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Václav Kabát
Po několik desetiletí patřil Václav Kabát k výrazným osobnostem české knižní ilustrace. Ilustroval desítky knih a jeho práce provázely generace čtenářů, zejména díky dlouhodobé spolupráci s nakladatelstvím Albatros. Přesto jeho tvorba nikdy nebyla jen doprovodem literatury – Kabát vytvářel svébytný výtvarný svět, ve kterém se potkává humor, fantazie i tichá poezie. Tato první rozsáhlejší retrospektivní publikace představuje Kabátovo dílo v širším kontextu – od knižních ilustrací přes volnou grafiku až po osobité kresby fantaskních strojů, bytostí a imaginárních světů. Vedle reprodukcí výtvarných prací obsahuje také biografickou studii, rozhovor s autorem, vlastní a autobiografické texty a soupis díla. Kabátův výtvarný svět je plný hravosti, jemné ironie i tajemství. V jeho kresbách se setkává tradice české imaginativní ilustrace s osobitou fantazií autora, který dokáže z obyčejných věcí vytvářet podivuhodné a často poetické obrazy. Publikace přináší čtenářům nejen pohled na život a tvorbu výrazného ilustrátora, ale také připomíná důležitou kapitolu české knižní kultury 20. století. Kniha vychází u příležitosti autorových devadesátých čtvrtých narozenin.
Rembrandt. The Paintings. 45th Ed.
He was the most sought-after painter in the prosperous trading city of Amsterdam yet died completely impoverished. Though he never left his homeland, Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn's (1606-1669) work extends far beyond the confines of his personal experience, constituting some of the most effective and multifaceted works in art history, forever engraved on the collective memory - The Night Watch, epitomizing the flowering of Dutch urban culture in the 17th century, or Self-Portrait as Zeuxis, which remains enigmatic to this day.As an artist of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrandt's interest was in human passions. Bible scenes such as Bathsheba with King David's Letter (1654) also highlight the subjects' vulnerability, going far beyond what had previously been depicted in painting. Rembrandt also left behind a large number of self-portraits - no other artist of the time portrayed himself so frequently, thus documenting his own development from youth to old age.Following our XXL bestseller, TASCHEN is now releasing this abridged, more compact edition featuring Rembrandt's paintings in stunning reproductions - from Belshazzar's Feast (c. 1635) to his furious late work, this is a chance to experience Rembrandt's painterly oeuvre in a whole new way.
You Are an Artist
Where do great artists get their inspiration? And how could they help you make something extraordinary?
In You Are an Artist, over fifty artists from around the world share their creative techniques, and give you brilliantly imaginative exercises to inspire you to make your own art.
Among other things, you'll invent imaginary friends, construct a landscape, find the quietest place, measure your history and become someone else (or at least try). You don't need special materials or experience. Your only challenge is to create art that reflects the world as you see it.
Curator Sarah Urist Green brings together more than 50 assignments gathered from some of the most innovative creators working today, including Sonya Clark, Michelle Grabner, The Guerrilla Girls, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Nina Katchadourian, Toyin Ojih Odutola, J. Morgan Puett, Dread Scott, Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, and many others.
Shaping Brands
Offering a research-based framework that goes beyond exclusivity and loyalty to focus on visibility, recognition and accessibility as key drivers of brand success, this book explores the true value of brand design.In his new book, the award-winning author examines the value of brands and the crucial role of brand design. He conveys a scientifically sound understanding of the underlying methods, modes of action, processes and objectives. His approach represents a shift in perspective: it is not about charging a brand with exclusive meanings, but the primary goal should be to reach as many people as possible and increase their willingness to buy a brand's productGood design makes a significant contribution to the success of a brand by making it perceptible, recognizable and memorable, and thereby facilitating the purchasing process. The question of impact is, to a large extent, a question of form – the physical reality of the design and the way it is communicated. Christoph Zielke presents the overall context in a compact way and provides well-founded insights for the development of effective design strategies that sustainably increase brand value.
Anatomie Ateliéru
Kniha Williama Kentridge obsahuje kompletní přepisy přednášek z cyklu Slade Lectures, konané na University of Oxford v roce 2024, doplněné fotografiemi a ilustracemi. Přednášky propojují umělcovu osobní zkušenost s analytickým přístupem, a stávají se tak jedinečným průvodcem tvorbou jednoho z nejvlivnějších umělců současnosti. V šesti kapitolách autor reflektuje vznik nápadu, roli omylu a přepracování i proměnu fragmentu v hotová díla. Autobiografické vzpomínky na židovské rodinné zázemí a dospívání v Jihoafrické republice v období apartheidu se prolínají s filozofickými úvahami o umění, mýtu a lidské existenci. Kniha dále obsahuje předmluvu k přednáškám předního nizozemského básníka Alfreda Schaffera a kurátorský text Christelle Havranek doprovázející výstavu William Kentridge: The Battle Between YES and NO, první soubornou výstavu umělce v České republice.
Josef Mištera: Ora et labora
Monografie. Nejde o katalog výstavy, ale o bilanci života a díla člověka, který většinu svého času po ukončení vysoké školy věnoval práci pro Plzeň a Plzeňský kraj. O tom všem pojednává na třech stech dvaceti stranách kniha plná ukázek jeho tvorby od mládí až po současnost. V textech této knihy, kterou napsal Josef Mištera naleznete klíč k jeho osobnosti a dílu. Realizaci knihy inicioval Rostislav Vaněk, který ji vizuálně koncipoval, vybral obrazové přílohy a vytvořil její překrásný design.
Chiharu Shiota - Threads of Life
Beautifully produced monograph of the contemporary Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, whose immersive thread-based installations have drawn crowds across the globe.
This beautifully produced clothbound monograph offers a striking visual and critical exploration of the work of Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972, Osaka), the acclaimed Japanese artist known for her immersive, thread-based installations. These poetic environments - woven from vast networks of red, black or white yarn - have captivated audiences around the world, evoking themes of memory, absence and the body.
Featuring a newly commissioned essay by Yung Ma and an in-depth interview with the artist, the book presents previously unpublished photographs of recent works, including a compelling series of intricate drawings. At once intimate and expansive, this volume provides fresh insight into one of the most resonant and distinctive voices in contemporary art.
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint painted as though she was channeling the universe. Fascinated from childhood by botany and mathematics, she began her career painting landscapes and portraits, but other preoccupations stirred within her: questions of spirit, unseen energies, patterns too vast for the eye alone.
Her art was inseparable from her spiritual practice. With a circle of female artists called The Five, she held séances, heard voices from "High Masters," and was inspired by the Theosophical Society and Rudolf Steiner’s theories. Working tirelessly to map life’s hidden dimensions, she would paint to the point of physical collapse.
By 1906, her canvases featured radiant geometries of spirals and orbs, impregnated with symbols, letters, and words, anticipating the later embrace of abstraction by Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, and others. Her vast painted cycles?like her works for the Temple and The Ten Largest?often depicted dualities: inside and out, the earthly and the esoteric, man and woman, good and evil.
Living as a vegetarian, questioning the fixity of gender, af Klint was clearly before her time, yet very much of it too, and pretty much uncelebrated in her day. Her prodigious output lay unseen for decades, locked away by her own instruction. Only in the 1980s did the world begin to recognize her as a true pioneer of abstract art.
This book invites you into her visionary world, via a luminous selection of her works and a detailed essay distilling their complexity. Her once-secret universe is revealed to us anew.
Marcel Duchamp
As the most comprehensive publication on Marcel Duchamp to date, this lavishly illustrated volume spans six decades of his creative output, offering a sumptuous visual introduction for newcomers and serving as an indispensable resource for artists and scholars.
More than any other modern artist, Marcel Duchamp challenged and transformed the very definition of art. Published to accompany the first North American retrospective of his work in more than fifty years, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Philadelphia Art Museum, the exhibition and catalogue leverage two of the most important collections of Duchamp’s art in the world to bring together legendary works for the first time in decades. Lavishly illustrated with more than 300 works spanning six decades?including painting, sculpture, readymades, film, photography, and ephemera?and featuring a deeply researched chronology interwoven with archival and documentary material, Marcel Duchamp offers a new generation the first opportunity to experience the breadth of Duchamp’s revolutionary work.
An expansive introduction by curators Ann Temkin, Michelle Kuo, and Matthew Affron explores Duchamp’s radical rethinking of art and the museum, transformation of authorship, innovative exhibition and installation displays, and a lifelong dedication to changing the relationship between art and life. Revealing new dimensions of his conceptual brilliance, subversive wit, and lasting impact on generations of artists, Marcel Duchamp is a rich visual compendium and an essential scholarly resource for anyone seeking to understand an artist who changed the course of modern art.
Drawing: Antony Gormley
A comprehensive overview of Antony Gormley's drawings from 1980 to the present, with insightful texts from the artist and major contributors.
'What is drawing?' the artist asks in the prologue to Drawing: Antony Gormley. 'What does it mean to draw?' This beautifully illustrated volume presents the first comprehensive overview of Antony Gormley's drawings from 1980 to the present day, offering an intimate and enlightening window into the artist's vision.
Illustrating over 400 works, many of which have never been seen or published before, this major new publication traces Gormley's exploration of drawing as a vital form of thought and feeling. The artist's own reflections punctuate the book with deeply personal insights into his process, including ruminations on drawing's possibilities - 'the act of drawing is its own experimental field, a journey into the unarmed parts of our internal landscape' - and meditations on 'the intrinsic qualities of substances and liquids', from charcoal, mushroom ink and blood to the earth beneath our feet.
Accompanying Gormley's writings are perceptive texts by Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Iversen, Daisy Hildyard, W.J.T. Mitchell and Merlin Sheldrake. Each contributor offers a unique perspective on Gormley's work and the wider meaning of drawing as an act of exploration and transformation.
Drawing: Antony Gormley stands as both a personal and artistic journey. As Gormley himself reflects, 'Drawings have immediacy. In a good session, drawing can be like going for a rugged, physical adventure on a blustery day with changing conditions of light and rain. A day passed without drawing is a day lost.'
Miffy and the Impressionists
An adorable introduction for very young children to the world of Impressionist painting.
In what has to be the cutest introduction to Impressionism, Miffy discovers the work of iconic artists including Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Mary Cassatt, among others.
The book uses clever pairings of Dick Bruna's Miffy illustrations with iconic artworks to neatly captures the essence of each artwork. Combining a simple statement about each artist with questions that encourage children to look more closely at the artwork on the page, Miffy and the Impressionists is a warm welcome into the world of art for young children and their families.
The Art of Flowers
28 pull-out posters of floral masterpieces to hang on your walls.
From Monet's Waterlilies and Klimt's Flower Garden, to Cassatt's Lilacs in a Window and Hiroshige's Hibiscus, The Art of Flowers features 28 of art history's most iconic floral paintings, ready to be hung, stuck or pinned to your walls.
Compiled in an easy-glide, pull-out format, this large-format poster book features quality, affordable, and beautiful artworks in a standard frame size.
Raphael. Paintings, Frescoes, Tapestries. 45th Ed.
Raphael (1483–1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo. In his short lifetime he created around one hundred paintings and numerous frescoes, including nine fresco cycles, on an unsurpassed variety of themes – from sensual female beauties, antique myths and portraits of wealthy Romans and church dignitaries to history cycles and biblical scenes. He produced altarpieces, as well as designing tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. His Sistine Madonna is one of the most frequently reproduced religious paintings of all time.
Raphael was a tireless learner, for whom there could be no standing still, no repetition of tried and tested solutions, but only the constant forward thrust of an inexhaustible imagination. He transformed his central theme, the visionary experience of divine grace, into visible pictorial reality. It was his mature work in Rome, and above all the frescoes in the Vatican Palace, that secured him his place in art history. Admired even during his own lifetime as the most modern artist of his day, Raphael’s mastery would pave the way for Mannerism and the Baroque era.
Chinese Propaganda Posters. 45th Ed.
With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s.
Chairman Mao, portrayed as a stoic superhero (aka the Great Teacher, the Great Leader, the Great Helmsman, the Supreme Commander), appeared in all kinds of situations (inspecting factories, smoking a cigarette with peasant workers, standing by the Yangzi River in a bathrobe, presiding over the bow of a ship, or floating over a sea of red flags), flanked by strong, healthy, ageless men and “masculinized” women and children wearing baggy, sexless, drab clothing. The goal of each poster was to show the Chinese people what sort of behavior was considered morally correct and how great the future of Communist China would be if everyone followed the same path toward utopia by uniting together.
This book brings together a selection of colorful propaganda artworks and cultural artifacts of Chinese propaganda posters, many of which are now extremely rare.
Renoir and Love
A celebration of Renoir’s imagery of love in all its guises, from seduction and courtship to friendship, camaraderie and parenthood.
More than any of his contemporaries, Renoir was committed to chronicling love and friendship. Whether painting Parisian streetcorners or sun-dappled woodlands, he understood that emotion could be as fleeting and blinding as his other great and transitory subject, sunlight itself.
Focusing on the crucial period of the artist’s career from the mid-1860s to the mid-1880s, this catalogue traces the evolution of Renoir’s imagery of love, from affection, flirtation and seduction to camaraderie and parenthood. Such themes are explored in tender and personal works as well as ambitious multi-figure compositions, including Dance at the Moulin de la Galette and The Umbrellas.
Accompanying the most significant exhibition of the French Impressionist’s work in the UK for 20 years, this publication addresses the broad theme of Renoir and love through a series of thematic essays, interspersed with focused entries on key artworks.
Exhibition Schedule
Musée d’Orsay, Paris (17 March – 19 July 2026)
The National Gallery, London (3 October 2026 – 31 January 2027)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (20 February – 13 June 2027)
Published by National Gallery Global Ltd/Distributed by Yale University Press
Vilhelm Hammershoi: Painting as Poetry
The ultimate story of Vilhelm Hammershoi – one of the greatest Danish artists of all timesThe Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864–1916) is world-famous for his greyscale interiors, and his paintings are purchased at sky-high prices by Danish and international museums. Hammershoi’s unique paintings attracted international attention early on and marked a new form of expression in harmony with the era around 1900. Hammershoi is particularly known for his interiors but is at least as interesting as an architectural and landscape painter. Hammershoi’s art contains deep existential complications, and his work testifies to strong human integrity, solitude, meditative thoughtfulness, erotic fascination, and opens suggestively toward an inner world and a metaphysical perception of light. The book synthesizes Henrik Wivel’s extensive knowledge of Hammershoi and the era in which he lived with perspectives on contemporary art.
Anselm Kiefer - Becoming the Ocean
Since the late 1960s, Anselm Kiefer has explored the profound depths of human history through his work. For his first American retrospective in twenty years, he takes the river as a metaphor for the flux of life and passage of time. Breathtaking new landscapes join iconic works to celebrate the achievements of his nearly sixty-year career.
Becoming the Sea explores Kiefer’s remarkable body of work. From his early evocative landscapes of postwar Europe to his later, monumental canvases on themes of destruction and regeneration, Kiefer’s oeuvre challenges our understanding of history and memory. Catalogue highlights include previously unpublished artist writings, lavish illustrations and contributions by writers who inspired Kiefer’s famously literary art.
Renoir - An Intimate Biography
'A magnificent success ... it will remain a point of reference for years to come' Sophie Renoir
The joy that permeates Renoir's paintings emerged from the heart of a deeply complex man. Even his close friends and family members were baffled by the contradictions that defined him. In Renoir: An Intimate Biography, Barbara Ehrlich White, the world's leading authority on the artist's life and work, brings a lifetime of research to bear - challenging misconceptions around Renoir's reputation to provide an unparalleled account of this great Impressionist artist, in both his own words and those of his friends.
Uniquely intimate, this biography is interspersed with over one thousand excerpts of letters by, to, and about Renoir - 452 of which come from previously unpublished letters. These firsthand accounts offer an extraordinary window into Renoir's world, bringing us into direct contact with Renoir not only as a groundbreaking artist but as a devoted friend and father, too.
Cezanne
Form, color, and light – a pioneer of painterly abstractionPaul Cezanne is unquestionably one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth century. He is regarded as a pioneer of modernism who deliberately broke with the laws of perspective in his works and constructed the world out of color and form. He thus gave decisive impetus to Cubist painting and the development of abstraction.
The catalogue accompanies a comprehensive exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, which is honoring this central artist in its collection with a solo show for the first time in its history. The exhibition and catalogue focus on the last and most significant phase of the French painter's career and highlight key themes from his later years, including still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and scenes of bathers. With around seventy oil paintings and watercolors, the exhibition and catalogue allow us to experience form, light, and color in Cezanne's groundbreaking works—qualities that have influenced artists across generations and continue to inspire them to this day.
