Melancholie, děs a morbidnost. Od snů a nočních můr k otázkám smrtelnosti, zkaženosti i zkázy, k bohům a příšerám. Tato kniha znepokojuje, staví nás tváří v tvář obavám, strachu a přízračné skutečnosti. Nalezneme v ní více než 200 pečlivě vybraných uměleckých děl, mezi jejichž autory patří Pablo Picasso, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francisco de Goya, Hieronymus Bosch, Leonora Carrington, John Everett
Discover how artists across the centuries have explored the unexplainable, documented the impossible and illuminated the dark unknown.  What lurks at the edges of human perception? Across time and cultures, artists have found themselves drawn to document encounters with forces and phenomena that defy comprehension, from ghostly manifestations and cosmic energies to twilight
The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks that have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic and macabre.Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness – creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight and play on our innermost fears. Gentileschi took revenge with paint in Judith Slaying Holofernes while
This beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal.Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantastical creatures for centuries, expressing the unreal and impossible, the mystical and mythical, via the medium of paint.But what draws them to the imaginary, the uncharted and the unknown? Is it merely
A visual feast of eclectic artwork informed and inspired by spiritual beliefs, magical techniques, mythology and otherworldly experiences.Mystical beliefs and practices have existed for millennia, but why do we still chase the esoteric? From the beginning of human creativity itself, image-makers have been drawn to these unknown spheres and have created curious artworks that transcend time and