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 ...
Publikácia v samostatných celkoch približuje veľké medzinárodné výstavy, ktoré získali prívlastok svetové, najvýznamnejšie celouhorské výstavy, ako aj výstavy konané na území Slovenska v období do roku 1918 i v čase prvej ČSR. Pri svetových a celouhorských výstavách vykresľuje nielen ich celkový priebeh, ...
''Magnificent.groundbreaking.a triumph'' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads ''A masterpiece, a delight to read.a rare and beautiful thing'' Gerard DeGroot, The Times What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending, we are treated more as consumers ...
Autor vstupuje do společenské diskuse o rozdělení Česko-Slovenska knihou, kterou lze řadit do žánru kontrafaktuální historie, tedy: Co by se stalo, kdyby… Palán se ohlíží za dobou před dvaceti lety a zkoumá, jak se stalo, že tehdy "byla" válka. Vychází z této myšlenky: kdyby v závěru roku 1992 fungovala ...
Kohout plaší smrt je kapela založená roku 1996 v Liberci, která o sobě tvrdí, že hraje víceméně punkrock, ale hlavně to, co ji baví. Za 20 let existence odehrála více než 700 koncertů doma i v zahraničí, natočila 4 oficiální alba, 3 dema, jedno EP a podílela se na řadě kompilací. Současnou sestavu tvoří ...
Brushwork revolution: The neglected champions of ImpressionismIt was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work s title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon ...
Stretnutie s obrazmi Rastislava Podobu je vždy mimoriadne. Výsek reality, ktorý zobrazuje, má vždy mimočasový charakter - mohli by sme ho zaradiť do akejkoľvek doby, či časového pásma. Na spracovanie si vyberá témy, ktoré by sme mohli síce zaradiť do výtvarného žánru, ale špecifickosťou vizuality a prácou ...
As a blind person might see the world if the gift of sight were suddenly returned - this is how we might describe the effect of William Turner\''s paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, Turner\''s uncompromising 19th-century defender, alluded to this idea when he spoke of an "innocence of the eye" which ...
You are shrunk to the height of a penny and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in sixty seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of the world''''s top employers, you''''ll need to have a convincing answer to this and countless other baffling puzzles. Are You Smart Enough ...
Monografický súbor štúdií o problematike realizmu v slovenskej literatúre je v poradí treťou samostatnou vedeckou knihou literárnej historičky Marcely Mikulovej, erudovanej a uznávanej odborníčky na slovenskú literatúru druhej polovice 19. storočia. State o tvorbe Martina Kukučína, Boženy Slančíkovej-Timravy, ...
Ako veci vidíme je kniha vysokoškolského pedagóga fyziky – doc. Ivana Tureka, ktorá je však určená deťom, ktoré sa zaujímajú o to, ako "beží svet" okolo nás. Je pripravená pomôcť aj rodičom i pedagógom pri vysvetľovaní fyzikálnych javov – konkrétne vlnových procesov a zodpovedať otázky zvedavých detí. ...
Since its first appearance in 1931. Herbert Read''s introduction to the understanding of art has established itself as a classic of its kind. It provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings, sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements that went into their making. A compact ...
The Short Story of Art is a new and innovative introduction to the subject of art. Simply constructed, the book explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to se ctions on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows ...
American beauty: Painting life as it would like to be An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity of commissioned editorial, commercial, and advertising work. His death in 1978 was regarded the loss ...
The Sith have existed in the galaxy for centuries, lurking, waiting for their chance to seize control. In his quest for domination, Darth Sidious tracked down five pivotal Sith texts written by his most powerful predecessors. Then, drawing on the knowledge within the compiled pages, he wrote a sixth ...
Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest to find a hidden tribe and explore places tourists only dream of seeing. But what begins as the adventure of a lifetime quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare. After weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth ...
As children, the world is our playground, our parents are both almighty heroes and merciless adversaries, and our homes are the territories where big and small battle for dominance. As adults, we lament the innocence, boundless wonder, and simple pleasures of childhood.In this fourth installment of Yang ...
A pioneer of artificial intelligence shows how the study of causality revolutionized science and the world. ''Correlation does not imply causation.'' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer ...
