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• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralFrom the mighty halls of ancient Alexandria to the coffered ceilings of the Morgan Library in New York, human beings have had a long...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Jean Nouvel, winner of the 2008 Pritzker Prize, is widely regarded as France's most original and important contemporary architect. From...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)With more than 280 entries, this architectural A-Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensabl...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - MonographsLike hardly any other artist of his generation, Wolfgang Tillmans has shaped our perception of the world. From early portraits of...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' BooksGerman photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that hi...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksSwiss 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,...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' Books"Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste ... If you are a disciple of one of those calorie-counters who tu...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Photoessays & DocumentariesIn November 1936, publisher Henry R. Luce launched LIFE as a photo-led weekly news magazine with a clear purpose: "To see life; to see ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)From emergency relief shelters to a cardboard cathedral and exhibition spaces in shipping containers, Pritzker Prize-winning architect ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: HistoryThe history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognized as a medium in its own right. Cologne's Museum...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' BooksTalamon saw it all during the golden age of soul, R&B, and funk. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, this young African...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksThe perfect companion to our best-selling title Les dîners de Gala, TASCHEN presents the artist's equally surreal and sensual vitic...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSuave yet short-tempered, Donald Duck was Walt Disney's cartoon bad boy, a more complex foil to the ever-optimistic Mickey Mouse and a b...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsWhile anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) paved the way for modern scu...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - Monographs"A woman once rang me up and said, 'Mr. Escher, I am absolutely crazy about your work. In your print Reptiles, you have given such a st...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - FoodMary McCartney is a photographer, filmmaker, TV cook and author. In Feeding Creativity she blends her passions for food and photography, c...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - Baroque & RococoHis works have prompted a New York Times bestseller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusi...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsFew devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn's radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conve...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Superheroes (see also Fiction - Superheroes)Their collaboration on Spider-Man couldn't last forever--but the five-years of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's remarkable partn...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsThe works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe turn of the 20th century was a golden era in France. It was an age of peace, prosperity, and progress after a series of bruising wars and turmoil w...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' BooksIn 1965, Steve Schapiro started documenting Andy Warhol for LIFE magazine: Warhol was cementing a reputation as an important ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralPublished annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors,...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' BooksPeter Lindbergh photographed Dior's most exceptional muses, Marion Cotillard and Charlize Theron among them, and signed campa...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Superheroes (see also Fiction - Superheroes)Introduced by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the fertile pages of The Fantastic Four, the Silver Surfer quickly established hi...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralWith an inspirational richness and diversity of styles, these homes, residences, hideaways, and studios will astound and astonish, no matter ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralIn 1947, Bill Gaines inherited EC Comics, a new venture founded by his legendary father M. C. Gaines, who was responsible for midwifing the birth of the comic ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersJulian Schnabel makes art out of life, finding his materials in the fabric of the everyday. He uses broken plates as an improbable p...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksMysterious and mathematical at once, the magical visual world of Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972) has captivated scientists and...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralWith the cold war ebbing, crime and inflation at record levels, and movie star-turned-President Ronald Reagan launching a Star Wars of his own, the 1980s did n...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - RenaissanceRaphael (1483-1520) is considered the most important artist of the Italian High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo. In his short l...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Dogs - GeneralThe world appears to be divided into cat and dog lovers, but fortunately Walter Chandoha, the 20th century's greatest pet photographer found himself ha...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' BooksSebastião Salgado's photo book classic Workers. An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (first published in 1993) pays tribute ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Plants & AnimalsIn pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draf...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralThe USA is one of the most varied and fascinating countries in the world. Its areas of natural beauty such as the Pacific Coast, the Yosemite...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralFrank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed king of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his death. With his paintings now br...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: FruitHave you ever thought of citrus fruits as celestial bodies, angelically suspended in the sky? Perhaps not, but J. C. Volkamer (1644-1720) did--commissioning an e...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe Mediterranean is surrounded by three continents - Europe, Africa and Asia - and even though the cultures around this sea are highly diverse, they ha...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' BooksThe first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at the Düsse...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Published annually from 1906 until 1980, Decorative Art, The Studio Yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, inte...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralSebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalleled beauty of this extraordinary region for six years...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Automotive - Antique & ClassicFrom the adrenaline-filled 24 Hours of Le Mans to the legendary Goodwood Festival of Speed, Lake Como's famed Concorso d'Eleganza Vi...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Popular CultureDrawing on art, literature, and scientific research, scholar and therapist Kikan Massara delves into the Twelve Steps - the widely used and respected p...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Other English Translations - ReferenceMartin Luther's Bible, first printed in 1534, was not only a milestone for the printing press, but also a momentous event in wor...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralAugust Macke (1887-1914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World War I. Despite his...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsAmong the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907-195...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralThe Greek myths are timeless classics, whose scenes and figures have captivated us since ancient times. The gods and heroes of these legends hold up a mirror t...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThe Kisokaidō route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country's then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be insta...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalBuried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window ...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralWith the consumerist euphoria of the fifties still going strong and the race to the moon at its height, the mood of advertising in the sixties was cheerful, op...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsThe legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with New York in the 1980s, the artist first appeared in the late 1...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralBoth eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages that were typical of thei...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: BookNearly a century before Mondrian made geometrical red, yellow, and blue lines famous, 19th-century mathematician Oliver Byrne employed the color scheme for his 18...