Celebrate television art with TASCHENs two-volume tribute to Mad Men. The bonanza edition includes a full seven-season sequence of stills as well as a bounty of script excerpts, production ephemera, on-set photographs, notes from the writers room, and candid interviews with the shows superstar ensemble on and off screen, including Matthew...

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Discover the magical and unconventional world of the iconic master and pioneer in Dada and Surrealist movements, Max Ernst. His captivating work stands out for its varied style and technique and illustrates not only his brilliant and extraordinary ideas but also pushes against the constraints of the rational mind.

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Trace the complete career of cult American architect Richard Meier. With abundant images, this introductory book takes in Meiers sleek white modernism through all his most famous and most recent commissions. Featured projects include the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Burda Collection Museum in Baden-Baden, Germany.

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Europe's reputation as the center of the culinary world is confirmed with this expansive array of restaurant menus from across the continent. From extravagant bills of fare for royal feasts to delectable mid-century minimalist graphics, the gustatory customs of dozens of European countries are revealed in this encyclopedic design compendium.

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With a patented seven-bulb 1200-watt strobe lighting rig, Michael Muller dives to ocean depths around the world to photograph sharks with the same precision and proximity he achieved in Hollywood studios. This book brings together his most spectacular shots, including the first-known photograph of a great white breaching at night.

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Nicknamed "il divino," Renaissance genius Michelangelo combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces across sculpture, painting, and architecture. From The Piet to the extraordinary ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, this book provides the essential introduction to the artist's revolutionary ideas and awe-inspiring artworks.

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Michelangelo was a genius of unrivaled virtuosity. This dependable edition traces the extraordinary depth and breadth of his work and his ascent to the elite of the Renaissance and art history with ten richly illustrated chapters covering the artist's paintings, sculptures, and architecture with special focus on the tour de force frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.

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This XL edition traces the extraordinary depth and breadth of Michelangelo's work and his ascent to the elite of the Renaissance and art history. Ten richly illustrated chapters cover the artist's paintings, sculptures, and architecture, with special focus on the tour de force frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.

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A tribute to Bowie from the artist's official photographer, Mick Rock. This collection includes stage shots, backstage photographs, and more, to chart the musical, theatrical, and sexual revolution of the 1972-73 Ziggy Stardust world tour, and to celebrate the eternal inspiration of an outstanding artist.

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Sit back with this anthology of ads and zoom back in time to the height of American postwar consumerism, when real life Don Drapers labored day and night to sell everything from girdles to guns. This panorama of midcentury marketing paints a fascinating portrait of the 1950s and 60s, high in color, crisp fonts, and sexy, carefree capitalism.

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Sit back with this anthology of ads and zoom back in time to the height of American postwar consumerism, when real life Don Drapers labored day and night to sell everything from girdles to guns. This panorama of midcentury marketing paints a fascinating portrait of the 1950s and '60s, high in color, crisp fonts, and sexy, carefree capitalism.

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50 years ago, people used film cameras just as we use smartphones today. They photographed their meals, holidays, loved ones, celebrations, and family reunions. Imagining the past lives of these strangers is the beauty and mystery of The Anonymous Project. The places, dates, and people may be unknown, but the stories are universally familiar.

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Discover the master of the modern minimalist, Mies van der Rohe, one of the defining and most hotly debated tastemakers of the twentieth century. In pursuit of elemental truth, van der Rohe crafted an "almost nothing" architecture, criticized by some as bland, extolled by others as the paradigm of purity.

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Explore the lyrical seven-decade career of Catalan-born Joan Mir, a towering figure of 20th-century art, whose highly individual style reflected Surrealist, Dadaist, and abstract elements in dazzling colors and unique symbolic narratives. From automated drawing to sculptures made of gas, this modernist legend abandoned categorization and approval in favor of his own dreamlike worlds.

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Explore the A-Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti's colored geometries to Zaha Hadid's free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features more than 280 profiles of architects, styles, movements, and trends that have shaped structures from the 19th to the 21st century.

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Explore the A to Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti's colored geometries to Zaha Hadid's free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features almost 300 profiles of architects, styles, movements, and trends that have shaped structures from the 19th to the 21st century.

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Over 200 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and conceptual pieces trace the story of modern art's innovation and adventure. With explanatory texts for each work, and essays introducing each of the major modern movements, this is an authoritative overview of the ideas and the artworks that shook up standards, assaulted the establishment, and trailblazed new ideas.

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Renowned for his distinctive, elongated female nudes, Amedeo Modigliani is a legend of early modernism. His unique figuration corresponded to his own personal idea of beauty, but drew upon a rich variety of visual influences, including contemporary Cubism, African carvings, Cambodian sculptures, and 13th-century painting from his native Italy.

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Less was more for Piet Mondrian. With his strictly limited pictorial elements-the colors red, yellow, and blue, black lines, white space-he sought a 'universal harmony' and created a whole new domain of avant-garde abstraction. This essential guide presents Mondrian's pioneering oeuvre, as well as his works of fashion and design, from White Stripes album covers to haute-couture dresses.

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Explore the incomparable reach of the most beloved of impressionist masters, Claude Monet. Working en plein air, Monet's dappled renderings of the reality taking place "between the motif and the artist" emphasized the ephemeral moment and with it became eternal markers of burgeoning modernism.

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Claude Monet's Impressionist technique still inspires to this day. Whether it's his stunning Water Lilies series, or genre-defining Impression, Sunrise, discover what made Monet the master of French 19th-century art in this exuberant exploration of his life and work.

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Claude Monet's Impressionist technique still inspires to this day. Whether it's his stunning Water Lilies series, or genre-defining Impression, Sunrise, discover what made Monet the master of French 19th-century art in this exuberant exploration of his life and work.

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William Morris was a polymath designer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, associated with England's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as well as Arts and Crafts movement. His prolific design work included tiles, embroidery, tapestries, wallpaper, and carpets and championed handcraftsmanship, natural dyes, "art for all", and beautiful patterns of subtly stylized natural forms.