Bilder, grafik & kartor

First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomic guide to colour which been cherished by naturalists and anthropologists for over two centuries. In the late 1790's Abraham Gottlob Werner devised his own standardis...

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As downhill skiing became popular in 20th-century Europe, resorts in the Austrian, German, French, and Swiss Alps commissioned paintings of their ski runs to turn into maps. The best of these paintings are now featured in this book showing the art...

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The New Yorker was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited fo...

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This book is a visual survey of posters printed by the United States, the Allies, and the Axis, and offers an overview of the various categories of propaganda posters created in support of the war effort: recruiting, conservation, careless talk/an...

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A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a striking cover from American Vogue. From early aspirational illustrations to modern celebrity photography, this is a stunning selection of Vogue's most dazzling images. Since its launch in 1892,...

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This beautiful book is a lavishly illustrated look at the most important atlases in history and the cartographers who made them. Atlases are books that changed the course of history. Pored over by rulers, explorers and adventures these books were ...

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With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the Peoples Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. Chairman Mao, portrayed as a ...

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The Blue Moon Tarot Guide Book is the essential companion to Julie Cuccia-Watts' second tarot deck. Initially Blue Moon was meant to serve as closure for the calendar ideas written about in the Ancestral Path Tarot Wheel of the year. But instead i...

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'Peculiarly hilarious!' - William Gibson 'Every page is a pleasure' - Lindsey FItzharris 'Utterly charming' - Tom Holland 'Laugh-out-loud' - Garth Nix 'A must read' - Fergus Butler-Gallie 'Bri...

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A collection of the world's most memorable, provocative, best-selling and groundbreaking posters from Johannes Gutenberg to Barack Obama. Classic posters from the last 300 years and the stories behind them. Posters have always been designed t...

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Fifty postcards from The Guardian , by Britain's most well regarded cartoonist Tom Gauld ( Mooncop , You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack , Goliath ) has created countless iconic strips for The Guardian over the course of his illustrious career. ...

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A collection of 100 postcards, each with a different iconic Penguin Classic cover, in a beautifully designed box Since its launch with The Odyssey in 1946, Penguin Classics has become the largest and best-known classics imprint in the world. Spann...

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A powerful new exploration of the uses of lettering, type and design to amplify resistance and inspire changefrom 19th-century antislavery broadsides to the Silence = Death graphics of the AIDS epidemic and the handmade signs of the Black Lives Ma...

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A collection of 100 postcards, each featuring a different and iconic Penguin book jacket. From classics to crime, here are over seventy years of quintessentially British design in one box. In 1935 Allen Lane stood on a platform at Exeter railway s...

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This book illuminates ways in which Jerusalem was represented in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, c. 700-1500. Focusing on maps and plans in manuscripts and early printed books, it also considers views and architectural replicas, and treats ...

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Over seventy years of quintessential London views in one box In 1950, aged 19, David Gentleman arrived in the capital, ready to begin his life as an artist. Over the next seven decades, he would sketch, paint, and engrave his way through London, d...

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Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth centuryThomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello, and the seventeenth-century Bolognese school was a...

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Windows on the War is a groundbreaking publication-the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's TASS News Agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. TASS posters were created by a large collective of Soviet wri...

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A revelatory and informative presentation of the anti-apartheid posters created by Medu Art Ensemble Formed in the late 1970s, Medu Art Ensemble forcefully articulated a call to end the apartheid systems racial segregation and violent injustice th...

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Bestiary is a wonderfully visual, thematic exploration of animals real, surreal and imaginary as depicted on beautiful ritual objects and works of art. Famous artworks mix with little-seen artefacts from every age and around the globe, offering a ...

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Among the many treasures of the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, are hundreds of chess and other games pieces dating from the 7th to the 19th centuries ce. Intricately crafted in a rich variety of materials, including ivory, wood, ceramic, glass, jade...

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The names of plants that are so familiar to us magnolia, bougainvillea, sequioa may just be names, but behind the names lie stories of espionage and heroism, rivalry and mystery and inspiration. In the Name of Plants relates the stories of these p...

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Founded in 1807, Maury County has a history that is second to none. This book uses antique and vintage postcards to highlight this history. Take a stroll down the streets of yesteryear by reading Greetings from Maury County. The colored images wil...

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Gallerists and Curators who troll the land of the Art Elite, would like us to believe that the Art World is too deep for mere mortals to comprehend, especially when they hear, “ That painting looks like an MRI of my hip!” Using the por...

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The new edition of The Painting Conservation Lab presents the first book in a series of interdisciplinary reports on the outstanding artworks from private collections. The author of the study is Marina Harlow, PhD, Master of Art, head of laborator...

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Set your spirit of adventure free with these 52 gorgeous postcards, each with a different vintage-style illustration showcasing the great American wilderness in all its glory. Keep these postcards as mementos of these incredible parks, or send the...

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This lavishly illustrated book provides a unique insight into the evolution of mapmaking and the science behind it, from the stone age to the digital age. Britains leading cartographic author takes us on a historical journey through how the greate...

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Turn the pages of this thought-provoking book and discover maps that challenge conventional wisdom, confront social and political norms, and offer fresh perspectives on familiar landscapes. This meticulously curated selection of 40 maps spans the ...

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This accessible and useful book will be an invaluable guide for all those interested in printmaking - from obtaining an understanding of different prints to buying for investment. The author covers areas such as collecting, explaining what constit...

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