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Renaissance man in extremis Michelangelo, in pursuit of the beautiful and sublime Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting,...
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The artist who owned ultramarine In the mid-Fifties, 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...
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Freewheeling Tamara de Lempicka, icon of Art DecoTamara 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...
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Le Bonheur de Vivre: The vital colors and shapes of a modernist masterThe work of Henri Matisse (1869 1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for his paintings, Matisse also worked with...
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Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also a founding father of Western modernism, whose prolific gamut of...
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Swiss artist HR Giger (1940-2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of the most popular expressions of Giger's biomechanical arsenal...
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Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging with colorful and often comical works. Pop Art's profound influence on contemporary art and culture...
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Hol voltak és hova lettek mára a gőzmalmok, ha Budapest valaha a gőzmalmok városa volt? Miért lehetett világhírű a magyar liszt? Mi volt a titka a magyar őrlési technikának, melyet amerikai mérnökök is tanulmányoztak? Hogyan hatottak a malomüzemek működésére...
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Ženy. Mluví a píše se o nich všude, mají své specializované časopisy, publikace, pořady, prostory. V umění je čím dál častěji skloňována problematika žen-umělkyň, ještě více a ještě déle zobrazování žen. Často se ale zapomíná na ženy v architektuře a sochařství....
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Od druhé světové války uplynuly desítky let a stíny Třetí říše padají na naši zemi dodnes. Soukromá sbírka Adolfa Hitlera je pojem, který vstoupil do světových dějin jako jedna z nejrozsáhlejších uměleckých kolekcí všech dob. Vedle konfiskací a velkorysých...
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Kniha Spatřit a napsat. Filmové kritiky, statě a rozhovory představuje výbor z textů významné české filmové publicistky, historičky a pedagožky Galiny Kopaněvy. Svazek prezentuje publikační činnost autorky v celé její šíři, zároveň zdůrazňuje jednotlivá témata...
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Kniha Myslet média, jíž se Herzogenrath poprvé představuje českému publiku, je výborem z kratších textů (kapitol a článků), upravených pro české vydání a opatřených originálním doslovem Tomáše Dvořáka a Martina Charváta. Východiskem většiny textů je filozofie...
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Art Deco is the decorative, distinctly aesthetic style of the years between 1920 and 1940. The movement embraced all areas of lifestyle and art. Art Deco was a commitment to modern technology, industrial design, and functionalization. With over 500 illustrations,...
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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 privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.In this explosive...
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This book gives a voice to more than eighty people from every major continent and from all walks of life. It includes poets and philosophers, rulers and spies, activists and artists. Alongside such celebrated figures as Michelangelo, Frederick the Great and...
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From the internationally bestselling creator of Lost Ocean comes a beautiful new coloring book that takes you on a wondrous expedition through the jungle Follow ink evangelist Johanna Basford down an inky trail through the Magical Jungle and discover a forgotten...
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Can you identify your favourite TV show from just three visual clues? Put all those hours spent watching box sets to good use puzzling out the answer from Casja Holgersson's intriguing illustrations. Featuring 60 shows - from Game of Thrones to The West Wing,...
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Have you seen the Waste Land documentary? It s about the largest landfill in the world in Brazil where people make a living out of garbage in the dump. Until artist Vik Muniz comes and Art is born out of rubbish materials and ends up in Phillips, an auction...
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