2016
სვანის მხარეს
24,90 ₾მარსელ პრუსტი (1871-1922) მე-20 საუკუნის ერთ-ერთ ყველაზე გავლენიან მწერლადაა აღიარებული, მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ მას „ერთი ნაწარმოების ავტორს“ უწოდებენ. ფრანგი მწერალი, რომელიც მოდერნიზმის მამამთავრად, დეკადენტური რომანის ფუძემდებლადაა მიჩნეული, ცნობილი გახდა შვიდი რომანისგან შემდგარი ციკლით – „დაკარგული დროის ძიებაში“. „სვანის მხარეს“ ამ ციკლის პირველი წიგნია.
მაღალი წრის შეძლებულ ოჯახში დაბადებულ-გაზრდილი მწერლის ცხოვრებაზე გავლენა მოახდინა XIX-XX საუკუნეთა მიჯნაზე მომხდარმა მნიშვნელოვანმა ცვლილებებმა საფრანგეთის ისტორიაში. ფრანგული არისტოკრატიის ზეგავლენის შესუსტება და საშუალო კლასის მომძლავრება შემდგომ მის შემოქმედებაშიც აისახა. „დაკარგული დროის ძიებაში“ მარსელ პრუსტის რეალური ცხოვრების სხვადასხვა ეტაპზე მიღებული, გონებაში ღრმად დალექილი შთაბეჭდილებების ნაკრებია. ციკლის პირველ წიგნში მთხრობელი საკუთარ ბავშვობას იხსენებს. ცხრა წლის მარსელი ასთმით დაავადდა და იძულებული გახდა, ზაფხული ილიეში გაეტარებინა. ილიე „დაკარგული დროის ძიებაში“ კომბრედ იქცა. სწორედ იქ მიმდინარეობს რომანის უმთავრესი პერიპეტიები. „სვანის მხარეს“ გარდა მთხრობელის ბავშვობისა, ოჯახის ძველი მეგობრის, მესიე სვანის ცხოვრების ერთ მნიშვნელოვან ეპიზოდზეც გვიყვება. ღრმად ფილოსოფიურ-ფსიქოლოგიური, „იმპრესიონისტული“ ტექსტი, რომელიც მოვლენათა ობიექტურად გაანალიზების ნაცვლად ინტუიციურ წვდომას, სუბიექტურ აღწერას გვთავაზობს, ღრმად იჭრება მკითხველის გონებაში და წარუშლელ შთაბეჭდილებას ტოვებს.
აღსანიშნავია, რომ „სვანის მხარეს“ ქართულად პირველად გამოიცემა – წიგნის გამოსვლიდან (1913 წ.) საუკუნეზე მეტი ხნის შემდეგ.
პინოკიოს თავგადასავალი
6,90 ₾,,პინოკიოს თავგადასავალი‘‘ ერთ-ერთი ყველაზე სასაცილო და გულისამაჩუყებელი კლასიკური საბავშვო ზღაპარია ხის კაცუნაზე. იგი 240 ენაზეა თარგმნილი, რაც კიდევ ერთხელ უსვამს ხაზს მის პოპულარობას. ამ სასაცილო ისტორიას ხის კაცუნაზე, რომელიც ოცნებობს გახდეს ნამდვილი ბიჭი, უკვე მრავალი წელია ყველგან ინტერესით კითხულობენ. ყველაფერი კი იმით დაიწყო, რომ მარტოხელა მოხუცმა ოსტატმა, ჯეპეტომ, მოლაპარაკე ხის ნაჭრიდან თოჯინა გამოთალა. გრძელცხვირა პინოკიო ცოტა მავნე, მაგრამ კეთილი ხის კაცუნაა; ურჩი, ჯიუტი და დაუდგრომელია, თუმცა ამავდროულად – ძალიან მგრძნობიარეც. ზარმაც პინოკიოს არ უნდა სკოლაში სიარული, უყვარს ტყუილები, რის გამოც, ისედაც გრძელი ცხვირი კიდევ უფრო ეზრდება. იგი ხშირად ხვდება უსიამოვნებებშიც: ცბიერი მელა და კატა მოატყუებენ, ციხეშიც ჩასვამენ, სახედრადაც გადაიქცევა და ბოლოს, მშიერი ზვიგენიც გადაყლაპავს. ამასობაში პინოკიო გაიაზრებს სიკეთისა და კარგი საქციელის ფასს და მიხვდება, როგორ უნდა აიხდინოს სანუკვარი ოცნება.
Dürer
58,00 ₾The art, theory, and woodcut print revolution of Albrecht Dürer
A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, portraits, self-portraits, watercolors, and books, but is most celebrated for its astonishing collection of woodcut prints, which transformed printmaking from an artisan practice into a whole new art form.
Dürer’s woodcuts astonish in scale as much as detail. Through works such as Apocalypse and the Triumphal Arch for Emperor Maximilian I, he created dense, meticulous compositions that were much larger, much more finely cut, and far more complex than any earlier woodcut efforts. With an ambitious tonal and dynamic range, he introduced a new level of conceptual, emotional, and spiritual intensity. His two major woodcut series on Christ’s Passion, named The Large Passion and The Small Passion after their size, are particularly remarkable for their vivid human treatment of the Christian narrative. In his copper engraving, Melancholia I, meanwhile, Dürer created a startling vision of emotional ennui, often cited as a defining early image of a depressive or melancholic state.
Ever inquisitive, Dürer absorbed ideas not only from masters and fellow artists in Germany but also from Italy, while his own influence extended across Europe for generations to come. In this essential TASCHEN introduction, we explore this pioneering figure’s complex practice, his omnivorous intellect, and the key works which shaped his enduring legacy.
Ando
58,00 ₾Tadao Ando, master of the serene yet mighty
In this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to enchant architects, designers, fashion designers, and beyond. Through key projects including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces, we explore a uniquely monumental yet comforting aesthetic that draws as much on the calm restraint of Japanese tradition as the compelling modernist vocabularies of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier.
With featured projects in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States, we see not only Ando’s global reach but also his refined sensitivity for the environs: the play of light through windows, and, in particular, the interaction of buildings with water. From the mesmerizing Church of the Light in Osaka to the luminous Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center in Venice, this is a radiant tour through a distinctly contemporary form as much as a timeless appeal of light, elements, and equilibrium.
Goya
58,00 ₾Goya, the vivid witness to beauty, grandeur, and war
From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s most revered and controversial artists. A master of form and light, his influence reverberates down the centuries, inspiring and fascinating artists from the Romantic Eugène Delacroix to Britart enfants terribles, the Chapman brothers.
Born in Fuendetodos, Spain, in 1746, Goya was apprenticed to the Spanish royal family in 1774, where he produced etchings and tapestry cartoons for grand palaces and royal residences across the country. He was also patronized by the aristocracy, painting commissioned portraits of the rich and powerful with his increasingly fluid and expressive style. Later, after a bout of illness, the artist moved towards darker etchings and drawings, introducing a nightmarish realm of witches, ghosts, and fantastical creatures.
It was, however, with his horrific depictions of conflict that Goya achieved enduring impact. Executed between 1810 and 1820, The Disasters of War was inspired by atrocities committed during the Spanish struggle for independence from the French and penetrated the very heart of human cruelty and sadism. The bleak tones, agitated brushstrokes, and aggressive use of Baroque-like light and dark contrasts recalled Velázquez and Rembrandt, but Goya’s subject matter was unprecedented in its brutality and honesty.
In this introductory book from TASCHEN Basic Art 2.0 we set out to explore the full arc of Goya’s remarkable career, from elegant court painter to deathly seer of suffering and grotesquerie. Along the way, we encounter such famed portraits as Don Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zúñiga, the dazzling Naked Maja, and The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid, one of the most heart-stopping images of war in the history of art.
Michelangelo
58,00 ₾Michelangelo, in pursuit of the beautiful and sublime
Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply “Il Divino” (“the divine one”).
This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible texts, we explore the artist’s extraordinary figuration and celebrated style of terribilità (momentous grandeur), which allowed human and biblical drama to exist in compelling scale and fervor. Through the power hubs of Renaissance Italy, we take in his major commissions and phenomenal capacity for compositional schemes, whether the famous Medici library in Florence, or the extraordinary 500-square-meter ceiling (1508–1512) in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.
From the towering David to the aching grief and faith of The Pietà and the vivid drama of the Sistine Chapel’s Last Judgment, this is a succinct, dependable reference to a true giant of art history and to some of the most famous artworks in the world.
Piano
58,00 ₾The exploration and iconoclasm of an Italian master
While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form.
Piano rose to international prominence with his codesign of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that “turned the architecture world upside down.” Since then, he has continued to craft many high-profile cultural spaces, including the Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Morgan Library Renovation and Expansion in New York; and, most recently, the Whitney Museum of American Art, an asymmetric nine-story structure in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District with both indoor and outdoor galleries. In New York and London, the Renzo touch has also transformed the skyline with the towers of the New York Times Building and the Shard, the tallest building in the European Union.
This essential introduction travels from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the “inside-out” Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Nouméa, New Caledonia, this is a thrilling journey through the beauty of architecture, where, in Piano’s own words, “each time, it is like life starting all over again.”
Sport Management: The Basics
Original price was: 72,00 ₾.58,00 ₾Current price is: 58,00 ₾.Sport Management: The Basics is an engaging and accessible introduction to sport management which considers a range of contemporary philosophical. social. cultural and political matters as they impact on this growing field. Drawing links between academic theory and practice. it explores the current challenges facing managers in the sport industry. addressing topics including:
the history of sport management
the role of the manager
levels of management
the public. private and voluntary sectors
sport management in the global marketplace
With suggestions for further reading throughout the text. a comprehensive chapter on employment and employability. and case studies which explore both theory and practice. Sport Management: The Basics offers a clear and concise introduction for anyone seeking to study or work in sport management.
Lines
65,00 ₾What do walking, weaving, observing, storytelling, singing, drawing and writing have in common? The answer is that they all proceed along lines. In this extraordinary book Tim Ingold imagines a world in which everyone and everything consists of interwoven or interconnected lines and lays the foundations for a completely new discipline: the anthropological archaeology of the line.
Ingold’s argument leads us through the music of Ancient Greece and contemporary Japan, Siberian labyrinths and Roman roads, Chinese calligraphy and the printed alphabet, weaving a path between antiquity and the present. Drawing on a multitude of disciplines including archaeology, classical studies, art history, linguistics, psychology, musicology, philosophy and many others, and including more than seventy illustrations, this book takes us on an exhilarating intellectual journey that will change the way we look at the world and how we go about in it.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the author.
Teach Yourself: Sport Psychology- A Complete Introduction
32,00 ₾Organized into two parts, this compact volume introduces some of the key psychological traits necessary for sporting achievement, such as confidence and motivation, before offering insights into the role of sports psychologists.
World Mythology in Bite-sized Chunks
34,00 ₾From the signs of the zodiac to literature and art, the influence of world mythology can still be seen in everyday life. With a stunning array of fascinating tales, World Mythology in Bite-Sized Chunks gets to grips with the ancient stories of Aboriginal, Sumerian, Egyptian, Mesoamerican, Maori, Greek, Roman, Indian, Norse, and Japanese cultures, encompassing legends from the most diverse societies and the most ancient cultures from across the globe. Learn about why Odin, the Father of the Gods in Norse mythology, was so keen to lose an eye, the importance of the Osiris myth of Ancient Egypt, and much more besides. Entertaining, authoritative, and incisive, this is an enlightening journey into the fascinating world of mythology.
Chinese Alchemy
29,00 ₾Here in one slender volume is a basic introduction to Chinese alchemy–a tradition that dates back 5,000 years. Chinese alchemy, largely associated with Taoism, has a recorded history of more than 2,000 years, but traditionally it goes back even further to nearly 3000 BC and the time of the Yellow Emperor. While Western alchemy was concerned with the search for spiritual and material gold, classic Taoist alchemy was a mystical quest for immortality with its aim being union with the Absolute. Jean Cooper describes the history and development of Taoist alchemy, compares it to similar traditions in India and Turkistan, and gives it context by contrasting it with the rationale of the Western hermetic tradition. As she writes in her concluding The whole work of alchemy is summed up in the phrase “To make of the body a spirit and of the spirit a body”. . . . The goal of the Taoist alchemist-mystic was transformation, or perhaps more correctly, transfiguration, of the whole body until it ceases to “be” and is absorbed into and becomes the Tao. This is an essential guide for anyone interested in Chinese legend and lore, Chinese magic and medicine, and Taoism.
Great Ideas- Why I Write
27,00 ₾Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unpalatable truths about war, Orwell’s timeless, uncompromising essays are more relevant, entertaining and essential than ever in today’s era of spin.
Mammoth Book of Cthulhu
35,00 ₾A new terrifying collection inspired by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft. The Mammoth Book of Cthulhu brings some of the best established and upcoming writers sharing their best Lovecraftian horror.
Smith: White Teeth
30,00 ₾At the centre of this novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”). Samad’s late-in-life arranged marriage (he had to wait for his bride to be born), produces twin sons whose separate paths confound Iqbal’s every effort to direct them to his Islamic faith.
Morrison: Song of Solomon
32,00 ₾In 1930s America Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned with escaping the familial tyranny of his own father. So while Guitar joins a terrorist group Macon goes home to the South, lured by tales of buried family treasure. But his odyssey back home and a deadly confrontation with Guitar leads to the discovery of something infinitely more valuable than gold: his past and the origins of his true self.