Books published by Taschen GmbH

Discover the gentler face of modernism in this introduction to Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect who defied the slick geometries set by the International Style to prioritize soft, poetic, undulating forms. Whether a villa, a sauna, or a lamp design, Aalto's organic structures championed environmentally sound and progressive design with a deep-...

Gustav Klimt's art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. His fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his time.

Produced in collaboration with the Musee Rodin, this essential introduction examines the key works of Auguste Rodin, pioneering French sculptor behind The Kiss and The Thinker. With rich illustration and insightful texts, we explore the artist's material processes of modeling and assemblage and his leading ideas of movement, bodily expression,...

Welcome to the comprehensive catalogue of logos. Across industry, media, music, and more, this far-reaching collection explores the irrepressible power of a brand's graphic representation. Thematic chapters explore how text, image, and ideas distill into a symbol. In handy reference-book size, this is a definitive introduction to the...

Claude Monet's Impressionist technique still inspires to this day. Whether it's his stunning Water Lilies series, or genre-defining Impression, Sunrise, discover what made Monet the master of French 19th-century art in this exuberant exploration of his life and work.

Teeming with tapestries, manuscript illuminations, carpets, and tiles, this far-reaching compendium brings together the two greatest 19th-century catalogues of ornament into one indispensable reference book. Encompassing designs from medieval times through to the 19th century, in styles as diverse as Egyptian, Etruscan, or Middle Eastern, this...

Indoor-outdoor flow meets clean, crisp modernism in the structures of Austrian-American Richard Neutra, master of postwar architecture whose cool, sleek style synthesized technology with nature. This monograph compiles his complete works-nearly 300 private homes, schools, and public buildings-illustrated by over 1,000 photographs, including...

In The Big Penis Book we explore the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when...

The most comprehensive photographic study of an extraordinary city, Berlin, Portrait of a City offers some 560 pages of aerial views, street scenes, portraits, and more to trace the city from the Roaring Twenties to the ruins of war to its rebirth as political and cultural capital. Quotes from famed Berlin icons and connoisseurs, from Marlene...

"Dieses Buch sind eigentlich zwei Bücher: eine Biografie und eine Bilder-Retrospektive über eine Schauspielerin, deren größte Liebesaffäre jene mit der Kamera war." - Norman Mailer in seiner Biografie Marilyn, 1973TASCHEN nimmt Mailer beim Wort und veröffentlicht seinen Originaltext mit Bert Sterns intimen Fotografien aus dem Last Sitting. Als würdige Hommage an eine Frau, die zum Zeitpunkt ihres Todes am 5. August 1962 als Göttin auf Erden galt, Inkarnation von Glamour und Erotik für eine ganze Generation. Obwohl sie gefeiert und bewundert wurde, war ihr Privatleben das eines kleinen Mädchens, das sich verirrt hat und nun verzweifelt nach Liebe und Geborgenheit sucht. Mailers Marilyn ist schön, tragisch und komplex. In seinen Reflexionen über ihr Leben - von der trostlosen Kindheit bis zu den mysteriösen Umständen ihres Todes - erscheint Marilyn Monroe als Symbol des bizarren Jahrzehnts, in dem sie Hollywoods größter Star war.Dieses Buch nach einer Idee von Lawrence Schiller (der bei fünf Büchern Mailers mitwirkte) kombiniert Mailers Sprachgewalt mit Bert Sterns eindringlichen Bildern der 36-jährigen Monroe. Nie zuvor hatte sie einen Fotografen so nah an sich herangelassen wie bei diesem dreitägigen Vogue-Shooting im Bel-Air Hotel, und nie hatte sie verführerischer ausgesehen. Sechs Wochen später lebte sie nicht mehr.In einer gewagten Synthese aus literarischem Klassiker und Porträtgalerie lüften Mailer und Stern den Schleier über Marilyn Monroe - der Frau, dem Sexsymbol, dem zutiefst amerikanischen Weltstar - und bieten tiefe Einsichten in eine Ikone des 20. Jahrhunderts, deren wahre Persönlichkeit bis heute rätselhaft geblieben ist.

Peter Lindbergh and Azzedine Alaia, the photographer and the couturier, were united by their love of black, a love that they would cultivate alike in silver print and solid color garments. Accompanying the exhibition Azzedine Alaia, Peter Lindbergh at the Fondation Azzedine Alaia in Paris, this book celebrates their artistic partnership.

Since Osaka World Expo '70 brought contemporary forms center stage, Japan has been a key player in global architecture. Presenting the latest in Japanese building, this book reveals how the likes of Tadao Ando, SANAA, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma, and Junya Ishigami are relinking past, present, and future-building greener and smarter than ever before.

Derived from the XXL book that left no document unturned in the vast Chaplin archives, this new edition follows the making of each of the master's films through personal letters and memos, sketches, storyboards, posters, on-set photos, and an oral history from Chaplin and some of his closest collaborators. We discover the impromptu invention as...

Peter Beard turned his life on the African continent into a gesamtkunstwerk: a collage of photography, environmental activism, and diary writing. The original edition to this weighty XL tome may have instantly sold out, but it's now back to present the artist's unique world; a realm where high fashion models feed giraffes under the Kenyan sun...

Meet Rudolph Michael Schindler, the Austrian-born architect who combined Cubism, the International Style, and Californian Modernism into "space architecture." Unnoticed for decades, his structures are today hailed as landmarks of the Modernist movement. This collection presents Schindler's most important projects through crisp photography,...

Welcome to the most comprehensive catalogue of logos. Turning its searchlight on internationals' corporate identity, this encyclopedia gathers approximately 4,500 trademarks, with information about the designers, year of creation, country, and brand. In handy reference-book size, this is a sweeping survey of today's visual culture.

Racinet's Costume History is a landmark in the study of clothing and fashion. This reprint presents Racinet's exquisitely precise color illustrations, as well as his delightful descriptions and witty commentary. From Eskimo attire to high French couture, this is an unrivalled encyclopedia for students, designers, artists, illustrators, and...

In this mighty first volume, Jens Muller traces 70 years of graphic design, designers, and developments from the late 19th century through the economic boom after World War II, spanning designs that would form the basis for further revolutions.

Rome is the city where past and present, spectacle and the everyday collide around every corner; where Baroque drama flourishes alongside ancient classical wonders; where necks crane to admire Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel; and where Fellini immortalized la dolce vita. This photographic portrait of Rome brings you all the history and all the...

"Painting with scissors" is how Henri Matisse referred to his cut-outs. Produced towards the end of his life, when the artist was confined to a wheelchair, these brilliant bursts of color and form delight to this day as joyous celebrations of life, nature, and boundless creativity.

Explore the dark and brooding elegance of Film Noir with this essential handbook to the genre, exploring key noir themes and their most representative movies. Copiously illustrated with film stills as well as original posters, the book also lists TASCHEN's top 50 noir classics. A must for amateurs and aficionados alike.