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This XL edition traces the extraordinary depth and breadth of Michelangelo's work and his ascent to the elite of the Renaissance and art history. Ten richly illustrated chapters cover the artist's paintings, sculptures, and architecture, with special focus on the tour de force frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.

Looking for a vacation that leaves you relaxed and uplifted? Find soul-soothing inspiration in this updated collection of yoga retreats. Angelika Taschen showcases the world's most exquisite restorative spots, from the Parmarth Niketan Ashram in Rishikesh, the place of origin of yoga, to Santani, a 48-acre former tea plantation in Sri Lanka...

Explore Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century artist-biologist who found beauty in the most unlikely creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications, including the majestic Kunstformen der Natur and his catalogues of marine life. These exquisite images are a scientific, artistic and environmental masterwork.

Take a trip through three centuries of trend. In this spectacular collection from the Kyoto Costume Institute, one of the world's most extensive clothing collections, the smartest minds and sharpest eyes in fashion studies walk us through the outer- and underwear, shoes, and accessories that have defined people around the world.

Take an excursion through the last three centuries of trend. This spectacular collection from the Kyoto Costume Institute, one of the world's most extensive clothing collections, features the outerwear, underwear, footwear, and accessories that have defined self across time and geography.

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.

As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, the packaging can make or break a sale. Each year, the Pentawards celebrate the underrated art of package design by recognizing the most influential pieces from around the world. Featuring hundreds of works and with key pieces described in detail, this book brings together the lucky...

Tadao Ando is one of the world's greatest living architects. This book provides an introduction to Ando's work, including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, and in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA.

In 1998, Taschen introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with "The Art of Pleasure". This title showcases the range of Tom's talent, from sensitive portraits to frank sexual pleasure to tender expressions of love to his haunting tributes to young men struck down by the AIDS epidemic.

After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru, German botanist von Martius compiled an unsurpassed catalogue of all known genera of palm. This exquisite encyclopedic treasury is a jewel of 19th-century botany, as remarkable for its meticulous classification, as it is for its maps, color landscapes, and cross-sectioned diagrams showing...

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.

From vast, splattered canvases to quiet pools of color, enter the world of Abstract Expressionism, the movement which put feelings into paint and turned New York into the global center for contemporary art. This book features works from 20 key artists, including Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) was the most typical and the most individual Impressionist painter. His long life he dedicated to a pictorial exploration of the sensations which reality, and in particular landscape, offer the human eye. This basic art album presents his work.

Love New York? Of course you do. Now, celebrate all of the city's charisma, glamour, and grit in our blockbuster collection of New York photography, charting the history and many wonders of the Greatest City in the World. Nearly 600 pages feature the works of photographers like Margaret Bourke-White, Berenice Abbott, Ruth Orkin, Allen Ginsberg,...

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...

"Bond, James Bond." Seit Sean Connery 1962 diese unsterblichen Worte äußerte, hat der schneidigste Geheimagent der Kinogeschichte Zuschauer in aller Welt erobert und begeistert. Der von Autor Ian Fleming erfundene, unverwüstliche aber stets gentlemanlike-stilvolle britische Charakter wurde in 25 von EON produzierten Filmen über die Jahrzehnte von sechs verschiedenen Darstellern gespielt.Für unseren Herausgeber Paul Duncan öffnete die Produktionsfirma EON ihre Archive voller Fotos, Entwürfe, Storyboards und weiterer Materialien. Zwei Jahre lang wühlte er sich durch eine Million Bilder und hundert Schränke voller Akten. Herausgekommen ist das umfassendste Making-of sämtlicher, jemals gedrehter James-Bond-Filme, von James Bond jagt Dr. No (1962) bis zu Keine Zeit zu sterben, der 2021 in die Kinos kam, inklusive der Parodie Casino Royale (1967) und Sag niemals nie (1983), die beide nicht von EON produziert wurden.Die unzähligen, bislang unveröffentlichten Fotos, Bühnenbilder, Storyboards und Produktionsmemos werden abgerundet durch eine Oral History, in der 150 Schauspieler und Crew-Mitglieder, von Produzenten und Regisseuren über Ausstatter und Tricktechniker bis hin zu Stuntmen, die wahren Insider-Geschichten der Bond-Filme erzählen - ein einmaliger Blick hinter die Kulissen des erfolgreichsten und am längsten laufenden Franchise der Filmgeschichte und eine würdige Hommage an den smartesten Geheimagenten, Weltenretter, Playboy und Sprücheklopfer der Filmgeschichte.Diese aktualisierte Ausgabe enthält exklusive Fotos und brandneue Interviews mit Daniel Craig, Regisseur Cary Fukunaga, den Produzenten Michael G. Wilson und Barbara Broccoli sowie vielen anderen und enthüllt die ganze Wahrheit hinter der emotional aufgeladenen Entstehung von No Time To Die (Keine Zeit zu sterben). Die in Wort und Bild erzählte Geschichte der erfolgreichsten und langlebigsten Filmreihe der Kinogeschichte, erstellt mit uneingeschränktem Zugang zu den Bond-Archiven Über 1.007 Abbildungen, darunter zahlreiche bislang unveröffentlichte Stand- und Set-Fotos, geheime Aktennotizen, Dokumente, Storyboards, Modelle und Plakate sowie nicht realisierte Ideen und Alternativentwürfe Hintergrund-Stories von Menschen, die dabei waren: Produzenten, Regisseure, Schauspieler, Drehbuchautoren, Ausstatter, Tricktechniker, Stuntmen und andere Crewmitglieder Mit allen jemals gedrehten Bond-Filmen, von James Bond jagt Dr. No (1962) bis Keine Zeit zu sterben (2021)

Derived from the XXL monograph which saw TASCHEN undertake a comprehensive photographic survey of the artist's oeuvre, this compact edition explores Bruegel's 40 paintings through exceptional details and reproductions. We discover how, using his own pictorial language in scenes teeming with minutiae, Bruegel captured the theater of life.

A painstaking facsimile reproducing all specimen pages from the original volumes of Romeyn Beck Hough's American Woods, an indispensable reference work of breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for the study of trees and wood. In this luxurious gold edition, each specimen is broken down in three cross-section cuts, revealing its unique...

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,...

A fresh re-edition of LeRoy Grannis's sold-out Collector's Edition, this collection gathers his most vibrant surf photography-from the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu's famed North Shore. One of the key image-makers in surfing history, Grannis also covers the emerging surf lifestyle, from "surfer stomps" and hordes of...

Take a jazz trip like no other with William Claxton's legendary photographic journey across the concert halls, side streets, and big bands of 1960s America. From coast to coast, Claxton's tribute is a living, breathing, beating picture of the genre that enraptured America across social, economic, and racial lines.

Discover the audacious futurism of Zaha Hadid. As the first woman to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal, Hadid broke the rules and re-defined the game, despite some saying her designs were unbuildable. At the time of her unexpected death in 2016, she was firmly established as the first great architect of...

Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumerism, the role of the artist, and of what constituted an artwork. Epitomized by Warhol's Campbell's soup cans, Pop Art drew on mass-market sources and products as well as the banal...

An unrivalled record of one of the 20th century's touchstone beauties, Bob Willoughby's tender Hepburn portfolio is now available in a new format and with a softer price tag. At once an enraptured admirer and trusted friend of the starlet, Willougby captured Hepburn's elegance on and off set, from her Oscar-winning debut in Roman Holiday to the...

Frank Lloyd Wright's paradigm-shifting projects. This authoritative overview, based on TASCHEN's previous three-volume monograph and unlimited access to the Frank Lloyd Wright archives, scours the length and breadth of Wright's career to bring you all the gems of his genius at a new, bargain price.