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Hey, did you realize you were making history when you went to see The Blair Witch Project, one of the most profitable movies ever made? Do you know what it took to recreate the sinking of the Titanic, what a jump cut is, or who the leading box office stars of the 90s are? These are just a few of the countless things you'll learn in this new book...

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit Nouveau in 1920. The few buildings he was able to design during the 1920s, when he also spent much of his time painting and writing, brought him to the forefront of modern architecture, though it wasn't until after...

Architect Harry Seidler has spent more than 50 years traveling the globe, extensively photographing the peak achievements in architecture from 3000 B.C. to the present day. This collection of highlights from Seidler's opus offers armchair travelers, students, architecture buffs, and historians the opportunity to browse the buildings of the world...

Art imitates life in the work of the realists. Through painting, photography, and sculpture, 20th century realists invoke reality in works that capture what Freud called ?the uncanny"?the inexplicable strangeness of something which seems at once real and not real. Featured artists include: Arman, Francis Bacon, Balthus, Max Beckmann, Robert...

Picasso called Dalí "an outboard motor that`s always running." Dalí thought himself a genius with a right to indulge in whatever lunacy popped into his head.  Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) was one of the century`s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics — and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he...

`Nic nie jest mniej rzeczywiste niż realizm. Szczegóły są mylące. Tylko selekcjonując je, pomijając jedna i podkreślając inne, możemy dotknąć rzeczywistej natury rzeczy.` Goergia O`Keeffe...