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Modern Architecture A-Z by Taschen
Category: Sale Book | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Space shapers: An encyclopedia of modern architecture The architecture encyclopedia that puts the architects themselves in the spotlight. With more than 270 entries, this indispensable overview, now in our popular Klotz format, covers key players from the 19th to 21st century. Each architect entry featu ...Show more
Modern Art 1870-2000. Impressionism To Today by Hans Werner Holzwarth (Editor)
Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernismMost art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street l ...Show more
Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism by Daniel Wildenstein
Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Master of the sublime: The essential Impressionist No other artist, apart from J.M.W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man Cezanne called "only an eye, but my God what an eye " who stayed true to the principle of a ...Show more
North American Indian - The Complete Portfolios by Edward Sheriff Curtis
Category: Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
In search of a lost time: The complete portfolios by Edward S. Curtis on Native Americans At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both a ...Show more
Photo Icons. 50 Landmark Photographs and Their Stories by Hans-Michael Koetzle
Category: Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Photographs have a strange and powerful way of shaping the way we see the world. The most successful images enter our collective consciousness, defining eras, making history, or simply touching something so fundamentally human and universal that they have become resonant icons all over the globe. To exp ...Show more
Photographers A-Z by Hans-Michael Koetzle
Category: Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Masters and monographs: An encyclopedia of 20th century photographers and their finest publications Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopediafeatures every major photographer of the 20th centuryalongside her or his most significant monographs.From the earliest representatives of classical ...Show more
Scandinavian Design by Charlotte Fiell (Editor); Peter Fiell (Editor)
Category: Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Scandtastic The best of design from northern Europe Scandinavians are exceptionally gifted in design. They are world-famous for their inimitable, democratic designs which bridge the gap between crafts and industrial production. The marriage of beautiful organic forms with everyday functionality is one ...Show more
Small Architecture by Philip Jodidio
Category: Architecture / Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Saving space: Big ideas for small buildingsOver the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be diminuti ...Show more
The Book of Palms by H. Walter Lack
Category: No Category | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Trees of paradise: Exquisite illustrations of the tropical palm On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin covered with fresh palm leaves. The fronds ...Show more
The Dog in Photography 1839–Today by Raymond Merritt
Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Dog DaysA photo tribute to our four-pawed friends In celebration of the world's favorite animal, we bring you over 400 photographs of or about dogs. With pictures from the 19th century to today, the collection includes works by Man Ray, Eric Fischl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Donna Ruskin, Fatima NeJame, Vincen ...Show more
The Grand Tour by Harry Seidler
Category: Architecture / Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Window on the world. Travelling the world with an architect's eye. Architect Harry Seidler spent more than 50 years traveling the globe, extensively photographing the peak achievements in architecture from 3000 B.C. to the present day. Thanks to sound advice given to him early on by his photographer bro ...Show more
Tom of Finland - the Complete Kake Comics by Dian Hanson
Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Mustaches and muscles: Back to the days when men were men and sex was carefree In 1965, Tom of Finland began flirting with the idea of an ongoing character for his panel stories, the ultimate Tom s Man. He tried out a blond named Vicky a common male name in Finland followed by a Tarzan-inspired Jack. Th ...Show more