Ads of the 1970s get funky and socially consciousBoth eclipsed and influenced by television, American print ads of the 1970s departed from the bold, graphic forms and subtle messages th...
The infinite subtlety of the female formSensual and softly surreal, the nude photography of Ralph Gibson frames the female form both organically and graphically, referencing art history while...
The fascinating phallusUndressed to impressAfter the bust out success of The Big Book of Breasts TASCHEN presents the perfect companion, The Big Penis Book.When it com...
Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painte...
Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a...
The golden age of Black musicFollowing the success of Jazz Covers, this epic volume of groove assembles over 500 legendary covers from a golden era in Black music. Psychedelia meets Black Pow...
Vinyl ManiaThe greatest in jazz LP artPart design history, part trip down musical memory lane, this anthology of jazz album artwork is above all a treasure trove of creative and c...
From Elvis to Nirvana: the most important record covers in rock historyAlbum art is indelibly linked to our collective musical memories; when you think of your favorite albums, you picture th...
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 e...
The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the...
In the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brücke artists’ group (1905–1913) is widely regarded as the birth of Expressionism. Led by Ernst Ludwig Kir...
Allegory and beauty in FlorenceWith the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro Botticelli (...
The art of astrology, from ancient science to modern-day practiceFrom the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The mo...
The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picass...
Impossible staircases and startling ruins from Italy’s master engraverThe most famous 18th-century copper engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) made his name with etchi...
A Century’s Worth of Pleasure and PauseSelling the most delicious vicesVices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feast...
The companion volume to Peter Lindbergh’s first self-curated exhibitionThe first-ever exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself, shortly before his untimely death, Untold Stories at...
Entdecken Sie mit diesem Kompendium der elegantesten Muster und Ornamente der Geschichte eine Fülle dekorativer Ideen.Die Welt der Ornamente verbindet die zwei größten enzyklopä...
Surrealism meets Symbolism in Salvador Dalí’s tarot deckLegend has it that when preparing props for the James Bond film Live and Let Die, producer Albert Broccoli commissioned Su...
In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch the eye with such ravishing light and color,...