Книги издательства Taschen

Mighty Morris. The arts and crafts power of designer William Morris William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with England’s Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His...

Behind closed doors "Taschen is this art vampire. He's going to bite me on the neck and my art is going to have immortality." - Chas Ray Krider (from an interview with Eric Kroll) A number of years ago I began to see distinctive layouts...

Behind closed doors. Lustful places, luscious women "A number of years ago I began to see distinctive layouts in Hustler’s Leg World that got me nervous. The photographs were that good. Whoever it was had style and made the women his wo...

Cinema enters another dimension. Movies at the dawn of the third millennium Our groundbreaking movies by decade series continue with this new volume dedicated to the most interesting and important films made in the decade since the turn of the mil...

The birth of cinema: From the invention of the moving picture to the first sound movies From the first moving pictures (the Lumière brothers' 1895 L'arrivé d'un train), early westerns, fantastic pictures, and nickelodeons all the way through the gol...

From Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) to Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940), this tome explores a diverse and fascinating era in world cinema. The stock market crash of 1929 had left the America - and the globe - in a devastating depression ...

Swinging Cinema. The finest movies of the transformative 1960s In true Pop Art style, movies of the 1960s blurred the lines between art, mass market, and pop culture into one vibrant cinematic decade. From Barbarella to Mrs. Robinson, James Bond t...

The Birth of the Blockbuster. How the prodigies of the 1970s revolutionized cinema For many film lovers, the 1970s represent a high point in creativity, a golden age of individualist directors making their marks. In this book you’ll find a h...

Blockbusters! Movies from the decade of excess, enormity, and experimentalism From epic Hollywood blockbusters to dystopian sci-fi fantasies: the movies of the 1980s saw the invention of a new movie-world so convincingly real that none dared resis...

Wunderkind, genius, rebel: the short life of a great man   In the whole history of classical music, is there anyone to equal Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Familiar with the pianoforte aged 3, composing at 5, if there is an argument for a genetic predispo...

June Newton, renowned under her photographic pseudonym Alice Springs, takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from her childhood in Australia, via work and travels with her husband, Helmut Newton, to life today in LA and Monaco. The photograp...

All about the Belle Époque. Delicate illustration that defined an era Alphonse Mucha gave the Belle Époque its visual character. His work permeated illustration and advertising of the day, most famously in striking posters of star ac...

The Scream of self-liberation. Paintings by one of Expressionism's pioneers For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological ef...

Fear, desperation, and death. Painting as an act of self-liberation For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on mode...

Psychodrama. The reverberating power of an Expressionist icon Take in the dark, compelling visions of Edvard Munch, artist of lurid colors, strange distortions, and a haunting Mona Lisa for modernity: The Scream. This essential introduction survey...