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Fifty Shades of Grey

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she

A Time To Kill

But when extremists outside Clanton hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone

Prospero's Planet Critical. Quandaries around Shakespeare's Last Play

The rightful Duke of Milan does not belong to the time of his determinate condition as a shipwrecked aristocrat. By recourse to magic, Prospero masters

Leviathan

The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents

Impressionism

The Impressionists and the succeeding Neo-Impressionists were avant-gardist and revolutionary, paving the way for modern art. Present-day viewers, hardly realizing this revolutionary potential, can be

Bruegel: The Complete Paintings

Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965: The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age

Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory essays explore the architect's life and work, touching

El maestro de esgrima

El maestro de esgrima es la historia de un mundo de tahures y mercachifles mantenido a distancia por un florete honorable. Pero es, sobre todo,

Claude Monet, 1840-1926

In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny

Pop Art

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

Pre-Raphaelites

Founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the original Pre-Raphaelites were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson,

Renzo Piano

Like a movie director doing a love story, a Western, or a murder mystery, a new world confronts an architect with each project. This explains

Auguste Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings

This volume examines the sculptures and drawings of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917

Nicolas Poussin: 1594-1665

 Poussin was highly prolific and was considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest living painter, a man whose work embodied the ideal of French

Redon (Back to Visual Basics)

In his studio, Redon would dedicate his energies, like an alchemist, to the creation of his black pictures, those barely tangible charcoal drawings teeming with

Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640: The Homer of Painting

Combining typical Flemish realism with classical themes influenced by the Renaissance, Rubens caught the attention of all of Europe and helped put his native Antwerp

Shigeru Ban

This survey traces his entire career to date, showing clearly why he is one of the world's most innovative and significant architects. Unlike many of his

Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: Pictures as Drama

An overview of the life and work of artist Mark Rothko, this volume exhibits his mythological content, simple flat shapes, and imagery inspired by primitive

Egon Schiele 1890-1918

After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough

Surrealism

Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during the movement 35 most

Jan Van Eyck: Renaissance Realist (Basic Art) (German Edition)

Van Eyck left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. This title in the Basic Art series features

Titian, 1490-1576

 The freedom exhibited in his pictorial compositions was unprecedented and greatly influential on later artists, notably Manet, who closely studied Titian's work at the Louvre.

Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions

The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one

The New York Trilogy

In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a

Antoine Watteau 1684-1721

Watteau was inspired by the theater and in particular the commedia dell'arte, hence elaborately costumed actors, dancers, and musicians were recurrent subjects he was also

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987: Commerce Into Art

Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings (Campbell- and Brillo series), as well as their fascination for

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959: Building for Democracy

His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most

The Creeping Man (Student's Book+CD)

Components:Students's Book (Story Book and Activity Section)Multilinhual glossaryAudio CDTeacher's notes

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the

Abstract Art

Each book in Tachen's Basic Genre series features: a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural,

Tadao Ando: 1941

Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water,

The Bauhaus: 1919-1933: Reform and Avant-Garde

Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and

Francis Bacon: 1909-1992

FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) POSSESSED THE RARE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM UNCONSCIOUS COMPULSIONS INTO FIGURATIVE, HUMAN-LIKE FORMS THAT SEEM TO EVOKE THE RAW EMOTIONS THAT BORE THEM.

Bosch : C. 1450 1516 Between Heaven and Hell

Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his

Fernando Botero

Famed for his modern art and rendering of human, animal and still life compositions, this is a celebration of the works of Colombian painter and

Bruegel: The Complete Paintings

Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town

Calder, 1898-1976 (Album Series)

He operated at the point where Modernity and nature Fused, developing an environmental art that changed the medium Forever. Visiting his Paris atelier in 1932,

Matilda. Special Edition (limba engleza)

Autor: Roald Dahl

Santiago Calatrava: 1951: Architect, Engineer, Artist

Winner of the 2005 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal as well as numerous other prestigious awards, Calatrava is one of the greatest and most

Caravaggio, 1571-1610

Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to

Candela (Basic Architecture)

Candela features some of the loveliest and unique homes in the picturesque state of Bahia, Brazil. Highlights include a treehouse by sculptor Frans Krajeberg, a

Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus

Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and

Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism

He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul

Salvador Dali: 1904-1989

Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others

Monetary Policy. Unconventional Approaches

This book emerged from the author’s preoccupation with certain aspects of monetary policy that were seldom a topic of discussion prior to the crisis outbreak

Charles & Ray Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988 Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism

This book covers all the aspects of their illustrious career, from the earliest furniture experiments and molded plywood designs to the Case Study Houses to

De lágrimas y de santos

Una pasion mistica en un mundo sin Dios. O, en palabras del propio Cioran, «la pasion de lo absoluto en un alma esceptica» : tal

Albrecht Durer

His visits to Italy (where he studied most notably with Giovanni Bellini) had a profound effect on his artistic development and enabled him to combine

M. C. Escher

Renowned artist M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally

Giger (Basic Art)

H.R. Giger is a painter, Oscar award winner and cult figure for the international artistic community for which his aesthetics of the apocalypse represent inspiration

Gaudi (Taschen Basic Architecture)

Lucian Freud

I paint people, Freud has said, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they

Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903 the Primitive Sophisticate

We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment

Philip Jodidio

Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said

Hiroshige

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese

Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real

Hopper's paintings are marked by striking juxtapositions of colour, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely

Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956: In the Realm of Beauty

Before being rediscovered in the 1980s by the Post-Modernists, his work was nearly forgotten now his importance is unquestioned. As a designer he was one

Jasper Johns: The Business of the Eye

He is arguably most known for his flag paintings of the 1950s (the Museum of Modern Art in New York recently paid over $20 million

Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion

Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was 18, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a