Книги видавництва Prestel

This book includes examples of the Wiener Werkstätte’s iconic aesthetic and covers all of the significant artists who were a part of the collective. The Wiener Werkstätte, founded by Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and Fritz Waerndo...

With a rising number of women throughout the world picking up their cameras and capturing their surroundings, this book explores the work of 100 women and the experiences behind their greatest images. Traditionally a male-dominated field, street p...

This book accompanies Yayoi Kusama’s first major European retrospective exhibition, offering a comprehensive overview of the Japanese artist’s influential oeuvre, which spans more than eighty years. The companion to the groundbreaking ...

World-renowned Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has worked in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, performance art, and installation. Kusama’s iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, which originated with Phalli’s Field in 1965, situate v...

This dazzling book showcases the history of modern and contemporary art using one hundred of the most significant art works -- one per year -- of the past 100 years. Starting with Marcel Duchamp's 1919 whimsical, brilliant L.H.O.O.Q., this com...

This book traces the rise of the 3D spectacle, from 19th-century stereoscopy to contemporary 3D filmmaking and artworks. This book follows the cyclical development of 3D media from the 1830s to the present, tracing an alternate history of modernis...

Published in a new edition, this book offers an introduction to Bauhaus, one of the most influential movements in modern architecture, art, and design. Founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, the Bauhaus School had an enormous impact on the arts and ev...

Now available in a new edition, this survey of great contemporary artists is the perfect introduction to the exciting world of art today. From painters and photographers to sculptors and performance artists, fifty of the most influential contempor...

This book of stunning images is an accessible overview of the most important contemporary fashion designers working now. Today’s designers are savvier and more daring than ever before. Happy to exist within or outside the established houses ...

This dynamic introduction to the most important photographers from the inception of photography to today bears witness to the magic of the camera.  From Félix Nadar’s awe-inspiring aerial photos and Eugene Atget’s images of...

From two of the world’s leading experts on watch collecting, this supremely elegant and informative selection of one hundred watches traces the timepiece’s evolution as it highlights the most unusual, important, and beautifully crafted wa...

Wake up to artistic inspiration every day with this popular, chunky hardback made available again in a refreshed edition containing a perpetual calendar featuring a dazzling variety of masterpieces from every era. As functional as it is beautiful,...

Taking readers behind the scenes of one of the world’s most exciting dance companies, this richly illustrated book also tells the incredible back story of its famed creator and his brilliant vision to weave Cuban culture and history into classi...

Published as a collection for the first time, these arresting and poetic and images of Northern Ireland reveal a rarely examined facet of the oeuvre of a celebrated twentieth century war photographer. Akihiko Okamura became a renowned war photogra...

Andy Warhol’s continuous pursuit of ideal beauty — visible in a body of his work that is brought here together for the first time. Andy Warhol is arguably one of the most widely known and discussed artists of the twentieth century. Whi...