On the edge of the abyss of time: A radical innovator and a pioneer of new artistic formGerman expressionist painter and graphic artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880—1938), co-founder of the Brücke move
In addition to showcasing 100 of the most important designers of the last century along with essays by the curators at Fashion Institute of Technology, this book explores how a fashion museum goes abo
Deconstructing perspective with Picasso and peers Pioneered by Picasso and Braque,Cubism was the first avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Heavi
Contemplate the ImmensityA survey of panorama paintings Enigmatic and ambiguous in its role as both setting and subject, the landscape has been one of the most important genres in painting for centur
Three and a half centuries before Google Maps there was…Joan Blaeu’s atlas, the finest ever publishedThe finest and most comprehensive baroque atlas was Joan Blaeu’s exceptionalAtlas Maior, completed
Diffusion linesThe Impressionism revolutionDiscover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment.In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we
A Revolution in PaintingThe mysterious genius who transformed European artCaravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious
La belle vie: Impressionism’s most joyful paintingsPierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is universally acclaimed and celebrated: museums pride themselves on his paintings, crowds flock to his retrospecti
The sense of a scene: Pieter Bruegel’s mastery of composition and communityThe great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who ma
A revolution in painting: The Baroque realism that electrified art historyMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque,
The crown jewel in any comics fan’s library: Our award winning XL edition was too heavy for you? Here’s the smaller version with its own book standIn 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nich
Ticket to ride, fly, or sail: The golden age of global adventure Over the course of the twentieth century, travel experienced an unprecedented boom. As ocean liners broke speed records, aero
American beauty: Painting life as it would like to beAn extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious qua
Supreme FeelingKazimir Malevich, pioneer of abstractionAfter flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) found his métier in dissolving literal, representational figures and landscapes into pure emotionally-charged abstraction. In 1915, he created what is widely lauded as the first and ultimate abstract artwork: Black Square, a black rectangle on a white background, hailed as the “zero point of painting,” a seminal moment for modern and abstract practice.In this book, we follow Malevich’s key innovations and ideas and place his groundbreaking achievements within the context of both the Russian and global avant-garde. Through rich illustrations of his work, we explore the artist’s theory of Suprematism, based on severe geometric abstraction and “the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art”; his leading role in the development of Constructivism; as well as his interests in philosophy, literature, Russian folk art, and the fourth dimens
Spectacular specimens: Albertus Seba's unrivaled catalog of animals, insects and plants The Cabinet of Natural Curiositiesis one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements and re
Let there be light: The work of celebrated American architect Richard MeierAs one of the most important contemporary architects, Richard Meier (b. 1934) is a key figure in TASCHEN’s updatedBasic Archi
Renaissance radical: An earthly delight not to be missedIn the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance,Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–15
Art of EnchantmentThe world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages through the 1950 Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as h
Democratic ArtVictor Vasarely’s hypnotizing illusions Inspired by the innovative use of color in Bauhaus art, Hungarian painter Victor Vasarely (1906–1997) developed his own abstract-geometric visual
Man in Focus: A gallery of men from photography’s maestro“The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subj
