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Philip Jodidio Hadid ENBuilding the future now. The iconic work of a singular architect. Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said her work was unbuildable. Yet over the past decade she has completed numerous structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati (which the New York Times called the…
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Philip Jodidio Hadid, Complete Works 1979–2009 ENWelcome to the future. This title presents the iconic work of a singular architect. In 2004, Zaha Hadid became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize. In the past decade, she has completed a plethora of structures including the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany and the Central Building of the new BMW Assembly Plant in Leipzig. There is no doubt…
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Alexandra Kolossa Haring ENBy the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly successful and popular artist. Haring’s original and instantly recognizable style, full of thick black lines, bold colors, and graffiti-inspired cartoon-like figures, won him the appreciation of both the art world and the general public; his work appeared simultaneously on T-shirts, gallery walls, and public murals. In…
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Helmut Newton - SumoHelmut Newton (1920-2004) always showed a healthy disdain for the easy or predictable, so it's no surprise that the SUMO was an irresistible project. The idea of a book the size of a private exhibition, with spectacular images reproduced to ...
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Helmut Newton Helmut Newton, A Gun for Hire ENHelmut Newton once said, “Some people’s photography is an art. Mine is not. If they happen to be exhibited in a gallery or a museum, that’s fine. But that’s not why I do them. I’m a gun for hire.” (Newsweek, 02/02/04) This prosaic proclamation from one of the 20th century’s most celebrated photographers is not a little shocking, but nonetheless firmly positions Newton as the no-frills image-maker that he was. His…
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Françoise Marquet Helmut Newton. Work ENRetrospektívny pohľad na dielo svetoznámeho fotografa - Helmuta Newtona.An overview of Newton's provocative, groundbreaking photography that has inspired an entire genre. TASCHEN is proud to bring you Helmut Newton. Work, which will be of particular interest to those who coveted our record-breaking publication of Newton's work SUMO, but not its price tag. The catalog features works carefully selected from Newton…
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Helmut Newton Helmut Newton: Pages from the Glossies ENSartorial strength: Helmut Newton in the leading fashion magazines Helmut Newton, master of late 20th-century fashion photography, always considered the printed page the most important factor to his work. It was, he explained, in the framework of an editorial or advertising commission, that he found his inspiration, and produced his best shots.Joining the prestigious roster of TASCHEN s Helmut Newton titles,…
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June Newton Helmut Newton’s SUMO ENUPOZORNENIE: Ide o limitovanú edíciu, ktorá môže byť u nášho dodávateľa už vypredaná. Dostupnosť tohto titulu Vám potvrdíme po vytvorení objednávky. Predstavujeme vám jednu z najväčších kníh na svete. Ide o limitovanú edíciu pre celý svet, v ktorej je každý výtlačok očíslovaný a podpísaný slávnym fotografom Helmutom Newtonom. Kniha váži viac ako 30 kg a je dodávaná spolu s pochrómovaným stolíkom.
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Gilles Néret Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ENHenri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), scion of an ancient aristocratic family, was a crippled dwarf. His family's wealth gave him financial security, and he chose to become an artist. In Paris he was drawn to the world of the red-light district around Montmartre. In the cafés, cabarets, dance halls and brothels he observed the theatre of life, viewing this world not from the moralising standpoint of the 19th…
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Christopher Warwick Her Majesty ENMeet the Queen: The public and private life of the world s most famous monarchBorn in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Queen Elizabeth II has carried out her royal duty for more than six decades. This book tells her remarkable royal story through hundreds of stunning photographs, many published here for the first time.Brimming with history, politics, glamour, culture, world travel, and such icons of…
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Edvard Koinberg Herbarium Amoris. A Floral Romance ENThe beauty of plants and their sexuality The notion of plant sexuality was initiated by Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). Working with his collection of over 20,000 specimens, Linnaeus grouped flowers and plants in a Calendarium Florae, and systematically classified plant species by the number and arrangement of their reproductive parts, drawing direct parallels with human sexual organs.…
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Brigitte Minne, Carll Cneut (ilustrátor) HexenfeeHexe und Fee Hexenfee. Carll Cneuts neuer phantastischer Farbrausch nach "Der goldene Käfig" So einfach ist die Formel zu diesem Bilderbuchschatz. Rosmarinchen hat genug davon, als Fee immer artig und wohl erzogen zu sein...
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Stefan Fischer Hieronymus Bosch ENIn the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch's paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries,…
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Hiroshige 2015 ENA year for fine views with Taschen Diary Hiroshige 2015. Add a little scenery to your schedule with Taschens's 2015 Hiroshige diary, presenting a fresh, inspiring image from Hiroshige's beautiful repertoire of Japanese vistas for each new calendar week. Taschen's Spiral Diaries are beautiful to look at and a joy to use. Every week brings a new picture and a fresh page to fill with your life's events. Useful features…
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Andreas Marks, Rhiannon Paget Hiroshige and EisenThe Kisokaido route through Japan was ordained in the early 1600s by the country’s then-ruler Tokugawa Ieyasu, who decreed that staging posts be installed along the length of the arduous passage between Edo (present-day Tokyo) and Kyoto. Inns, shops, an
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Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo ENCity lights and cherry trees: The woodblock prints of Tokyo that captured Europe's imagination Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning pictures of the floating world, ukiyo-e was a particular genre of art that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries and came to characterize the Western world's visual idea of Japan. In many ways images of…
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History of Advertising ENThe history of western advertising is a long one, starting as early as the 1630s, when Frenchman Théophraste Renaudot placed the first advertising notes in La Gazette de France, or in 1786, when William Tayler began to offer his services as Agent to the Country’s Printers, Booksellers, etc., but the first time that the term advertising agency was used dates back to 1842, when Volney B. Palmer created his agency in…
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Jens History of Graphic Design, 1890-1959A comprehensive look at hundreds of landmark projects, industry leader profiles, and illustrated timelines for each decade. History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change―whether social, political, or technological―has its winners, its losers, its advocates, and its enemies. Through all the turbulent passage of time, graphic design―with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and…
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Sandra Rendgen History of InfographicsIn the age of big data and digital distribution, when news travel ever further and faster and media outlets compete for a fleeting slice of online attention, information graphics have swept center stage. At once nuanced and neat, they distill ...
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History of Photography ENFrom a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak died in 1932, and left his house to the University of Rochester. Since 1949 the site has operated as an international museum of photography and film, and today holds the largest collection of its kind in the world. The continually expanding…
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August Sarnitz Hoffmann CZRakouský architekt a designér Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) dalekosáhle ovlivnil svou dobu: celých 60 let vedl tvůrčí dialog se secesí a stylem art deco. Předtím, než ho v osmdesátých letech znovu objevili postmodernisté, upadlo jeho dílo téměř do zapomnění; nyní je jeho význam nepochybný. Jako designér byl jednou z klíčových osobností Wiener Werkstätte a udržoval úzké styky s hnutím Umění a řemesla. Jako architekt dal…