The Lindbergh lens. Unique fashion storytelling that first launched the supermodels When German photographer Peter Lindbergh shot five young models in downtown New York City in 1989, he produced not only the iconic British Vogue January 1990 cover...

100 Artists Who Epitomize the Contemporary Art Scene Специальное издание в 2-х томах "100 самых выдающихся художников современности" результат серий "Искусство на рубеже Миллениума" и "Искусство сегодня" явл...

Творчество Хельмута Ньютона многогранно и разнообразно. В 1960-е годы оно считалось шокирующим и провокационным, а в наши дни Ньютон снискал репутацию фотографа, способного изображать женщину такой, какая она есть. Это женщина нового тысячелетия, кот...

Данная книга не могла бы быть написана, если бы не существовало предшествующих ей изданий. В 1978 Rikuyosha опубликовало двухтомное издание, посвященное архитектуре Гауди: "Гауди. Искусство и архитектура". Текст для этой работы написал ...

Первое издание книги "Сумо", напечатанное десятитысячным тиражом, было распродано вскоре после выхода из печати. Каждый экземпляр был пронумерован и нес автограф автора. Формат соответствовал названию - 50 х 70 см, что при 46...

Picture this. The biggest players in the highly competitive field of illustration Culled from our Illustration Now! series is this selection of today’s most successful and important illustrators from around the globe. In his introduction, Steven Hel...

The century that changed art forever. The quintessential roundup of art from 1900-2000 Who could possibly have forecast on New Year’s Eve 1899 that, one hundred years later, painting and sculpture would be only options, not prerequisites? The term "...

Brutalist Beauties. Architectural remnants of the USSR An unrivaled photographic journey through time and geography, Frédéric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed gathers 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics, each built betw...

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! What do we really know about our ancestors? Not about the rulers and generals, but about laborers, farmers, soldiers and families. Egypt is a perfect case in point, almost a blank slate for most of us as ...

They’re not your girls next door. Fashion and fetish in a female fantasyland Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world’s most original and...

How green is your blueprint? Architecture as sustainable technology The ecological impact of new construction, once a secondary concern, has become a crucial issue in recent years. Badly designed buildings guzzle natural resources and pollute their ...

Devil in the details. The symbols, monsters, and morals of a Netherlandish radical A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with nightmarish details and fantastical painterl...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is pract...

Perfect Likeness. Portraiture today, from caricature to realism The field of illustration has flourished over the last decade, with professionals working both on computers and by hand. In illustration, the single most challenging and captivating s...

The sights, smells and sounds of India draw legions of travellers every year in awe of the changing terrain and countryside, but to truly experience the range and diversity of this huge country one needs to gaze into the many, spectacular residences,...