Книги издательства Taschen
Название: The New York Times, 36 Hours: Europe
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2013
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Culture, history, natural beauty, fine cuisine, artistic masterpieces, architecture and style — Europe overflows with so many riches that a lifetime seems too short to appreciate them. This title offers you 125 well-crafted itineraries for quick but memorable European trips, accompanied by hundreds of color photographs to fire your imagination.
Название: Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Works
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2013
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Delicious demons. Deciphering allegories in the complex, fantastical works of Hieronymous Bosch. In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch's paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatues succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch's day. In his Temptation of St Anthony triptych, for example, the artist shows a messenger devil wearing ice skates, evoking the popular expression that the world was «skating on ice» meaning it had gone astray. In his pictorial translation of proverbs, in particular, Bosch was very much an innovator. Bosch — whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken — was widely copied and imitated: the number of surviving works by Bosch's followers exceeds the master's own production by more than tenfold. Today only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Bosch's oeuvre. He continues to be seen as a visionary, a portrayer of dreams and nightmares, and the painter par excellence of hell and its demons. In this exhaustive book, published in view of the upcoming 500th anniversary of Bosch's death and covering his complete works in huge, splendid reproductions with copious details, art historian and acknowledged Bosch expert Stefan Fischer examines just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential.
Название: Van Gogh: Calendars 2015
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2014
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A Van Gogh a day with TASCHEN Tear-off Calendar Van Gogh 2015. Enjoy a Van Gogh gallery on your desktop. From starry nights to sweeping scenes of Arles, see the year through with one of art-history's most important, if all too belatedly recognized, masters. The TASCHEN Tear-off Calendar — on your desk 365 days a year. Sumptuous color images, a big and bold dateline and all international holidays make this an indispensible addition to your desktop. Comes complete with stand and in a presentation box. It offers: Pad on tray; Gift box; 320 calendar pages; 314 illustrations; and, all international holidays included.
Название: Rembrandt
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2000
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The mystery of the revealed form: A mirror of the artistic and intellectual developments of the 17th century. Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669) was one of the most complex and multi–faceted artists of the 17th century. From his initial period in Leiden to his early and late phases in Amsterdam, the stages of Rembrandt’s career mirror the artistic and intellectual developments of the century. After breaking off his studies in Leiden, the young Rembrandt trained as a painter for two years and eventually established his own painting workshop. Characteristic of the Leiden period are his biblical histories, such as The Raising of Lazarus, but the roots of Rembrandt’s portraiture, nourished by his intensive studies of physiognomy, also are to be found in these same years. Later, in Amsterdam, the perfection of Rembrandt’s likenesses initially won him the favor of numerous patrons—but the artist soon surpassed their expectations. Transcending traditional modes of presentation, Rembrandt composed his portraits in the same manner in which he had earlier constructed his scenes. The results are visible, for example, in the famous group portrait The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp from 1632. In the last phase of Rembrandt’s work—when, plagued by financial problems, he had withdrawn into seclusion—it is no longer possible to distinguish between event paintings and portraits.
Название: Turner
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2000
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As a blind person would see the world if the gift of sight suddenly returned — so might one describe the effect of Turner’s paintings on the observer. John Ruskin, the uncompromising nineteenth-century defender of the painting of William Turner (1775-1851) spoke of the ’innocence of the eye’, which perceived the colours and forms of the world before it recognized their significance. But in order to develop such a style, Turner first had to overcome the entire legacy of late rococo academic teachings. He was simultaneously a romantic and a realist — and yet he was neither. His landscapes, far in advance of their time, have been called forerunners of Impressionism, but they also possess traits that influenced Expressionism, and many of his late compositions are thoroughly surrealistic. In reality, Turner’s art cannot be comprehended by such classifications: its essence remains a riddle to art history even today. For his work arises from a unique relation to the nature that it depicts: through his brilliant sketches, he found his way already in the 19th century to a rigorously open kind of painting in which nature sets free the use of colour. And through the workings of the natural elements — especially atmospheric light — Turner confronted nature at the point where nature itself is an image. This book provides the understandings necessary to open up Turner’s paintings for the eye, demonstrating that Turner was not simply illustrating nature, but that his pictures speak directly to the eye as nature does itself — through a world of light and colour.
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2011
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In a world where products are out as soon as they’re in, where communicating without wires doesn’t come without strings, and even our accessories need accessories, we need simple tools. A book that helps us look inside because we are overloaded outside. There are three reasons why most people, although they have tried, won’t keep a diary: 1. Not every day is very eventful. 2. It actually takes a lot of discipline to write. 3. In retrospect, many find what they have written embarrassing. Keel’s Simple Diary™ offers structure for those who don’t have time to wonder, making it easy to record life’s moments. It gives the pleasure of a quick response and the sense that no matter what’s wrong, more is right. This instant classic is filled with refreshing philosophy and original wisdom. Keel’s Simple Diary™ entertains, helps you focus and keeps you company. «With an addictive design and curious text, this book gives readers the ‘simple tools’ to create unique, memorable daily records without all the heavy lifting of blank journals.» Publishers Weekly, New York
Название: Keel's Simple Diary: Volume Two
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2011
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In a world where products are out as soon as they’re in, where communicating without wires doesn’t come without strings, and even our accessories need accessories, we need simple tools. A book that helps us look inside because we are overloaded outside. There are three reasons why most people, although they have tried, won’t keep a diary: 1. Not every day is very eventful. 2. It actually takes a lot of discipline to write. 3. In retrospect, many find what they have written embarrassing. Keel’s Simple Diary™ offers structure for those who don’t have time to wonder, making it easy to record life’s moments. It gives the pleasure of a quick response and the sense that no matter what’s wrong, more is right. This instant classic is filled with refreshing philosophy and original wisdom. Keel’s Simple Diary™ entertains, helps you focus and keeps you company. «With an addictive design and curious text, this book gives readers the ‘simple tools’ to create unique, memorable daily records without all the heavy lifting of blank journals.» Publishers Weekly, New York
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2011
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In a world where products are out as soon as they’re in, where communicating without wires doesn’t come without strings, and even our accessories need accessories, we need simple tools. A book that helps us look inside because we are overloaded outside. There are the reasons why most people, although they have tried, won’t keep a diary: 1. Not every day is very eventful. 2. It actually takes a lot of discipline to write. 3. In retrospect, many find what they have written embarrassing. Keel’s Simple Diary™ offers structure for those who don’t have time to wonder, making it easy to record life’s moments. It gives the pleasure of a quick response and the sense that no matter what’s wrong, more is right. This instant classic is filled with refreshing philosophy and original wisdom. Keel’s Simple Diary™ entertains, helps you focus and keeps you company. «With an addictive design and curious text, this book gives readers the ‘simple tools’ to create unique, memorable daily records without all the heavy lifting of blank journals.» Publishers Weekly, New York
Название: Monet, Calenda
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2014
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Dappled light, golden meadows, open skies, and soaring spires. Nobody does picturesque quite like Monet. Bring a little calm to your schedule with TASCHEN’s Monet Tear-off Calendar 2015, the soothing desktop accessory featuring a gorgeous new Monet image with each new day. About the Series: The TASCHEN Tear-off Calendar – on your desk 365 days a year. Sumptuous color images, a big and bold dateline and all international holidays make this an indispensible addition to your desktop. Comes complete with stand and in a presentation box.
Название: Durer
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2006
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Though he is most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. Dürer’s importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement entirely. His visits to Italy (where he studied most notably with Giovanni Bellini) had a profound effect on his artistic development and enabled him to combine both German and Italian influences in his work. In his later life, Dürer’s passion for knowledge and progress led him to research and write on the subjects of art theory and mathematics, making him not only the greatest Northern European artist of his time, but also one of its leading thinkers. This overview of Dürer’s entire oeuvre—covering his oil, tempera, and watercolor paintings, copper and wood engravings, and his drawings and sketches—is the perfect introduction to his work.
Название: Escher
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2000
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M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher’s innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly influenced Escher’s further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934 the artist lived and worked in Italy. Afterwards Escher spent two years in Switzerland and five in Brussels before finally moving back to Barn in Holland, where he died in 1972. M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. The resulting dimensional and perspectival illusions bring us into confrontation with the limitations of our sensory perception.
Название: Keel's Simple Diary: Volume One. Red
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2009
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In a world where products are out as soon as they’re in, where communicating without wires doesn’t come without strings, and even our accessories need accessories, we need simple tools. A book that helps us look inside because we are overloaded outside. There are three reasons why most people, although they have tried, won’t keep a diary: 1. Not every day is very eventful. 2. It actually takes a lot of discipline to write. 3. In retrospect, many find what they have written embarrassing. Keel’s Simple Diary™ offers structure for those who don’t have time to wonder, making it easy to record life’s moments. It gives the pleasure of a quick response and the sense that no matter what’s wrong, more is right. This instant classic is filled with refreshing philosophy and original wisdom. Keel’s Simple Diary™ entertains, helps you focus and keeps you company.
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2009
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In a world where products are out as soon as they’re in, where communicating without wires doesn’t come without strings, and even our accessories need accessories, we need simple tools. A book that helps us look inside because we are overloaded outside. There are three reasons why most people, although they have tried, won’t keep a diary: 1. Not every day is very eventful. 2. It actually takes a lot of discipline to write. 3. In retrospect, many find what they have written embarrassing. Keel’s Simple Diary™ offers structure for those who don’t have time to wonder, making it easy to record life’s moments. It gives the pleasure of a quick response and the sense that no matter what’s wrong, more is right. This instant classic is filled with refreshing philosophy and original wisdom. Keel’s Simple Diary™ entertains, helps you focus and keeps you company.
Название: Frida Kahlo
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2009
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This work is Taschen's 25th anniversary — special edition! Frida Kahlo — painter of pictures expressing the burdens that weighed upon her soul. The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is one of the most important 20th century painters, and one of the few Latin American artists to have achieved a global reputation. In 1983 her work was declared the property of the Mexican state. Kahlo was one of the daughters of an immigrant German photographer and a Mexican woman of Indian origin. Her life and work were more inextricably interwoven than in almost any other artist's case. Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was eighteen, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a smashed spinal column and fractured pelvis. It was in her sick bed that she first started to paint. Then, aged twenty-one, she married the world-famous Mexican mural artist Diego Rivera. She was to suffer the effects of the accident her whole life long, and was particularly pained by her inability to have children. Kahlo's arresting pictures, most of them small format self-portraits, express the burdens that weighted upon her soul: her unbearable physical pain, the grief that Rivera's occasional affairs prompted, the sorrow her childlessness caused her, her homesickness when living abroad and her longing to feel that she had put down roots, profound loneliness. But they also declare her passionate love for her husband, her pronounced sensuousness, and her unwavering survival instinct.
Название: The Stanley Kubrick Archives
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2008
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This is the first book to explore Stanley Kubrick's archives and the most comprehensive study of the filmmaker to date. In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of «2001: A Space Odyssey», he replied: 'It's not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience... I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content'. The philosophy behind Part 1 of «The Stanley Kubrick Archives» borrows from this line of thinking: from the opening sequence of «Killer's Kiss» to the final frames of «Eyes Wide Shut», Kubrick's complete films are presented chronologically and wordlessly via frame enlargements. This is a completely nonverbal experience. The second part of the book brings to life the creative process of Kubrick's filmmaking by presenting a remarkable collection of mostly unseen material from his archives, including photographs, props, posters, artwork, set designs, sketches, correspondence, documents, screenplays, drafts, notes, and shooting schedules. Accompanying the visual material are essays by noted Kubrick scholars, articles written by and about Kubrick, and a selection of Kubrick's best interviews.
Название: Small Architecture Now!
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2014
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Saving space: Big ideas for small buildings Over the years, talented architects have occasionally indulged themselves with the challenge of designing small but perfectly formed buildings. Today, with reduced budgets, many architects have turned in a more focused way to creating works that may be in diminutive in their dimensions, but which are definitely big when it comes to trendsetting ideas. Whether in Japanese cities, where large sites are hard to come by, or at the frontier between art and architecture, small buildings present many advantages, and push their designers to do more with less. A dollhouse for Calvin Klein in New York, a playhouse for children in Trondheim, pop-up stores for fashion stars, vacation cabins, or housing for victims of natural disasters are all part of the new rush to develop the great small architecture of the moment. The 2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito is here, but so are emergent architects from Portugal, Chile, England, and New Zealand. Alvaro Siza and Kazuyo Sejima (SANAA) display their eye for tiny detail alongside artists Doug Aitken and Olafur Eliasson. From world-famous names to the freshest new talent, come discover architectural invention on a whole new, small scale.
Название: Paris 2015
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2014
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The city of lights to see you through the year with TASCHEN's Paris Wall Calendar 2015. Does any city soothe the soul like Paris? Keep on top of your schedule with evocative images of the city's breathtaking beauty and charm. Presented in an elegant, LP-style, sleeve, TASCHEN's Wall Calendars feature 12 top quality reproduction images, an elegant layout for the days of the month, and all official holidays for your country. It includes: 12 calendar pages; 12 illustrations; sleeve; and, all international holidays.
Название: Pre-Raphaelites
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2010
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'Genuine ideas to express'. Sometimes considered the first avant-garde art movement, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected their era's dominant artistic theories for what they saw as a more spiritual, naturalistic and intensely personal approach. Fascinated by the romantic aspects of medieval culture and the vivid, jewel-like colors of Quattrocento art, the movement abhored the Classical poses and composition of Raphael and those influenced by him — hence the group's name — and the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the original Pre-Raphaelites were joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member 'brotherhood'. Its influence on many later British artists was extensive, and Rossetti's work is now seen as a precursor of the wider European Symbolist movement. This book examines the group's emergence, development, influence, and subsequent demise. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series features: a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural, scientific, etc.) that took place during the time period; a selection of the most important works of the epoch — each is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and, on the facing page, a description/interpretation of the work and brief biography of the artist as well as additional information such as a reference work, portrait of the artist, and/or citations.
Название: New York 2015
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2014
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You can see the year through with the city that never sleeps with TASCHEN's New York Wall Calendar 2015. If your schedule's as hectic as a New York sidewalk, here's a calendar to keep your appointments, and your spirits, in order. Bring a whole new energy and inspiration to your date planning with these inspiring images of the Big Apple's incomparable culture, crowds and soaring skyline. Presented in an elegant, LP-style, sleeve, TASCHEN's Wall Calendars feature 12 top quality reproduction images, an elegant layout for the days of the month, and all official holidays for your country. It includes: 12 calendar pages; 12 illustrations; sleeve; and, all international holidays.
Название: Marilyn Monroe
Жанр: Taschen
Год: 2012
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Three legends. Monroe by Mailer and Stern. Now TASCHEN has paired Mailer's original text with Bert Stern's photographs from the legendary Last Sitting — widely considered the most intimate photographs of Monroe ever taken — to create a fitting tribute to the woman who, at the time of her death in 1962, was the world's most famous, a symbol of glamour and criticism for an entire generation. But though she was feted and adored by her public, her private life was that of a little girl lost, desperate to find love and security. Mailer's Marilyn is beautiful, tragic, and complex. As Mailer reflects upon her life — from her bleak childhood through to the mysterious circumstances of her death — she emerges as a symbol of the bizarre decade during which she reigned as Hollywood's greatest female star. This book, conceived by Lawrence Schiller, Mailer's collaborator on five works, combines the author's masterful text with Stern's penetrating images of the 36-year-old Marilyn. Photographed for Vogue magazine over three days at the Bel-Air Hotel, Marilyn had never allowed such unfettered access, nor had she looked so breathtakingly beautiful. Six weeks later, mysteriously, she was dead. In this bold synthesis of literary classic and legendary portrait sitting, Mailer and Stern lift the veils of confusion surrounding Monroe — the woman, the star, the sex symbol — and offer profound insight into an iconic figure whose true personality remains an enigma even today. First published in as a TASCHEN limited collector's edition, this book is now available in a popular hardcover version, published on 50th anniversary of Bert Stern's Last Sitting and of Marilyn Monroe's death, August 5, 1962.
