W tej strefie proponujemy bardzo szeroką ofertę z dziedziny psychologii oraz dziedzin powiązanych: astronomii i astrofizyki, ekologii, filozofii, kultury, podróżnictwa, religii, socjologii, sztuki. Szczególnie polecamy z tej kategorii bestseller pt. Księga Urantii. Księga Urantii podaje jasną i zwięzłą integracją nauki, filozofii i religii. Ci, którzy ją czytali i zgłębiali, wierzą, że Księga Urantii może wnieść bardzo wiele wartości do religijnej i filozoficznej myśli ludzi tego świata.
In the wake of Bonaparte's Egyptian Campaign, artists of the nineteenth century became fascinated by Orient and, most particularly, the harems which were so remote from western culture. These places rapidly provided a pretext for drawing the languid bodies of naked women, whose depiction in any other context would have been intolerable. This assembly of numerous works by Orientalist painters constitutes a sublime testimony to an imagined fantasy Orient, located between eroticism and sensuality.
With clear step-by-step instructions, hundreds of inspiring illustrations, a wealth of plate-making and printing methods and all the practical information any printmaker will ever need, classically trained practitioners Robert Adam and Carol Robertson lead the way to safer, more environmentally friendly and creative intaglio printmaking.
Oil paint has tremendous versatility, from the dilute and transparent glaze or wash, through to the thick impasto mark. Renoir employed the whole range of paint qualities and this is one of the most valuable reasons for studying his work. Every artist, beginner or expert, is inspired by the work of the great artists that have gone before, and one of the most enjoyable ways to learn painting is to study their work in detail. The Paint Like series unlocks the secrets of some of the most inspirational painters of all time, revealing their techniques and giving today's artists the confidence and skills they need to take their work to the next level. This is the second book in the series.
The cycles of Water Lilies are a highlight in Claude Monet's work. Found in collections around the world, they became some of his most beloved pieces. Never before had Monet brought in the interplay of color and light, the atmospheric water and air, and the beauty of nature and impressions together with such harmony.
Alongside the death of Elvis Presley and the assassination of John Lennon, Kurt Cobain’s suicide in 1994 ranks as one of the generational milestones of American life – an epochal event in both rock ‘n’ roll and youth culture.
This book is the story of Kurt Cobain’s life, from abject poverty to unbelievable wealth, power and fame. It traces the journey from his humble origins in Aberdeen to becoming lead singer of Nirvana, the most popular rock band in the world from 1991 to 1994, and the most influential band of this decade. The beautifully written text is complimented by 16 pages of photographs.
Based on over one hundred interviews, Charles Cross allows us to understand Kurt Cobain’s personality. This is an incredible tale of a strange, tortured and very talented man.
No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story—until now.
"Many say I was the best geisha of my generation," writes Mineko Iwasaki. "And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting to continue. And one that I ultimately had to leave." Trained to become a geisha from the age of five, Iwasaki would live among the other "women of art" in Kyoto's Gion Kobu district and practice the ancient customs of Japanese entertainment. She was loved by kings, princes, military heroes, and wealthy statesmen alike. But even though she became one of the most prized geishas in Japan's history, Iwasaki wanted more: her own life. And by the time she retired at age twenty-nine, Iwasaki was finally on her way toward a new beginning.
Geisha, a Life is her story -- at times heartbreaking, always awe-inspiring, and totally true.
Since the Rally Championship started in 1973, Reinhard Klein and his colleagues have photographed every rally, the most visually varied and stunning events of motor sport. This book is the result. McKlein's pictures tell the stories of 40 years of grueling rallies across mud, grit and snow, of splendidly mistreated, hedge-hopping cars, and their flabbergastingly intrepid drivers.
Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of Playboy, the Paris Review, Esquire, in various lectures, and in television appearances, many in print for the first time.
Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some of the most storied episodes of Thompson’s life: his savage beating at the hands of the Hell’s Angels, his talking football with Nixon on the 1972 Campaign Trail (‘the only time in twenty years of listening to the treacherous bastard that I knew he wasn’t lying’); his razor-sharp insight into the Bush–Cheney administration, his unlikely run for Sheriff of Aspen, and his successful public battle, during the last years of his life, to free an innocent woman from prison. In addition, Hunter Thompson’s passionate tirades about journalism, culture, drugs, guns, and the law showcase his singular voice at its fiercest.
Complete with an exclusive introduction by author, journalist, and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens, Ancient Gonzo Wisdom genuinely embraces the brilliance of Hunter S. Thompson – his life, his voice, and his legacy – to provide an enduring portrait of the great gonzo journalist.
Picasso’s work appears never to have ceased to haunt the imagination of his peers. The great stylistic periods and certain emblematic works by Picasso like "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon" or "Guernica" will be answered by contemporary artworks. The publication will showcase the rich confrontation with Picasso’s work undertaken by contemporary artists since the 1960s.
Pablo Picasso’s vibrant presence struck a chord in the 1960s with the return to Picassien archetypal figures by Pop Art and Narrative Figuration by Warhol, Lichtenstein, Equipo Cronica, Erró. Martin Kippenberger’s self-portraits reveal the impact of Picasso’s public image on the imagination of 20th century artists. David Hockney’s Polaroid composites and multi-screen videos echo Picasso’s Cubism and his exploration of a polyfocal space. Picasso’s stylistic eclecticism, his “cannibalism” of the old masters, the free craftsmanship of the later paintings inspired a new generation of artists like Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, or Julian Schnabel. Rineke Dijkstra’s video installation "I See a Woman Crying (Weeping Woman)", (2009-2010) will demonstrate the presence of Picasso’s work in contemporary imagination, in its most diverse means of expression (cinema, digital images, from videos to comic strips).
'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' Guardian
Simone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence.
Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology, The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.
Anton Corbijn’s most recent publication goes back to his roots featuring his autobiographic series a. somebody; an early series of tombs, Cemetery; and eighty iconic portraits of musicians and bands from his career of 40 years.
Schirmer/Mosel. Catalogue Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg. Ed by Anton Corbijn and Franz Wilhelm Kaiser. With texts by Franz Wilhelm Kaiser, Marie-Noël Rio and Daria Dittmeyer-Hössl. 220 pages, 119 colour and duotone plates. Size: 22.5 x 28 cm, softcover. English/German edition.
Meticulously researched and full of new insights into the private life of a very public superstar, Michelle Morgan tells the story of a movie actress whose fame never fades. In public, Marilyn Monroe was feted and loved, but in her private life there were controversies, conspiracies and unsolved puzzles.
Including rare and previously unseen images from the star's life, this book reveals a different side of Marilyn from the celluloid invention and is based on the author's extensive interviews with the main players in Monroe's life - family and friends, as well as work colleagues and more casual acquaintances.
A beautifully designed flexibound edition that comes in a slipcase, this is a first of it’s kind celebration featuring more than 600 examples of the human body as represented in graphic design, this innovative book will appeal to art directors, graphic designers, and design fans.
This groundbreaking volume investigates and illuminates a new generation of artists and the ways that they relate to one of art history’s most storied traditions: nude figure drawing and painting. This informative (and occasionally very cheeky) book demonstrates the ways in which new mediums and new technologies are pushing graphic designers to previously untold heights of artistic representation, thereby cementing the graphic designer’s place alongside more traditional mediums (drawing, painting) in art history and criticism.
From PETA’s infamous “I’d Rather Go Nude” ad campaign, to John Lennon and Yoko Ono posing nude on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Head to Toe features myriad examples of the nude figure and how it is altered and manipulated in the service of both art and commerce.
Chris Moore is the undisputed king of catwalk photography. His six-decade career includes images of all the iconic catwalk shows because he was at them all. This is the ultimate and only edit of Moore’s work throughout his career and covering the changing face of the catwalk.
Covering each of the decades images are accompanied with essays by award-winning fashion critic Alexander Fury, based on extensive interviews with Moore, exploring Moore’s career along with key catwalk moments.
From John Galliano’s graduation to Alexander McQueen’s final show, supermodels to showstoppers, Alaïa to Vivienne Westwood and more, Catwalking presents the definitive catwalk highlights captured by the man who has seen and shot it all.
How does time function? What is ecstasy? What is illusion?
Tantra is a set of beliefs and practices that originated in India, and combines eroticism, magic and metaphysics. The extraordinary visual imagery of Tantrik wisdom, often misunderstood, is clearly explained here, revealing the most essential patterns of human symbolic expression.
Celebrating the ultimate masterpieces of modernist design, from the Arts and Crafts movement up to the twenty-first century, Total Design offers an intimate tour of houses conceived as complete works of art. Each of the spectacular houses making up Total Design demonstrates how an architect realized a unifying vision through all aspects of design - architecture, furniture, fittings, decorative objects, color, and gardens. Presenting masterpieces of modern architecture conceived as complete works of art inside and out, author George H. Marcus, a veteran chronicler of modernist design, delivers a highly accessible tour of the creations of some of the twentieth century’s greatest architects and designers, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Gio Ponti. Together these masterworks of design offer a stunning survey of the many modes of modernist design, from the inventive refinement of Pierre Chareau to the colorful Nordic forms of Finn Juhl to the twenty-first-century expressionism of Daniel Libeskind.
The name Phyllis Posnick is synonymous with Vogue and the extraordinary fashion and beauty editorials the magazine’s audience loves. Posnick is best known for creating photo editorials to illustrate the magazine’s Beauty and Health articles, as well as iconic portraits of celebrated personalities. Bringing together the provocative and sometimes shocking, this collection invites readers to glimpse the complex production process— and the collaboration and creativity—behind each extraordinary editorial.
The book features images by a who’s who of legendary photographers: Anton Corbijn, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Klein, Annie Leibovitz, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber. The book includes a foreword by Anna Wintour and is punctuated with Posnick’s personal memories and irreverence.
Since being introduced in the 19th century, when they were considered the bastard cousins of more refined serif types, slab serif typefaces have become ubiquitous. Prized for their bold visual impact and versatility, they are used on a broad variety of demonstrative communications, from posters and newspapers to product packaging. Slabs come in many iterations and are recognized as a face with many characters – and nationalities.
Slab Serif Type artfully selects classic examples to present fresh and unexpected typographic ideas, bringing together material from across Europe and the United States, from vintage hand-lettering to iconic company logos. The authors employ their decades of combined experience as art directors to present hundreds of wonderful examples in a visual resource that will delight and inspire designers in all media.
Script Fonts is a visual encyclopedia of over 300 fonts that includes complete alphabets and numerals for each font and a piece of sample text that shows how each typeface works in the context of a paragraph. It is richly illustrated with over 100 examples of the typefaces as used in manuscripts, on posters, in advertising and other graphic design. The book includes elegant Italian and French cursive scripts, English script fonts, expressive marker fonts, brush and swash fonts, deko and freestyle fonts – all illustrated with historical and contemporary examples.
Looking at art through the lens of psychedelic experience and culture, New York Times critic Ken Johnson reveals an unexpected and illuminating dimension of art since the 1960s.
Art changed in a big way in the 1960s; it was no longer something just to look at and appreciate for its aesthetic qualities. The traditional ideal of connoisseurship was out; art as consciousnessaltering experience was in. Boundaries between conventional media such as paintings and sculpture stretched and dissolved. Hierarchical distinctions between high and low culture became irrelevant. Weird new forms proliferated. Would art have developed as it did in the past fifty years, would it be the way it is now, if psychedelics and psychedelic culture had not been so popular?
To answer that question, Ken Johnson, the veteran art critic of The New York Times, has examined a broad array of art of the past half century, from Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty to Pipilotti Rist’s recent swooningly trippy video installation at the Museum of Modern Art and Richard Serra’s warped, spiraling mazes ofinches-thick Corten steel, looking not just for obvious signs of psychedelic style but for an underlying psychedelic ethos animating the art. Extensively illustrated in color, Johnson’s pioneering study may change the way we see contemporary art.
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