Книги издательства Prestel

This book showcases a lesser-known aspect of Maurice Sendak’s oeuvre–his set designs for opera and ballets. Maurice Sendak is well-known for his acclaimed children’s books, but he was also an avid opera lover and designed a numbe...

This visually stunning homage to the most distinctive male dancer of his generation combines photography and personal essays to explore every facet of Ed Watson’s achievements both on stage and off. Ed Watson, Principal Dancer with The Royal...

In dialogue with Edward Munch — discover the many ways the expressionist painter’s work has influenced modern and contemporary artists. While Munch’s pessimistic, melancholy worldview crucially defines our understanding of his wo...

This fascinating new book explores how Egon Schiele reinvented the art of portraiture, brilliantly capturing the inner lives of his numerous subjects — including himself. This book traces Schiele’s development as a portraitist through ...

This collection of striking colour images from the American West is both a moving national portrait as well as a celebration of analog colour photography from an undisputed genius of the form. The photographer behind Life magazine’...

Explore the oeuvre of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, one of the most important German Expressionist painters of the 20th century. Throughout his career, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner employed a highly inventive and original use of color. He favored novel applicat...

This fascinating sourcebook presents the most remarkable, beautiful, and innovative building façades in contemporary architecture. A building’s façade sets the aesthetic tone for its entire design while serving a variety of fun...

Now available in a beautiful new edition, this book presents a meditative, arresting and dazzling collection of 240 black-and-white images of Japan, made over almost 30 years by the internationally renowned photographer Michael Kenna. A rocky coas...

The doors of centuries-old French chateaux are thrown wide open in this sumptuous photographic cross-country tour. Readers will gain entry to a stunning array of stylish private homes within beautiful restored buildings, each one representing very di...

This book explores how Georgia O’Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes sh...

This collection of groundbreaking campaigns and industry insights from the world’s leading design studios shows how today’s graphic designers are thinking, collaborating, and breaking the rules. This guide explores ways in which graphi...

This book offers an outstanding retrospective collection of the master of 20th-century photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Reproduced in exquisite black and white, the images in this book range from Henri Cartier-Bresson’s earliest work in F...

This beautiful book presents the extraordinary work of the iconic American "outsider" artist in a new critical light, locating him as a major figure in the history of contemporary art. Self-taught and working in isolation until his death...

Presented in a style as stunning as the prints it celebrates, this survey of Hiroshige tells the fascinating story of the last great practitioner of ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world." Hiroshige is considered to be the tradition&#...

Now available again, this book presents a selection of Hokusai’s work known for its exquisite style and marvelous inventiveness. This volume includes full-color reproductions of drawings and woodblock prints by Hokusai, one of Japan’s ...