Книги издательства Taschen

Back to the future. Visionary architecture in postwar Japan Architect Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist compile a history of Metabolism: the first non-Western avant-garde architecture, born out of postwar Tokyo. Extensive interviews and ...

French architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was one of the most important constructors of the 20th century. Prouvé's design innovations included cleverly-shaped metal parts for building prefabricated structures; he designe...

Utilitarian simplicity and graceful beauty The inspirational vision of Jean Prouvé French architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901–1984) was one of the most important constructors of the 20th century. Prouvé’s d...

Shapes of Things to Come. Jean Prouvé’s economical elegance French architect and designer Jean Prouvé innovated crisp, economical construction designs, marrying inexpensive materials and mass production with aesthetic elegance ...

People all over the world are fascinated by Provence. It is the untamed Roman provincia, stretching from the crags of Vaucluse and undulating fields of lavender to fishing villages on the Mediterranean. From the whitewashed buildings of the Camargue ...

Icons Series Traverse a wordless cross-section of Provence images, each as lovely as one would imagine in one`s dreams, together painting a vivid mosaic of Provençal living.

Traverse a wordless cross-section of Provence images, each as lovely as one would imagine in one's dreams, together painting a vivid mosaic of Provençal living.

Peace, love, and pudenda. How men's magazines turned hot and hippy between 1967–1972 In a brief golden span between 1967 and 1972, the sexual revolution collided with recreational drug exploration to create "psychedelic sex." W...

Contemporary goes Mainstream We tend to divide buildings into two basic categories - private structures such as houses, and public buildings like railway stations, concert halls or museums. Public buildings have limits of their own: whether a cour...

Is the bride pregnant? What are clogs doing on a marriage picture? Why is just one candle burning in the chandelier? And what does the mirror in the background reveal? Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen provide answers to these and other questions about 100...

A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deus ex machina, master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his recent work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously ...

Perfectly intimate. The infinite subtlety of the female form Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly graphic, meticulously...

Perfectly Intimate. The infinite subtlety of the female form Master photographer Ralph Gibson returns with an exquisite collection of nudes, combining the best of his work with an in-depth interview by Eric Fischl. St...

Painting the divine Heavenly grace and human grandeur Influenced by his contemporaries Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael Santi (1483-1520) became, in his own right, one of the most important artists of the High Renaissance. Though Raphael pain...

Variations on reality in the 20th century Art imitates life in the work of the realists. Through painting, photography, and sculpture, 20th-century realists invoke reality in works that capture what Freud called "the uncanny"—the i...