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The first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at the D?sseldorf Kunstpalast served as a blank canvas for the photographer's...

In the imaginations of young and old alike, the word "pirate" resonates with spine-tingling fear and swashbuckling adventure. Over centuries, our cultural landscape has been populated by a host of...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso...

Author: Klaus HonnefPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: Nov 26, 2015Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 383652337XISBN-13: 9783836523370

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and...

A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Th?odore-?mile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most...

French-born Jean Prouv? (1901-1984) was the 20th century's leading construction designer, a self-declared constructeur and member of the jury who oversaw the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study of clothing ever attempted. Covering the world...

Flower painter and botanist Pierre-Joseph Redout?was an unparalleled master of botanical illustrations and engravings. His most celebrated work Les Roses was published in three volumes between 1817...

No other 17th-century artist played the self-portrait game as extravagantly as the Dutchman Rembrandt. Spanning from his youth until just a year prior to his death, this collection gathers the...

Ren Hang, who took his life February 23, 2017, was an unlikely rebel. Slight of build, shy by nature, prone to fits of depression, the 29-year-old Beijing photographer was nonetheless at the...

One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his...

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic paintings, along with his famous RAF cycle, to late...

It's the old story. When TASCHEN released the first limited edition of R. Crumb Sketchbooks: 1982-2011, fans drooled over the gorgeous packaging of this six-volume boxed set, the artist's thoughtful...

Discover the life and work of Robert Doisneau, one of the most popular Parisian photographers, with this comprehensive monograph. Doisneau's longtime friend and TASCHEN author Jean Claude Gautrand...

Author: Jacob Baal-TeshuvaPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: August 03, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 383650426XISBN-13: 9783836504263

What makes Scandinavia such a hotbed of design talent and innovation? Explore masterful forms and lyrical lines from across Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland in this stylish book...

With his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty, Egon Schiele (1890-1918) was a pioneer of Austrian Expressionism and one of the most startling portrait...

Author: James SteelePublisher: TaschenPublication Date: October 16, 2019Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 383656436XISBN-13: 9783836564366

In every crisis situation, children are the greatest victims. Physically weak, they are often the first to succumb to hunger, disease, and dehydration. Innocent to the workings and failings of the...

"We must remember that in the brutality of battle another such apocalypse is always just around the corner." --Sebasti?o Salgado In January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove...

Sebastião Salgado's photographs present an archaeological perspective on manual labour, shedding light on practices which endured from the Stone Age through the Industrial Revolution and up to the...

Author: Ernst RebelPublisher: TASCHENPublication Date: May 28, 2018Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 3836537095ISBN-13: 9783836537094

From Paper Tube Emergency Shelters and his Nomadic Museum built with containers to the Swatch/Omega Campus and the Centre Pompidou-Metz, discover the altruistic practice of the Pritzker Prize-winning...

Sky-high, ornate, and the pinnacle of glamour, both restrictive and liberating, art object and deeply ordinary, shoes tell the story of shifting attitudes toward desire, power, and wealth throughout...

It's been thirty years since Laurence Anholt began his beloved series about great artists and the real children who knew them. Since then, these classic tales of Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Pablo...

Simon "Woody" Wood, founder and editor-in-chief of Sneaker Freaker magazine, has spent the last two decades analyzing the global cult of footwear fanatics. That experience directly inspired World's...

From an elephant resting with his master to a dog led through the rubbles of Kabul; these images by Steve McCurry tell a thousand stories, each a touching tribute to the creatures who share our...