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Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art. 

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art.

Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) is best known for his magical, timeless 35mm street portraits taken in Paris and its suburbs. Fresh, unstaged, and full of poetry and humor, his photographs portrary everyday people (in everyday places, doing everyday things) frozen in time, unwittingly revealing fleeting personal emotions in a public context.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed one of the greatest minds of all time; his importance and influence are inestimable. This two-volume, midsize format comprehensive survey is the most complete book ever made on the subject of this Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and all-around genius. With huge, full-bleed details of Leonardo's masterworks, this highly original publication allows the reader to inspect the subtlest facets of his brushstrokes.

Ca printr-un miracol, centrul istoric al Sibiului a reusit sa-si conserve aproape integral trasaturile originare. Elementele arhitecturale tipice unui burg medieval germanic si cele specifice barocului vienez s-au contopit intr-un ansamblu unitar. Era timpul ca acestui loc sa i se acorde importanta cuvenita in peisajul cultural european.

Cu un format amplu si tiparit in conditii grafice ireprosabile, albumul ilustreaza povestea timpului, urmarind metamorfozele celor patru anotimpuri romanesti. Din superbele fotografii care surprind Romania de-a lungul celor patru anotimpuri s-a inchegat imaginea unei lumi coerente, bogate in semne si povesti.

Fotografiile reunite in acest album compun un mozaic alb-negru complex al istoriei recente a Romaniei, aproape incredibila: scene necosmetizate, de la circ la armata, de la talciocuri si bazaruri la strazile innamolite ale oraselor in constructie, de la copii ai strazii la soimii patriei, de la munca in uzine la hoteluri de lux si distractiile turistilor straini,de la mesele in cantine de fabrica la sejururile in statiunile de odihna.

This volume reproduces 139 Japanese woodblock colour prints by 43 famous masters of ukiyo-e, the popular art of the 17th to the 19th century. The originals are in the Riccar Art Museum in Tokyo, the world's largest and most celebrated collection of such prints. On account of their rarity and value, 87 of them have been designated Japanese National Treasures or Major National Cultural Heritage Items. 

From a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world. 

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), one of Spain's most revered and controversial painters, is known for his intense, chilling, and sometimes grotesque paintings depicting the injustice of society with brutal sincerity. A court painter to the Spanish crown, he captured, through his works, a snapshot of life in Spain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Featured artists: Max Ernst, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Johannes Baader, Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, Johannes Theodor Baargeld, Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, and Man Ray

"With this book, priced very reasonably, the finest work of one of photography's giant figures is all yours."

If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Dutch painter's work difficult to decipher—and it still presents riddles to contemporary art historians.

Part of the problem in decoding his shocking and richly allegorical paintings is that virtually nothing is known of the artist himself, apart from his birthplace. There is no record of his life or training, no personal letters, diaries or notebooks, and no contemporary insights into his personality or thoughts on the meaning of his art. 

The greatest and finest atlas ever published

"This book is gorgeous. Whether you're a cartography enthusiast or not, this remains a risk-free purchase."-Italian Magazine, London

The book is a valuable and an original contribution to the development of Doris Lessing's and Margaret Atwood's critical study in the landscape of Romanian literary research, taking into consideration the impressive theoretical approaches. Woman's relation­ship with herself is a popular theme in contemporary social psychology but has never before been analysed in such a compre­hensive book-length study.

Who wouldn't want to be able to make your own ice cream at home in the kitchen? Using natural ingredients and fantastic flavours, Eliq Maranik invites you to a big ice cream party! It's easy to make your own ice cream without using any artificial flavourings or stabilizers. Featuring over 60 delicious recipes, all illustrated with beautiful photographs, you will be able to vary your favourite dessert infinitely. 

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. But while Monet the painter was faithful and persevering in the pursuit of his motifs, his personal life followed a more restless course. Parisian by birth, he discovered plein-air painting as a youth in the provinces, where one of his homes, Argenteuil, has come to represent the artistic flowering and official establishment of Impressionism as a movement, with Monet as its creative leader.

On April 15th, 1874, in the Parisian studio of photographer Nadar, was the opening of the first group exhibition that was uninhibited by government interference and the dictates of an official selection committee. This date has gone down in the annals of art history because it marks the birth of the Impressionism. Impressionistic paintings now rank among the most popular works of art and are the pride of any museum or collection worldwide. However, in 1874 the public response to the exhibition, and to Impressionist painting, was not adoration but rather shock and even outrage. 

Between Critical Thinking and Literary Critical Thinking is, basically, a demonstration of the fact that critical thinking, as it has come to be defined and interpreted in the Anglo-American cultural space, is almost completely different from literary critical thinking, with which, as a matter of fact, it often finds itself in contradiction. To uphold this thesis, the volume is organized in sections that are meant to coherently defend this demonstration. Each section is developed somewaht independently, autonomously, with idividual bibliographies, in order to allow an eclectic sort of reading during which the succession of chapters should not necessarily require a relationship of interdependence-otherwise implicit.

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action.

The volumes in this series provide unique portraits of European art history. Authoritative texts illuminate the decisive stages in the artists' lives and the development of their styles, explaining their impact against the background of their social context as well as their significance for following generations of artist.

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art. 

Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts provide concentrated information on accessing well-known and less-known sites in the world of art.

Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.

This ‘language’ is based on English vocabulary and syntax but, at the same time, self-consciously designed to function as a pun machine with an astonishing capacity for resisting singularity of meaning. Announcing a ‘revolution of the word’, this astonishing book amounts to a powerfully resonant cultural critique - a unique kind of miscommunication which, far from stabilizing the world in meaning, constructs a universe radically unfixed by a wild diversity of possibilities and potentials. It also remains the most hilarious, ‘obscene’, book of innuendos ever to be imagined.

This collection of Poe's best stories contains all the terrifying and bewildering tales that characterise his work. As well as the Gothic horror of such famous stories as 'The Pit and the Pendulum', 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Premature Burial' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart', all of Poe's Auguste Dupin stories are included.