Literatúra faktu sa teší veľkej obľube už od konca druhej svetovej vojny. V širšom slova zmysle označuje širokú škálu nefiktívnej literatúry, ktorá využíva biografické, reportážne, cestopisné, memoárové a denníkové prvky. Má obrovský význam pre kultúru, keďže sú v nej príťažlivo spracované udalosti dejinných a súčasných vedeckých materiálov. Najslávnejšími autormi sú napr. E. von Däniken, L. Souček či V. Zamarovský. Ak ste fanúšikom tejto literatúry a okrem čítania sa radi dozvedáte množstvo zaujímavostí, kníhkupectvách zoženiete rôzne knihy, ktoré si vás určite získajú.
The most successful of living artists Jeff Koons has been a focus of creative fascination and significance for more than thirty years, but has always remained guarded about his intellectual life, influences and motivation. The distinguished curator a nd long-time Koons friend and collaborator Sir Norman ...
Icons of contemporary American realism, the works of Richard Estes have established him as one of the pre-eminent realist painters of his generation. Photorealism emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, deliberately flouting the prevailing abstraction that dominated the American art scene. Estes was ...
Cena:15.8€ | Autor:Alexander, Eben | Rok vydania:2012 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9781451695199 | Vydavateľ:Simon and Schuster
The Louvre Art Deck includes 150 5" x 5" cards highlighting the most iconic and significant paintings in the Louvre. The front side of each card shows a full-size photograph of the painting while the back side gives 300-word discussions by art historian Anja Grebe on the key attributes of the work, what ...
Předmětem odborné monografie Skalní umění: portugalská naleziště Foz Côa a Mazouco je deskripce, analýza a interpretace skalního umění. Kniha je rozdělena do dvou relativně samostatných částí. První, teoretická část je věnována výzkumné strategii, dokumentaci, datování, konzervaci a prezentaci skalního ...
První verze u scénáře znamená ještě nehotový text, v kterém je nicméně poznat, o čem vypovídá a jak by měl výsledný film vypadat. Takoví jsou i studenti katedry scenáristiky a dramaturgie pražské FAMU – ještě ne úplně hotoví, ale jejich témata a styl je už jasně znát. V pilotní publikaci, která bude ...
These lrish tales all are reprinted from nineteenth-century sources, but they date back to a centuries-old oral tradition of storytelling that had yet to be committed to the printed page. They were passed down through the ages virtually unaltered and feature a wide variety of fantastic beings. This edition ...
Praised by Tolstoy as an "incomparable artist", Chekov is considered one of the masters of the short story. This collection features twenty of his most noted stories, including The Confession, Ninotchka, and The Cure for Drinking.
The very best journalism from one of Britain''s most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In ''Bad Science'', Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In ''Bad Pharma'', he put the $600 billion ...
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 ...
Penguin: 'I have never read such a stimulating short guide to art. It should be issued as a set text in every school' Lynn.
The making of pictures has a history going back perhaps 100,000 years to an African shell used as a paint palette. Two-thirds of it is irrevocably lost, since the earliest images known to us are from about 40,000 years ago. But what a 40,000 years, explored here by David Hockney and Martin Gayford in ...
Who can forget the first time they saw Darth Vader with his black cape and mask? Or the white hard-body suit of the Stormtroopers? Or Leia's outfit as Jabba's slave? For the first time, the Lucasfilm Archives have granted full access to the original costumes to be revealed in never-before-seen detail. ...
On the 10th anniversary of the BBC's genre-defining Planet Earth, this brilliant new book is an all-new look at our astonishing Planet Earth - from a completely new perspective.
An altogether enchanting tale. Dava Sobel, author of Longitude, on Brunelleschi's Dome
Global in perspective and covering over four million years of history, this accessible volume provides a chronological account of both the development of the hu…
The End Was Nigh Awesome apocalyptic visions of the 16th century The Book of Miracles first surfaced only a few years ago and is one of the most spectacular discoveries in the field of Renaissance art. The near-complete illustrated manuscript, created in Augsburg around 1550, is composed of 169 pages ...
Cena:94.43€ | Autor:Lescaze, Zoe | Rok vydania:2017 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9783836555111 | Vydavateľ:Taschen
Great paintings cannot be fully understood in a single encounter; there is always more to be derived from them. Art lovers may revisit and reconsider the master…
An enthralling journey through 40,000 years of art, from prehistoric cave paintings right up to the present day. Discover artists and their art around the world…
