(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Discover the master of Modernist simplicity in this overview of Tadao Ando's entire career. Following the architect from his beginnings in 1975 to today, this updated tribute profiles each structure through fresh photographs and drawings, and includes such new projects as the He Art Museum in Foshan, China, and the Bourse de Commerce in Paris.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Discover the master of Modernist simplicity, Tadao Ando. Bringing our XXL-sized tribute to a smaller, more convenient format, this collection spans the architect's entire career-including new projects like the Shanghai Poly Grand Theater and the Roberto Garza Sada Center in Monterrey, Mexico-and profiles each structure through photographs and architectural drawings.

(Hardback)

Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book reveals more than 150 instant pictures by the artist. From self-portraits to still lives, anonymous nudes to New York high society, from Cabbage Patch dolls to Dolly Parton, Keith Haring to Audrey Hepburn, these impromptu images offer a unique record of the Pop Art maestro's world.

(Hardback)

Here are the most influential architectural essays written since the Renaissance, copiously illustrated, in a great book for anyone interested in what architects say about their craft. Discover the theories behind the structures in which we live, work, and play, from Alberti and Palladio to Le Corbusier and Koolhaas.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

This unique anthology of artists' record covers, from the 1950s to today includes more than 450 covers, tracing the interaction between music and the visual arts. Featured covers include Salvador Dal's skewered butterfly for Jackie Gleason and Banksy's stenciled graffiti for Blur.

(Hardback)

Vivid colors, woodcut flatness, crude figures, and unsettling sexual scenes: This essential introduction to 20th-century artist group Die Brcke reveals a revolutionary movement which sliced up images with ragged lines and decimated the mores of the age.

(Hardback)

Derived from the XXL monograph which saw TASCHEN undertake a comprehensive photographic survey of the artist's oeuvre, this compact edition explores Bruegel's 40 paintings through exceptional details and reproductions. We discover how, using his own pictorial language in scenes teeming with minutiae, Bruegel captured the theater of life.

(Hardback)

In a time before air travel or radio, Burton Holmes set out across the globe. The "world's greatest traveler" visited nearly every country on the planet, bringing home more than 30,000 photographs, 500,000 feet of film, and unbelievable travel stories that first exposed America to some of these far-flung, mysterious lands. A rare window onto the world of 100 years ago.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Capitol Records brought the Beatles to America and the Beach Boys to the world, and, with its iconic Hollywood tower, was also home to Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. This epic photographic and musical history is the official account of Capitol Records, featuring a foreword by Beck and hundreds of images from the Capitol Record archives...

(Hardback)

The notorious bad boy of Italian painting is now considered one of the greatest masters of all in art history. This comprehensive catalogue raisonn reproduces all of Caravaggio's paintings as well as a number of dramatic details of his boundary-breaking realism. Five chapters assess Caravaggio's artistic achievements while a detailed chronology traces his dramatic personal life.

(Paperback, Multilingual edition)

(Hardback)

An essential overview of Salvador Dal's mind-melting ideas and seismic art historical impact, this compact publication reviews the master of Surrealism's complete paintings, supplemented with sketches and ephemera. Presented by Robert Descharnes and Gilles Nret, many of these works have rarely been seen before but epitomize Dal's depictions of the subconscious mind's strange workings.

(Hardback)

Take an trip through the last three centuries of trend. This spectacular collection from the Kyoto Costume Institute, one of the world's most extensive clothing collections, features the outerwear, underwear, footwear, and accessories that have defined self across time and geography.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Follow photographer Frdric Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey through Europe. Featuring images of more than 200 buildings in 21 countries, Stone Age presents the history and architecture of the most dramatic medieval castles of the continent in an unprecedented collection.

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Frida Kahlo transcended art history like no woman artist before her. She was a key figure of Mexican revolutionary modern art and a pioneer of the politics of gender, sexuality, and feminism. This XXL monograph combines all of Kahlo's 152 paintings with rare photos, diary pages, letters, and an illustrated biography.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

This remarkable collection of the first color photos of Germany shows a young, prosperous, and confident nation. From the authors of the critically acclaimed America 1900, Germany 1900 features some 800 photochroms that offer a fascinating look at the country's most beautiful and mythical sites, before the traumas of the 20th century.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Sprouting with fresh ideas and sunny outlooks, this compact edition brings together the best examples of contemporary green buildings today. Well-known architects like Frank Gehry and Norman Foster sit alongside young, up-and-coming creators. Each entry introduces a key project through plans, photos, and a close reading of the sustainable and ecological nature of the design.

(Hardback)

Bosch - whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken - was widely copied and imitated. Today only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Bosch's oeuvre. This book published in view of the upcoming 500th anniversary of Bosch's death examines just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

A dazzling reprint of Hiroshige's views of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), one of the masterpieces of the ukiyo-e woodblock tradition and a paradigm of the Japonisme that inspired Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Art Nouveau artists, from Vincent van Gogh to James McNeill Whistler.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

Enter the world's finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans, the result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house.

(Hardback)

Struggling artist turned icon of the modern, urban experience, Edward Hopper is most famed for his haunting nocturnal diner scene Nighthawks. This book introduces his mastery of place, mood, and melancholy through vivid color juxtapositions; stark, theatrical lighting; as well as harshly contoured figures, at once part of, and alien to, their surroundings.

(Hardback, Multilingual edition)

The Japanese woodblock print is without Western equivalent: Breathtaking landscapes exist alongside blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons torment the living, and sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors are rock stars. Presenting the finest impressions from museums and collections worldwide, this edition unveils 200 exceptional prints from 1680-1938.

(Hardback)

Throughout his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky transformed not only his own practice, but the course of art history itself. This essential guide traces Kandinsky's rich repertoire to present the painter, engraver, teacher, and theorist credited with the first modern abstract painting and with one of the keenest theoretical minds of 20th-century art.