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12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for 12 years—a powerful, riveting condemnation of slavery, and a story soon to be introduced to a new audience through a major filmTricked by two men offering him a job as a musician in więcej

Acquisition of morphological categories and vocabulary in early ontogenesis of Czech child
Pavla Chejnová The presented monograph introduces the processes of vocabulary and grammar (primarily morphology) acquisition in one Czech child over a long time span. The research is based solely on the analysis of authentic material (the corpus of transcriptions of audio recordings and the par więcej

Angelus & Diabolus. Angels and Devils: The History of Good and Evil in Christian Art
Maria-Christina Boerner   Rolf Toman   Achim Bednorz Angels, devils, and demons have played a significant role ever since the emergence of religious beliefs. As messengers from other worlds, be they harbingers of good news or tempters, they touch the fundamental hopes and fears of every human being while at the same time depicting więcej

Anja Niemi: In Character
Anja Niemi The first retrospective monograph of one of the most fascinating talents in contemporary photography Anja Niemi: In Character is the first career retrospective/monograph by the Norwegian photographer. Niemi’s work has emerged as a distinctive force within the venerable tradition więcej

Areal Intersections in Slovak and Italian Memoir Literature
Ivan Šuša więcej

Basquiat
Werner Holzwarth   Eleanor Nairne A condensed edition of the best-selling Basquiat monograph. Pristine reproductions of Basquiat’s seminal paintings, drawings, and notebook sketches, as well as texts by editor Hans Werner Holzwarth and curator and art historian Eleanor Nairne, bring us up close and personal to a więcej

Caravaggio in Detail
Stefano Zuffi Caravaggio in Detail is the fourth title in our successful In Detail series, following Van Eyck, Bruegel and Bosch. The Italian genius Caravaggio is considered one of the most important artists of the Baroque era. The Italian master’s painting style was groundbreaking, not only b więcej

David Hockney - A Bigger Book
David Hockney A Bigger Book, TASCHEN’s SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph, is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Bradford School of Art, through his breakthrough in 1960s Swinging London, life by więcej

de Lempicka
Gilles Néret Tamara de Lempicka (1896–1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one of the mos więcej

Dont Fret: Life Thus Far
Dont Fret Consummate wiseguy, documentarian of working people, and ""vaguely anonymous human"" Dont Fret is one of Chicago's most visible street artists, best known for his wheat-pasted characters and snarky musings that populate city streets worldwide. Simultaneously sardonic, biting, and więcej

Dubuffet Drawings: 1935 -1962
Isabelle Dervaux   Margaret Holben Ellis   Alex Potts   Cornelia An important new study of drawings, many of them rarely seen, by one of the most influential French artists of the 20th century Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) achieved international recognition in the late 1940s for his paintings inspired by children’s drawings, the art of psychiatri więcej

Duchamp
Janis Mink When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist’s Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery, sent shock waves through the art world establishment that reverberate right through więcej

Dusk and Down
Šárka Grauová   Eva Voldřichová-Beránková This monograph, penned by an interdisciplinary team of philologists from the Faculty of Arts of Charles University and their European colleagues, examines European and American literatures from the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tracing not only the trends common więcej

Francesca Woodman
Chris Townsend Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) has become one of the most talked about, most studied, and most influential of late twentieth century photographers. She started taking photographs when she was barely thirteen and in less than a decade created a body of work that has now secured her więcej

Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms / Unsichtbare Räume
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart   Ina Conzen This fascinating and beautifully illustrated book on the work of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s greatest painters, takes an in-depth look at his trademark motif of figures imprisoned within ghostly frames. Arguably one of the most influential and original painters więcej

Georg Baselitz
Richard Calvocoressi The authorized monograph on one of the most influential and respected artists of our time, written with the full co-operation of Baselitz himself A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media, predominantly painting and więcej

Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman
Matthijs Ilsink   Jos Koldeweij   Ron Spronk   Luuk Hoogstede   Robert G. Erdmann   Rik Klein Gotink   Hanneke Nap   Daan Veldhuizen Compiled by members of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project and published on the 500th anniversary of Hieronymus Bosch's death, this is the definitive new catalogue of all of Bosch's extant paintings and drawings. His mastery and genius have been redefined as a result of s więcej

Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius
Matthijs Ilsink   Jos Koldeweij An accessible survey on a genius artist, published to accompany the 500th anniversary of Bosch's death Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmag więcej

Hoffmann
August Sarnitz Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentation and bombastic flourish. With his radical new approach and a band of like-minded figures, Hoffmann was a foundi więcej

Hokusai Pop-ups
Courtney Watson McCarthy A one-of-a-kind book of pop-ups based on the works of the Japanese artist Hokusai Hokusai (1760–1849) was an extraordinarily prolific Japanese master artist and printmaker of the ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) genre. More than 150 years after his death, his legacy więcej

Illustrative Electrical Engineering in the Primary School Curriculum
Čestmír Serafín Předložená monografie usiluje o přínos v oblasti výuky o elektrotechnice a zejména užití didaktických prostředků v podobě elektrotechnických stavebnic ve výuce současné školy, vymezením požadavků, které v souladu s cíli vyučovacího procesu a především s pedagogickou teorií jsou n więcej

Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois
Robert Storr The most comprehensive book on the work and life of Louise Bourgeois ever published, by the leading authority on the artist Louise Bourgeois was a prolific artist known for her highly personal body of work consisting of sculptures, installations, drawing and prints that deal w więcej

Kengo Kuma: Complete Works
Kenneth Frampton A major monograph fully documenting Japan’s foremost architect and leading light of the global architecture scene The quintessential Japanese architect of today, Kengo Kuma has forged a modern design language that artfully combines his country’s traditional building crafts wit więcej

Kirchner
Norbert Wolf Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged, intensely colored paintings and disseminated his ideas through Die Brücke art movement więcej

Landscape transitions in space and time in diverse land use
Chukwudi Nwaogu The monography is focused on analyzing landscape changes by identifying the changes, the drivers of the changes, and impacts on the land resources in different land use using GIS and statistical techniques. In addition to theoretical research, the thesis contains four practical c więcej

Louis I. Kahn
Joseph Rosa Louis Isadore Kahn (1901–1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of modernism with a devotion to geometric forms and a reverence for natural light that su więcej

Martin Janecký /AJ/
Barbora Kundračíková The first monograph on Czech glassmaker and sculptor Martin Janecký (1980) presents his work after 2010 and places it into the global context. The work introduces Janecký as an artist focused on the masterly theme of portraiture, both in the literal physiognomic and symbolic sens więcej

Michelangelo
Gilles Néret Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary maste więcej

Modigliani
Delphine Duchene Amedeo Modigliani's favourite and most abiding motif was the human figure. His portraits of women, in particular, convey his sympathetic and highly individual gaze. Although his oeuvre consists mainly of paintings and drawings, he devoted himself exclusively to sculpture from 190 więcej

Mr Architecture + Decor
David Mann MR Architecture + Decor’s work—which, true to its name, straddles the line between architecture and interior design—is driven by the belief that close collaborations with clients lead to personalized and intimate homes. The first collection of the firm’s 20 years of work includes więcej

Multiculturalism
Martin Strouhal   Mariusz Kwiatkowski   Anna Mielczarek-Żejmo Publikace popisuje a interpretuje aktuální stav multikulturalistické teorie a její politické a edukační aplikace. Jsou v ní zastoupena různá axiologická stanoviska, teoretické koncepty a metodologické přístupy, zejména filosofické, pedagogické, psychologické a sociologické. Prvn więcej

Munch
Ulrich Bischoff Psychodrama: The reverberating power of an Expressionist icon. A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863 1944) created Mona Lisa for our times. więcej

New York Contemporary: GRADE Architecture and Interiors
Thomas Hickey The first monograph on GRADE New York, an architecture and design studio dedicated to creating artistically curated environments in a cutting-edge contemporary setting. Architect Thomas Hickey and interior designer Edward Yedid partnered to establish GRADE New York as a unique pr więcej

Nikolay Lossky and the Case for Mystical Intuition
Karel Sládek Ruského náboženského filosofa Nikolaje Losského (1870–1965) představuje autor v průsečíku dvou přístupů – osobního, založeného na biografii a bibliografii, a systematického, užívajícího metod běžných ve spirituální teologii. První část knihy je věnována Losského životu a dílu pře więcej

Palladio
Manfred Wundram From his humble beginning as a stonemason’s apprentice, Palladio rose to become Chief Architect of the Republic of Venice, at the time the epicenter of European innovation. There, he designed the Church of the Redentore and San Giorgio Maggiore on the landmark promontory between więcej

Picasso Portraits
Elizabeth Cowling Depicting people in his intimate circle rather than working to commission enabled Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) to take an expressive, radically experimental approach to making portraits. Co-published with the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, this book examines the contrasting modes of his więcej

Pierre Bonnard
Guillaume Morel Classical on account of his subjects, modern on account of his sense of composition, color, and light, the Nabis painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) followed his path away from the great currents and movements of the first half of the twentieth century. In more than 250 landscapes więcej

Piranesi drawings: Visions of antiquity
Sarah Vowles The first exploration of Piranesi’s work as a draughtsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum. The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) is best known for his dramatic etchings of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted ci więcej

Poverty and Social Work
Eva Klimentová   Dana Sýkorová Tato kolektivní monografie nabízí popis a analýzu chudoby v praxi sociální politiky a sociální práce v šesti evropských zemích. Autoři zvolili v jednotlivých kapitolách pohled na téma, který je nejdůležitější a specifický pro sociální politiku v jejich zemi. Kromě kapitol od auto więcej

Rembrandt (Colour Library)
Michael Kitson Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) transcends any period or social milieu: he is one of the world’s great masters and though his works reflect the confidence of newly independent Holland, his vision extends far beyond these narrow confines. A deeply perceptive artist (his many self-por więcej

Snøhetta: Collective Intuition
Snøhetta The first in-depth monograph on one of the most important contemporary architecture practices working today With offices in Oslo, Innsbruck, San Francisco, and New York, and projects all over the world, Snøhetta's architecture, landscape, interior, and branding design projects więcej

Studio Ko
Karl Fournier   Pierre Bergé A debut monograph on the highly sought-after French architecture duo renowned for a signature aesthetic infused with clean lines and raw minimalism. Founded by French architects Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty in 2000, Studio KO has quickly secured its status in the world of arch więcej

T-54 Chassis-based Vehicles in detail
František Kořán Tato monografie, plná kvalitních fotografií a technických detailů, je především určena obdivovatelům vojenské techniky, sběratelům a modelářům. więcej

The Autobiography of a Snake: Drawings by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol The first-time publication of rediscovered drawings by Andy Warhol, telling the story of a cheeky, stylish snake and the glittering constellation of celebrities that surrounds him This is the never-before-published story of a snake trying to make it in the world of high societ więcej

The World of Mucha: A Journey to Two Fairylands: Paris and Czech
Hiroshi Unno A collection of Mucha’s romantic art, including 370 decorative paintings and his masterpiece, the 'Slav Epic' Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was a Czech graphic designer and decorative artist best known for his distinctive Art Nouveau style. He produced many illustrations, adverti więcej

Voyage le Corbusier: Drawing on the Road
Jacob Brillhart Following the master architect’s drawing campaign as a young man. Voyage Le Corbusier collects for the first time a compendium of sketchbook drawings and watercolors of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret—a young student who would go onto become the singularly influential modernist więcej

Yves Klein
Hannah Weitemeier In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that “a new world calls for a new man.” With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma, this bold artist would go on to pursue a brief but bountiful career, producing more than 1,000 paintings over seven years in an oeuvre now con więcej