Archive for Items Categorized 'Art, Artists and Design', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Ferrari: 2012 Official Scuderia Ferrari Calendar
Highlights from Ferrari’s most recent F1 season, captured in images by three of the big names in motorsports photography. There’s really not much more that needs to be said, but there is always a useful bit of background to further enlighten the viewer.
Ferrari Myth 2012: The Official Ferrari Calendar
by Günther Raupp
Imagine standing in front of this cover, in all its 27˝ x 19˝ eyeball-searing grandeur. If you do not feel something stirring inside there’s something wrong with you—and you do not deserve to look at it anymore. Only 5000 of these things exist so move over!
Silver Clouds: The 1934 Grand Prix Season
by Paul Chenard
A marvelous limited-edition collection of artwork—only 50 pieces—with narrative about the 1934 racing season in Europe.
Bugatti (Hawley)
by Hawley, des Cordes, Mishne
From stone masonry to automobiles this catalog of a museum show looks at the artistic output of the entire Bugatti clan across three generations.
Robert Taylor’s Battle of Britain: Commemorative Collection
by Robert Taylor
WWII’s Battle of Britain was the first major campaign in which aerial warfare was a, if not the, decisive factor. Its 70th anniversary in 2010 prompted this compilation book of paintings by one of the dominant names in aviation (and other military) art.
Ocean Liner Posters
by Cadringher & Massey
Ocean-crossing passenger ships did not make the world a global village but they were, especially when steam replaced (or augmented) sail which allowed them to overcome the capriciousness of wind and current, the first and for quite a long time only means of personal transport to different parts of the planet on a more or less repeatable and predictable basis.
Railway Posters
by Thierry Favre
This opulent large-format book is the English version of a book that first appeared in 2010 in its original French. It presents a micro-history of the development of passenger rail travel, mostly in the Western hemisphere, in the form of travel posters.
Art of the Muscle Car
by David Newhardt & Peter Harhold
This book surveys 47 some of the more emblematic specimens along with a few surprises. Philosophically, muscle cars of course harken back to hot rods: small car/BIG engine. You may recall a book with a similar title and done by the same photographer but one is very different in scope.
The Art of the Airways
by Geza Szurovy
Award-winning aviation journalist Geza Szurovy has had a life-long love affair with airplanes and he’s even a pilot himself. And because he thinks about the world and the place of everything in it, he connects some interesting dots.
Smoke, Steam & Light: The Railway Art of John Austin
by John Austin
All locomotives are imposing in terms of sight and sound and smell—even modern diesels and electrics—but what could be more formidable than a hissing steam loco slipping its wheels to gain traction inch by inch or thundering past on full bore trailing stinging cinders and charcoal.
Legends of the Open Road: The History, Technology and Future of Automobile Design
by Gabriella Belli (Editor)
The “Mart” (Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea) logo on the title page and the following three pages of densely printed names of staff, collectors and donors etc. are your first clue that this book might have something do to with a museum show. And so it does.
Something Quite Exceptional: Hugh Easton and the Battle of Britain Memorial Window for Rolls-Royce
by Adam Goodyear
Many aircraft have been, and are, powered by Rolls-Royce engines. In the WWII context it is of course the Spitfire with its Merlin engine that tops the list. It played a pivotal role in the Battle of Britain, where, against formidable odds the pilots of the planes it powered turned the tides of war.
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