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Written by Matt Wrbican, the foremost authority on Warhol’s personal collection, A is for Archive features curated selections from this collection, shedding light on the artist’s work and motivations, as well as on his personality and private life.

From the publisher: "As his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai’s fame extends throughout and beyond the art world.

"Drawn from TASCHEN’s limited Collector’s Edition, this monograph explores each of Ai’s career phases up until his release from Chinese custody. It features extensive visual material to trace Ai’s development from his early New York days right through to his recent practice. Focus moments include his international breakthrough in the early 2000s, his porcelain Sunflower Seeds at the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, his response to the Sichuan earthquake of 2008, and his police detention in 2011. With behind-the-scenes studio pictures, production shots, and numerous statements derived from exclusive interviews with Ai, we gain privileged access to the artist’s process, influences, and importance.

"The book includes texts from Uli Sigg, Ai’s longtime friend and former Swiss ambassador to China; Roger M. Buergel, who curated the 2007 documenta and hosted the artist’s Fairytale piece; and experts on Chinese culture and politics: Carlos Rojas, William A. Callahan, and James J. Lally."

The real history of photography is a vast collection of inter- connected stories stretching from East Asia to West Africa, from New Zealand to Uzbekistan.

 “A picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.” - Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with theAndy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos, many of them never seen before.

Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé, Debbie Harry are included alongside images of Warhol’s entourage and high life, landscapes, and still lifes from Cabbage Patch dolls to the iconic soup cans. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol’s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.

“Anubis.Thin Places” to 222 wysokiej jakości reprodukcji wybranych prac malarskich i krótkich form komiksowych autorstwa Karpowicz, realizowanych w latach 2021 - 2023. Artbook ma twardą oprawę, format: 29 x 22 cm i liczy w sumie 240 stron.

Udostępnione publicznie w 1805 roku przez Stanisława Kostkę Potockiego i jego żonę Aleksandrę z Lubomirskich zbiory dzieł sztuki zwane Kolekcją Wilanowską zawierają kolekcję malarstwa różnych epok historycznych. Tworzona w trudnym dla polskiej kultury okresie porozbiorowym galeria miała za zadanie z jednej strony odbudowanie pamięci o zwycięskim królu Janie Sobieskim, a z drugiej przedstawienie dziejów sztuki światowej. Ten dualizm z powodzeniem kontynuowali następni właściciele Wilanowa. Prezentowana obecnie w Muzeum Pałacu Króla Jana III w Wilanowie kolekcja należy do nielicznych w Polsce, które przetrwały tragiczne losy kraju w XIX i XX wieku.

In two books (Period of Classicism and Romanticism. 1780–1840; Period of Realism and Historicism. 1840–1890)

Initiating a multi-volume edition “Art History of Latvia”, the Institute of Art History has published the volume “Period of Neo-Romanticist Modernism: 1890–1915” in separate Latvian and English versions, edited by Director of the Institute, Prof. Eduards Kļaviņš. Himself the author of chapters on Historiography, Historical Background and Fine Arts, the general editor co-operated with Kristiāna Ābele (Artistic Life), Silvija Grosa (Architecture, Applied Art and Design) and Valdis Villerušs (Book Design).

"Art History of Latvia V": period of Classical Modernism and Traditionalism. 1915-1940.

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study House Program, a blueprint for modern habitation championed by the era’s leading American journal, Arts & Architecture.