Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern (Dellheim Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern (Dellheim Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause c l bre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by revealing how certain Jewish outsiders came to

The Modern Gentleman’s Handbook: Gentlemen are not born, they are made - Tyrwhitt Charles

The ultimate guide to style and social success for the modern gentleman. Ever wondered how to decode the infamous smart casual dress code? How many shirts a man really needs? How to master the art of small talk? Or even which cocktail recipes every man simply must have in his repertoire of bar

China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History (Karl Rebecca E.)(Pevná vazba)

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's 'great rejuvenation,' a story

Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World (Sharman J. C.)(Pevná vazba)

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the rival ambitions of competing states. But as Outsourcing

The Art Museum in Modern Times (Saumarez Smith Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership, making him uniquely qualified to explore the ways in which art museums have changed over the past

The Bible with and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently (Levine Amy-Jill)(Pevná vazba)

The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament explore how Jews and Christians can learn from and understand each other better by exploring how they read many of the same Bible stories through different lens.Esteemed Bible scholars Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler take readers on a guided tour

The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging (Heckman Alma Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews envisioned themselves participating as citizens in a newly-independent Morocco. Closely following the lives of five prominent Moroccan Jewish Communists

The Art of Looking: How to Read Modern and Contemporary Art (Esplund Lance)(Pevná vazba)

A veteran art critic helps us make sense of modern and contemporary art The landscape of contemporary art has changed dramatically during the last hundred years: from Malevich's 1915 painting of a single black square and Duchamp's 1917 signed porcelain urinal to Jackson Pollock's midcentury 'drip'

Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual - Revised and Expanded Edition (Gamwell Lynn)(Pevná vazba)

How science changed the way artists understand realityExploring the Invisible shows how modern art expresses the first secular, scientific worldview in human history. Now fully revised and expanded, this richly illustrated book describes two hundred years of scientific discoveries that inspired

Reconstructing Democracy: How Citizens Are Building from the Ground Up (Taylor Charles)(Pevná vazba)

'An urgent manifesto for the reconstruction of democratic belonging in our troubled times.' --Davide PanagiaAcross the world, democracies are suffering from a disconnect between the people and political elites. In communities where jobs and industry are scarce, many feel the government is incapable

Art of the Middle East (Eigner Saeb)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and Arab world since 1945. Includes more than 500 colour illustrations, a guide to Arabic script and biographies of the 200-plus featured

Geometry & Art: How Mathematics Transformed Art During the Renaissance (Wade David)(Pevná vazba)

A definitive look at how geometry changed the world of art forever. Geometry & Art follows the artists of the Renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geometry. Influencing the work of artists such as Paulo Uccello, Piero della Francesco, and Leonardo Da

Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art (Shnayerson Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world -- for contemporary art -- is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes. The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off

Story of Painting - How art was made (DK)(Pevná vazba)

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain (Wetherell Sam)(Pevná vazba)

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private

How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age (Grundberg Andy)(Pevná vazba)

Photography critic and art world insider Andy Grundberg offers an engaging and authoritative narrative of photography's ascendance from the margins to the vital center of the contemporary art

Cloth That Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz (Fee Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores: it became a driving force of the spice

Imagine You Were There... Walking on the Moon (Jenner Caryn)(Pevná vazba)

Discover how the Moon landing changed the world and learn about the fascinating people who made it

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World (Silber William L.)(Pevná vazba)

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and

Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (Joselit David)(Pevná vazba)

How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.If European modernism was premised on the new--on surpassing the past, often by assigning it to the 'traditional' societies of the Global South--global contemporary art

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World (Wooldridge Adrian)(Pevná vazba)

Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How did this happen, and why is meritocracy now under attack from

The Consciousness' Drive: Information Need and the Search for Meaning (Cole Charles)(Pevná vazba)

1 Human Exceptionality: How We See Ourselves in Relation to the World.- 2 Framing - Lessons from Vermeer.- 3 Episodic Memory: Lessons from the Scrub Jays.- 4 Episodic Memory: Subjective Time-travel.- 5 Episodic-to-Mimetic Transition.- 6 Framing: The Mimetic-to-Mythic Transition.- 7 Framing: The

Invested: Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest (Schwab Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The founder of The Charles Schwab Corporation recounts the ups and downs he weathered as he made stock investing, once the expensive and clubby reserve of the few, accessible to ordinary Americans. 'To say Charles Schwab is an entrepreneur is actually an understatement. He really is a

Prague: Belonging in the Modern City (Bryant Chad)(Pevná vazba)

A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe’s most stunning cities.What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague’s inhabitants, belonging has been linked to the