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One Big Slice of Cheesecake. Pin-up travels the long road from barracks wall to high art Since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leadin...

Lucas Cranach’s incendiary illustrations for Luther's 1534 Bible: the book that changed Christianity forever Martin Luther's Bible, published in 1534, was the first complete German Bible and a pivotal event in the history of Christia...

The Golden Hills before the Silicone Valley: Three decades of the world’s most spectacular natural curves Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts...

OK, imagine the best photos from the iconic first volume of the body parts series, The Big Book of Breasts, in a new 28 by 28 cm size, but popping off the page in state-of-the-art 3D. An impossible dream? Not so, Luddites! In this wonderful modern wo...

Lovely Legs: From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose. Running the gamut of gorgeous gams The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be ...

The cat’s out of the bag. The body part series wraps up with the origin of us all First, The Big Book of Breasts, then The Big Penis Book, The Big Book of Legs, and the weighty Big Butt Book. What could follow but an in-depth exploration of ...

The Kama Sutra gives detailed instructions on how to spank it. Contemporary Italians touch it for luck before placing a bet. Americans are having it cosmetically enhanced at rates approaching breast enlargement surgery. The female butt, tush, culo, o...

Coming at you! Watch how they follow you around the room It’s hard to imagine a book that could beat The Big Penis Book for grabbing attention and driving sales, unless it would be those same unimaginably colossal generative units seen in br...

After the bust out success of The Big Book of Breasts TASCHEN presents the perfect companion, The Big Penis Book. When it comes to pleasure, size doesn’t matter; as we all know it’s quality, not quantity, that counts. But let’s admit it: a big pen...

The Blaue Reiter (“Blue Rider”) group of artists was formed in Munich in 1911 on the initiative of two leading artists of Modernism: Wassily Kandinsky, the pioneer of purely abstract painting, and Franz Marc, the creator of mysterious, abstracted ani...

Let there be light. Medieval bible manuscripts in impeccable reproduction In the beginning, was the word, and in the Middle Ages were kings, princes, and high-ranking religious members whose wealth and influence produced illustrated bibles of...

Ольгу Родионову мало чем удивишь. Модель, актриса и жена олигарха по совместительству, она уже снималась и у Ньютона, и у Ляшапеля. Теперь вот позировала и прославленной Беттине Реймс, в результате чего появился этот коллекционный альбом, изданный ав...

Trees of Paradise. All known genera of the palm family in 240 exquisite illustrations On December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botani...

Handbook of Visual Experience. An exploration of symbols and their meanings throughout history The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras o...

Brilliance in a bowler hat. Delving into the archives of slapstick genius Three years in the making, and leaving no document unturned in the vast Chaplin archives, this XL tome follows the making of every one of Chaplin’s films. Featuring pe...