Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht Dürer and his use of the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik’s experiments with video in the 1960s... Zobraziť viac
Josep Maria Jujol (1879-1949) developed his unusual architectural style through many years of close, creative collaboration with Antoni Gaudi... Zobraziť viac
One the greatest architectural artists of all time, and certainly the most famous copper engraver of the 18th century, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is most known for his terrifyingly original series of etchings of labyrinthine... Zobraziť viac
The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, ... Zobraziť viac
While the female nude has long played a concpicuous role in western iconography, the male nude has not always enjoyed such adoration... Zobraziť viac
At last: a highly affordable, user-friendly handbook on design that covers all the major concepts, materials, and styles over the last 150 years with concise, easy-to-understand definitions... Zobraziť viac
Najrozsiahlejší a najkvalitnejší atlas z obdobia baroka s názvom Atlas Maior Joana Blaeua vznikol v roku 1665 ako reakcia na iný dobový atlas vytvorený kartografom Johannesom Janssoniom, Blaeuovým rivalom. Jej reprint pripravilo vydavateľstvo Taschen... Zobraziť viac
A far cry from the aggressive ads we’ve become used to, American print advertisements from the first two decades of the 20th century were almost shockingly pleasant... Zobraziť viac
The work of Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953) is extraordinarily open-minded in its attitude to material and planning, as a result of his completely original form of architectural thinking... Zobraziť viac
The refined and revered tradition of botanical illustration, produced under aristocratic patronage, stretches back to the Renaissance. It emerged out of the desire to catalogue nature in all its wild splendour... Zobraziť viac
Nowadays there is hardly an interior design publication which does not contain at least one article on Feng Shui, the one-thousand-year-old Chinese tradition of the harmonious arrangement of sacred buildings, graves, palaces and streets... Zobraziť viac
Long before he was Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra was a child of the jazz age and its free-wheeling approach to life. In the course of a meteoric rise from singing waiter to the world's first pop star, Sinatra relied on his own version... Zobraziť viac
Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream... Zobraziť viac
With his smooth, warm, red 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 in 1949 and the early 1980s... Zobraziť viac
Henry Ford jump-started the age of the automobile with the first assembly-line car in 1908: the Model T. Over the next century the automobile evolved from chugging workhorse to tailfin-era showboat to sleek status symbol... Zobraziť viac
This title shows where the wild things are, from South America to Africa, up close with rainforest flora and fauna. Jungles is a personal exploration of nature in the tropics by master photographer, storyteller, and naturalist Frans Lanting... Zobraziť viac
Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in the active relationship... Zobraziť viac
A house on the sea is something that many people dream of. This book takes you to the most beautiful locations in the world where the dream became true: full-page colour photos show places such as Øresund, the beaches of Mykonos... Zobraziť viac
The sights, smells and sounds of India draw legions of travellers every year in awe of the changing terrain and countryside, but to truly experience the range and diversity of this huge country one needs to gaze into the many spectacular residences... Zobraziť viac
