Despite significant advances in Bruckner scholarship, many problems persist. Although the relationship between Bruckner's music, post-Wagnerian ideology and, ultimately, Nazism has been carefully reconstructed, questions of how such matters should condition our responses to the music remain unaddressed. This important study isolates problematic issues of interpretation, analysis, reception,...

Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries. Complementing them are smaller...

Spośród licznych zabytków, kolekcji muzealnych, imprez folklorystycznych, krajobrazów, wizerunków miast wybraliśmy te, które należy odwiedzić będąc w Polsce. Staraliśmy się pokazać Polskę interesującą, zróżnicowaną kulturowo i geograficznie, gościnną. Ostatni rozdział prezentuje sylwetki najsławniejszych Polaków.

Ein Foto sagt oft mehr aus über einen historischen Moment als eine ganze Bibliothek. Es sind oft Bilder, die uns heute noch bewegen, ja erschüttern. Bilder, die Geschichte machten. Aber meist wissen wir nichts vom Schicksal der Menschen, die auf diesen Bildern aufgenommen sind. Das ändern wir in diesem Buch. Wir erzählen die Geschichte hinter der Geschichte. Dabei gibt es immer wieder auch...

Featuring 75 of the world's most legendary designers, this book presents the story of fashion through the fascinating personal lives and innovative collections that have shaped the field over the past century. Arranged in a broadly chronological order, this compelling book outlines the impact that inventive individuals have had on the development of fashion. Using boxed features to display...

Album Muzea polskie, przygotowany pod kierunkiem merytorycznym wybitnego znawcy tematu, Doroty Folgi-Januszewskiej, ukazuje historię, współczesność i perspektywy rozwoju polskiego muzealnictwa – dzieje i kolekcje najważniejszych muzeów, najcenniejsze skarby i nowe idee. Publikacja składa się z kilku rozdziałów poświęconych różnym typom muzeów, przygotowanym przez dyrektorów muzeów i badaczy...

Container architecture has become an essential part of our twenty-first century surroundings, with it being used to create modular structures for pavilions, brand showrooms, retail premises, and even residential homes. Ten years after the first publication of Container Atlas, this eagerly anticipated follow-up charts how this movement has evolved into an essential part of today’s architectural...

An insightful new look at two renowned photographers, their interconnected legacies, and the vital documents of urban transformation that they created. In this comprehensive study, Kevin Moore examines the relationship between Eugène Atget (1857–1927) and Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) and the nuances of their individual photographic projects. Abbott and Atget met in Man Ray’s Paris studio in the...

Weegee documented better than any other photographer the crime, grit, and desperation of mid-century New York City. In Flash, we get a portrait not simply of the man (both deeply talented and flawed, whose masterful eye for capturing violence and sex intimated his own predilections) but also of the fascinating time and place that he occupied. From self-taught immigrant kid to celebrity...

Album Mazowsza w języku angielskim. 

Album podzielony jest na 16 rozdziałów. Każdemu rozdziałowi przypisane jest 1 województwo. Kolorowa mapka i registry pozwalają łatwo znaleźć wybrane województwo. Album zachęca do podróży po Polsce. Jest praktycznym fotograficznym przewodnikiem dla dociekliwego podróżnika, chcącego poznawać nasz kraj, oraz pamiątką dla turysty, przypominającą miłe chwile spędzone w Polsce.

The Home Upgrade looks beyond big budget projects and explores homes where the seemingly impossible has been achieved. Against a backdrop of growing cities and a changing approach to how we live, there are many reasons to refurbish a home. Our buildings must continue to evolve along with us—and that takes a little imagination. Societal shifts continue to impact our homes. People live longer,...

Good homes are places where lives can unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, friends share your hospitality. They should also be places where you can find some solitude – a quiet corner to read a book, have a Saturday afternoon nap. In short, they need to be able to sustain you, inspire you and tell your story thanks to their architecture, use of materials and contents. These are the...

From the walls of the Salon to the pages of weekly newspapers, war imagery was immensely popular in postrevolutionary France. This fascinating book studies representations of contemporary conflict in the first half of the 19th century and explores how these pictures provided citizens with an imaginative stake in wars being waged in their name. As she traces the evolution of images of war...

The transformation of China in the past four decades has been nothing short of spectacular. Now a cultural and economic player on the world stage, its rise has also given air to a new generation of architects and interior designers. Once China looked to the West for references and inspiration, today an emerging movement is molding a new design expression which fuses centuries of local...

Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropolises, cities have marked the progress of civilisation. Written in the form of illustrated "biographies", Great Cities offers a rich historical overview of each featured city, brought to vivid life with paintings, photographs, timelines, maps, and...

This beautifully illustrated book is a style bible for anyone interested in design and the home. It is arranged into ten distinct chapters, each one concentrating upon a specific interior style or theme. Each chapter is illustrated with ten evocative houses or flats, whose aesthetic essence is captured within an opening double-page spread concentrating on the most spectacular space in the...

One of the common features of communist regimes is the use of art for revolutionary means. Posters in particular have served as beacons of propaganda – vehicles of coercion, instruction, censure and debate – in every communist nation. They have promoted the authority of state and revolution, but have also been used as an effective means of protest. This is the first truly global survey of the...

Bogato ilustrowany album w języku niemieckim przedstawiający najpiękniejsze zabytki i zakątki Polski. 

The Singing Earth is a collection of musical adventure stories from Grammy-winning producer, composer, and writer Barrett Martin. The book chronicles Martin's musical work in 14 different musical regions, across 6 continents, over the course of 30 years. It starts with his involvement in the 1990's Seattle music scene, and then explores song lines and sea trails in Australia and New Zealand;...