In our search for truth, how far have we advanced? This uniquely human quest for good explanations has driven amazing improvements in everything from scientific understanding and technology to politics, moral values and human welfare. But will progress end, either in catastrophe or completion - or will ...
In the tradition of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all, "Empire of the Summer Moon" spans two astonishing ...
Nový díl řady Toulky českou minulostí tentokrát neponese číselné označení, neboť chronologicky předbíhá posloupnost historických dějů řady Toulek. Bude se totiž věnovat dvěma desetiletím existence Československé republiky, od jejího vzniku v roce 1918 až po nacistickou okupaci roku 1939. Texty přiblíží ...
Kniha - autor Rhonda Byrne, 254 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná.Tap into the magic of gratitude with Rhonda Byrne''s latest book - and change your life in just 33 days. No matter who you are, no matter where you are, gratitude can dissolve all negativity in your life, no matter what form ...
Ďalší zväzok päťdielnych dejín Bratislavy.Rozpráva o histórii Slovenska a okolitých štátov, Maďarska, Rakúska, Česka a čiastočne Poľska, pretože Bratislava vždy bola mestom na hranici, priesečníkom, v ktorom sa odrážajú dejiny veľkej časti Európy.Tretia kniha o Bratislave je sondou do čias tureckých ...
Reprint jedné z raných Váchalových autorských knih, s pozdější ručně psanou dedikací litomyšlskému sběrateli Josefu Portmanovi. Celostránkové sumární barevně kolorované dřevoryty robustního výrazu popisují s váchalovským sarkasmem vztah pacienta a lékaře. pevná vazba, 50 výtisků ručně šito v kožené vazbě.
Konzultanti v otázkách umění Thea Westreichová Wagnerová a Ethan Wagner s využitím svých rozsáhlých zkušeností, které nasbírali za léta spolupráce se sběrateli a uměleckými institucemi, nabízejí prostřednictvím deseti tematických kapitol zasvěcený, ale přitom laikům srozumitelný vhled to někdy trochu ...
Millie Marotta is a hugely popular illustrator and her idiosyncratic drawings of the world\''s strange, cute, weird and lovely creatures will draw you in. Millie\''s Animal Kingdom offers a range of beautiful illustration to personalise and make your own. The artist\''s intricate style of illustration ...
Classics Under the Magnifying Glass. Italy\''s most precious painting treasures dissected. Surreptitious messages, concealed myths, and historical truths lie hidden in the great works of the Italian Renaissance, behind heavy gold leaf and religious symbology. Although often obscured by the archaic language ...
With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auction prices, and packed museums, Impressionism remains close contender for the world’s favorite period of painting. Its favorite subjects― from dappled harbor scenes and summer days to vibrant Parisian salons and gardens―brim with optimism and joie de ...
A style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887--1914) combined inspirations from extremely different sources into a unique and personal style. Macke was engaged with the world, closely following the development of ...
Soup cans and Whaam! The makers and shapers of Pop Art Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, and the role of the artist and artwork.Pop artists primary provocation ...
The Pop star: When art went Whaam!American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923 1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary for a new era.With his groundbreaking use of industrial production ...
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 ...
Debuting in Milan, Fontana settled in Paris in the mid 1930s, where he joined the Abstraction-Creation group and created expressionist sculptures in ceramic and bronze. He later moved to Argentina, where he developed his highly influential Technical Manifesto of Spatialism, a modernist marvel, characteristic ...
