Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose br...
The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950sMagic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics ...
Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945–1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture ...
Clothes define people. A person’s attire, whether it’s a sari, kimono, or business suit, is an essential code to his or her culture, class, personality, even faith. Founded in 1978, the...
The roaring twenties in BerlinIt was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret,...
Best of BauhausThe definitive reference work, now in a compact formatIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany's Bauhaus school of art and design changed the fa...
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. A...
40 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible editionWhen Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pic...
The vivid history of the capital of love and photographyA city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography.It was on the banks of...
At the vivid intersection of cinematic and graphic design history, this book gathers 250 film posters from the Soviet Union of the 1920s and early 1930s to explore a world of innovative, revolution...
A photographic portrait of RomeThis bumper photographic portrait of Rome brings together hundreds of photographs from the 1840s through to today to explore the extraordinary history, beauty, ...
Space ShapersAn encyclopedia of modern architectureWith more than 280 entries, this architectural A–Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensabl...
Her coat is so warm, and now so affordable!From the time The Big Penis Book was published, readers anticipated The Big Book of Pussy. Granted, perhaps not the same readers, but the seed had b...
A visual journey through Vienna’s dazzling historyVienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danub...
A catalogue raisonné of “the painter’s painter”Manet called him “the greatest painter of all.” Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that...
A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of...
The complete paintings of Frida Kahlo in an XXL editionAmong the few women artists who have transcended art history, none had a meteoric rise quite like Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907&ndas...
The ultimate travel guide to the USA and CanadaTo travel in North America is to face a delicious quandary: over these vast spaces with so many riches, from glittering cities to eccentric smal...
The most comprehensive retrospective of Renoir’s workPierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841–1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beaut...
Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner of Sneaker Freaker and his life was never the same.Fro...