As the demand for work in illustration continues to grow, this medium is becoming a key component in the fields of advertising, communication, and reporting. Illusive, the definitive...
In 2007 TASCHEN released 'The New Erotic Photography', followed in 2012 by 'The New Erotic Photography 2'. Each book featured hundreds of fresh and provocative images from the world's most...
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier...
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston...
Looks at the way our minds work, and how we make decisions. This book reveals how our minds are tripped up by error and prejudice (even when we think we are being logical), an
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? And what will our world...
The universe is vast, and these are its stars! Filled with superheroes and grade-school heroines, psychotic villains and mythical creatures, tenderness and heartbreak, 100 Greatest Graphic...
As a special edition to mark TASCHEN's 40th anniversary, this volume presents the life and work of David Hockney year by year as a dialogue between his works and voices from the time period....
Explores the profound influence of Catalan culture and tradition, Dalí's home life and loves, and the places he lived on his extraordinary creative output.
In The Cliff, Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck's (born 1969) monochromatic photographs, site-specific sculptures, films, watercolors and ink drawings generate a melancholic narrative of...
The epic tales of the ancient city of Troy, The Iliad and The Odyssey, spellbindingly retold by Stephen Fry in the third volume of the unforgettable and definitive series.
In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything was...
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a painter, architect, inventor and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term ‘Renaissance...
Stories from the Arabian Nights, in a beautiful 1907 edition, retold by Laurence Housman, accompanied by 50 fine colour illustrations, each loosely tipped-in, by Edmund Dulac.
A book about the essence, promise, and practice of Marlies Dekkers (1965), the most original and inventive lingerie designer working today. Marlies Dekkers has been strongly influenced by...
Known for a sensual style that helped shape the look of '90s glamour, photographer Sante D'Orazio presents in this new photobook his personal Polaroids—images that were usually taken as...
Discover Ernst Haeckel, the 19th-century artist-biologist who found beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. This collection features 300 prints from his most important publications,...
The most innovative uses of collage today, from 50 leading contemporary graphic designers across 15 different countries—including Hort, Mike Perry, Stefan Sagmeister, Matthew Cooper, and...
The Stoics' unique blend of practicality and wisdom has been inspiring the most successful among us for centuries, from Roman emperors to Barack Obama, and most recently via Ryan Holiday's...
Master of stillness: Balthus, the most enigmatic painter of our time, in a large retrospective.In his multifaceted, multilayered oeuvre Balthus (1908–2001), one of the last great...
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious...
In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty...
This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle...
Very few celebrities are so iconic that their first name is all that's needed in order to immediately recognise them. One photographer has captured each and every one of these icons - and...
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus shows us where we're going. War is obsolete. You are more likely to commit suicide than be killed in conflict. Famine is disappearing. You are...
From legendary releases to ultra-rare records, Elvis Presley to Iron Maiden, discover the 750 album covers that made rock history. Fact sheets, insider interviews, and lists from leading...
So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it's nearly impossible to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding fresh approaches to...
Accompanying a major survey of the American artist Laurie Simmons, this generously illustrated book features every important step of her ever-evolving career--from small black-and-white...
The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial...
Stories from the Arabian Nights, in a beautiful 1907 edition, retold by Laurence Housman, accompanied by 50 fine colour illustrations, each loosely tipped-in, by Edmund Dulac.
An insightful study of Joseph Cornell's fascination with the Cubist painter Juan Gris, shedding new light on the work of both artists
