The most comprehensive retrospective of Renoir’s workPierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841–1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beaut...
Shots from the world’s greatest collection of Polaroid imagesThe Polaroid Corporation’s photography collection is the greatest portfolio of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by ...
Today’s most exceptional Japanese homesSo rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it’s nearly impossible to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and...
The definitive monograph on Ai WeiweiAs his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity al...
With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People’s Republic i...
How can we pack so much big booty into such a tiny and inexpensive package? Sorry, but it's a trade secret we can't divulge, except to say that shoehorns and spandex were involved. The original Big...
At the vivid intersection of cinematic and graphic design history, this book gathers 250 film posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s to explore a world of innovative, revolution...
A world of music, dance, and the Moulin RougeIn our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, poste...
Lyrical forms from FinlandAlvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, ...
The movies that shaped the 2010sCinema has likely never been written off so often. In the decade of the 2010s, it is true, much has changed – both in how we watch movies, and in how we ...
The Egyptian explorations of Émile Prisse d’AvennesA lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Thé...
Skarby świata to piękny album prezentujący szeroki przekrój światowej sztuki - od czasów najdawniejszych po współczesność. Można tu znaleźć informacje o twórcach poszcze...
W książce, którą trzymasz w ręku zaprezentowano 100 najpiękniejszych miejsc, które stworzyła natura na całym świecie. Opisano tutaj malownicze parki narodowe, m.in. Park Narodowy Wyso...
Najpiękniejsze zamki i pałace świata to piękny album, który jest przewodnikiem po najwspanialszych budowlach na kuli ziemskiej. Na kartach tej książki znajdują się m.in. położony wśró...
Kultowe motocykle to pozycja obowiązkowa dla każdego fana motoryzacji. W albumie zaprezentowano kilkadziesiąt najbardziej kultowych modeli motocykli wszech czasów. Autor skupił się na i...
Motywy biblijne w sztuce Zachodu były obecne już od zarania chrześcijaństwa. Nowa religia dotarła na ziemie imperium rzymskiego z Bliskiego Wschodu i szybko zaczęła zdobywać nowych wyznawców...
A building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic environment, as well as fo...
A Revolution in PaintingThe mysterious genius who transformed European artCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was always a name to ...
A decade marked by adventures in futurismPublished annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furnitur...
Space ShapersAn encyclopedia of modern architectureWith more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensabl...