich monografii i analiz napotyka u nas zasadniczą trudn...więcej »
A photographic portrait of RomeThis bumper photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, ...więcej »
The vivid history of the capital of love and photographyA city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography.It was on the banks of...więcej »
Pieśni mniszek (Therigatha) to antologia poezji przypisywana starszym mniszkom buddyjskim (theri), które żyły w czasach historycznego Buddy. Ze względu na autorstwo kobiet jest to dzieło unikatowe ...więcej »
Georg Büchner to postać niezwykła, której aktywność na czterech scenach nowoczesności (nauki przyrodnicze, filozofia, polityka, literatura) stanowi splot nici w istocie nie do rozplątania. […] Kim ...więcej »
It’ll knock both your eyes out!Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts, Dia...więcej »
Książka przedstawia Boską komedię Dantego Alighieri jako źródło wiedzy na temat współczesności. To punkt wyjścia do nieustannie ponawianych prób poznania, kontestowania czy rewolucjoniz...więcej »