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Seria "Movie Icons" to nowa seria prezentująca w pierwszej odsłonie gwiazy Hollywood. A recognized prodigy at age 10, world famous by age 23, Orson Welles was a triple magician of theater, radio, and filmmdash;and by age 25 a promising figure in American politics. President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged him to try a run for the Senate; newspaper...

OKO W OKO to najbardziej osobisty album fotograficzny Fransa Lantinga, jednego z największych współczesnych fotografów przyrody, wieloletniego współpracownika National Geographic, zdobywcy wielu prestiżowych nagród fotograficznych i wreszcie człowieka aktywnie zaangażowanego w ochronę przyrody na świecie. Od ponad dwudziestu Lanting wyrusza na...

You talkin' to me? Visual biographies of cinema's greatest stars Most moviegoers associate actor Robert De Niro with adjectives like "intense," "violent," "streetwise," and "brooding." It is an image that De Niro has carefully nurtured over the last fifty years of his career. He used gesture, voice, and, most importantly, his mesmerizing eyes to...

Marcel Duchamp - An enigma to art historians and a great source of inspiration to other artistsSomeone else may have invented the wheel, but Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) invented the ready-made. A bottle dryer may be a bottle dryer, but signed by Duchamp it is also one of the major works of 20th century art.Duchamp has been an enigma to art...

This enlightening and hilarious guide casts the reader as an "urban archaeologist," exploring the lost remnants of the Tiki culture across the United States and discovering relics from this forgotten civilization in thrift stores, yard sales, and used book and record emporia. A combination of nostalgia and fascinating pop-cultural study, this book...

Matisse at eighty, master of painting and sculpture, used colour as a sculptor uses stone. His unique venture took the art world by storm. The improvisations in colour and rhythm, created with gouached paper and scissors, marked the culmination of his artistic ambition - a perfect synthesis of colour and line....