1892 products
Don H. Berkebile
Dover, 2012
Journey back to a bygone era when city streets and country roads were thronged with a rich assortment of horse-powered vehicles: ice wagons, drays, lunch wagons, delivery trucks, fire engines, buggies, carts, log wagons, stage coaches, hearses, and many other such conveyances. You'll find them all in this treasury of over 250 authentic illustrations—many unavailable elsewhere— depicting a wide variety of commercial vehicles of long ago. The author, a former member of the curatorial staff of the Smithsonian Institution’s Division of Transportation, has carefully selected detailed engravings of the period, many from rare trade periodicals in the collection of the Smithsonian, as well as photographs. Well-researched captions accompany the illustrations, focusing on how the design of each vehicle served its specific purposes and needs, and supplying various dimensions, coloring, and other details. The author has also written an engrossing historical introduction that sharply defines the development of commercial vehicles in an age of headlong expansion and industrial advancement. Invaluable for anyone interested in antique transportation, this volume is also an ideal source of royalty-free illustrations for use in ads, catalogs, book and magazine illustrations, and elsewhere.
English - 168 Pages - 21 cm x 1 cm x 27.9 cm - 0.5 Kg
ISBN: 9780486260204
Collectif
Taschen, 2016
Swiss artist HR Giger (1940–2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of the most popular expressions of Giger’s arsenal of creatures, which consistently merged hybrids of human and machine into images of haunting power and dark psychedelia. Above all, they gave expression to the collective fears and fantasies of his age: fear of the atom, of pollution and wasted resources, and of a future in which our bodies depend on machines for survival. Begun shortly before the artist’s unexpected death, this SUMO-sized monograph pays homage to Giger’s unique vision. Featuring seven fold-out spreads, it shows the complete story of Giger’s life and art, his sculptures, film work, and iconic album covers as well as the heritage he left us in his own artist’s museum and self-designed bar in the Swiss Alps. In an in-depth essay, Giger scholar Andreas J. Hirsch plunges into the themes of Giger’s oeuvre and world while an extensive artist biography draws on contemporary quotes and Giger’s own writings.
400 Pages - English - 36.7 cm x 50 cm - 13.2 Kg
ISBN: 9783836538206
Andreas J. Hirsch
Taschen, 2021
Cette édition se fonde sur la monographie au format SUMO, entreprise peu avant le décès soudain de l’artiste, et rend hommage à la vision sans pareil de Giger. Elle déroule l’histoire complète de sa vie et de son œuvre, ses sculptures, ses œuvres cinématographiques et ses légendaires couvertures d’album, de même que l’héritage qu’il nous a laissé dans son propre musée d’artiste et son café des Alpes suisses. Dans un essai approfondi, Andreas J. Hirsch, spécialiste de Giger, nous plonge dans les thématiques propres à l’œuvre et à l’univers de l’artiste, tandis qu’une biographie détaillée s’appuie sur des citations de critiques contemporains et les propres écrits de l’artiste.
English-Français-Deutsch - 512 Pages - 17 x 23 cm - 1,1 Kg
ISBN: 9783836587020
Huang Rui, Jennifer Dorothy Lee, Yongwoo Lee, Mingjun Lu, Berenice Angremy
Holzwarth Publications, 2023
A pioneer of Chinese abstract painting, artist Huang Rui (born 1952) cofounded the Stars Group and organized its first (illegal) exhibition in 1979. This book is the first major survey of Huang Rui's oeuvre, including sculptural works alongside recent paintings.
English - 248 Pages - 25 x 31 cm - 1,2 Kg
ISBN: 9783947127375
Sean Kelly, Hugo McCloud, Isolde Brielmaier
Hatje Cantz, 2017
Brooklyn-based artist Hugo McCloud (born 1980) is one of the most prolific young talents working today. Self-taught with a background in industrial design, McCloud creates rich, large-scale abstract paintings and sculptural objects by fusing unconventional industrial materials―tar, bitumen, aluminum and steel plates―with traditional pigment and woodblock techniques.
English - 96 Pages - 22.6 cm x 1.3 cm x 27.4 cm - 0.7 Kg
ISBN: 9783775742528