Franciszkanie Na Górze Przemysła / Franciscan On Przemysł Hill

The definitive monograph on Ai Weiwei 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.

At the vivid intersection of cinematic and graphic design history, this book gathers 250 film posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s to explore a world of innovative, revolutionary aesthetics. Brimming with bold colors, dramatic angles, and eye-catching typography, these startling designs bear witness to the experimental avant-garde of those days, before Soviet Realism became the official art doctrine.

Lucian Freud (1922 2011) was interested in the telling of truth. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portrait painter observed his subjects with the regimen and precision of a laboratory scientist. He recorded not only the blotches, bruises, and swellings of the living body, but also, beneath the flaws and folds of flesh, the microscopic details of what lies within: the sensation, the emotion, the intelligence, the bloom, and the inevitable, unstoppable decay. Despite rejecting parallels between him and his renowned grandfather, the correlation between Lucian Freud's sitting process for portraiture and Sigmund Freud's psychotherapy sessions is a fascinating element to this figurative oeuvre. Despite the thickness of the impasto surfaces, Freud's portraits of subjects as varied as the Queen, Kate Moss, and an obese job center supervisor, penetrate the physicality of the body with a direct and often disarming insight. The result is as much a psychological interrogation as it is an uneasy examination of the relationship between artist and model. This book brings together some of Freud's most outstanding and unapologetic portraits, to introduce an artist widely considered one of the finest masters of the human form.

Ta książka jest celebracją piękna, tej niewysłowionej doskonałości, która czyni jacht „klasycznym” w najprawdziwszym sensie tego słowa. Poprzez selekcję godnych uwagi jednostek, próbuje ująć precyzyjną definicję to, co czyni jacht klasycznym i to czym jest klasyczny jacht, badając niektóre z jego atrybutów: projekt, materiały, epokę, wymiary i w końcu konstrukcję oraz budowę. Jachty wybrane i zebrane w tym albumie reprezentują różne kategorie jednostek wodnych, od majestatycznych kutrów, które rywalizowały ze sobą w pucharze Ameryki na przełomie XIX i XX wieku, po eleganckie slupy klasy J z lat trzydziestych XX wieku, by dotknąć pływających arcydzieł projektowanych przez Williama Fife`a i Nathanaela Herreshoffa, a w końcu przejść do współczesnych, a już klasycznych dzieł szkutnictwa

The official publication celebrating Magnum Photos’ 70th anniversary: a totally fresh and perceptive view of the legendary agency’s history and archive

In this landmark photography publication and accompanying exhibition, Clément Chéroux demonstrates how Magnum Photos owes its pre-eminence to the ability of its photographers to encompass and navigate the points between photography as art object and photography as documentary evidence. A Magnum photograph can be expressive and bear witness at the same time.

Magnum Manifesto is organized into three main parts:
Part 1 (1947–1968) views the Magnum archive through a humanist lens, focusing on post-war ideals of commonality and utopianism.
Part 2 (1969–1989) shows a world fragmenting, with a focus on subcultures, minorities and outsiders.
Part 3 (1990–present day) charts the ways in which Magnum photographers have captured – and continue to capture – a world in flux and under threat.

Featuring both group and individual projects, the book includes contact sheets, notebooks, magazine spreads and other previously unseen material to accompany the photographs. Complete with extensive texts by Clément Chéroux and photographic historian Clara Bouveresse, 'Magnum Manifesto' is an essential purchase for anyone seeking to understand the very best in photography.

Kamień i wieniec

W smoleńskim polu kamień i wieniec
I płacz narodu wciąż świeży
I krzyk głośny słychać tych serc co tu zgasły
Choć trudno w to ciągle uwierzyć

Dlaczego ta ziemia ziemia przeklęta
Tę straszną otwiera nam ranę
Dlaczego najpierwsze z twych Polsko dzieci
Znów są w ofierze składane

W katyńskim lesie majestat tej śmierci
Historię powiódł na spowiedź
Słuchajcie więc krzyku serc co tu zgasły
On prawdę o tamtych wam powie

Prawdę o ludziach których zabito
Bo polską krew mieli w żyłach
O tych Polakach dobrych i prawych
Co leżą w katyńskich mogiłach

O tamtych ostatnich chwilach w modlitwie
Za matki za dzieci za żony
O tamtym ostatnim szepcie w rozpaczy
Przez kulę sowiecką zdławionym

A pod Smoleńskiem kamień i wieniec
Stać będą już zawsze na straży
Twoich Ojczyzno naszych katyńskich
Najświętszych polskich ołtarzy