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.
Hans Richter\''s Dada: Art and Anti-Art was a landmark publication. First published in English in 1965, it completely changed the interpretation of Dada from a literary phenomenon to an artistic one. Ever since, it has been the first port of call for anyone interested in the subject. As a member of the ...
A floating natural gas facility in Lithuania is blown up. A Venezuelan prosecutor is assassinated. A devastating attack on a Russian troop train kills dozens. A chaotic world is the best camouflage fo
The Whoniverse is a never-before-seen history of the Human Race – from the formation of Earth round the Racnoss eggs, and the creation of life by the destruction of the last Jagaroth spaceship, through to the eventual expansion of the sun and end of the world and beyond – to New Earth, and Utopia… Along ...
Lucian Freud was one of the world's greatest realist artists. Working only from life, he once claimed, 'I could never put anything into a picture that wasn't there in front of me.' This revelatory pub
Kniha byla odbornou porotou soutěže Nejkrásnější české knihy roku 2015 vybrána mezi 10 nejkrásnějších knih o výtvarném umění a získala Cenu Svazu polygrafických podnikatelů 2. místo za precizní způsob knihařského zpracování a využití švýcarské vazby. Představuje designérskou produkci studentů Fakulty ...
There are many myths about Edgar Degas--from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English, the ...
What does a library say about the mind of its owner? How do books map the intellectual interests, curiosities, tastes, and personalities of their readers? What does the collecting of books have in common with the practice of architecture? 'Unpacking My Library' provides an intimate look at the personal ...
Behind the Mask. The intrigue, drama, and covert messages hidden in the faces of powerful men and women, Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries, and Spanish generals: history''s most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individual represented ...
An altogether enchanting tale. Dava Sobel, author of Longitude, on Brunelleschi's Dome
Buckle up for the next installment in our 'Epic' series and the follow-up to Epic Bike Rides of the World. Epic Drives of the World, …
The latest book based on the popular Print & Pattern blog, Print & Pattern: Nature celebrates beautiful surface designs, patterns and motifs of….
The evolution from yesterdays’s bathroom to today’s wellness oasis continues to open new frontiers. New spa areas as such can hardly be distinguished at first glance, and could as easily be taken for lounges, meditation rooms or even museums for modern art. Bath design will be increasingly marked by ...
Published to accompany a major year-long exhibition, Making Nature at the Wellcome Collection, Animal Vegetable Mineral celebrates the beauty and strangeness of…
Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and p
The ultimate death compendium, featuring the world’s most extraordinary artistic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors. Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. ...
In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often erotic interviews, Ayoade examines Ayoade fully and without mercy, leading a breathless investigation into ...
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of Russia’s most illustrious institutions into scandal. In Bolshoi Confidential, renowned musicologist Simon Morrison shows how the attack, and its torrid aftermath, ...
Publikácia Anton Cepka je prvou kompletnou monografiou jedného z najvýznamnejších slovenských šperkárov, zakladateľa ateliéru šperku na bratislavskej VŠVU. Sumarizuje Cepkovu šperkársku i monumentálnu tvorbu. Bohatý obrazový materiál zahŕňa nielen fotografie šperkov a objektov, ale aj škice, kresby a ...
Artist and graphic designer Andy Tuohy turns his hand to the world of modern literature in this new instalment of the A-Z series. Rendered in his distinctive st…
Tapiserie reprezentují jeden z nejušlechtilejších a nejkrásnějších řemeslných výtvorů, který kdy zdobil a zútulňoval lidské příbytky. Zřejmě nejrozsáhlejší hradozámeckou kolekcí nástěnných koberců na území České republiky se pyšní zámky Hluboká a Český Krumlov. Autorka přibližuje původ unikátní schwarzenberské ...
