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• Author(s): Sebastian Schütze | Valentin Kockel • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalWhen the excavations at Pompeii were first placed on a scholarly archaeological footing in the 19th centu...

• Author(s): Daniel Wildenstein • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismNo other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the I...

• Author(s): Stefan Fischer • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - Monographs

• Author(s): Larry E. Tise | Michiel Van Groesen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: PrintsWhen Flemish engraver and publisher Theodore de Bry issued the first volume of his America series in 1590, the New World was, for mo...

• Author(s): Andreas Marks • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: PrintsFrom Edouard Manet's portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh's meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints...

• Author(s): H. Walter Lack • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksFlower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants ...

• Author(s): Jürgen Müller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsThe life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious w...

• Author(s): Andrea Richards | Jessica Hundley • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralFrom the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for mean...

• Author(s): Tobias G. Natter • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)After Egon Schiele (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had ju...

• Author(s): Karl Schütz • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsDespite numbering at just 35, his works have prompted a New York Times best seller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Fi...

• Author(s): Alexander Roob • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralThe Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the f...

• Author(s): Luigi Ficacci • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsLargely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impu...

• Author(s): Hajo Düchting • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralOver the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figur...

• Author(s): Kyoto Costume Institute (Kci) • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Textiles & CostumeClothes define people. A person's attire, whether it be a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or h...

• Author(s): Ulrike Lorenz • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralIn the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brücke artists' group (1905-1913) is widely regarded as the...

• Author(s): Gilles Néret • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - European - RenaissanceItalian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renai...

• Author(s): Geert-Jan Koot • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: BooksIn 1776, at the Enlightenment's height, Jan Christiaan Sepp published a wholly unique and striking work: A Representation of Marble Types. Across 100 rich...

• Author(s): Reinhard Steiner • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismWith his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a pioneer of ...

• Author(s): Daniel Kothenschulte • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - Genres - AnimatedOne of the most creative minds of the 20th century, Walt Disney built a unique and unrivaled imaginative universe. Like scarcely ...

• Author(s): Archive For Research in Archetyp (aras) • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralThe Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of...

• Author(s): Eleanor Nairne | Hans Werner Holzwarth • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyThe legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist fi...

• Author(s): Lélia Wanick Salgado | Sebastião Salgado • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Artists' BooksFor six years Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon and photographed the unparalle...

• Author(s): Daniel Wildenstein • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismNo other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the I...

• Author(s): Frank Zöllner | Johannes Nathan • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - European - RenaissanceOne of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaiss...

• Author(s): José López-Rey | Odile Delenda • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - Baroque & RococoManet called him "the greatest painter of all." Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he ...

• Author(s): Gilles Néret • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismLampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a cruc...

• Author(s): Ingo F. Walther • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismIt was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in Apri...

• Author(s): Hajo Düchting • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismAlthough it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911-1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the...

• Author(s): Thomas Pöpper • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Techniques - Drawing - GeneralVery few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564). The nickname il ...

• Author(s): Nina Schleif | Reuel Golden • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - PermanentIn 1950s New York, before he became one of the most famous names of the 20th century, Andy Warhol wa...

• Author(s): Genoa Caldwell • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralIt was the Belle Époque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when ...

• Author(s): Yang Liu • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Graphic Arts - IllustrationAs children, the world is our playground, our parents are both almighty heroes and merciless adversaries, and our homes are the territorie...

• Author(s): Magdalena Droste • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face ...

• Author(s): Erik Hinterding | Peter Schatborn • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - Baroque & RococoRembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669) stands as one of the most important painters in Western art, but no...

• Author(s): Volker Manuth • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - Baroque & RococoThe Dutch Golden Age of painting spawned some of history's greatest artists and artisans, but few can boast the genius and legac...

• Author(s): Rainer Zerbst • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - MonographsThe life of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was full of complexity and contradictions. As a young man he joined the Catal...

• Author(s): Peter Lindbergh • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - FashionIt was on a Malibu beach in 1988 that Peter Lindbergh shot the White Shirts series, images now known the world over. Simple yet...

• Author(s): Hagen | Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThis important addition to our understanding of art history's masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnify...

• Author(s): Roy Thomas • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: AnthologiesIt was an age of mighty heroes, misunderstood monsters, and complex villains. With the publication of Fantastic Four No. 1 in November 1961, comics gian...

• Author(s): Tobias G. Natter • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsAfter Egon Schiele (1890-1918) freed himself from the shadow of his mentor and role model Gustav Klimt, he had just ten years ...

• Author(s): Paul Duncan • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - Genres - Science Fiction & FantasyStar Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depress...

• Author(s): Paul Duncan • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsStar Wars exploded onto our cinema screens in 1977, and the world has not been the same since. After watching depressing and cynical mo...

• Author(s): Luis-Martín Lozano • 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 Kahl...

• Author(s): Gilles Néret | Xavier-Gilles Néret • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Toward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, s...

• Author(s): Philip Jodidio • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Buildings - ResidentialClimate, environment, history, and technology are transforming architecture worldwide. The second volume in the Homes for Our Time serie...

• Author(s): Manly Palmer Hall | Jessica Hundley • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: OccultismEmbracing an expansive range of occult teachings, this vast encyclopedia unveils the arcane myths and mysteries of thousands of y...

• Author(s): Tobias G. Natter • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismOver a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces,...

• Author(s): Philip Jodidio • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Buildings - ResidentialSmall Houses is a tribute to the endless artistic inventiveness of architects and ingenuity of perception of the familiar and known conc...

• Author(s): Hajo Düchting • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismAlthough it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911-1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the...

• Author(s): Gilles Néret | Robert Descharnes • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsPainter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibiti...

• Author(s): Maxime Bilet | Nathan Myhrvold • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: ReferenceOur groundbreaking and encyclopedic six-volume publication Modernist Cuisine, with its decoding of cooking techniques, sophisticated r...

• Author(s): Frédéric Chaubin • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Regional (see also TRAVEL - Pictorials)Follow photographer Frédéric Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey throu...