Yale University Press

This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali?s use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion...

Akcja powieści wydanej w Paryżu w 1953 r. osnuta jest - przynajmniej pozornie - wokół przybycia Gombrowicza do Argentyny w przeddzień wybuchu drugiej wojny światowej. Bohater-narrator trafia do środowiska polskiej emigracji w Buenos Aires, której obyczaje - przyjęcia w ambasadzie, patriotyczne imprezy, kłótnie, spiski, polowania - stanowią...

"Manger's deceptively folkish style, which mixes fantasy and autobiography, Biblical plots and a fin-de-siecle East European setting, pathos and parody, angels wings and social protest, the lyric and dramatic, has been brilliantly rendered into English by Leonard Wolf." Ruth R. Wisse In the years between 1929 and 1939, when Itzik Manger wrote most...

'In the elegant capital city of Warsaw, the editor Mieczyslaw Grydzewski would come with his two dachshunds to a cafe called Ziemianska'. Thus begins the history of a generation of Polish literati born at the fin-de-siecle. They sat in Cafe Ziemianska and believed that the world moved on what they said there. "Caviar and Ashes" tells the story of...

Balthus's lifelong curiosity with the ambiguities and dark side of childhood resulted in his best-known and most iconic works. In these pictures, Balthus (1908-2001) mingles intuition into his young sitters' psyches with overt erotic desire and forbidding austerity, making them among the most powerful depictions of childhood and adolescence ever...

In this fascinating reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the 20th century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individual architects—Peter Eisenman (b. 1932), Arata Isozaki (b. 1931), Rem Koolhaas (b. 1944), Stanley Tigerman...