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20th Century Classic Cars 100 Years of Automotive Ads by Phil Patton
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Category: Default | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Wheels of history: From the Model T and DB5 to the VW Beetle and the Hummer Henry Fordjump-started the age of the automobile with the first assembly-line car in 1908: theModel T. Over the next century the automobile evolved from chugging workhorse to tail fin era showboat to sleek status symbol, complet ...Show more
Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities by Albertus Seba; Irmgard Müsch
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Category: Art - General | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Spectacular specimens: Albertus Seba's unrivaled catalog of animals, insects and plants The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected ...Show more
Auguste Racinet - The Complete Costume History by Françoise Tétart-Vittu
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Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Togas, turbans, tailcoats, and top hats: The evolution of style from antiquity to 1888 Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and ...Show more
David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Paul Duncan (Editor)
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Category: Music | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Loving the AlienBehind the scenes of Nic Roeg's 1976 sci-fi masterpiece starring David BowieFirst advertised as a "mind-stretching experience," Nicolas Roeg's 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only hallucinatory ...Show more
Domus 1950s by Charlotte Fiell (Editor)
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Category: Default | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Hopeful modernism: The optimism and triumphs of the 1950sFounded in 1928 as a "living diary" by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world's most influential architecture and design journal. With style and rigor, it has reported on the major themes and stylis ...Show more
Erotica Universalis by Gilles Neret
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Category: Erotica | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
This is an erotic history of humanity. From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age - whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso - have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, an ...Show more
Medieval & Renaissance Art by Carsten-Peter Warncke
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Category: Art | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Printed treasure trove: Eight centuries of decorative artsWhen Kunstwerke und Gerathschaften des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (1852-1863) was published, what purchasers in fact bought was a printed museum. With 216 hand-colored copperplate engravings, the publication gives a comprehensive overview o ...Show more
New Deal Photography: USA 1935 1943 by Peter Walther
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Category: Default | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Another country: How the Farm Security Administration introduced America to AmericansAmid the ravages of the Great Depression, the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) was first founded in 1935 to address the country's rural poverty. Its efforts focused on improving the lives of sharecropper ...Show more
Photographers A-Z by Hans-Michael Koetzle
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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
The Dog in Photography 1839–Today by Raymond Merritt
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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
Tom of Finland - the Complete Kake Comics by Dian Hanson
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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
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