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A Little History of Music


A superbly engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Music excites and moves us perhaps more than any other art form. From a Neanderthal's bone flute to the festivals of Glastonbury and Coachella, human beings have always made and enjoyed music. Covering a remarkable range, including Indian raga, Javanese gamelan, medieval chant, jazz and K-pop, this Little History celebrates the wonder of music, and why it is treasured across the world. Within its pages, readers will find familiar composers and musicians, and will be introduced to a host of exciting new discoveries. Little Histories - Inspiring Guides for Curious Minds
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17,95 €

David Hockney. My Window


'For me, it's really the joy of looking out into the world and getting this positive energy... It's opening up our vision, and how we look'—David HockneyWhen David Hockney discovered the iPhone as an artistic medium, it opened up entirely new possibilities for his art. He made his first digital paintings in spring 2009, describing the morning landscape in broad lines and dazzling colors directly on a display that offered subtle hues as unmixed expressions of pure light. Then in 2010, Hockney started working with an iPad, and the larger screen expanded his artistic repertoire and enabled an even more complex interplay of color, light, and line. Each image in this book captures a fleeting moment seen through a window in Hockney’s Yorkshire home: from vibrant sunrise and lilac morning sky to peaceful night-time impressions or the sudden arrival of spring. Fascinating details reveal drops on window panes, distant lights in the night, reflections on vases or an abundance of varied window-sill vegetation. In 120 paintings made between 2009 and 2012, selected and arranged by the artist himself, we experience the passage of time through the eyes of David Hockney. This artist’s book, which first appeared in an exclusive signed edition in 2020, now returns in a wallet-friendly pocket edition. So now is the perfect occasion to heed the advice of the Times critic regarding this book: “If you would like to be given a bouquet by David Hockney, here is your chance.”
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17,95 €

Men of a Certain Age


From Jeff Beck to Ray Davies, Jon Bon Jovi to Kevin Ayers, Kate Mossman has long fostered an interest in male musicians of a certain age. Why is it that when I meet them, I feel something ignite inside me? What is this strange connection - to feel so excited, yet so at ease? And how is it that in the presence of a wrinkly rock star twice my age, I sometimes feel like I'm meeting . . . me? Featuring nineteen long-form profiles lovingly constructed for The Word magazine and the New Statesman, Men of a Certain Age chronicles the lives of some of the biggest rock stars of our time, including Brian May, Gene Simmons, Terence Trent D'Arby, Johnny Rotten and Nick Cave. The book is a meditation on the powerful archetype of the ageing rock star, but it is also a personal story - of music and obsession, and of the deep unconscious projections at play in our relationships with the famous people who most capture our hearts. As Kate travels 5,000 miles to try and find Glen Campbell, and to the depths of the Cornish countryside for a rendezvous with Roger Taylor, will she finally unravel the roots of her obsession with the elder statesmen of rock?
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30,95 €

Enter the Room


Publikace Enter the Room vychází u příležitosti stejnojmenné výstavy, kterou Galerie hlavního města Prahy pořádá v prostorách Domu U Kamenného zvonu (28. 3. – 14. 9. 2025). Její obsah je proto nejen zaměřen na popis vystavených děl či představení participujících autorů, autorek a kolektivů, ale také představuje celkový kurátorský koncept projektu. Pomyslné jádro knihy pak tvoří text Ondřeje Trhoně a Filipa Hauera, který přibližuje kritické strategie současné herní tvorby, a tím vymezuje i její pozici v širším rámci umělecké produkce. The publication Enter the Room coincides with the exhibition of the same name, organised by Prague City Gallery in the spaces of the Stone Bell House (28 March — 14 September 2025). Its content thus not only focuses on descriptions of the exhibited works or presentations of the participating artists and collectives, but also presents the entire curatorial concept of the project. The core of the book is formed by Ondřej Trhoň and Filip Hauer’s text, which outlines the critical strategies of contemporary game art and thus defines its positions in the broader context of artistic production.
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43,80 € 44,72€

Ha az ékszerek mesélni tudnának - Hét titkos történet


Karikák, gyűrűk, gyöngyök, medálok, brossok, mandzsetták és fejdíszek: az ékszertörténész és podcast-házigazda Carol Woolton hétféle ékszer izgalmas történetét meséli el. Szót ejt többek között a vikingek ezüst nyakpereceiről, a kínai császári jáde-ékszerekről, a XVI. századi vésett gyűrűkről, a kígyómotívumokról, a római kámeafaragásról, a hindu esküvői ékszerekről, az etruszk aranyról, az ókori görög pénzérmékről, a piercingekről, a kínai esküvői malacokról, a tiarákról és a bokaláncokról. Kötelező olvasmány az ékszerek szerelmeseinek, akik kulturális és ékszertörténeti érdekességekkel gazdagíthatják ismereteiket.
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16,90 €

Odkaz Josefa Sudka/ The Legacy of Josef Sudek


Publikaci tvoří unikátní kolekce fotografií ze soukromé sbírky. Publikace je členěna do čtyř cyklů – Mionší, Příroda, Zátiší a Praha, Autorem úvodních textů, které jsou v češtině a angličtině, je Petr Helbich, který vzpomíná na Josefa Sudka při společném fotografování. Do knihy přispěl člankem o tomto věhlasném fotografu i Josef Moucha, fotograf a jeden z našich nejlepších teoretiků fotografie.
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86,60 €

Queen & A Night at the Opera - 50 Years


Authoritatively written and featuring rare photography and memorabilia, this beautiful slipcased hardcover is the only illustrated gift book to examine Queen's most iconic album, A Night at the Opera. In 1975, Queen released what would become their best-selling album, which also happened to introduce their most enduring song, "Bohemian Rhapsody." A Night at the Opera has gone on the sell over 11 million copies worldwide and counting. In Queen and a Night at the Opera, rock historian Gillian Gaar takes a deep dive into the legendary English band's most famous album on its 50th anniversary. Chapters cover: Queen's formation and history up to A Night at the Opera, including the three albums that preceded it The recording sessions that resulted in the album Track-by-track analyses of each side The tour to support the album, and awards and accolades The band's career after the album-and after the death of Freddie Mercury In addition, numerous sidebars cover topics such as the "Bohemian Rhapsody" video, producer Roy Thomas Baker, Brian May's "Red Special" guitar, and more. There are even capsule bios of Mercury and May, as well as bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor. IIlustrated with performance and off-stage photography as well as images of rare memorabilia, Queen and A Night at the Opera is a definitive and beautifully produced tribute to a legendary album from a legendary performer and artist. The Great Albums series presents authoritative explorations of rock's most revered records, beautifully packaged for fans to treasure. Delve into even more groundbreaking releases with: Pink Floyd and The Dark Side of the Moon, The Who & Quadrophenia, Prince and Purple Rain, and Bruce Springsteen and Born to Run, with more to come.
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50,95 €

Emily Thompson Flowers


For the first time, innovative floral designer Emily Thompson showcases her 15-year body of work, which reveres the raw and wondrous beauty of flowers, plants, and trees. With an inspirational and transportive journey, this new book demonstrates Thompson's signature style of infusing a sense of the exotic and mysterious into her stunning compositions by using wild, unruly materials from the forest, field, and beyond. Featuring nearly 200 vivid images of her spectacular floral design work, the book includes projects ranging from indoor studio and outdoor in situ photography, to high-profile public and private commissions for restaurants including The Grill and The Modern in New York, fashion designers Jason Wu and Ulla Johnson, cultural institutions like the MAD Museum, New York, and Sotheby's, and editorial work for T Magazine and AD China. Organized by theme, the book features chapters evocatively named and inspired by the life forces and organisms that influence and make up her work. In her own words, she walks the reader through her creative process, explaining the visceral and intellectual approach for generating and germinating the seeds of her ideas for her lush and kaleidoscopic floral arrangements. In addition to her own text, the book includes a foreword by esteemed floral designer and florist to the British Royal Family, Shane Connolly, and an introduction by lauded design writer Nancy Hass.
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59,95 €

Poetika kódování: Umění v technocénu


Světu dnes vládnou proprietární algoritmy, tajná datová úložiště a neproniknutelné systémy. Jak se to odráží v umění? Nadim Samman v Poetice kódování analyzuje díla, která zdůrazňují skryté dimenze naší technologické krajiny. Na rozdíl od klamných tvrzení o nové kultuře transparentnosti a otevřenosti se tato díla zaměřují na černá místa, černé skříňky a černé díry, zatímco se pohybují na hranici mezi informovaným znepokojením a okultním sněním.
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43,36 €

Koncept 09 - Strecha


KONCEPT č. 09 sa venuje téme strechy. Strecha pre architekta predstavuje výzvu spájať funkčnosť s estetikou, ochranu s eleganciou. Je to miesto, kde sa stretávajú technické znalosti s kreativitou, a zároveň finálny dotyk, ktorý budove dáva jej charakter a identitu. Slovenská strešná krajina je (niekedy až príliš) pestrá. Zameriame sa na to najnovšie uvažovanie o architektúre v kontexte histórie a predstavíme si opäť výber inšpiratívnych realizácií (nielen) k tejto téme.
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9,00 €

Elementy knižní vazby


Knížka je určena zejména grafikům, návrhářům knižních adjustací. Měla by je osmělit k použití konstrukce při výtvarném zpracování knižních vazeb. Autor představuje konstrukci z trochu jiného úhlu pohledu, a to jako předmět kreativní úpravy prostřednictvím jednotlivých konstrukčních elementů. Elementy knižní vazby navazují na předchozí titul Stavíme knižní vazbu, v němž byly jednotlivé konstrukční prvky definovány. Nyní jsou ukázány v oborovém, výtvarném i technologickém kontextu. Autor čerpá inspiraci v pedagogických metodách Bauhausu, které jsou založeny na výstavbě výtvarného díla z elementárních výtvarných prvků. Konstrukční prvky knižní vazby jsou použity jako díly stavebnice. Výtvarné hodnoty předmětu je dosaženo vzájemnou kombinací prvků do funkčních a estetických celků. Technické ilustrace, grafika a knižní vazba Jan Hybner. Tisk obálky René Řebec.
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15,10 €

Tajně naživu/ Secretly Alive


Taneční umělkyně Mish Rais, Mirka Eliášová a Lizzy Le Quesne se v publikaci Tajně naživu setkávají jako editorky, aby sdílely objevy a podněty vzešlé ze společného výzkumného projektu „Improvizace jako choreografický, autorský a tvůrčí princip“. V rámci výzkumu pozvaly také šest renomovaných umělkyň a umělců, aby se potkali ve studiu v praktickém výzkumu a při rozhovorech, které reflektují jejich vtělenou zkušenost s taneční improvizací. Rosalind Crisp, Julyen Hamilton, Wendy Houstoun, Eva Karczag, Daniel Lepkoff a Nita Little sdílejí rozbíhající a sbíhající se cesty k improvizaci, názory na pedagogiku, okamžitou kompozici a své strategie i zkušenosti s tvorbou a vystupováním na jevišti. Šest rozhovorů doprovázejí studie každé ze tří badatelek, jež v nich uvažují o tvůrčí hodnotě a potenciálu taneční improvizace z různých úhlů pohledu: jako o choreografickém procesu, jako o disciplíně všímání si a konečně jako o prostoru pro experimentování s vytvářením souvislostí. Kniha odhaluje historii improvizace v západním postmoderním tanci a zároveň prostřednictvím reflexí umělkyň a umělců přibližuje současnou improvizační praxi. Jako taková je užitečná pro umělce a umělkyně, studentstvo, učitelstvo i diváctvo taneční improvizace. In Secretly Alive, dance artists Mish Rais, Mirka Eliášová and Lizzy Le Quesne meet as editors to share the questions and discoveries of the three-year artistic research project ‘Improvisation as Choreographic, Authorial and Creative Principle’. The editors invited six renowned artists into the studio and conducted in-depth interviews exploring their embodied practices. Rosalind Crisp, Julyen Hamilton, Wendy Houstoun, Eva Karczag, Daniel Lepkoff and Nita Little share their diverging and converging journeys to improvisation, their views on pedagogy and instant composition, and their strategies and experiences of making and performing for the stage. The six interviews are accompanied by essays by each of the three researcher-editors considering dance improvisation‘s creative value and potential from different angles: as a choreographic process, a discipline of awareness and a site of relational experimentation. Revealing both histories of improvisation in Western postmodern dance and details of current improvisational practices through the reflections of six major artists, this book will be of use to artist practitioners, students, teachers and audiences of dance improvisation
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39,55 €

Daniel Johnston


A significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative scenes, Daniel Johnston inspired musicians and comforted listeners for decades. From his origins in the Austin scene in the mid-1980s, where he performed at local venues while working at McDonalds, appearance on MTV and championing by Kurt Cobain, to world fame, Johnston s singular compositions and raw lyrics earned him lifelong fans. Predating his interest in music and continuing alongside it, art was Johnston s longest-running passion. This publication is the presents work spanning many decades of Johnston s drawing practice, including rare and previously unseen pieces. The artist s brightly-colored illustrations, incorporating figures from pop culture, devils, and heroes, blended with his own original characters, range from his iconic Jeremiah the Innocent Frog to surrealist landscapes. With the support of Daniel s family and estate, the first major book since his passing includes remembrances from his brother, musicians, and artists, and benefits the Hi! How Are You Project.
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56,95 €

Abstrakce a vcítění


Po více než dvaceti letech vychází nový překlad klasického teoretického spisu o umění z roku 1908, který výrazně ovlivnil například českou předválečnou, zejména kubistickou avantgardu. Autor v něm aplikoval psychologický pojem vcítění na dějiny slohů.
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23,34 €

American Nature


Twenty years of images by the acclaimed American photographer, pioneer of color art photography. Mitch Epstein (Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1952) is a photographer who helped pioneer fine-art color photography in the 1970s. Focusing primarily on America as a place and an idea over the last five decades, Epstein produced iconic images of his country and immersive, visually arresting stories on the urgent political and cultural challenges America has to face as a nation. American Nature presents three seminal series (American Power, Property Rights and Old Growth) and premiers two multimedia works: Clear Cut, a projection of Darius Kinsey’s early 20th century photographs of logging in the Pacific Northwest forests of the United States set to a modern soundtrack; and Forest Waves, a multi-channel video-sound installation made in the old growth forests of Massachusetts. The book is an inquiry into the consumption of resources by American industry and the risks that individuals undertake to preserve what is left of precolonial land for future generations. It includes a selection from all three photographic series, Darius Kinsey’s photographs from Clearcut and film stills from Forest Waves. Together, they tell the story of the resilience and fragility of the natural world. Also included are essays by acclaimed art historians Makeda Best and Robert Slifkin and curator Brian Wallis, and an in-depth interview between Wallis and Epstein, which delves into the artist’s practice, and his evolving artistic and political resolve.
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53,50 €

A Bigger Message


The bestselling book of conversations between David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford as they explore the nature of creativity. David Hockney’s exuberant work is highly praised and widely loved, but he is also something else: an incisive and original thinker on art. In this now classic book, filled with anecdote, insight, passion and wit, Hockney reveals the fruits of his lifelong meditations on the problems and paradoxes of representing a three-dimensional world on a flat surface. Compiled from a decade and a half of conversations with art critic Martin Gayford, it reflects a period in which Hockney relocated from Los Angeles to his native East Yorkshire. Their exchanges communicate the immense delight and inspiration that Hockney finds in the changing seasons and natural splendours of this sparsely inhabited corner of England – a delight that is, in the words of Margaret Drabble, ‘an invitation to us all to look better, see better, enjoy more’.
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21,95 €

Cartier


Few jewellers are as celebrated as Cartier, even fewer have as many instantly recognizable designs - some of which, such as the Tank watch, Love bracelet and Trinity ring, have become iconic. Glamorous, witty, beautiful and beloved of stars such as Grace Kelly, over 150 dazzling Cartier pieces are featured here. This book presents jewels from superlative collections, including the V&A and the Royal Collection, as well as Cartier's own private collection and it celebrates the history of the company The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, called the 'Jeweller of Kings and the King of Jewellers'.
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53,95 €

Neu Klang


The unique and adventurous sounds that German bands like Can, Neu! or Kraftwerk produced in post-war 60s Germany, now known as Krautrock, are considered a blueprint for modern rock music. And the stream of their creative admirers and continuators has been constantly widening since the first fans like David Bowie and Iggy Pop. In Neu Klang, Christoph Dallach interviewed its pioneers and their answers combine to form an oral history that points far beyond the individual band histories.
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19,95 €

Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli


This “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of The Godfather, fifty years after the classic film’s original release. The story of how The Godfather was made is as dramatic, operatic, and entertaining as the film itself. Over the years, many versions of various aspects of the movie’s fiery creation have been told—sometimes conflicting, but always compelling. Mark Seal sifts through the evidence, has extensive new conversations with director Francis Ford Coppola and several heretofore silent sources, and complements them with colorful interviews with key players including actors Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, and others to write “the definitive look at the making of an American classic” (Library Journal, starred review). On top of the usual complications of filmmaking, the creators of The Godfather had to contend with the real-life members of its subject matter: the Mob. During production of the movie, location permits were inexplicably revoked, author Mario Puzo got into a public brawl with an irate Frank Sinatra, producer Al Ruddy’s car was found riddled with bullets, men with “connections” vied to be in the cast, and some were given film roles. As Seal notes, this is the tale of a “movie that revolutionized filmmaking, saved Paramount Pictures, minted a new generation of movie stars, made its struggling author Mario Puzo rich and famous, and sparked a war between two of the mightiest powers in America: the sharks of Hollywood and the highest echelons of the Mob.”
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15,95 €

Milujete kvalitné filmy, architektúru, krásne fotografie, výtvarné umenie a dizajn? Chcete vedieť, ako vyzerala Obchodná ulica? Tu nájdete viac o histórii divadla, príručky o hudbe, noty, slovníky, filmové encyklopédie a ročenky.

Toto je priestor, kde sa stretnú tvorivosť, inovácia a estetika. Kategória umenia nám otvára dvere do sveta výrazových médií, ktoré nám umožňujú hĺbkový pohľad na ľudské myšlienky, emócie a skúsenosti.

Tu nájdete pestrú škálu umenia vrátane vizuálneho umenia ako maľba, sochárstvo, fotografie, a tiež literárneho umenia. Kategória umenie vám ponúka príležitosť objaviť diela od umelcov z rôznych časových období a kultúrnych kontextov, čím sa otvára pohľad na rôzne estetické perspektívy.

Sledujeme vývoj umenia od historických majstrov až po súčasných tvorcov, ktorí používajú nové technológie a prístupy na vyjadrenie svojej kreativity. Bez ohľadu na to, či sa zaujímate o tradičné umenie alebo experimentálnu tvorbu, táto kategória vám umožní objaviť rôznorodé prejavy ľudského ducha a predstavivosť.

Zaostrite na krásu v módmej fotografii s Karolom Kállayom. Objavte dokonalú renesančnú osobnosť Leonarda da Vinciho. Zaujímate sa o to, ako vyzerá archív Adidas, alebo skôr o spevník obľúbeneho pesničkára Tomáša Klusa. Toto všetko a mnoho ďalšieho objavíte v tejto sekcii. 

Kategória umenie ponúka literatúru o Architektúre,Dizajne a úžitkovom umení a móde , Fotografii, Výtvarnom umení , Dejinách a teórii umenia, Divadle, Filme a Hudbe - noty, spevníky, príručky.