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Další svazek edice Deset představuje tvorbu mladé úspěšné autorky Anny Krištofíkové, studentky ateliéru kresby AVU. Anna Krištofíková (*1999) ve své tvorbě pracuje s motivem autoportrétu coby nástrojem sebeanalýzy a zkoumání vnitřních krajin duše. Symbolistní poetika metafor masek, klíčů, zámků a nočních motýlů rozehrává důmyslné psychologické rébusy, a zároveň tvoří soukolí melancholických vizí a snů, které je možno vykládat nejen coby výtvarné objekty, ale i jako filozofické alegorie autorčiny vlastní složité kosmologie. Krištofíková nám ve svých dílech připomíná naši vlastní fenomenologickou omylnost a odhrnuje oponu iluzorní reality vnímané prostřednictvím subjektivních mentálních reprezentací.
Francis Bacon: Human Presence
This book explores Francis Bacon's deep connection to portraiture and how he challenged traditional definitions of the genre.
From his responses to portraiture by earlier artists, to large-scale paintings memorialising lost lovers, works from private and public collections showcase Bacon's life story. As well as the artist's self-portraits, sitters include Lucian Freud, Isabel Rawsthorne and lovers Peter Lacy and George Dyer.
This is the first publication in over 20 years dedicated to the portraits of Francis Bacon. From his renowned triptychs and paintings of ghostly figures, to tender and psychologically revealing individual portraits, the figurative works displayed in this publication chart the development of a groundbreaking artist, highlighting the influence of his peers and other artists.
Edited and with introductory texts by National Portrait Gallery curator, Rosie Broadley, Francis Bacon: Human Presence also features biographies and photographs of Bacon and his circle, bringing lesser-told stories to the fore. A series of short essays from a range of contemporary thinkers and experts on Bacon explore the individuality of the artist through different lenses, providing fresh perspectives on the artist, his portraits and his world.
The Works: Katsushika Hokusai
Explore the life and art of Katsushika Hokusai, through 50 of his most important works.
Part of a brand new series celebrating the works of great artists, The Works: Katsushika Hokusai is a stunning exploration of the iconic visions of a master printmaker whose influence transcends time.
This volume presents 50 of the Katsushika Hokusai's most iconic pieces in a striking, high-design book format.
From the towering crest of The Great Wave off Kanagawa to the crisp serenity of Cranes and the fiery hues of Fire Wind, Clear Morning, each image is accompanied by insightful analyses and biographical context from acclaimed art historian Sally Grant, that unpacks the techniques, themes, and cultural significance behind Hokusai's enduring legacy.
Perfect for budding and season art lovers, or anyone looking for a beautiful, bold book to adorn their shelves or coffee table. This volume is an essential tribute to a trailblazing icon of 19th century art.
The Works: Vincent van Gogh
Part of a brand new series celebrating the works of great artists, The Works: Vincent Van Gogh is an exquisite exploration of 50 masterpieces from the celebrated Dutch painter, whose work continues to captivate audiences worldwide.
This volume presents 50 of the legendary artist's most iconic pieces in a striking, high-design book format. From the luminous yellows of Sunflowers to the swirling night skies of Starry Night, each painting is presented in stunning detail with thoughtful analyses and biography from acclaimed art historian Sally Grant, that illuminates van Gogh's passionate approach to color, brushstroke, and emotion.
Perfect for budding and season art lovers, or anyone looking for a beautiful, bold book to adorn their shelves or coffee table. This volume is an essential tribute to a trailblazing icon of 19th century art.
The Works: Gustav Klimt
Explore the life and art of Gustav Klimt through 50 of his most important works.
Part of a brand new series celebrating the works of great artists, The Works: Gustav Klimt is an exquisite exploration of 50 masterpieces from the celebrated Austrian painter, whose work continues to captivate audiences worldwide.
This volume presents 50 of Gustav Klimt’s most iconic pieces in a striking, high-design book format.
From the shimmering golds and rich hues of The Kiss, to the intricate patterns of The Tree of Life, this book showcases the beauty and complexity of Klimt’s style. Through detailed analyses of each artwork from acclaimed art historian Sally Grant, this is the ultimate introduction to Gustav Klimt.
Perfect for budding and seasoned art lovers, or anyone looking for a beautiful, bold book to adorn their shelves or coffee table, this volume is an essential tribute to a trailblazing icon of the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau movements.
Picasso: The Figure
A fresh, multidisciplinary guide to Picasso's staggering engagement with the human form across painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving and ceramics
Published with Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Amply illustrated, this volume traces Pablo Picasso's (1881–1973) evolving approach to figuration throughout the many stages of his work?from the elongated, hieratic renderings of the Blue and Rose Periods, to the dynamic deconstructions of Cubism, to the colossal fleshy bodies of the 1920s, to the hybrid beings of the Surrealist period and beyond. Yoking masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, the Louvre Abu Dhabi and other institutions, Picasso: The Figure adopts a fresh thematic structure to its subject matter. Its five mythologically inspired sections?"Orion," "Pygmalion," "Minotaur," "Deucalion & Pyrrha" and "The Picasso Canon"?chronologically trace Picasso's figurative innovations across mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, engraving and ceramics. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume features essays not only by leading Picasso scholars but also by historians of the body, anthropologists and prehistorians. Together, the essays dissect the artist's rigorous dialogue with the visual languages of mythology and antiquity from which his modernist representations of the human form emerged.
Impressionism
A new edition of Belinda Thomson's highly accessible survey, which brings together the latest research on this perennially popular art movement.
The enduring popularity of Impressionism belies what the group of painters dubbed the Impressionists stood for. In the 1870s and 1880s, French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, Degas, Morisot and Renoir, adopted a revolutionary style of technique and subject matter that defied the traditions of the French Academy and the Salons. Rooted in anarchism, political radicalism, and a belief in science and individualism, their paintings captured modern life in ways never seen before.
Belinda Thomson's insightful study sheds light on the personal lives and creative thinking of the Impressionists, exploring the factors that shaped their masterpieces. From family backgrounds to the importance of the art market and the critical reception that challenged yet ultimately defined their work, this introduction offers a nuanced exploration of one of the most transformative movements in art history.
Lucian Freud - Drawing into Painting
Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud’s lifelong focus on the human face and form, tracing the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1930s to the early 21st century. Lucian Freud (1922–2011) is celebrated as one of the great figurative realist artists of the twentieth century, who devoted his artistic life to portraiture. Famously stating that ‘everything is a portrait’, he created intensely observed portraits of animals and plants, as well as his family members and those in his social circle and daily life.
Drawing into Painting explores how drawing remained central to Freud’s artistic practice throughout his life. From quick sketches to finished works in charcoal, pastel, and etching, his drawings offer a rare window into his process, revealing shifts in style, experimentation, and his evolving way of seeing. Spanning from his childhood to his final years, the book traces the unconventional path from his drawing practice to his painting, and back again.
Alongside a selection of key paintings by Freud and others, the book includes conversations with David Dawson, Freud’s close friend and assistant, and Bella Freud, the artist’s daughter. Insightful essays by writer and curator Catherine Lampert, British Museum drawings curator Isabel Seligman, and acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín further illuminates Freud’s world and legacy.
Lucian Freud
"One of the best books ever written by one painter about another." ? John Russell, The New York Times
First published in 1982, Lawrence Gowing's Lucian Freud is an intimate portrayal of one of the twentieth century's most exceptional artists. At once a pivotal narrative, a furtive autobiography, and a profound exploration of what it means to think through paint, this book represents a historically significant collaboration between two of modern art's brightest minds.
Drawing on forty years of friendship?as well as his own painterly intuition?Gowing's commentary pushes language to the very edge of meaning, evoking the richness of Freud's art with poetic incisiveness as he locates, within the paint itself, "a coiled vigilance and . . . a serpentine litheness in the ready, rapid way in which an object was confronted."
Freud's deep involvement in the original book offers rare insight into the artist as he was in the 1980s. The conversations and questions that shape Gowing's text produced some of Freud's most memorable and widely quoted reflections, while Freud's choice and grouping of paintings and drawings reveal unexpected connections across his works, as seen through his eyes.
Completely redesigned and reissued after many years out of print, this book remains a landmark publication on Lucian Freud.
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Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for well over 50 years, the value of his paintings now climbing as high as his fans’ admiration. Each year his works break the previous year’s auction records, with the cover for Lancer books 1967 Conan bringing $13.5 million in September 2025.Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. Self-described as lazy and difficult, he often started a painting the night before it was due, completing it in mere hours, yet delivering a masterpiece—often still wet, but a masterpiece, nonetheless.
He started in comics at age 16, including the infamous EC Comics, moved on to film posters, then to Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Along the way he produced magazine covers for National Lampoon, though at odds with the editors’ “hippy politics,” made the animated film Fire & Ice with director Ralph Bakshi, and learned to paint left-handed at age 68 after the first of many strokes paralyzed his right hand. As he explained in the 1970s, “I’m very physical minded.
In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him.” Using this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho he redefined fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before, and their female counterparts as thick-thighed, heavy-buttocked, and pixie-faced, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. All in all, Frazetta’s art is addictive as potato chips, and now available in a compact, attractive and affordable package.
Matisse
This lavishly produced volume explores Matisse’s lifelong reinvention of art through some fifty works, six extraordinary fold-out spreads, and illuminating essays.
Providing a unique opportunity to see Matisse’s work at a remarkable scale, this volume echoes the clarity, richness, and innovation of his art. Showcasing dozens of carefully reproduced paintings and cut-outs, the book offers a panoramic view of one of modern art’s most influential figures. Tracing Matisse’s development from early naturalist studies to the luminous intensity of Fauvism and the radical simplicity of his late paper cut-outs, it follows his evolving approach to form, color, and composition.
Brief essays accompany approximately fifty emblematic works, offering new insight into the artist’s changing techniques and the contexts in which he worked. With colored edges, a printed cloth binding, and a design that reflects Matisse’s visual sensibility, the book is as visually compelling in its production as the works it presents.
Six major compositions — including Joy of Life, The Red Studio, The Dance, and The Sorrows of the King — appear as expansive map-style fold-outs, allowing readers to savor their ambition and detail in unprecedented depth. A vivid and layered portrait, this volume invites close attention to the artistic choices that shaped a career of continual reinvention.
Kdo jsem?
Jindra Viková (1946) patří dlouhá desetiletí ke špičkám naší i mezinárodní výtvarné scény, profiluje se jako keramička, sochařka, malířka, kurátorka i pedagožka. Její dílo sumarizuje hned několik monografií, perspektivou osobní výpovědi, vycházející z rozhovoru, poznámek a diářů, je však autorka v této publikaci představena poprvé. A má rozhodně co nabídnout. Její dílo bylo oceněno na významných přehlídkách se zaměřením na keramiku, např. na festivalech v italské Faenze (1981, 1984), na Trienále porcelánu ve švýcarském Nyonu, na Mezinárodním bienále keramického umění ve francouzském Vallauris (obě 1986), na International Art Festival v Bagdádu (1988) nebo na 1. světovém bienále keramiky v jihokorejském Icheonu (2001). Mezi lety 1991 až 2003 postupně vyučovala na University of Michigan, Ohio University a University of Connecticut. Díly je zastoupena v řade českých, evropských i mimoevropských muzeí a sbírek. Od roku 2002 vede dílny keramické tvorby v centru Jarmily Tyrnerové v Kohoutově. Se svým celoživotním partnerem, fotografem Pavlem Bankou, žije a pracuje v Benicích u Prahy.
Kateřina Vincourová
Monografii Kateřina Vincourová vydala Galerie Rudolfinum ve své ediční řadě u příležitosti velké sólo výstavy této české umělkyně, kterou jí pod názvem Kateřina Vincourová Skin Care uspořádala od 2. 10. 2025 do 11. 1. 2026.
Publikace obsahuje text a rozsáhlý rozhovor s umělkyní od kurátorky výstavy Denisy Kujelové a eseje Martiny Pachmanové (UMPRUM), Víta Havránka (AVU) a britské historičky umění Klary Kemp-Welch. Graficky monografii navrhla fotografka a grafička Markéta Othová, instalačními fotografiemi opatřil Martin Polák. Publikace zachycuje nejen samotnou výstavu, ale obsáhle se zabývá tvorbou Kateřiny Vincourové od 90. let 20. století do současnosti včetně bohatého obrazového materiálu.
Natural History Drawings of Malaya: Complete Farquahar Collection
These natural history drawings capture the region's biodiversity with remarkable detail, offering invaluable insight into Southeast Asia's environment in the early 19th century.
This book brings together for the first time all 477 pieces in Colonel William Farquhar's collection of natural history drawings, commissioned during his time as British Resident and Commandant of Malacca from 1803 to 1818. Covering a wide spectrum of flora and fauna, the evocative paintings were rendered in brilliant watercolour by Chinese artists who employed both Chinese and Western painting techniques.
In an era when photography was non-existent, the only means of recording nature and wildlife was through painting. Accompanied by authoritative essays and detailed captions, Natural History Drawings: The Complete William Farquhar Collection is a valuable addition to the art or nature lover's library, and indispensable to those with an interest in the region. It showcases some fascinating wildlife still present in the region today and is also an important record of species that have been lost or are diminished in number.
Plant
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever
Now available in a chic compact format, this visually stunning survey from Phaidon’s Explorer series celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with paintings, drawings, and prints, to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images. Winner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2025 Award of Excellence in Series, this is the perfect gift for every plant lover and gardener.
Kawase Hasui: Modern Visions of Japan
Discover the timeless beauty of Kawase Hasui, the master of shin hanga, in this stunning new book, featuring his most breathtaking woodblock prints and expert insights into his legacy.
Kawase Hasui (1883-1957) was one of the most important and prolific Japanese printmakers of the 20th century. He was one of the main creators of the shin hanga ('new prints') movement, whose artists depicted traditional subjects in a style influenced by Western painting. Shin hanga prints are harmoniously balanced designs, printed on the highest quality paper using the finest pigments, and in small editions. They are the fruit of a traditional yet successful collaboration between artist, publisher, block cutter and printer and have become increasingly popular among collectors of Japanese prints in the last decade.
Hasui began his artistic career studying Japanese painting. However, soon after seeing Shinsui's Eight Views of Lake Biwa series, Hasui turned to woodblock printing in 1919. Shozaburo Watanabe was the first to recognize his artistic genius, and Hasui Kawase soon became the most popular artist working for this prestigious publisher. He produced nearly a thousand woodcuts in a career that spanned almost forty years. Towards the end of his life, the Japanese government recognized him as a 'Living National Treasure' for his contribution to Japanese culture.
Bedřich Dlouhý
Bedřich Dlouhý (1932) je výjimečnou osobností českého umění 20. a 21. století. Monografie poprvé souhrnně prezentuje jeho životní dílo, zasazuje je do místního sociokulturního a estetického kontextu a reflektuje i obecný rámec světa umění. Vedle komplexních uměleckohistorických statí, mezi něž patří také studie věnované piktoriálním realismům, respektive procesům spojeným s transformací/emi druhé poloviny 20. století a průběžnými změnami pozice umění středovýchodní Evropy v globálním spektru, publikace zahrnuje také příklady Dlouhého volné literární produkce. Dlouhý je zde prezentován jako malíř, ale také jako pedagog podílející se na znovuetablování Akademie výtvarných umění v Praze a latentní činitel místního dění.
Martin Janecký /CZ/
První monografie českého sklářského sochaře Martina Janeckého (1980) pojímá a do globálního kontextu zasazuje jeho tvorbu vzniklou po roce 2010. Prezentuje jej jako autora soustředěného na výsostné téma portrétu, a to jak v doslovném fyziognomickém, tak symbolickém smyslu. Vedle obsáhlého katalogu děl, kniha obsahuje komplex tematických statí historiků umění, skla, umělců a sklářů, Barbory Kundračíkové, Williama Warmuse, Williama Gudenratha, Michala Ožibka či Michaela Yonana. Reflektuje nejen příběh jednoho tvůrce či námětu v omezeném čase a prostoru, ale obrací se k samým dějinám média a umění tak, jak je známe.
Japanese Woodblock Prints
From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of Japanese art. In all its sensuality, freedom, and effervescence, the woodblock print is single-handedly credited with the wave of japonaiserie that first enthralled France and, later, all of Europe?but often remains misunderstood as an “exotic” artifact that helped inspire Western creativity.
The fact is that the Japanese woodblock print is a phenomenon of which there exists no Western equivalent. Some of the most disruptive ideas in modern art?including, as Karl Marx put it, that “all that is solid melts into air”?were invented in Japan in the 1700s and expressed like never before in the designs of such masters as Hokusai, Utamaro, and Hiroshige in the early 19th century.
This book lifts the veil on a much-loved but little-understood art form by presenting the 200 most exceptional Japanese woodblock prints in their historical context. Ranging from the 17th-century development of decadent ukiyo-e, or “pictures of the floating world,” to the decline and later resurgence of prints in the early 20th century, the images collected in this edition make up an unmatched record not only of a unique genre in art history, but also of the shifting mores and cultural development of Japan.
From mystical mountains to snowy passes, samurai swordsmen to sex workers in shop windows, each piece is explored as a work of art in its own right, revealing the stories and people behind the motifs. We discover the four pillars of the woodblock print?beauties, actors, landscapes, and bird-and-flower compositions?alongside depictions of sumo wrestlers, kabuki actors, or enticing courtesans?rock stars who populated the “floating world” and whose fan bases fueled the frenzied production of woodblock prints. We delve into the horrifying and the obscure in prints where demons, ghosts, man-eaters, and otherworldly creatures torment the living?stunning images that continue to influence Japanese manga, film, and video games to this day. We witness how, in their incredible breadth, from everyday scenes to erotica, the martial to the mythological, these works are united by the technical mastery and infallible eye of their creators and how, with tremendous ingenuity and tongue-in-cheek wit, publishers and artists alike fought to circumvent government censorship.
This two-volume edition in a box, crafted with traditional Japanese binding, presents reproductions of the finest extant impressions from the vaults of museums and private collections across the globe. Stunning fold-outs invite us to study even the subtlest details, while extensive descriptions guide us through this frantic period in Japanese art history.
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Tu budete mať príležitosť objaviť rôzne štýly, techniky a prúdy výtvarného umenia, od tradičných a realistických prístupov až po abstraktné a experimentálne vyjadrenia. Výtvarné umenie zahrňuje rozmanité oblasti, ako je olejomaľba, akvarel, pastel, digitálna maľba, sochárstvo v rôznych materiáloch a mnoho ďalších.
Výtvarné umenie nám umožňuje vidieť svet z iného uhla, vyjadriť jedinečný pohľad na veci a hlboko sa ponoriť do tvorivého procesu. Budete mať príležitosť objaviť rôzne umelecké diela, zoznámiť sa s umelcami, ktorí týmto spôsobom komunikujú, a možno aj sami začať experimentovať s výtvarnými technikami.
Či máte výtvarnú dušu alebo jednoducho záujem o vizuálnu kreativitu, táto kategória vám ponúka priestor na objavovanie, inšpiráciu a prepojenie s výtvarným umením vo všetkých jeho podobách.
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