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Claude Monet, 1840-1926

In his endeavor to capture the ever-changing face of reality, Monet went beyond Impressionism and thereby beyond the confines of self-contained panel painting: in Giverny

Impressionism

The Impressionists and the succeeding Neo-Impressionists were avant-gardist and revolutionary, paving the way for modern art. Present-day viewers, hardly realizing this revolutionary potential, can be

Jan Van Eyck: Renaissance Realist (Basic Art) (German Edition)

Van Eyck left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist painters. This title in the Basic Art series features

Titian, 1490-1576

 The freedom exhibited in his pictorial compositions was unprecedented and greatly influential on later artists, notably Manet, who closely studied Titian's work at the Louvre.

Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions

The 35 paintings that have come down to us from the hand of Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) place him beside Rembrandt and Frans Hals as one

Andy Warhol, 1928-1987: Commerce Into Art

Warhol was a critical observer of American society, exposing his compatriots' consumerism in his paintings (Campbell- and Brillo series), as well as their fascination for

Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959: Building for Democracy

His prairie house concept--that of a low, sprawling home based upon a simple L or T figure--was the driving force behind some of his most

Surrealism

Introduction with 30 photographs plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural, scientific and sporting events that took place during the movement 35 most

Robert Doisneau

Doisneau's gift was the ability to seek out and capture, with humanity and grace, those little epiphanies of everyday Parisian life. This book traces Doisneau's

Candela (Basic Architecture)

Candela features some of the loveliest and unique homes in the picturesque state of Bahia, Brazil. Highlights include a treehouse by sculptor Frans Krajeberg, a

Case Study Houses: 1945-1966: The California Impetus

Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture - American and

Charles & Ray Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988 Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism

This book covers all the aspects of their illustrious career, from the earliest furniture experiments and molded plywood designs to the Case Study Houses to

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919: A Dream of Harmony

I like pictures which make me want to wander through them when it's a landscape, he said, or pass my hand over breast or back

Antoine Watteau 1684-1721

Watteau was inspired by the theater and in particular the commedia dell'arte, hence elaborately costumed actors, dancers, and musicians were recurrent subjects he was also

Dadaism

A precursor to Surrealism, the Dada movement stressed the absurd and unpredictable, the illogical and chaotic, lashing out against traditional aesthetics and upending artistic conventions.

Abstract Art

Each book in Tachen's Basic Genre series features: a detailed introduction with approximately 35 photographs, plus a timeline of the most important events (political, cultural,

Tadao Ando: 1941

Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water,

The Bauhaus: 1919-1933: Reform and Avant-Garde

Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and

Calder, 1898-1976 (Album Series)

He operated at the point where Modernity and nature Fused, developing an environmental art that changed the medium Forever. Visiting his Paris atelier in 1932,

Caravaggio, 1571-1610

Though his body was never found, he is assumed to have been murdered by ruffians on a beach south of Rome-a fate strangely similar to

Albrecht Durer

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

Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903 the Primitive Sophisticate

We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment

Wassily Kandinsky: 1866-1944 a Revolution in Painting

 In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect

Renzo Piano

Like a movie director doing a love story, a Western, or a murder mystery, a new world confronts an architect with each project. This explains

Nicolas Poussin: 1594-1665

 Poussin was highly prolific and was considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest living painter, a man whose work embodied the ideal of French

Mark Rothko, 1903-1970: Pictures as Drama

An overview of the life and work of artist Mark Rothko, this volume exhibits his mythological content, simple flat shapes, and imagery inspired by primitive

Egon Schiele 1890-1918

After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough

Japanese Prints

The introductory essay, Ukiyo-e - Origins and History, by the Curator of the Riccar Art Museum, Mitsunobu Sato, familiarizes the reader with the history of

Francis Bacon: 1909-1992

FRANCIS BACON (1909-1992) POSSESSED THE RARE ABILITY TO TRANSFORM UNCONSCIOUS COMPULSIONS INTO FIGURATIVE, HUMAN-LIKE FORMS THAT SEEM TO EVOKE THE RAW EMOTIONS THAT BORE THEM.

Bosch : C. 1450 1516 Between Heaven and Hell

Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his

Fernando Botero

Famed for his modern art and rendering of human, animal and still life compositions, this is a celebration of the works of Colombian painter and

Bruegel: The Complete Paintings

Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town

Santiago Calatrava: 1951: Architect, Engineer, Artist

Winner of the 2005 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal as well as numerous other prestigious awards, Calatrava is one of the greatest and most

Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906: Pioneer of Modernism

He was the founding father of modern art, the grand master who pointed painting forward on its way from Impressionism to the 20th century: Paul

Salvador Dali: 1904-1989

Superb reproductions of paintings by one of the 20th century's most famous artists: The Visage of War, The Enigma of Desire, the well-known Persistence of Memory, 13 others

Giger (Basic Art)

H.R. Giger is a painter, Oscar award winner and cult figure for the international artistic community for which his aesthetics of the apocalypse represent inspiration

Hiroshige

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

Edward Hopper: 1882-1967 Transformation of the Real

Hopper's paintings are marked by striking juxtapositions of colour, and by the clear contours with which the figures are demarcated from their surroundings. His extremely

Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956: In the Realm of Beauty

Before being rediscovered in the 1980s by the Post-Modernists, his work was nearly forgotten now his importance is unquestioned. As a designer he was one

Jasper Johns: The Business of the Eye

He is arguably most known for his flag paintings of the 1950s (the Museum of Modern Art in New York recently paid over $20 million

Frida Kahlo 1907-1954: Pain and Passion

Two events in her life were of crucial importance. When she was 18, a bus accident put her in hospital for a year with a

Henri Matisse, 1869-1954: Master of Colour

Henri Matisse's adventures in color and light constitute a landmark in the history of modern art. From his apprenticeship in the studio of Gustave Moreau

Mies Van Der Rohe: 1886-1969

Though the extreme reduction of form and material in his work garnered some criticism, over the years many have tried?mostly unsuccessfully?to copy his original and

Joan Miro: 1893-1983

From the mid-twenties onward, Miro strove to leave direct objective references behind and developed the pictograms that typify his style. The pictures of this period,

Edvard Munch: 1863-1944

This is a book of 18 postcards featuring the paintings of Edvard Munch a Norwegian painter who had a major influence on Expressionism. The pack

Bruegel: The Complete Paintings

Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965: The Lyricism of Architecture in the Machine Age

Basic Architecture features: Each title contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans Introductory essays explore the architect's life and work, touching

Pop Art

Pop artists of the 1960s, heralded by the Great Andy Warhol, commented on everything from mainstream media to consumer society to advertising to product packaging

Pre-Raphaelites

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,

Auguste Rodin: Sculptures and Drawings

This volume examines the sculptures and drawings of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917

Redon (Back to Visual Basics)

In his studio, Redon would dedicate his energies, like an alchemist, to the creation of his black pictures, those barely tangible charcoal drawings teeming with

Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640: The Homer of Painting

Combining typical Flemish realism with classical themes influenced by the Renaissance, Rubens caught the attention of all of Europe and helped put his native Antwerp

Shigeru Ban

This survey traces his entire career to date, showing clearly why he is one of the world's most innovative and significant architects. Unlike many of his

Gaudi (Taschen Basic Architecture)

Lucian Freud

I paint people, Freud has said, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they

Philip Jodidio

Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect, who for many years built almost nothing, despite her designs winning prizes and critical acclaim. Some even said

Hundertwasser: The Painter-King with the 5 Skins: The Power of Art

However, Hundertwasser's art has always contained a political shade. He has consistently rebelled against rationalist or determinist ideas, promoted ecological awareness, and mantained a passionate

Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found - or hoped to find - in beauty was constantly overshadowed by death. And death therefore

Land Art

One distinguishing feature of Land Art is its critical preoccupation with the tradition of sculpture. Sculpture can now be an earthwork excavation, a field of

Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519

If he seems so modern, it is perhaps because of his non-speciality, his magpie mind and curiosity, and his thousands of notes and sketches. In

Franz Marc, 1880-1916

Seeing Marc merely as a painter of animals proves, however, premature. Marc, co-founder of the 'Blauer Reiter' group of Expressionist artists, was deeply dissatisfied with

Henri Matisse: Cut-Outs Album

Aged 75, Matisse felt he had said all he had to say in the medium of paint, and embarked on his next period in his

Mendelsohn

He became famous with the Einsteinturm in Potsdam (the supreme masterpiece of architectural expressionism, one of the most heretical and revolutionary works in history), the

Alfons Mucha, 1860-1939: Master of Art Nouveau

A kind of sketchbook and personal visual diary, this record of captured moments from the mid-1880s until the end of the artist's life illuminates both

Henry Moore: 1898-1986

Available in over 20 languages, Taschen's Basic Art Series offers budget-minded readers quality books on the greatest artists of all time. The neat, slick format

Oscar Niemeyer

To this day, over seven decades since one of his first projects—a 1936 collaboration with Lucio Costa and Le Corbusier—Oscar Niemeyer is still practicing. A

Richard Neutra, 1892-1970

Richard Neutra Born and raised in Vienna, Richard Neutra (1872-1970) came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on post-war architecture

Jean Nouvel

His first widely acclaimed project was the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (1981–87). Since then he has completed the Lyon Opera House, the Euralille

Marc Chagall, 1887-1985: Painting as Poetry

 The memories and yearning they evoke recall his native Vitebsk, and the great events that mark the life of ordinary people: birth, love, marriage and

J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour

J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour

Landscape Painting

From Titian to Warhol, readers will discover the evolution of this popular genre.Artists featured (in chronological order)include: Jean, Paul und Herman von Limburg, Titian, Joachim

Goya

Coming at the tail end of the Old Masters period, Goya, with his audacious, subversie, and highly influential works, can be considered the first painter

Bosch: The Complete Paintings

Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his

Dali

Dali brought extraordinary sensitivity, imagination and concern for precision to bear upon submerged levels of consciousness.This lively biography presents the infamous Surrealist Dali in full

Vermeer: The Complete Paintings

Vermeer's women, their duties and unspoken dreamsLittle is known of Vermeer's early life and training, though we can be certain that he never knew great success

Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality (Basic Art)

Les portfolios TASCHEN proposent des impressions de grande qualite qui ne demandent qu'a etre encadrees. Chaque portfolio contient 14 reproductions en grand format, chacune decrite

de Lempicka

Simultaneously with her career as artist, Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a new image of life on the screen, evident in the new, self-confident woman and

Brassai, Paris

With this book, priced very reasonably, the finest work of one of photography's giant figures is all yours

Gauguin

The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the

Living in Greece

Go island hopping with the Stoelties and discover the best of Greece's hidden treats, such as the hilltop vacation house of Robert Browning, descendent of

Man Ray

Born under the name of Emmanuel Radnitzky in Philadelphia, he began his artistic career in New York. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he

Caravaggio

Caravaggio's great work had the misfortune of enduring centuries of disrepute. It wasn't until the end of the 19th century that he was rediscovered and,

Case Study Houses

Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and thus had a pronounced influence on architecture American and international

Chagall

Chagall's paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish origins. The memories and yearning