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1000 Record Covers by Michael Ochs
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music ...Show more
David Bowie: The Man Who Fell to Earth by Paul Duncan (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music Biography | 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
Gustav Klimt. Drawings and Paintings by Tobias G. Natter
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Defining DecadenceThe legacy of Gustav KlimtA century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In this neat, dependable monograph, we gather all of Klimt's major works alongside authoritative a ...Show more
Living in Japan by Angelika Taschen (Editor); Reto Guntli
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture/Home Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's hard to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding new ways to refurbish and take inspiration from the ways of old. Whether it's a pristinely preserved traditional house or a cutting edge apartment, the ...Show more
Medieval & Renaissance Art by Carsten-Peter Warncke
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics | 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
Modern Architecture A-Z by Taschen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Architecture/Home Design | 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
The Dog in Photography 1839–Today by Raymond Merritt
$49.99 AUD
Category: Animals/Natural History | 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
Tiki Pop by Sven Kirsten
$40.00 AUD
Category: Wine/Wineries/Beverages | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and architecture.In handy Bibliotheca Universalis format, Tiki Pop traces the development of Tiki as romantic v ...Show more
What Great Paintings Say - 100 Masterpieces in Detail by Rose-Marie Hagen; Rainer Hagen
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Under the microscope: Paintings' hidden secrets revealed This important addition to our understanding of art history's masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and c ...Show more
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