Edice Knihy pre náročných

In his landmark project Before They Pass Away Jimmy Nelson captures the lives and traditions of the last surviving tribes who have managed to preserve their traditional ways and customs within our increasingly globalized world...

A one-of-a-kind, over-the-top, one-stop-shopping overview of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century...

The Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, ...

Na začiatku šesťdesiatych rokov začala Leni Riefenstahl často cestovať do Afriky, kde pracovala na rôznych filmových a fotografických projektoch. Jej obľúbeným miestom sa stal Sudán, kde pobudla dlhší čas...

From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons’s art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980s, Koons has been known as somewhat of a bad boy...

TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text (his 1973 biography Marilyn) with Bert Stern's extraordinary photographs—widely considered the most intimate ever taken of Monroe—to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962...

At first I thought strictly about a book of photographs on fashion...

In the early 1980s, The Police went on tour accompanied by a photographer who documented the band behind the scenes in a series of candid and striking black and white photos...

Photographs of over 500 garments selected from the Museum's permanent collection illuminate each of the featured designers, while texts by the curators explain why each designer is important in fashion history ...

In early 1964, Harry Benson was getting on a plane for a foreign assignment in Africa, when he got a call from the photo editor of London newspaper The Daily Express...

Unlike most architecture encyclopedias, which tend to concentrate more on buildings and floor plans than their designers, this tome puts the architects in the spotlight, profiling individuals so that readers can get a clear overview of their bodies...

Imagine having an opulent compilation of history’s most elegant and beautiful patterns and designs at your fingertips—to use, peruse, admire, and be inspired by...

Originally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being particularly suited to his cool, sleek modern style.

Studio Olafur Eliasson is an experimental laboratory located in Berlin. Led by renowned Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, it functions as an interdisciplinary space, generating fresh dialogues between art and its surroundings...

Santiago Calatrava is not only one of the world’s most prominent architects, but also an engineer and an artist...

Magnum Magnum is a book of unparalleled scale and ambition and is set to be the photography book of 2007. It features over 400 images by many of the acknowledged greats of 20th-century photography as well as the modern masters and rising stars of today...

Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cinematic milestone, and Robert DeNiro’s portrait of a trigger-happy psychopath with a mohawk is widely believed to be one of the greatest performances ever filmed...

Kniha fotografií Jeroma Sansa, ktorá vychádza v limitovanom náklade 2 500 kusov.

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) is one of the most iconic figures of twentieth-century art, a highly enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of art but also left in his wake a vast and staggeringly complex record of his daily activities...

Philippe Starck describes him as a "mystic in a country which is no longer mystic." Philip Drew calls his buildings "land art" that "struggle to emerge from the earth." He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes...