Books published by Taschen GmbH

From the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables to the TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, Eero Saarinen was one of the 20th century's most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across art and architecture.

Bibliophiles, rejoice! In this rapturous photographic journey, Massimo Listri travels to some of the oldest and finest libraries around the world to celebrate their architectural and historical wonder. From medieval to 19th-century institutions, private to monastic collections, this is a cultural-historical pilgrimage to the heart of our halls...

In 1940s and '50s America girlie magazines couldn't show much, so publisher Robert Harrison lured his readers in with vibrant covers by top pin-up artists Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss, and Peter Driben. This edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with every cover of Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt, and Whisper, from 1942 to 1955.

With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auctions, and packed museums, Impressionism remains close contender for the world's favorite period of painting. This comprehensive book covers the movement's key innovations and all of its artist pioneers, including unjustly neglected practitioners such as Berthe Morisot, Lucien Pissarro, and...

With more than 300 photographs from the likes of Steven Meisel, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh, and Corinne Day, this book is a visual testimony to the world's highest-earning model. Breathtaking images from Gisele's breakthrough in the late '90s through to her most recent campaigns are accompanied by personal tributes from friends,...

Delight in page after page of Michelangelo's graphic brilliance. From architectural structures to anatomically perfect figures, this fresh edition intersperses some of the artist's finest drawings with his own notes and revisions, offering spine-tingling proximity to the process of his genius.

Santiago Calatrava is not only one of the world's most prominent architects, but is also an engineer, sculptor, and painter. His reputation as an unparalleled architectural engineer was cemented with his numerous bridges for cities around the world. This book provides an introduction to and overview of his work.

Though he died aged 36, Toulouse-Lautrec's influence was immense, immortalizing the nightlife of the Belle Epoque and putting the Paris neighborhood of Montmartre on the global map of hedonist-creative hotspots. Walk through his world of singers, dancers, musicians, and prostitutes and discover an artist of great humanity, figurative skill, and...

Explore the unique pictorial language of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, the single-minded painter known as El Greco ("The Greek") and hailed as a proto-modern genius of the 16th century. This vivid introduction presents El Greco's most important works to reveal an oeuvre of drama, experimental color and form, and even the beginnings of abstraction.

Meet Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, the Dutch master artist whose unique eye for people and situations created some of the most famous portraits and historical, religious, and mythological scenes in the world. In this book, we tour Rembrandt's key paintings, etchings, and drawings to uncover the stylistic and technical innovations with which one...

Meet Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez, the leading light of the Spanish Golden Age and a giant of Western art history. From humble genre scenes to the ever-mysterious Las Meninas, this introductory book charts the compositional expertise, natural figuration, and masterful handling of tone that secured Velazquez's place as "the greatest...

Through apples, pears, and experimental new perspectives, explore the defining oeuvre of Paul Cezanne, the artist identified by both Matisse and Picasso as "father of us all." From still life compositions to scenes of his beloved Montagne Sainte-Victoire, this book traces the artist's bold new approaches to form light, space, and form.

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape, with his urgent, splattered drip paintings his most explosive legacy. This essential introduction traces Pollock's work and his fame to understand his masterpieces in the greater modernist story and explore his...

Take in the dark, compelling visions of Edvard Munch, artist of lurid colors, strange distortions, and a haunting Mona Lisa for modernity: The Scream. This essential introduction surveys Munch's staggering capacity for psychodrama and the echo of his artistic wail through the work of Andy Warhol, Martin Kippenberger, Tracey Emin, Marlene Dumas,...

In this illustrated fashion story, 400 fashion advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection trace not only the changing trends and silhouettes of the 20th century but also the evolution in their marketing, as fashion developed from an exclusive Parisian salon business into today's global mega-industry.

Travel from Osaka, Japan, to Bern, Switzerland, and through many cities, structures, and islands in between, to explore the staggering scope of the Renzo Piano repertoire. From the "inside-out" Pompidou to the airy shells of the Tjibaou Cultural Center in Noumea, New Caledonia, this essential architect introduction reveals a restless visionary,...

In January and February 1991, as the United States-led coalition drove Iraqi forces out of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein's troops retaliated with an inferno. As much a major document of modern history as an extraordinary photographic portfolio, Kuwait: A Desert on Fire is the first monograph on Sebastiao Salgado's astonishing 1991 series on the human,...

Born and educated in Germany, Walter Gropius (1883-1969) belongs to the select group of architects that massively influenced the international development of modern architecture.

Impressionistic paintings rank among the most popular works of art and are the pride of any museum or collection worldwide. Part of the "Basic Genre" series, this book features the artists such as: Frederic Bazille, Marie Braquemond, Gustave Caillebotte, Mary Cassat, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Armand Guillaumin, and Max Liebermann.

William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with England's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His prolific design work included tiles, embroidery, tapestries, wallpaper, and carpets and championed handcraftsmanship, natural dyes, "art for all", and beautiful patterns of...

French architect and designer, Jean Prouve was one of the important constructors of the 20th century. Prouve's design innovations included cleverly-shaped metal parts for building prefabricated structures. An introduction to Prouve's work, this title gives an insight into the variety of his oeuvre and the progressiveness of his vision.

Savor this collection of vintage sexy photographs, a century's worth of naughty pictures sourced from the collection of connoisseur Mark Rotenberg. From early monochromes of daringly dropped drawers to seductively waxed handlebar mustaches, this delicious surfeit of 19th- and early 20th-century erotic photographs spans the sensual to the comedic.