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Danielle Quéruel, Sébastien Mamerot A Chronicle of the Crusades ENCompleted circa 1474, Sébastien Mamerot’s lavishly illustrated manuscript is the only contemporary document to describe several centuries of French crusades, when successive kings tried to seize the Holy Land. Jean Colombe, the medieval illuminator best known for his work on the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, is the principal artist of its 66 exquisite miniatures. Les Passages d’Outremer (The Expeditions to…
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Peter Lindbergh, Thierry-Maxime Loriot A Different Vision on Fashion Photography ENWhen German photographer Peter Lindbergh shot five young models in downtown New York City in 1989, he produced not only the iconic British Vogue January 1990 cover but also the birth certificate of the supermodels. The image didn’t just bring revered faces together for the first time; it marked the beginning of a new fashion era and a new understanding of female beauty.Coinciding with his major retrospective at the…
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Noel Daniel A Treasury of Wintertime Tales ENA Treasury of Wintertime Tales pays homage to this rich variety of winter storytelling with thirteen tales dating 1823 – 1972. Featuring authors and illustrators of American, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mexican, Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish descent, it includes stories about playful snowflakes that have come to life, losing one’s mittens, encounters with the Sami people in Northern Scandinavia, celebrating the…
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Louna Lahti Aalto ENAlvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly set apart from the slick, mechanistic, geometric designs that characterized much contemporary European practice. Whether a church, a villa, a sauna, or a public library, Aalto's organic structures tended to replace…
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Abstract Expressionism EN“Abstract expressionism” refers to the non-representational use of form and color as a means of expression that emerged in America in the 1940s, largely thanks to the innovative work of Arshile Gorky. Interestingly, abstract expressionism is considered to be the first movement originating in America to have a worldwide influence. Two very different sub-categories of the movement developed: “action painting” …
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Barbara Hess Abstraktní expresionizmus CZV štyridsiatych a päťdesiatych rokoch 20. storočia rozvíjajú mladí umelci v New Yorku maliarsky štýl, ktorý pod názvom abstraktný expresionizmus vstúpi do histórie umenia a dosiahne svetové uznanie. Príslušníci tejto tzv. Newyorskej školy prispeli svojimi odvážnymi víziami a novým umeleckým slovníkom k prelomu a vedúcemu postaveniu amerického maliarstva druhej polovice 20. storočia. Tak ako v prípade iných súdobých…
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Richard Kern, Dian Hanson Action ENRichard Kern likes real women: unpretentious, unadorned, and definitely undressed. Those who love Kern know each book is an invitation to join him in his privileged world where natural young women share their most intimate moments. Kern has never lost his boyish curiosity with girls and their secrets, so instead of posing them in sterile sets he follows them through the house or rather his New York apartment from…
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Julius Wiedemann Advertising Now! Online ENThis second installment in TASCHEN’s advertising series joins Advertising Now! Print and the forthcoming Advertising Now! Films to provide a complete study of commercial communication in the world today. Divided into chapters by subject (from food and beverage to electronics, clothing, and more), this tome examines the most effective and important online ad campaigns by exploring the work of the globe’s top award…
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Julius Wiedemann Advertising Now! Print ENThe world's sharpest creative minds are in high demand in the advertising world, because making effective ads takes a whole lot more than just marketing know-how. A great ad grabs the viewer’s attention and gets the point across in an original, surprising, funny, touching, or even shocking way. Because ads reflect global and regional mentalities, studying them is interesting not only for their selling points but…
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Julius Wiedemann Advertising Now! TV Commercials ENThough most of us change the channel or make a trip to the bathroom during commercial breaks, there are actually ads out there that are more like thought-provoking short films than the pushy, one-dimensional, in-your-face ads we know and hate. Whether it's an ad for the latest Nike sneaker or to raise awareness about the hazards of speeding, a commercial has lot to communicate in under a minute, and it takes the…
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Aesthetic Surgery ENDo you ever find yourself wondering, “Has she had work done?” Do you flip through supermarket tabloids to see who’s the latest star to have gone under the knife? Do you secretly adore before and after photos? Well, let’s face it, who doesn’t? Aesthetic surgery has become a global phenomenon. In places like Hollywood, the mystery isn’t who’s had work done, but who hasn’t. Those who have been to the world’s best…
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Steve McCurry Afghanistan ENAfghanistan has long been a country overwhelmed by tribal rivalries, colonial wars, and geo-political conflict. The Afghans have called their mountains “the land of rebellion,” a land that has not been successfully occupied since the times of Alexander the Great. These invaders ― Persians, Arabs, Moguls, Sikhs, British, Russians ― may have been thwarted, but wandering through the bazaars of Kabul will attest to…
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Angelika Taschen African Interiors ENWe've searched far and wide, through Africa's deserts and jungles, cities and wildlife reserves, islands and mountains, to uncover the continent's most inspirational dwellings; our goal was to find the kind of interiors that defy description, and we think the results will definitely leave you speechless. Nestled within these pages you'll find lush modern homes mingling with mud huts, funky artists' studios, elegant…
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African Style ENThis rich, elegant picture book plunges into the heart of Africa via its stunning interiors, bringing together a wide selection of inspirational dwellings. You’ll find the best examples of African interior decoration from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.
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Uli Sigg Ai Weiwei ENAs his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity almost as much as for his social interventions, contemporary approach to the readymade, and knowledge of Chinese traditional crafts, Ai’s fame extends throughout and beyond the art world. Drawn from TASCHEN’s limited Collector’s Edition, this monograph explores each…
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F. X. Feeney Al Pacino ENAmerican cinema, as we've known it since The Godfather, would be impossible to reimagine without Al Pacino. As Michael Corleone he breathes life into an American of epic dimension. His characters may explode (Tony Montana in Scarface), or be paragons of calm and cunning (the journalist in The Insider), but his extraordinary eyes do the real talking. As a rival says of Tony Montana, There is no lying in him, and this…
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Hans Werner Holzwarth Albert OehlenThe paintings of Albert Oehlen live by audacious strategies, by questioning the image and the rules of abstraction, and by an openness and beauty often reached through the unlikeliest of means. In this expansive monograph, we meet the full range of Oehlen s artistic thoughts and approaches: paintings that integrate mirrors, paintings that are executed strictly in primary colors or only in gray, heavily pixelated…
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Irmgard Müsch, Jes Rust, Rainer Willmann Albertus Seba - Cabinet of Natural Curiosities ENSpectacular specimens. This is Albertus Seba's unrivaled catalog of animals, insects and plants. Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Seba (1665-1736) was…
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Irmgard Müsch Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities ENJedna z najpodrobnejších kníh histórie prírody pochádzajúca z 18. storočia. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) lekárnik, ktorý do roku 1731 zbieral všetky dostupné materiály o častiach živej i neživej prírody. Jeho bezprecedentná kolekcia zvierat, rastlín a hmyzu z celého sveta zachytáva ich vývoj počas celého života. Je veľmi podrobne ilustrovaná celými kolekciami od exotických rastlín, cez hady, žaby, krokodíly, ryby,…
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Albertus Seba. Cabinet of Natural Curiosities ENAlbertus Seba’s Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though it was common for men of his profession to collect natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdambased pharmacist Albertus Seba (1665–1736) had a passion that led him far beyond the call of duty. His amazing, unprecedented…
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Alchemy & Mysticism ENThe Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry, optics and colour theory.
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Alexander Roob Alchemy and Mysticism ENThe Hermetic Museum takes its readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the mediaeval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabbalists, Rosicrucians and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry, optics and colour theory.