In the 17th century, Amsterdam was a vibrant hub of the burgeoning European trade with Asia, Africa, and the Levant, importing copious amounts of foreign items that powerfully stimulated the imagin...
Art & Politics Now is a richly illustrated survey of more than 200 artists whose works address 'the political', often using radical approaches and techniques to communicate their ideas. Since t...
For beginners, art history might seem a daunting subject with complex rules and impenetrable technical language. Even for more seasoned art lovers the question of how to think about art is a perenn...
THE POWER OF ART is an epic work of non-fiction that will transform our understanding of the world by unlocking the human stories behind millennia of art. Taking readers from ancient Babylon to con...
Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists’ lives from Giotto to...
Ta młoda kobieta w czerni, z bukietem fiołków, o głębokim spojrzeniu, którą Manet namalował w 1870, to Berthe Morisot. Jej twarz o dumnych rysach skrywa jakąś tajemnicę. Jedna z model...
Ponad 1000 zwięzłych haseł pojęć i terminów bogato ilustrowanych i powiązanych ze sobą systemem odsyłaczy:- kulturoznawstwo- epoki i kierunki muzyki symfonicznej- nurty muz...
Biografia Witolda Rudzińskiego - kompozytora, historyka i teoretyka muzyki, pedagoga, twórcy oper, dzieł symfonicznych i kameralnych, muzyki dla teatru i telewizji oraz utworów dla dz...
In Bright Stars, Kate Bryan examines the lives and legacies of 30 great artists who died too young, celebrating their inspirational stories and extraordinary talent. Some of the world's greatest an...
'Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed' The TimesDuring the 1920s, in the Parisian neighbou...
Hockney — Van Gogh: The Joy of Nature presents unique insights into the influences of two world-renowned artists. Nature has been a substantial theme for both David Hockney and Vincent van Go...
With more than 600 new entries, this revised and expanded logo bible builds on the breakthrough success of the original edition.Arranged across more than 80 categories according to thei...
Featuring ancient Greek and Roman sculpture, this book explores the history and legacy of ancient statues of Olympian gods.For people in ancient Greece, ornately and imposingly fashione...
For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. From his beginnings as a Bristol g...
An enigmatic world of masks and the macabreAn Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860–1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right art-world ...
All results of the investigations into Bruegel’s drawings and paintings collected in a special anniversary edition.Bruegel. The Hand of the Master was the first ever exhibition to...
"Martin Bailey has written some of the most interesting books on Vincent’s life in France, where he produced his greatest work” - Johan van Gogh, grandson of Theo, the ar...
Direct from the mouth of America's most celebrated street poet comes a rare and diverse collection of intimate interviewsBob Dylan: The Essential Interviews features 31 of the most significant and ...
Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volumeThe most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists eve...
Picasso’s work appears never to have ceased to haunt the imagination of his peers. The great stylistic periods and certain emblematic works by Picasso like "Les Demoiselles d’Avign...