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Welcome to the comprehensive catalogue of logos. Across industry, media, music, and more, this far-reaching collection explores the irrepressible power of a brand's graphic representation. Thematic chapters explore how text, image, and ideas distill into a symbol. In handy reference-book size, this is a definitive introduction to the philosophy-and triumphs-of visual branding.

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Welcome to the most comprehensive catalogue of logos. Turning its searchlight on internationals' corporate identity, this encyclopedia gathers approximately 4,500 trademarks, with information about the designers, year of creation, country, and brand. In handy reference-book size, this is a sweeping survey of today's visual culture.

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Examine the distillation of modernism in graphic design with this vast collection of approximately 6,000 logos from 1940-1980. Ranging from media outfits to retail giants, airlines to art galleries, these clean, clear visual concepts may be seen as the visual birth of corporate identity.

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Artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was considered the most important figurative painter of his generation. Master portraitist and specialist in nudes, Freud used impasto to create depth and intensity while restraining his color palate to muted hues. His portraits may be physically unflattering to their subjects, but they are honest and unapologetic.

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From impossible staircases to tessellated birds, explore the graphic genius of M.C. Escher, master of quirky vantage points, mathematical puzzles, and the transition from paper flatness to illusory volume. This essential introduction presents key Escher works, exploring the evolution of a unique pictorial style that has captivated scientists and hippies alike.

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Meet the Belgian Surrealist forever on the hunt for magic and mystery. This introduction to Magritte presents key works from the artist's vast repertoire of visual humor, paradox, and surprise which makes us look and look again, not only at the painting, but at our sense of self and the world.

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Kiev-born artist Kazimir Malevich painted Black Square in 1915 and with it established the "zero point of painting," a seminal moment for modern and abstract practice. A century on from the Russian revolution, Malevich's groundbreaking pursuit of pure color and geometry remain pivotal influences in the Russian and global avant-garde.

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Discover the artist who applied paint according to the world around him and bridged the transition from Realism to Impressionism. This richly illustrated introduction to douard Manet presents his trailblazing panorama of contemporary life, from well-heeled classes in genteel city parks to the unabashed pose of the languid prostitute, Olympia.

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From breathtaking sunset panoramas to the throbbing chaos of carnival, Mario Testino captures a love poem to Rio Janeiro, the Brazilian metropolis that first captured his imagination at the tender age of 14, and never failed to inspire him since. As hot and sultry as the city itself, the portfolio includes candid shots of exquisite cariocas,...

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This unorthodox collection of various images chosen by Mario Testino from the span of his 30-year career reflects the diversity of his work, ranging from fashion and advertising shots to sexually-charged images and autobiographical photos. This selection is a testament to the sheer brilliance of a tireless chronicler of fabulousness.

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This book traces the evolution of male identity over the past three decades. In SIR, Mario Testino's largest book to-date, the photographer presents over 300 photographs in his search to define the allure of men. The portraits define a period in which men's changing role, style and appearance has never escaped Testino's eye and intuition.

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Mario Testino selects his finest male portraiture from the past 30 years. As costume, gender play, photojournalism, and fashion collide, this Eden of male allure is testimony both to Testino's unfailing eye for immediacy and elegance, and to the evolution of male self-expression over the past three decades.

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Since Galileo first observed Mars in 1610, the Red Planet has been an endless source of fascination, inspiring human imagination and scientific inquiry. Explore its polar ice caps, windswept dunes, and more unique landscapes through the eyes of NASA's orbiters, probes, and rovers, from the first flyby in 1965 to today's Perseverance mission.

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After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru, German botanist von Martius compiled an unsurpassed catalogue of all known genera of palm. This exquisite encyclopedic treasury is a jewel of 19th-century botany, as remarkable for its meticulous classification, as it is for its maps, color landscapes, and cross-sectioned diagrams showing the architecture of these majestic trees.

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After an epic Amazonian journey through Brazil and Peru from 1817 to 1820, German botanist Carl von Martius compiled a catalogue of all known genera of palm trees. This encyclopedic work, reproduced in our volume, is a jewel of 19th-century botany and is celebrated for its detailed classifications, maps, color landscapes and diagrams.

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Thor, Ant Man, the Wasp, the Hulk, and Iron Man broke new ground when they joined forces to form the Avengers in 1963. They not only fought together, they occasionally fought each other! The first 20 Avengers stories are collected in this volume-a fine art celebration worthy of Tony Stark's library.

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The Avengers-Marvel's dynamic ensemble of super heroes-return in a second volume of Marvel Age classics. Rediscover the glory years of Avengers legends Stan Lee and Don Heck with epic battles, new characters and the expansion of the Marvel universe in meticulously reproduced, large-format detail over the course of 20 original issues.Also available in a Collector's Edition of 1,000 numbered copies

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Witness the creation of the world's favorite web-slinger as dreamed up by comic book legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, who redefined what it meant to be a hero. The first 21 Spider-Man stories are collected in an intimate view of the teen hero's origin story and early exploits alongside original essays and rare artwork and ephemera.

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Spider-Man tangles with Doc Ock, Kraven, and the Green Goblin, while Peter Parker navigates the perils of teen romance in the second half of Lee and Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man magnum opus. This volume in the Eisner-Award winning series sources the highest quality comic books to reproduce meticulous editions that would make Aunt May proud.

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Grab a front row seat to the creation of "The Strangest Super-Heroes of All!" In this colossal collector's dream, the first 21 X-Men stories from 1963-1966 have been meticulously reproduced from the most pristine copies of these rare comic books- the fourth volume from TASCHEN's Eisner Award-winning Marvel Comics Library series.

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The first major career retrospective of this remarkable midcentury street photographer, largely undiscovered beyond a prestigious collector and gallery circle. Some 170 photographs reveal Newman's flawless technique and humanist sensibility through vivid New York cityscapes, riveting sports shots, and other inventive images from across the U.S.