Umenie

Juliana Mrvová

Publikácia prináša komplexný pohľad na tvorbu jednej z najosobitejších maliarok súčasnej slovenskej scény. V ôsmich kapitolách mapuje jej dielo od roku 2013 a sleduje vývoj autorky, ktorá vo svojej maľbe prepája intuitívny a spontánny prejav s expresívnym rukopisom a bohatým kolorizmom. Jej tvorbu dlhodobo formoval pohyb – cestovanie, rezidenčné pobyty a putovanie krajinou. V posledných rokoch sa

Druhá strana dojmov

Kniha Druhá strana dojmov problematizuje časovosť umeleckého diela, vzťah medzi umením a sociálnou realitou či vzťahy teórie umenia k umeleckej praxi. Marcel Proust je v nej predstavený nielen ako originálny spisovateľ, ale aj ako jedinečný estetik a filozof. Autor koncipuje pojmy a kategórie potrebné na koherentnú interpretáciu takého zložitého a roz-poruplného umeleckého jazyka, aký vytvoril

Patrik Illo

  „Patrik Illo je bezesporu jedním z nejúspešnejších reprezentantů česko-slovenské generace sklárských tvůrců narozených v sedmdesátých letech 20. století s mezinárodním respektem a přesahem.“   Publikácia s imaginatívnym podnázvom Něco není nic približuje v prvom rade významnú tvorivú osobnosť slovenského sklárstva Patrika Illa a navyše objasňuje kontext československého

Roman Ondak / Event Horizon

With essays by Katrina M. Brown, Rainer Fuchs, Friedrich Meschede   Edited by Roman Ondak   With more than four hundred illustrations spanning three decades, Event Horizon is the most extensive monograph on Roman Ondak’s work to date, published on the occasion of his solo exhibition Infinitum at Fundació Tàpies in Barcelona in 2023.   Slovak artist Roman Ondak

Art of Venice

The book traces the history of Venetian art from the beginnings to the end of the Republic of Venice - with buildings, paintings, mosaics, sculptures, and glass objects reflecting the international contacts of the medieval trading republic.

van Gogh

Seurat

Discover this splendid monograph on Georges Seurat, from the Les Carrés d'Art collection. The artist is the master of pointillism/divisionism. It is very popular with the public, and most of his works have been purchased by American museums.

Tiepolo

Born in Venice, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo rose to become one of the most important artists of the 18th century. He found great clients not only in Italy, but also in Würzburg. His frescoes in the Würzburg Residenz, which congenially integrate the architecture and have lost none of their radiance to this day, are regarded as his main work.

Art of Rome

Art Nouveau 3

Art Nouveau developed in very different forms between the 1880s and the First World War, starting in Western Europe. Organic lines and plant forms, building in iron, glass and concrete, as well as the idea of the “Gesamtkunstwerk” (Complete work of art) can be found in London, Glasgow, and Riga, as well as in St. Petersburg and Moscow. But above all in the Scandinavian countries and in Eastern

American Painting

In hardly any other country did painting reflect the search for a national self-image as clearly as in the USA. From the colonial era to the landscape paintings of the Hudson River School and the confrontation with European Modernism, the entire loth century is characterized by this. On more than 45o pages, this volume offers even the connoisseur surprising discoveries.

Art Nouveau

With Art Nouveau there developed a new, international style under various names in the architecture and handicrafts from the 1880s onwards that sought to replace the forms of historicism with plant ornamentation and functional construction. A comprehensive reform of the arts that produced rich floral ornaments in Paris and Brussels, and became an expression of national identity in Barcelona. This

Renaissance 1420-1600

Art Deco

Art of Venice

French Painting 1

Between popular masterpieces and rather little known artists, this book unfolds nine centuries of the history of French painting. It contains more than 450 works showing medieval frescoes, Gothic illuminations, Renaissance portraits, neoclassical or romantic paintings, but also works of academic art. Cabanel or Gérôme have their place here, just like Nicolas Poussin, Boucher, Ingres or Delacroix.

Louvre

With more than eight million visitors a year, the Louvre is the museum with the most visits in the world. Its extensive collection of paintings reflects the history of European art from the 13th to the early 19th century. With over 400 plates, detail images, and descriptions, this volume provides an overview of the Louvre's collection of paintings.

Gothic 1200-1500

Painting from 1200 to 1500 is a mirror of its time, marked by deep religiousness as well as progressive tendencies, by economic prosperity as well as devastating wars and epidemics. A religious perspective is joined by secular themes and efforts to achieve a realistic way of representation. These developments take place in book illumination, which is accessible to rather few people, as well as in

Impressionism 1860-1910

In the 1860s, a style of painting emerged in Paris which fundamentally called into question the artistic concepts that had been prevalent in academies up to that time. Impressionist artists such as Monet, Renoir, and Degas now focused on their impression of the moment, which was captured in paintings depicting moods and light at certain times of the day and of the season, as well as in snapshots

Art of Florence

In the late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, Florence was a capital of the arts, in the 15th century (Quattrocento) the greatest art metropolis of all. Here the wishes of rich merchants and bankers met with the skills of artists such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio or Donatello. Even in Florence today, the past is present through art, from the Cathedral, whose dome rises above the city, to the