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• Author(s): Elizabeth A. T. Smith | Peter Gössel • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Buildings - ResidentialThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by ...

• Author(s): Marcel Paquet • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralFrom men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", René Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo c...

• Author(s): Erland Josephson | Bengt Wanselius | Paul Duncan • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual DirectorSince his release of The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries in 1957, Ingmar Bergman has been one of the le...

• Author(s): Ulrike Becks-Malorny • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsIn the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), busily ...

• Author(s): Sabine Arqué | Marc Walter • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Special Interest - AdventureGlobal travel can be a wearying business: mass tourism, overcrowded planes, chaotic airports, heightened security, cook...

• Author(s): Jürgen Müller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsThe last decade of the 20th century consolidated once again the fascinating power of the silver screen, both by looking to the future...

• Author(s): Jürgen Müller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismOur Movies series enters the 21st century with this definitive lineup of the 100 most important films made during the 2000s, an ag...

• Author(s): Paul Duncan • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionFrom the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-m...

• Author(s): Edward Sheriff Curtis • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Portraits & SelfiesAt the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on h...

• Author(s): Hans-Michael Koetzle • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: ReferenceArranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most signific...

• 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): Rose-Marie Hagen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalHow much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the fa...

• Author(s): Erik Hinterding • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsRembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669) stands as one of the most important painters in Western art, but nowhere else do we en...

• Author(s): Jim Heimann • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Graphic Arts - GeneralThis platinum tome is the most comprehensive visual history of surfing to date, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Fol...

• Author(s): Philip Jodidio • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Buildings - ResidentialThe idea of climbing a tree for shelter, or just to see the earth from another perspective, is as old as humanity. In this neat TASCHEN ...

• Author(s): Gilles Neret • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsAfter flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) found his métier in dissolvi...

• Author(s): Dian Hanson • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralIn the late 1960s specialty bookstores selling magazines under the counter were replaced by sex shops, or "adult bookstores" in the U.S., at which point ev...

• Author(s): Janis Mink • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsWhen is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artis...

• Author(s): Ernst Rebel • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PortraitsThe self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this c...

• Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Reference - GeneralTo travel in North America is to face a delicious quandary: over these vast spaces with so many riches, from glittering cities to eccentric small towns and heart-stopp...

• Author(s): Hans Werner Holzwarth • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsThe paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and b...

• 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): Norbert Wolf • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsA polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored...

• Author(s): Lee Lockwood • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - Monographs"Holds many surprises for the reader who has seen the Cuban reality . . . only through the distorting prism of propaganda." ...

• Author(s): Mike Caveney • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Popular CultureMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians ...

• Author(s): Jean-Marie Le Minor • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Human FigureWe owe a great debt to Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery (1797-1849) for his Atlas of Anatomy, which was not only a massive ...

• Author(s): Peter Gossel • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - MonographsWalter Gropius (1883-1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-bor...

• 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): Jim Heimann • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: RegionalAt the dawn of the automobile age, Americans' predilection for wanderlust prompted a new wave of inventive entrepreneurs to cater to this new mode of tran...

• Author(s): Simone Klabin • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: ReferenceAmid our ever-growing consumption of data visualization, nothing makes for tastier morsels than the fine art of food and dining. Ushering the cookbook ...

• 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): Sebastiao Salgado • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - MonographsIt has been almost a generation since Sebastião Salgado first published Exodus but the story it tells, of fraught huma...

• Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralArtist, diarist, collector, and writer Peter Beard (1938-2020) fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved...

• Author(s): Werner Dressendörfer • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: GeneralLeonhart Fuchs (1501-1566, ) was a founding father of modern botany, honored to this day in the vivid flower, and corresponding color, Fuchsia. In...