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Not so very long ago, some might have considered wood a material of the past, long since replaced by more modern components such as concrete and steel. The truth is radically different. Bolstered by...

Drawn from TASCHEN's Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe. With featured artists including Istvan...

Since the original TASCHEN edition of Manga Design, Japan's comic phenomenon has produced yet more captivating characters and a whole host of hot new talents. This revised edition delivers the...

Author: Hans-Michael KoetzlePublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: August 13, 2019Number of Pages: 576 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836554461ISBN-13: 9783836554466

Whether you're thinking of getting a tattoo or just want to see to what lengths others have gone in decorating their bodies, this is the book to check out.1000 Tattoos explores the history of the art...

It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene Dietrich's...

It was the decade of Coco Chanel, Jos?hine Baker, Art Deco, Surrealism, caf?culture and cabarets. American luminaries mingled with European artists like Dal?and Picasso in Montparnasse's bohemian...

20th Century Classic Cars. 100 Years of Automotive Ads (Bibliotheca Universalis) --multilingualAuthor: Phil PattonPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: September 16, 2019Number of Pages: 592...

The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry employing millions, with new trends whisked into stores before the...

George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial...

Author: Louna LahtiPublisher: TaschenPublication Date: Oct 14, 2015Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836560100ISBN-13: 9783836560108

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of...

Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in...

Author: Gloria KoenigPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: March 23, 2017Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836547465ISBN-13: 9783836547468

As McCarthyism swept across the United States and capitalism was king, white America enjoyed a feeling of pride and security that was reflected in advertising. Carelessly flooding society with...

Author: Masao FuruyamaPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: Aug 01, 2016Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836535491ISBN-13: 9783836535496

Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize...

This revised and updated edition presents the future and origins of his painting according to Andr?Butzer. From his early works of "science-fiction expressionism" to his exploration of abstraction's...

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of...

It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in...

Since the dawn of modernism, visual and music production have had a particularly intimate relationship. From Luigi Russolo's 1913 Futurist manifesto L'Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noise) to Marcel...

From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design...

Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions...

In 1970 Barbra Streisand published a story in Life magazine titled "Who Am I Anyway?" It was the very question two leading photojournalists of the day--Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller--were also...

A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved. First...

When Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1593/95-1612) undertook a radical renovation of the Willibaldsburg Castle, overlooking the Altm?hl River in Eichst?tt, Bavaria, he also created a...

Author: Leonhard EmmerlingPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: November 09, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 383655979XISBN-13: 9783836559799

Author: Magdalena DrostePublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: Aug 14, 2015Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836560143ISBN-13: 9783836560146

In his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughby captured Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Kathleen...

Author: Walter BosingPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: Aug 14, 2015Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836559862ISBN-13: 9783836559867