Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York launched a radical assault on the politics, social values, and cultural conformity ...
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world’s visual idea of Japan. In ...
Brazilian curves: A uniquely sensual modernism in Brasilia and beyondUntil his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907 2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines from Bab-Ezzouar, Algeria, to his ...
Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and naturalistic approach. Inaugurated by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, they ...
Jedinečná publikácia prezentuje najvýznamnejšie diela a výstavy 21 súčasných popredných slovenských umelcov, akými sú napr. Jakub Bachorík, Oto Bachorík, Zuzana Bachoríková, Viťo Bojňanský, Jana Brisudová, Ladislav Černý, Juraj Čutek, Martin Dzurek, Frank Jalšovský, Stanislav Kiča, Marián Komáček, Milan ...
Snahou a cieľom Principiálnej teórie nekonečna bude preskúmať nekonečno úplne novým - netradičným spôsobom, ktorý mu môže zabezpečiť dôstojné miesto v hierarchii vedy.
Už keď počujeme slovo hmyz, predstavujeme si nepríjemné, bodavé či škodlivé stvorenia. Znalec prírody sa však na úžasný svet drobných živočíchov díva úplne inými očami. Zasvätí nás do nevšedných príbehov, ktoré sú pred očami smrteľníka dokonale ukryté. Začítajte sa do fascinujúcich príbehov dvorenia, ...
Táto kniha mapuje štyridsať rokov krajinárskej tvorby Milana Stana. Jeho ateliérom je vlastne celé Slovensko. Na 400 stranách sú živo a vtipne opísané jeho maliarske cesty. Kniha je ilustrovaná jeho obrazmi, kresbami a grafikami, ktoré vytvoril počas svojho krajinárskeho pôsobenia. Publikácia je rozdelená ...
Jaké je tvé téma? Která témata provázejí kulturu už od samých počátků? O jakých tématech se dnes píše? Jaké téma hýbe dnešní společností? Kolik témat je schopen člověk za svůj život vstřebat? Jakému tématu se lidé dnes věnují? Jaká témata nás absolutně nezajímají? Proč si nedokážeme zvolit téma? Jsme ...
Svazek Views from the Inside přináší v pěti literárních dokumentech svědectví předních představitelů kultury českého undergroundu. Stavem hudebního undergroundu 70. let, jeho ideovými východisky a společenskou rolí se zabývá Ivan Martin Jirous ve své, dnes již věhlasné a opakovaně vydávané studii Zpráva ...
Is the Brexit vote successful big data politics or the end of democracy? Why do airlines overbook, and why do banks get it wrong so often? How does big data enable Netflix to forecast a hit, CERN to find the Higgs boson and medics to discover if red wine really is good for you? And how are companies ...
In our small corner of the universe, we know how some matter behaves most of the time and what even less of it looks like, and we have some good guesses about where it all came from. But we really have no clue what\''s going on. In fact, we don\''t know what about 95% of the universe is made of. So what ...
''Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots'' Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth century''s most popular artists, grew up in a close-knit, bustling Russian-Jewish community, the son of a herring seller. In his colourful, dreamlike autobiography, written as he was about ...
Whether you''re discovering printmaking for the first time or you''re looking for fresh ideas to reinvigorate your practice, you''ll find plenty of inspiration in The Printmaking Ideas Book. From traditional methods such as screenprinting, etching and lithography to contemporary techniques such as risography ...
Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work. And now he''s back, with his first SF novel for eight years... and it promises to be a publication to remember. An ex-corporate ...
Focusing on fifty diverse women artists, from Lavinia Fontana and Artemisia Gentileschi through Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta and the Guerrilla Girls to Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Louise Bourgeois, this book equips the reader with a general understanding of the history of art by women, as well as ...
Author of Everyday Watercolor and Instagram darling Jenna Rainey presents a beautiful step-by-step guide to painting botanicals from lilies to daffodils in a wide variety of styles. Artist Jenna Rainey shares easy-to-follow ways to paint a wide range of botanicals, all in her fresh, modern style that ...
ZeitgeistThe 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, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich s rising star in theater and silent film. Between the paroxysms of ...
Vydavateľstvo Kalligram sprístupňuje čitateľskej verejnosti výbr z diela Ľubomíra Liptáka, originálnej osobnosti slovenskej historiografie. Tvoria ho najvýznamnejšie vedecké práce, eseje, popularizačné články, recenzie i publikované rozhovory, z ktorých mnohé mali doslova priekopnícky charakter - tak ...
