Miro Postcard Book
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Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the most significant Spanish painters of the twentieth century. His early work clearly shows the influence of Fauvism and Cubism. The Catalan landscape also shapes the themes and treatment of these initial works. In his... (read more)

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Women Artists (Taschen 25)
by Uta Grosenick


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It's a women's world (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Featured artists: Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Vanessa Beecroft, Louise Bourgeois, Hanne Darboven, Sonia Delaunay, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Valie... (read more)

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Land Art (Basic Art)
by Michael Lailach


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The earth as canvas In the mid-60s, artists in the USA and Europe began planning works for sites outside the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums. It began with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in the deserts of America,... (read more)

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Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: The Complete Plates in Colour, 1734-1763
by Albertus Seba




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Taschen has always published heavy, lush art books, but they've outdone themselves with Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (weighing in at thirteen pounds). Albertus Seba, a pharmacist in eighteenth-century Amsterdam, collected beautiful and strange animals,... (read more)

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Valentines: Vintage Holiday Graphics
by Steven Heller


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Amors Siegeszug im Grafikdesign. Steven Heller stellt eine Sammlung von Gruß- und Postkarten, Werbung und Deko zum Thema Liebe zusammen.... (read more)

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M.C. Escher, the Graphic Work
by M C Escher


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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... (read more)

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Cinema Now
by Andrew Bailey


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Cinema Now examines the work and key themes of 60 filmmakers working around the world today, from the cream of the crop of young Hollywood to the new wave of Asian mavericks to burgeoning auteurs from Europe and Latin America. Watch Pedro Almodovar at... (read more)

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Gardens in France
by Marie Franco Valery


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France's most beautiful public and private gardens open their gates to us in every season of the year: from the classical French palace gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte down to humble domestic gardens in Normandy, from stylized Zen gardens in Provence to... (read more)

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Klimt
by Gottfried Fliedl


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Gustav Klimt's art is thoroughly fin de siècle. It expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper-middle-class society — a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt... (read more)

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Japanese Gardens: Right Angle and Natural Form
by Gunter Nitschke


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The Japanese garden, like all gardens, is more than mere nature; it is nature crafted by man. It needs the hands of the designer to give it meaning. The Japanese garden belongs to the realm of architecture; at its best, it is nature as art. The phases of... (read more)

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Chinese Propaganda Posters
by Michael Wolf


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With his smooth, warm, red face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. These infamous posters were, in turn,... (read more)

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Alison Jackson: Confidential
by Alison Jackson


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Spitting images: truly incredible ?celebrity? portraits Alison Jackson has photographed the Queen of England on the toilet, George Bush and Tony Blair chatting in the sauna, Osama Bin Laden playing backgammon, and Monica Lewinsky lighting Bill Clinton's... (read more)

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The Curse of Lono
by Hunter S Thompson


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A wild ride to the dark side of Americana The Curse of Lono is to Hawaii what Fear and Loathing was to Las Vegas: the crazy tales of a journalist's "coverage" of a news event that ends up being a wild ride to the dark side of Americana. Originally... (read more)

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Fashion Now 2 25TH Anniversary Edition
by Terry Jones


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The iconic British style magazine "i-D" delivers a guide to the world's most important designers. "Fashion Now 2" is illustrated with the very best fashion photography and styling, extracted from the archives of the magazine that celebrates its 25th... (read more)

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Web Design: Studios 2 (Icon)
by Julius Wiedemann


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The follow-up to our popular title Web Design: Best Studios, this new installments brings you more examples of the web's most outstanding design work. Working online means working from every place you can imagine. The coolest design studios from over 28... (read more)

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The Polaroid Book
by Steve Crist


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This survey features more than 400 works from the Polaroid Collection along with essays by Hitchcock, who illuminates the beginnings and history of the Polaroid Corporation.... (read more)

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Gil Elvgren: The Complete Pin-Ups
by Gil Elvgren


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Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in theform of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique-which earned him a... (read more)

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The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise
by Peter Beard


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Researched, photographed, and compiled over 20 years, Beard's "End of the Game" tells the tale of the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters who changed the face of Africa in the 20th century.... (read more)

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