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Movies of the 70s by Jürgen (EDT) Müller
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
The Birth of the Blockbuster How the prodigies of the 1970s revolutionized cinema The 1970s: that magical era betwixt the swinging 60s and the decadent 80s, the epoch of leisure suits and Afros, the age of disco music and platform shoes. As war raged on in Vietnam and the cold war continued to escalate, ...Show more
North American Indian - The Complete Portfolios by Edward Sheriff Curtis
Category: History | 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
Package Design Book by Julius (EDT) Pentawards (COR); Wiedemann
Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Featuring a selection of hundreds of works, this book brings together Pentawards winners from 2008 to 2016, providing a vivid demonstration of creativity in every form of packaging. Readers will discover, through product descriptions and plenty of images, what drives design industry leaders and agencies ...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
Prisse D’avennes: Egyptian Art by Salima Ikram
Category: History | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
The complete, revelatory illustrations of Egyptologist Émile Prisse d’Avennes, one of the first European explorers to fall obsessively in love with the realm of the pharaohs. This unsurpassed collection covers Egyptian architecture, drawing, sculpture, and painting in a visual and archaeological feast o ...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 | 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: Gardening | 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: Photography | 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 | 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
The New Erotic Photography by Dian Hanson
Category: Photography | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
International sex appeal: A fresh collection of today's most titillating nudes from around the world Following on the heels of our highly popular The New Erotic Photography, this second installment features entirely new photographs by 50 of the world's most intriguing talents. Of the included photograph ...Show more