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• Author(s): Francoise Tetart-Vittu • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - AmericanaOriginally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique was in its day the most ...

• Author(s): Salima Ikram • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalA lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Théodore-Ã...

• Author(s): Luigi Ficacci • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Techniques - Drawing - GeneralThe most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) made his name with etchings of ancient Rome. ...

• Author(s): Philip Jodidio • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Renzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times...

• Author(s): Peter Walther • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical"Through these travels and the photographs, I got to love the United States more than I could have in any other way." -- Jack ...

• Author(s): Barbara Lamprecht • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - MonographsIn the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As...

• Author(s): Hans Werner Holzwarth • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanIn her vibrant works, the Brazilian painter Beatriz Milhazes fuses two very different worldviews. Her abstract composition...

• Author(s): Steven Heller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History & CriticismUntil restaurants became commonplace in the late 1800s, printed menus for meals were rare commodities reserved for special occasions. As ...

• Author(s): Taschen • 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 chambe...

• Author(s): Stoeltie • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Buildings - ResidentialUnder the burning Tuscan sun roll marvelous hills, vineyards, and olive groves--all postcard-perfect landscapes nestling centuries-old towns, ...

• Author(s): Giulia Carciotto • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralThe Wunderkammer, or "cabinet of curiosities," saw collectors gathering objects from many strands of artistic, scientific, and...

• Author(s): Peter Walther • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - MonographsPhotographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the e...

• Author(s): Steven Heller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Graphic Arts - IllustrationFor the last couple of years, Steven Heller and Julius Wiedemann have traced the latest developments in illustration around the globe...

• Author(s): Bertrand Lemoine • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Buildings - Landmarks & Monuments"The Tower is also present to the entire world... a universal symbol of Paris... from the Midwest to Australia, there is...

• Author(s): Jim Heimann • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - HistoricalIn the years following World War I, Los Angeles was a city awakening to its darker side, transforming itself from a backwater to...

• Author(s): Barney Hoskyns • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralFrom the Beatles to Beck, Sinatra to Sam Smith, a parade of era-defining artists have passed through the doors of the Capitol ...

• Author(s): Susan Michals • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Plants & AnimalsOn a winter's night in 1949 in New York City, young marketing student and budding photographer Walter Chandoha spott...

• Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Photographers - MonographsIn early 1964, photographer Harry Benson received a call from the photo editor of London's Daily Express, who asked him to cover the Beatles' trip to...

• Author(s): Noel Daniel • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Fairy Tales & Folklore - AnthologiesAs treasured today as they will undoubtedly be for generations to come, Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales are cornerst...

• Author(s): Noel Daniel • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels - Fairy Tales, Folklore, Legends & MFrom Snow White to Cinderella, Rapunzel to Rumpelstiltskin, the Brothers Grimm bequeathed a ca...

• Author(s): Tomoko Sato • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsWith his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) defined the look o...

• Author(s): Michael Muller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Plants & AnimalsMichael Muller has carved a career out of impressive encounters. Famed for his portraits of the world's most elite ...

• Author(s): Philip Jodidio • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Ever since his self-proclamation as part of the "New York Five," Richard Meier has risen through one top commission after anothe...

• Author(s): Ulrich Bischoff • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismWith unparalleled artistic originality Max Ernst (1891-1976) transformed everything he touched. By pushing the boundaries and breaking lo...

• Author(s): Sandro Vannini • 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 ...

• Author(s): Graziella Roccella • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - MonographsItalian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolif...

• Author(s): Joaquim Paulo • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Soul & R&BFollowing the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era i...

• Author(s): Norbert Wolf • Publisher: MixBR • Publisher Imprint: MixBR • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksThe beauty of nature and man's loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-184...

• Author(s): Fiell • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)Offering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the "living diary" of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Throu...

• Author(s): Fiell • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Founded in 1928 as a "living diary" by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world's most inf...

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

• Author(s): Anchee Min • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Asian - ChineseWith his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced b...

• Author(s): Philip Jodidio • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Spanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Fa...

• Author(s): Julius Wiedemann • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: East Asian Style - Manga - GeneralSince the original TASCHEN edition of Manga Design, Japan's comic phenomenon has produced yet more captivating characters a...

• Author(s): Mario Testino • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - CelebrityMario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fash...

• Author(s): Joseph Rosa • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and I...

• Author(s): Joaquim Paulo • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzPart design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creativ...

• Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Graphic Arts - IllustrationFrom the legendary Tank Girl to live-action animations with Gorillaz, a Chinese contemporary opera to an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, artist Jamie Hewlet...

• Author(s): Karin H. Grimme • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismDiscover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction ...

• Author(s): Jens Muller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Graphic Arts - GeneralHistory is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change--whether social, political, or technological--has it...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 21st CenturyBorn in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II carried out her duty with great dedicatio...

• Author(s): Helmut Newton • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralPolaroids occupy a special place in the hearts of many photo enthusiasts who remember a time when "instant photograp...

• Author(s): Angelika Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralThe Alps are Europe's biggest and greatest mountain range. Formed millions of years ago, they became a popular destination for trave...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismParis is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumières gleams especially bright and becomes a magnet for creative peop...

• Author(s): Gay Talese • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: General"Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel--only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutt...

• Author(s): Rainer Zerbst • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - Monographs

• Author(s): Sylvia Martin • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryWith motion and machines as its most treasured tropes, Futurism was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giac...

• Author(s): Suzy Menkes • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Fashion & AccessoriesFrom Azzedine Alaïa, Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and Vivienne Westwood, more than a...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralThis electrifying vinyl edition creates a new and edgy definition for "album art." Produced in collaboration with Colors magazine, it...

• Author(s): Ulrike Becks-Malorny • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismAn Expressionist before the term was coined, James Ensor (1860-1949) was the classic insider-outsider enigma. He knew all the right ...

• Author(s): Ingrid Sischy • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - FashionEllen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women....

• Author(s): Reuel Golden • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Genres & Styles - RockIn November 2020, Depeche Mode were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and Dave Gahan, accepting the honour, said: "I'd li...

• Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - Artists' BooksPop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception--for six decades, David Hockney has been known...

• Author(s): Justinian Jampol • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralFor 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global...

• Author(s): Robert Descharnes • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsAt the age of six, Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since the...

• Author(s): Anne Gantefuhrer-Trier • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Movements - ModernismPioneered by Picasso and Braque, Cubism has been described as the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. With inspira...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945 -)Japan's contemporary architecture has long been among the most inventive in the world, recognized for sustainability and infinite creat...

• Author(s): Taschen • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - GeneralCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian pai...

• Author(s): Carsten Höller • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyCarsten Höller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone, in ...

• Author(s): Hans-Christian Adam • Publisher: Taschen • Publisher Imprint: Taschen • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Regional (see also Travel - Pictorials)Berlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after th...