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20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads. 40th Ed. by Steven Heller, Allison Silver
Category: Gift Books | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities spanned from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how manufacturers prodded their customers throughout the ...Show more
A Garden Eden. Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration. 40th Ed by H. Walter Lack
Category: Gardening | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
In pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship but also a rigorous scientific understanding. This new edition of a TASCHEN classic celebrates the botanical tradition and talents with a selection of outstanding works fro ...Show more
Cabinet of Natural Curiosities 40th Ed. by Albertus Seba
Category: Art and Design | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Exotic plants, corals and crocodiles, birds and butterflies. Albertus Seba's extraordinary catalog of natural specimens is not only one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements, but also one of the most prized natural history books of all time. It is a beautiful tribute to the breadth ...Show more
Caravaggio. the Complete Works. 40th Ed by Sebastian Schütze; Sebastian Schütze
Category: Art and Design | Series: 40th Anniversary Edition Ser.
Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Today, he is ...Show more
David Bowie. The Man Who Fell to Earth. 40th Ed. by Paul Duncan (Editor)
Category: Film & Tv | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
First 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 visuals and a haunting exploration of contemporary alienation, but also glam-rock legend D ...Show more
Fashion Designers A-Z. 40th Ed. by Valerie Steele, Suzy Menkes
Category: Fashion | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
D'Azzedine Alaïa, Cristóbal Balenciaga et Coco Chanel à Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent et Vivienne Westwood, cette nouvelle édition de Fashion Designers A-Z rend hommage aux grands noms de la mode du siècle à travers la collection permanente du musée du Fashion Institute of Technology de New York ...Show more
Funk and Soul Covers. 40th Ed by Joaquim Paulo
Category: Design | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Following the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Power, sexual liberation meets social conscience, and street portraiture meets fantastical comic art in this dazzling anthology of visualized fun ...Show more
Gaudí. The Complete Works. 40th Ed. by Rainer Zerbst
Category: Architecture | Series: 40th Anniversary Edition Ser.
The life of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catalonian nationalist movement and was critical of the church; toward the end of his life he devoted himself completely to the construction of one single spectacular church, La Sagrada Família. ...Show more
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works. 40th Ed. by Stefan Fischer
Category: Art and Design | Series: 40th Anniversary Edition Ser.
Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most cult artists in history. 500 years on from his death, his works continue to inspire scholars, artists, de ...Show more
Homes For Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World. 40th Ed. by Philip Jodidio
Category: Architecture | Series: 40th Anniversary Edition Ser.
Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunr ...Show more
Interiors Now! 40th Ed. by TASCHEN
Category: Interior Design | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
With an inspirational richness and diversity of styles, these homes, residences, hideaways, and studios will astound and astonish, no matter the taste; be it rustic country cottage, New York-style loft, or bohemian bungalow. This survey of contemporary interior design carefully curates homes from all ov ...Show more
Jazz Covers 40th Ed. by Joaquim Paulo
Category: Music | Series: 40th Edition Ser.
Part design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and cultural inspiration. Spanning half a century, it assembles the most daring and dynamic jazz cover designs that helped make and shape not only a musical genre but a ...Show more