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For thirty-two years, the artist Margaret Mee was enchanted by and lured back again and again to the massive, unpredictable and fertile rainforests of Amazonas. Her initial objective, to search out and illustrate the glorious flora growing in the tree canopies and along the innumerable waterways of the great rivers of the Amazon basin, was later combined with a growing concern at the commercial plunder of the great forests.

Her first expedition to Amazonas was in 1956 and it was then that she began to keep the diaries that, along with her paintings, drawings and sketches, make up this book. Although plant hunting always came first whenever possible and practical, other events often took over. A small dug-out canoe could become a waterlogged, if not dangerous, place to be; rapids had to be got through; recalcitrant boatmen were gently or sternly coerced; drunken prospectors were held off with a revolver. She was fascinated by the rich mix of Brazilians she came across and often lived with for a time; she was especially fond of the riverines she met, and over the years became friends with many of them.

Between expeditions, some of which lasted for up to four months, Margaret returned home to Sul Paulo, to teaching commitments, and to her own painting. Unpredictable weather, transport and guides meant she often had to make hurried in situ sketches (always meticulously annotated) which she later worked up into coloured sketches and finished paintings.

In the Autumn of 1988, just after what was sadly to be her last expedition, Margaret came to England to lecture to the Royal Geographic Society and attend the opening of an exhibition of her paintings, Margaret Mee's Amazon, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It is ironic that this enthusiastic lover of the Amazon, who had braved so many hazardous and alarming situations, was killed in a car crash in England. She was seventy-nine, keen to return to the Amazon, and still producing fine work. There is every reason to suppose that more passion and more painting would have been forthcoming. As it is, her legacy is incalculable.

Thirty years after her death, Maria Callas is still one of the great divas of the opera. The soprano singer - unique in her self-dramatisation, expression and musicality - is remembered for her brilliant performances on opera stages around the world. Her breakthrough came in Verona in 1947 but it was La Scala in Milan where she celebrated her greatest triumphs. Her love affair with Aristotle Onassis made headlines the world over. This earBOOK shows the life of the great singer, her childhood and her big stage success. It also offers an intimate glimpse at her private life.

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Beautifully illustrated with rare and unpublished material, Marilyn recounts the life of one of America's most loved actresses. This is the unseen and beloved Marilyn from childhood to Hollywood from beautiful starlet to wife of the nation's greatest sporting hero, one of its most acclaimed intellectuals and lover of a President..

Three legends. "Monroe" by Mailer and Stern.

Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary "Last Sitting" - widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever taken - to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of glamour and criticism for an entire generation. But though she was feted and adored by her public, her private life was that of a little girl lost, desperate to find love and security.

Mailer's Marilyn is beautiful, tragic, and complex. As Mailer reflects upon her life - from her bleak childhood through to the mysterious circumstances of her death - she emerges as a symbol of the bizarre decade during which she reigned as Hollywood's greatest female star.

This book, conceived by Lawrence Schiller, Mailer's collaborator on five works, combines the author's masterful text with Stern's penetrating images of the 36-year-old Marilyn. Photographed for "Vogue" magazine over three days at the Bel-Air Hotel, Marilyn had never allowed such unfettered access, nor had she looked so breathtakingly beautiful. Six weeks later, mysteriously, she was dead. In this bold synthesis of literary classic and legendary portrait sitting, Mailer and Stern lift the veils of confusion surrounding Monroe - the woman, the star, the sex symbol - and offer profound insight into an iconic figure whose true personality remains an enigma even today.

First published as a TASCHEN limited collector's edition, this book is now available in a popular hardcover version, published on the 50th anniversary of Bert Stern's "Last Sitting" and of Marilyn Monroe's death, August 5, 1962.

Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson - American actress, singer, model and film producer was one of the most iconic stars of the 20th century. She became known as one of Hollywood`s greatest sex symbols, was praised for her comedic ability in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and won a Golden Globe for her performance in Some Like It Hot. Monroe was hailed as one of the greatest female stars of all time by the American Film Institute. This book charts the extraordinary life of this Hollywood legend, from her early life through her illustrious career, with rare and classic photographs.

"Forget everything you think you know about this person," Elia Kazan cautioned, in his autobiography. The icon we cherish under the name Marilyn Monroe was in truth the inspired creation of a smart, voluptuous, star struck and self-motivated fantasist named Norma Jean Mortenson. A pure product of Hollywood, she abides across time as brightly as two other self-inventors, Charlie Chaplin and Cary Grant. Few things make an afterlife blaze more mythically than a sexual reputation - ask Cleopatra. Norma Jean paid a huge price to become Marilyn, yet here she is - still setting the bar high for all other would-be goddesses.

The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.

Icon, legend, actress, star - all these words can be used to describe Marilyn Monroe and yet they simply do not do her justice, because she was so much more.

Norma Jean has inspired and created more headlines than any other movie actress - yet her marriages, affairs and life choices all distract us from the talent of this very beautiful woman. Part of the successful " Life in pictures" series, this book presents Marilyn at her very best. Following her from toddler to teen, to one of Hollywood's best-loved celebrities, we gain a unique insight into her life, loves and career.

Over 160 pictures represent impressive iconographic research, including personal photos, images from national archives, private collections and press agencies - some not published before. Famous quotes on and from Monroe further reveal the thoughts of her closest friends, collaborators and admirers.

This is both a unique collection and a visual reminder of why Marilyn has endured as one of our most fascinating and best-loved Hollywood stars. 

There have been many Marilyn Monroe photo books - but nothing like this.

Curator and photographic preservationist David Wills has amassed one of the world’s largest independent archives of original Marilyn Monroe photographs. Now, in Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis, he has gathered spectacular, museum-quality work from Marilyn’s key photographers - Richard Avedon, George Barris, Cecil Beaton, Bernard of Hollywood, Andre de Dienes, Elliott Erwitt, Milton Greene, Philippe Halsman, Tom Kelley, Douglas Kirkland, Willy Rizzo, Sam Shaw, and many others - to create this dazzling portfolio of images from every period of Marilyn Monroe’s adult life, from her wedding day in 1942 till just weeks before her death two decades later. Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis pays homage to her continually evolving style and extraordinary beauty.

Among the highlights:

Previously unseen Kodachrome, dye transfer, and Carbro prints of Norma Jeane from her modeling career.

Classic portraits and pinups in luscious full color, digitally restored from the original transparencies.

Never-before-seen photos from the sets of The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, The Misfits, and Something’s Got to Give.

Rare candids of Marilyn with Marlon Brando, Clark Gable, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Queen Elizabeth II, Joe DiMaggio, Arthur Miller, and others.

Previously unpublished photos by Richard Avedon, George Barris, Cecil Beaton, David Conover, Elliott Erwitt, John Florea, Tom Kelley, Richard C. Miller, Frank Powolny, Willy Rizzo, Zinn Arthur, and many others.

Pairing more than two hundred first-generation photos with reflections on Marilyn from her friends, work associates, and admirers—and including her last interview, in which she reflects on her life and fame—Marilyn Monroe: Metamorphosis is an unforgettable showcase of the actress’s transformation from an unknown factory worker to one of the most recognized faces in history.

Marina Abramovic (b.1946) is a pivotal figure whose performance-based works have revolutionized visual art and continue to be embraced by the latest generation of artists, critics and art historians

Her iconic endurance works have featured prominently in virtually every comprehensive survey of performance art
With a career that spans more than thirty years, Abramovic continues to produce groundbreaking new work, including the acclaimed seven-day performance Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim in 2005

As the first book in more than a decade to look at her work in its entirety, this monograph will offer a fresh take on an artist whose work is key to understanding the latest developments in contemporary art

At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramovic (*1946 in Belgrade, Serbia) is one of the most discussed artists today. Famous for her groundbreaking performance works, she continues to expand the boundaries of art. The publication accompanying her first major retrospective in Europe gives an extensive overview of her work from the earliest years until today: film, photography, paintings and objects, installations and archival material.

Since the early 1970s Marina Abramovic explores the intersection between performing and visual art in her work and, though rarely overtly political, poses questions of power and hierarchy. In addressing fundamental issues of our existence and seeking the core of notions like loss, memory, pain, endurance, and trust, she both provokes and moves us. 

Mark Rothko belongs to the generation of American artists who completely revolutionized the essence of abstract painting. His stylistic evolution, from a figurative visual repertoire to an abstract style rooted in the active relationship of the observer to the painting, embodied the radical vision of a renaissance in painting. Rothko characterized this relationship as "a consummated experience between picture and onlooker". His colour formations indeed draw the observer into a space filled with an inner light.

Rothko always resisted attempts to interpret his paintings. He was mainly concerned with the viewer's experience, the merging of work and recipient beyond verbal comprehension. Rothko was an intellectual, a thinker, a highly educated man. He loved music and literature and was very involved in philosophy, especially in the works of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and of ancient Greek philosophy and mythology.

Rothko was a protagonist within the movement of American painters who became known as the Abstract Expressionists. First formed in New York City during the inter-war years, this group was also called the New York School. In all the history of art, they became the first American artists to receive international recognition as a significant movement. Many among them, including Rothko, have become legendary figures.

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

* a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
* approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
* a concise biography

The first publication dedicated exclusively to Mark Rothko’s art during the critical formative period of the 1940s.

Examining the development and artistic exploration of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, this unprecedented volume presents the works of American artist MarkRothko from the 1940s, a time when his most essential development as a painter occurred, dramatically and in a very compact space of time. During this period, Rothko moved from expressive figurative and surrealist canvases to more abstract multiform subjects and finally to his signature abstractions - luminous rectangles of colour suspended in space.

Richly illustrated with works by Rothko and his contemporaries, and with essays by prominent Rothko scholars, this important new book deepens our understanding of Rothko’s art during this vital period, and that of the mature works that emerged from it.

About the Author:

Todd Herman is the director of the Arkansas Arts Center. David Anfam is an independent scholar in London and the author of the Rothko catalogue raisonné of works on canvas. Modern and contemporary American art scholar Bradford R. Collins is the chair of the University of South Carolina’s art department. Harry Cooper is a curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Ruth Fine is a curator of special projects in modern art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Rothko’s works on paper. The son of Mark Rothko, Christopher Rothko is a writer and psychologist.

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Пухнасті зайчики, великоокі дівчата, м'ясо, магія та таємниця. Карнавал курйозів Марка Райдена

Поєднуючи теми поп-культури з технікою, що нагадує старих майстрів, Марк Райден створив унікальний стиль, який стирає традиційні межі між високим і низьким мистецтвом. Його роботи вперше привернули увагу в 1990-х роках, коли він започаткував новий жанр живопису, «поп-сюрреалізм», потягнувши за собою безліч послідовників. Він перевершив початкові сюрреалістичні стратегії, вибравши предмет, насичений культурним відтінком.

Словниковий запас Райдена коливається від загадкового до милого, проходячи тонку межу між ностальгічним кліше та тривожним архетипом. Спокушений його нескінченно деталізованими та ретельно обробленими поверхнями, глядач стикається з протиставленням дитячої невинності та таємничих закутків душі. У його картинах панує тонке занепокоєння; робота неймовірно красива, оскільки натякає на темніші психічні речі під поверхнею культурного кітчу. У світі Райдена дівчата-херувими торкаються ліктів дивними та таємничими фігурами. Вишукано різьблені рами надають картинам пишності бароко, що додає серйозності їхнім загадковим темам. Роботи Райдена, складні за своєю таємничою та своєрідною темою, не залишать байдужим жодного глядача.

Pinxit, назва якого вказує на латинський термін, що означає «намальований», організований за темами головних виставок Райдена — The Meat Show, Bunnies & Bees, The Tree Show тощо — і включає збірку есе Йошітомо Нари, Карло Маккорміка та інших, а також нове есе культуролога Крістін Маккенни. Ця масштабна ретроспектива об’єднує картини та роботи Марка Райдена, написані на папері майже за два десятиліття, розширюючи горизонти його дивовижного всесвіту та представляючи його світові, сторінку за сторінкою.

Художник:

Марк Райден отримав ступінь бакалавра в 1987 році в коледжі дизайну Art Center у Пасадені. Його картини виставлялися в музеях і галереях по всьому світу, включаючи ретроспективу Wondertoonel в Музеї мистецтв Фрай в Сіетлі та Музеї каліфорнійського мистецтва Пасадени, а також на виставці The Artist’s Museum в Музеї сучасного мистецтва в Лос-Анджелесі. Зараз живе і працює в Лос-Анджелесі.

Нові роботи відомого поп-сюрреаліста Марка Райдена, представлені в цій книзі вперше.

Коронований «вищим принцом Лоуброу», Марк Райден став невід’ємною частиною руху сучасного альтернативного мистецтва. У своїй найновішій роботі Mark Ryden: The Gay 90’s митець демонструє свою спотворену перспективу на рубежі дев’ятнадцятого століття за допомогою таких моторошних, але красивих робіт, як портрет Авраама Лінкольна, одягненого в моду 1890-х років і оточеного небесним німбом, Ісуса Христа, який грає на рожевому піаніно для аудиторії дівчат-трійнят kewpie, і Дівчина Гібсона в тугому корсеті, повністю виготовленому з м'яса.

Завдяки майстерній техніці малювання та тривожному змісту найновіші картини Райдена демонструють його захоплення щирим кітчем, який зустрічається в популярному мистецтві кінця 1800-х років, і водночас підкреслюють, що його картини зараз, як ніколи, є поєднанням як історичних, так і сучасних поп-культурних елементів. Візуальні підказки Райдена варіюються від загадкових до милих, балансуючи між ностальгічним кліше та тривожним архетипом.

Ця книга демонструє його талант створювати картини, які поєднують доступність і техніку з інтуїційним резонансом і соціокультурною актуальністю, завдяки чому легко зрозуміти, чому він привертає палку увагу музеїв, критиків і серйозних колекціонерів.

Про автора:

Поєднуючи теми поп-культури з технікою мистецтва, що нагадує старих майстрів, Марк Райден створив унікальний стиль, який стирає традиційні межі між високим і низьким мистецтвом. Його картини виставлялися в музеях і галереях по всьому світу, а його роботи є частиною постійної колекції Музею мистецтв округу Лос-Анджелес. Аманда Ерлансон — письменниця, колекціонер творів мистецтва та редактор арт-блогу «Erratic Phenomena».

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Marlene Dietrich once said, "I am not a myth." But by referencing the term, Dietrich only reinforces the fact more emphatically. For, using almost any common dictionary definition of that word, Dietrich is a myth. Her image was fashioned by director Josef von Sternberg in films like The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express, and The Scarlet Empress, after which she maintained a Hollywood career that included Destry Rides Again, Rancho Notorious, and an accomplished performance in Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution. She has been an object of worship to millions throughout the decades, up to and including this jaded, post-modern 21st century. She is the "intellectual's pin up girl," as author Herman G. Weinberg called her, of filmmakers and film critics alike. She is the "Monstre Sacre" as one of her recent biographers has labeled her. She is her own "Superior Product," (her daughter's words) manufactured and refined in her fertile brain. In other words, Marlene Dietrich is an icon for all ages.

The Movie Icon series: People talk about Hollywood glamour, about studios that had more stars than there are in heaven, about actors who weren't actors but were icons. Other people talk about these things, TASCHEN shows you. Movie Icons is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema.

These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars. For each title, series editor Paul Duncan has painstaking selected approximately 150 high quality enigmatic and sumptuous portraits, colorful posters and lobby cards, rare film stills, and previously unpublished candid photos showing the stars as they really are. These images are accompanied by concise introductory essays by leading film writers; each book also includes a chronology, a filmography, and a bibliography, and is peppered with apposite quotes from the movies and from life.