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La belle vie

Impressionism's most joyful paintings

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospectives. His work shows art at its most light-hearted, sensual and luminous. Renoir never wanted anything ugly in his paintings, nor any dramatic action. "I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it’s a landscape," he said, "or pass my hand over breast or back if it’s a woman."

Renoir’s entire oeuvre is dominated by the depiction of women. Again and again he painted "these faunesses with their pouting lips" (Mallarmé) and invented a new image of feminity.

About the Series:
Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art Series features:

• a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance
• a concise biography
• approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions

The author:
Peter H. Feist studied art history, history and archaeology in Halle, where he was assistant lecturer from 1952-1958, receiving his doctorate in 1958. From 1958-1981 he worked at the Humboldt University, Berlin, from 1982-1990 he was the director of the Institute for Aesthetics and Art Studies of the GDR Academy of Sciences in East Berlin. Feist has published numerous books on the history and theory of art, including TASCHEN's Pierre-Auguste Renoir and, as co-author, Impressionism. He lives and works in Berlin.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) is so heavily associated with Impressionist painting that his last creative period has frequently been ignored. This publication devotes itself to precisely these last three creative and innovative decades, in which Renoir abandoned Impressionism.

He dedicated himself during this period to cheerful subjects such as bathers, domestic idylls, and landscapes that were influenced by both classical mythology and his move to the south ofFrance. His fluid brushstrokes and masterful use of color were much admired by the up-and-coming modernist avant-garde.

More than three hundred color illustrations graphically demonstrate the influence Renoir had on younger artists such as Bonnard, Matisse, and Picasso, as well as the ways they examined his work.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) is so closely associated with Impressionist painting that the surprising diversity of his early work is frequently forgotten. His most important model during these early years was the artist’s mistress, Lise Tréhot, with whom he had a relationship between 1865 and 1872. After posing for a large group of prominent early works, including Woman in a Garden and En été (both 1868), Lise turned her back on the Bohemian lifestyle in favor of a bourgeois marriage. The paintings created between 1864 and the end of the following decade show the broad spectrum of Renoir’s art and the development of his artistic vocabulary, including the Impressionist phase. This is the first extensive examination of the painter’s early oeuvre and the strong influence of his close friendships with other artists, such as Éd0uard Manet, Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley.

La Vie en Rose. The most comprehensive retrospective of Renoir’s work

Often misunderstood, Pierre-Auguste Renoir remains one of history’s most-loved painters — undoubtedly because his work exudes such warmth, tenderness, and good cheer. Gathering brilliant reproductions and sketches, as well as photos and a complete chronology illustrating his life and work, this is the essential work of reference on Renoir.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s (1841–1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir remains one of history’s most well-loved painters — undoubtedly because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good spirit.

In an incisive text tracing the artist’s career and stylistic evolution, Gilles Néret shows how Renoir reinvented the painted female form, with his everyday goddesses and their plump forms, rounded hips and breasts. Renoir’s later phase, marked by his return to the simple pleasure of the female nude in his baigneuses series, was his most innovative and stylistically influential, and would inspire such masters as Matisse and Picasso.

With a complete chronology, bibliography, photos, sketches, and brilliant reproductions, this is the essential work of reference on this enduring master artist.

The author:

Gilles Néret (1933–2005) was an art historian, journalist, writer, and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU Museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L'Œil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Élie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. His TASCHEN titles include Salvador Dalí: The Paintings, Matisse, and Erotica Universalis.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

250 illustrations

The restaurant boom of the past two decades has been a breeding-ground for arresting graphic design. At the top end of the market a restaurant’s menu, matchbooks, business cards, signage and napkins are as important to the brand and image as its interiors. Lower down the scale, where design budgets tend to be tighter, they become absolutely vital. When you don’t have the money for endless revamps of your interior how else do you differentiate yourself in a crowded market? It’s here that graphic design takes the strain, regularly setting the entire tone of a restaurant. This book celebrates the unsung heroes of restaurant graphics and illustrates the best examples of their craft from around the world, from agencies such as Pentagram, Bruce Mau, Lippa Pearce, Frost, North and Cake Design.

The Egyptian Revolution that began on 25 January 2011 immediately gave rise to a wave of popular political and social expression in the form of graffiti and street art that were almost unknown under the old regime.

Mia Gröndahl has followed and documented the rapidly changing graffiti art of the new Egypt from its beginnings, and here in more than 430 colour images celebrates the imagination, skill, humour and political will of the young artists and activists who have claimed the walls of Cairo and other Egyptian cities as their canvas.

From the simplest hand-written messages, through stencils and martyr portraits, to the elaborate murals of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, the messages on the walls are presented in sections punctuated by interviews with some of the individual artists whose work has broken fresh ground
• Revolution & Freedom,
• Egyptian & Proud,
• Cross & Crescent,
• Martyrs & Heroes

Людське тіло є складною темою для зображення через його складність і рухливість. «Щоб зробити це добре, потрібні глибокі знання анатомії та усвідомлення того, що лежить під усіма частинами тіла, адже найбільше фігуративне мистецтво справляє враження, що всередині тіла є живий скелет», — зазначає художник і ветеран мистецтвознавства Рей Бастос. Завдяки Rey’s Anatomy: Figurative Art Lessons from the Classroom Бустос надає важливу анатомічну інформацію, докладні дослідження та цінні посібники з малювання, щоб озброїти художників базовим уявленням про структуру скелета та м’язову систему людського тіла.

Викладаючи малювання фігур протягом 30 років, він надзвичайно доступно представляє складні концепції, посилаючись на роботи старих майстрів, щоб продемонструвати, як митець може взяти ті самі анатомічні знання та виразити їх різноманітними та особистими способами та, навчаючись і практикуючись, зобразити людську форму, не перешкоджаючи процесу чи інтелекту. Rey’s Anatomy спочатку досліджує анатомію, а потім щоденні вправи з малювання, які допомагають удосконалити фігуративну роботу, водночас показуючи надзвичайну роботу його учнів у всій книзі — поряд із його власною — що свідчить про те, як його уроки принесли користь поколінням художників.

Про автора:

РейБусто — один із видатних викладачів художньої анатомії країни. Він із відзнакою закінчив престижний коледж дизайну ArtCenter у 1989 році й відтоді викладає фігурне малювання, композицію, двовимірну та тривимірну анатомію. Наразі Бустос викладає в коледжі дизайну ArtCenter у Пасадені, Каліфорнія, Академії образотворчого мистецтва Лос-Анджелеса та Академії мистецтв Клайн у Калвер-Сіті, Каліфорнія, а також проводить онлайн-заняття в Академії комп’ютерної графіки Masters Academy (CGMA), New Masters Academy та Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

«Ми всі виступаємо. Це те, що ми робимо один для одного весь час, навмисно чи ненавмисно. Це спосіб розповісти про себе в надії, що нас визнають такими, якими ми хотіли б бути».
- Річард Аведон, 1974

Видатні зірки та митці сценічного мистецтва другої половини 20-го століття запропонували свої найбільші дари, а іноді й своє внутрішнє життя, Річарду Аведону. Більше 200 зображено на Performance, багато з них на фотографіях, які рідко чи ніколи раніше не бачили. Звичайно, великі зірки освітлюють шлях: Хепберн і Чаплін, Монро і Гарленд, Брандо і Сінатра. Але тут також є актори та коміки, поп-зірки та діви, музиканти та танцюристи, митці у всіх засобах масової інформації, публічне життя яких, по суті, було виставою, які стоять на вершині наших культурних досягнень.

Відомий автор і критик Джон Лар пропонує елегантну оцінку досягнень Аведона. Чотири надзвичайно талановиті митці сценічного мистецтва – Майк Ніколс, Андре Грегорі, Міцуко Учіда та Твіла Тарп – пишуть живі та зворушливі спогади про свою співпрацю з Аведоном.

Про авторів:

Джон Лар – старший драматичний критик The New Yorker.У 2002 році він став першим драматичним критиком, який отримав премію Тоні.

Майк Ніколс — американський режисер, сценарист і продюсер, лауреат премій «Еммі», «Оскар», «Греммі» та «Тоні». Андре Грегорі — американський режисер і актор. Його найвідомішою появою у фільмі стала головна роль у фільмі «Моя вечеря з Андре».

Міцуко Учіда — класична піаністка, відома своїми записами Моцарта, Бетховена та Шуберта.

Твайла Тарп – провідна американська танцівниця та хореограф.

This lavishly illustrated volume documents the first public presentation of a recent monumental sculpture by Richard Serra, one of the most significant artists of his generation.

Richard Serra has produced large-scale sculptures for architectural, urban, and landscape settings spanning the globe. This volume, published to coincide with a 2021–22 exhibition at Gagosian Le Bourget in Paris, presents a recent sculpture by the artist: Transmitter (2020). Made of weatherproof steel, Transmitter is monumental in scale, measuring approximately 4 meters in height and 18 meters in width and length. Here, immersive installation views of the sculpture within the vast exhibition space of Gagosian Le Bourget in Paris are accompanied by plate photography of fourteen recent works on paper by the artist. A new text by art historian Maria Stavrinaki (in English and French) reads Serra’s long sculptural practice through three formal, temporal, and political moments.

Richard Serra was born in 1938 in San Francisco, and lives and works in New York. His work is held in major museum collections around the world. Since 1983, Gagosian has presented thirty-seven exhibitions of Serra’s work in the United States and Europe.

About the Authors:

Maria Stavrinaki is Associate Professor of Art History and Theory at the Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked extensively on the art of the 20th century and is particularly interested in questions of time and history in modernity, working at the crossroads of artist practices and discourses, the construction of the human sciences, and political questions. Her most recent book is Saisis par la préhistoire: Enquête sur l’art et le temps des modernes (2019), translated into English by Zone Books (Transfixed by Prehistory: An Inquiry into Modern Art and Time, 2022).  She co-curated the exhibition Préhistoire: Une énigme moderne at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2019), and is currently preparing an exhibition on art in the atomic age for the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2024).

A career-spanning retrospective of one of the most successful British filmmakers in Hollywood’s history

‘If I were pressed to describe my style, I’d have to say it is called reality. No matter how stylized it gets, underneath it’s real.’ Ridley Scott

Illustrated with images as iconic as they are stunning and including the author’s first-hand experiences on set and interviews with Scott himself, this book charts the extraordinary journey of Britain’s greatest living director.

Telling the stories behind Alien and Blade Runner, Gladiator and Black Hawk Down, and many more, it also goes in search of the themes and motifs that unite such different films, and the methods of Scott’s approach to his medium.

This is the account of a director who has never been less than stubbornly, brilliantly, unforgettably his own man.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. Obsessions • 2. Perfect Organism • 3. Ridleyville • 4. After Dark • 5. Thelma & Louise Live Forever! • 6. Storms • 7. Veni, Vidi, Ridley • 8. Stray Dogs • 9. Outsiders • 10. Antiheroes • 11. Origin Story • 12. Lost Souls • 13. What Would Ridley Do? • 14. Family Business • Epilogue • Filmography

About the Author:

Ian Nathan, who lives and works in London, is one of the UK’s best-known film writers. He is the author of nine previous books, including Alien Vault, the best-selling history of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece, Terminator Vault, Tarantino, Tim Burton, The Coen Brothers and Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle-earth. He is the former editor and executive editor of Empire, the world’s biggest movie magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. He also regularly contributes to The Times, The Independent, The Mail on Sunday, Cahiers Du Cinema and the Discovering Film documentary series on Sky Arts. 

Rings are perhaps the most common and yet the most evocative pieces of jewellery. Worn as a sign of love or as a fashion accessory, to mark weddings, remember the dead, or show religious faith, the unbroken circle, decorated or elegantly unadorned, holds a multitude of meanings for every wearer.

From simple medieval hoops worn to ward off disease to the glamorous rocks worn by Hollywood starlets, to the stunning works of art created by contemporary artist jewellers, this book offers a beautifully illustrated introduction to rings.

The history of jazz, which began at the start of the 20th century, is the story of artists who developed their music especially in big cities like New Orleans, Chicago or New York. The roads of jazz are marked by great names and they present different styles; they do not end in America but reach every continent.

6 CDs present the music of different jazz styles, from classic New Orleans jazz, swing and bebop up to cool and West Coast jazz. The recordings of creative innovators or of jazz musicians who were typical at a certain time demonstrate the development of the music.

500 colour plates

This book is the first complete listing of Robert Gober’s sculptures and installations made between 1979 to 2007. It comprises around 250 catalogued works, all with large-format illustrations. Comprehensive descriptions are rounded out with the artist’s commentary on individual works, as well as technical information on how they were produced and the history behind them.

It's perhaps the relative modernity of rock 'n' roll that makes the genre a minefield of myths and legends accepted as truth. History hasn't had time to dissect the bunk. Until now.

Discover the real stories behind rock's biggest crocks, how they came to be but why they have persisted. Did Cass Elliott really asphyxiate herself with a ham sandwich? Did the Beatles spark a spliff in Buckingham? Did Willie Nelson do the same in the White House? Did Keith Richards get a complete "oil change" at a Swiss clinic in 1973 to pass a drug test necessary to embark on an American tour with the Stones?

Then there's the freaky (did Michael Jackson own the remains of the Elephant Man?), the quasi-medical (Rod Stewart and that stomach pump?), the culinary (did Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne really do all those things to bats, chickens, etc. onstage?), and the apocryphal (did Robert Johnson sell his soul to the Prince of Darkness in exchange for mastery of the blues?).

In all, more than 50 enduring lies are examined, explained, and debunked.