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These extraordinary homes accentuate the cosmopolitan designs of such architectural talents as Gurjit Matharoo from India, Mohamed Amine Siana from Morrocco, and Mariko Mori from Japan. Building...

Author: Rolf G. RennerPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: January 15, 2020Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836500337ISBN-13: 9783836500333

"At its essence, Giger's art digs down into our psyches and touches our very deepest primal instincts and fears. His art stands in a category of its own. The proof of this lies in the intensity of...

Vivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). A non-conformist hero, the...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and...

It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work's title and its loose...

Initiated and conceived by Midori Kitamura, this definitive history of the life and work of Issey Miyake offers a unique insight into the designer's vision and daring. With stunning photographs by...

First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose as for its frank and personal account of...

A richly illustrated collection of essays on earth and human science from 12 of today's leading thinkers. From stars to cells, quantum theory to capitalism, ancient fossils to Artificial...

The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This book...

The legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with New York in the 1980s, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and...

Julian Schnabel makes art out of life, finding his materials in the fabric of the everyday. He uses broken plates as an improbable picture ground; he paints on velvet, market stall covers, army...

The photography of Julius Shulman (1910-2009) transported a West Coast dream around the world. His images of midcentury Southern Californian architecture captured not only the distinctive structural,...

Author: Andrea KettenmannPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: February 16, 2020Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 383650085XISBN-13: 9783836500852

Author: Hajo D??ChtingPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: Nov 23, 2015Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836507463ISBN-13: 9783836507462

German photography pioneer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) photographed plants so beautifully, and with such originality, that his work transcends the medium itself. Over more than 30 years, he took...

Mario Testino is recognized as the ultimate fashion photographer of his generation but his pictures of Kate Moss transcend fashion. The result of three decades of extraordinary friendship, and...

Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct belief system. Seen today, they create an...

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) is regarded as one of the key figures in 20th-century European art. A Modernist to his bones, he sent seismic waves through the art world with his hard-edged,...

Author: Gilles N??etPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: May 07, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836558076ISBN-13: 9783836558075

Author: Barbara-Ann Campbell-LangePublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: April 28, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836544113ISBN-13: 9783836544115

Author: Jean-Louis CohenPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: July 10, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836560356ISBN-13: 9783836560351

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect companion to the Leonardo Graphic Work edition, this...

Photographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with...

The golden age of the world's most popular weekly photography magazine (1936-1972) coincided with Hollywood's most glamorous decades. Featuring hundreds of meticulously researched and curated images...

Zen, soothing, mystical, meditative--words cannot do justice to Asia's most beautiful interiors. Whether it's a gilded Tibetan monastery, a plantation in Sri Lanka, or a private villa in Thailand,...

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of...

August 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 brief career, the artist left a remarkable oeuvre in his...

From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Ren? Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing,...

Man Ray (1890-1976) was a polymath modernist, working in painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, and poetry. But it was his work in photography, with nude studies, fashion work, and portraiture that...