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Kniha Kolegium je dramatem odehrávajícím se před soudem v současnosti. Přesto se soudní líčení před dvanácti soudci zabývá životem Ježíše Krista a jeho vztahem k dívce z Betánie, tři kilometry od Jeruzaléma. Doposud nikde nepublikovaný názor, že Ježíš…
Paul Morphy a Adolf Anderssen. Dvě velké legendy šachové historie. Dva hráči, kteří byli dokonalými útočníky a kombinátory, ale na rozdíl od většiny svých současníků chápali šachovou hru i z hlediska základních pozičních principů. Zatímco Anderssen byl…
Planeta Bela je podobná planetě Zemi. Jsou tam louky, lesy, hory, moře i řeky, stejně jako na Zemi. Na Bele všichni žijí v souladu s přírodou a chovají se k sobě hezky. A právě tam, se svými rodiči, žije velice moudrý a zvídavý chlapec Kilián. Jednoho…
The cover of this animated journal is Kusama's work Love is Calling-a kaleidoscopic environment of tentacle-like forms covered in the artist's characteristic polka dots. As endpapers, this journal pulls from Kusama's iconic painting series, My Eternal…
Šachová partie se dá jednoduše popsat jako bitva dvou armád. Přesto je to velká a mnohdy náročná záhada. Zejména pro začínající hráče není vůbec jednoduché zorientovat se ve spleti různých pojmů, pouček, termínů a názvosloví. Právě proto jsem se rozhodl…
In his engaging and penetrating observations of major modern and contemporary visual art, Shiff has written about an impressive range of artists, including Willem de Kooning, Marlene Dumas, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Bridget…
"Revelatory and sublime...Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions, insert their own meaning and feel transported to other glorious worlds." -The New York Times One of the most inventive artists of…
Best known for his iconic print Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as the Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai was a revolutionary printmaker. His mastery of ukiyo-e in the nineteenth century has inspired generations of artists since, and his works exposed…
He wrote in the 90's about the 2008 Banking Crash, The War on Terror, Transhumanist Agenda, Microchipping, the Cashless Society and more. In this Book he takes a look back at the event that shook the World in 2001, the September 11th attacks in New York.…
Učíme se od mistrů je kniha určená zejména (ale nejen) pro mírně a středně pokročilé hráče. Obsahuje 20 partií od 16 mistrů světa a 4 dalších vybraných hráčů, kteří měli k tomuto titulu velice blízko. Partie jsou vybrány co nejjednodušší a s bohatým…
Examines the latter half of the 1980s through the lens of international art scenes based at the time in Cologne - arguably the European centre of the contemporary art world - and New York.
This publication focuses on the period from 1948 to 1964, during which Morandi developed and refined his investigations of serial, reduct ive, and permutational forms and compositions, a body of work that has had a profound influence on twentieth - century…
Highlighting the rich diversity of effects Albers drew from a narrow range of colors, this publication is based around the groundbreaking Homage to the Square (A) (1950), the inaugural painting in the series that would occupy the artist until his death…
“Criticism is our censorship . . .” So begins one of the greatest invectives against criticism ever written by an artist. Paul Gauguin wrote “Racontars de rapin” only months before he died in 1903, but the essay remained unpublished until 1951. Through…
In arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism.
Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.’s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, which not only introduced these movements to the American public, but also placed them…
In his 1989 book on Balthus-the storied and controversial artist who worked in Paris throughout the twentieth century-Guy Davenport gives one of the most nuanced, literary, and compelling readings of the work of this master. Reading it today highlights…
From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome-each a work of art, both a monument to the past-and on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply…
