Книги издательства Parkstone

“All living beings are Buddhas and have wisdom and virtue within them.” (Buddha) Buddha ranks among the most often depicted holy figures of the world - perhaps appearing more than Christ, a subject widely treated by Western artists. Venerated in a...

Erotic images have met with varying degrees of acceptance throughout history and have always proposed new ideas of erotica, as demonstrated by the works reproduced in this book. From ancient fertility statues to Renaissance engravings designed to ...

Since the mythical Tower of Babel, humans have continuously tried to erect monuments to match their oversized egos. With ancient ziggurats, the Taj Mahal or the Empire State Building, man has for centuries demonstrated his force by raising structures...

1000 illustrations Featuring 1000 internationally recognised paintings, this collection spans the history of art from the thirteenth century to the present, from the early stirrings of the Renaissance movement in Italy to the boundary-pushing exper...

1000 illustrations After the 1000 Paintings of Genius, the 1000 Sculptures of Genius offers a large panorama of artistic creation between the High Antiquity and the twentieth century. Along with numerous references, comments on masterworks and bio...

The first appearances of graffiti “tags” (signatures) on New York City subway trains in the early 1970s were discarded as incidents of vandalism or the rough, violent cries of the ignorant and impoverished. However, as the graffiti movement progress...

150 illustrations Realism is a monolithic, lockstep, strictly governed method of painterly visualization shattered into nuances of interpretation. Where you paint can make you a Regional Realist. What you paint might label you a Genre Realist, or ...

Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) is an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of different materials and introduction of movement in his constructions ...

The global upheavals that took place over the course of the 20th century provoked an incredible metamorphosis of western art. The abundance of creative productivity during this century revolutionised the art world, breaking down barriers and resultin...

Art of Century is a collection of thirty titles which glide through the most significant cultural movements from the Antiquity to the twenty-first century. Through its first fives titles, Naive Art, the Renaissance, the Russian Avant-Garde, Symbolism...

150 full-colour illustrations Islamic art is not the art of a nation or of a people, but that of a religion: Islam. Spreading from the Arabian Peninsula, the proselyte believers conquered, in a few centuries, a territory spreading from the Atlanti...

This book deals with the peoples and traditions of Siberia. It will interest a wide range of people as it is a book on art, sociology and history. Documents discovered recently in the hidden backrooms of St Petersburg’s Ethnological Museum have prov...

“The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.) Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Oft...

130 full-colour illustrations “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of Arts & Crafts, a unique movement which triggered a verit...

The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was the response by artists to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through i...