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Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980) visse al centro del sofisticato ambiente artistico parigino degli anni Venti e Trenta del Novecento. La sua...

The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art...

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

At a time when artists were widely preoccupied with religious or mythological subject matter, the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the...

About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist,...

Para sus contemporáneos de la Venecia de finales del siglo XVI, El Greco (1541-1614) era un hombre a contracorriente, un artista innato...

Hailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra....

Along came Amedeo: A unique type of beauty In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani(1884 1920) traced elongated bodies, almond...

In the mid-1950s, Yves Klein (1928–1962) declared that "a new world calls for a new man." With his idiosyncratic style and huge charisma,...

Au milieu des ann es 1950, Yves Klein (1928-1962) d clarait: Un nouveau monde r clame un homme nouveau. Avec son style tr s personnel et...

Michigan-born architect John Lautner (1911–1994) was behind some of the most striking and innovative architectural designs in mid-20th-century...

In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec(1864–1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters,...

Divine forms: The heavenly grace and human grandeur of a supreme Renaissance master In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), busily plied his brush...

The work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular...

Debuting in Milan, Fontana settled in Paris in the mid 1930s, where he joined the Abstraction-Creation group and created expressionist sculptures...

From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted...

The tortured talents of a post Impressionist master.

Mêlant histoire du design et voyage nostalgique dans notre mémoire musicale, cette anthologie iconographique des albums de jazz est surtout...

Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism,...

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and...

Master innovator: Challenging accepted notions of architectureFrom emergency relief shelters to a cardboard cathedral and exhibition spaces...

American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism...

Nicknamed "il divino," Renaissance genius Michelangelo combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces across sculpture, painting,...

Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) adopted his famous pseudonym after publishing his ideas in the review L'Esprit...

Louis Isadore Kahn (1901–1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel,...

Architect Albert Frey (1903–1998) saw a modernist utopia in the desert. Born in Zurich, he studied in Europe with Le Corbusier before moving...

From basketball tanks to flower puppies, the creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) have become part of our popular culture, blurring the borders...

From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles,...

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Leonardo also advanced...

Spiraling Ideas Friedensreich Hundertwasser, hero of fluid forms and ecology Vivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines...

Inspired żeby the development of Cubism, the Futurist movement was founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, along with painters Giacomo...

With his passion for smooth surfaces, fine lines, and spatial plans, Adolf Loos was a prophet of 20th-century architecture. This essential...

Naked truthRadical and all-revealing figuresWith his graphic style, figural distortion, and defiance of conventional standards of beauty,...

Dreamlike, fantastic imagery WithSalvador Dalias its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the wild and turbulent sea ofthe...

For Marc Chagall (1887–1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language...

Scottish architect, designer, and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) was one of the earliest pioneers of modern architecture...

H ros rebelle de l'expressionnisme abstrait, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) a jailli tel un feu d'artifice sur la sc ne artistique am ricaine....

This visceral life: Seeing the world through Expressionist eyes Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are...

Sometimes considered the first avant-garde art movement, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected their era's dominant artistic theories for what they...

Show and tell. Ten years after his much-celebrated "A Private View", photographer Sante d'Orazio is back with a second volume of his illustrated...

Mit seinen durchbohrten und zerschnittenen Leinwänden sorgte der italienisch-argentinische Künstler Lucio Fontana in den 1950ern für Furore...

With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel,...

Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to...

35 years of daring, defiant photography Since her first photographs in the late '70s, Bettina Rheims has defied the predictable. From her...

When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized...

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may...

Piet Mondrian represented an artist not only of absolute modernity, but also of great integrity. He remains one of the most distinctive...

Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891–1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style,...

After flirtations with Realism, Impressionism, and Symbolism, Kiev-born Kazimir Malevich (1878–1935) found his métier in dissolving literal,...

The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays...

The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space...

Spanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for...

Con sus hombres con bombín flotando en el cielo o la pintura de una pipa sobre la leyenda «Esto no es una pipa», René Magritte (1898-1967)...

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he...

Great walls in China§Schöne und traditionelle Häuser in der Volksrepublik§Mehr als 6000 Jahre alt, ist China die älteste Hochkultur der...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world",...

An encounter with Gerhard Richter, the German artist who widened horizons in the relationship between painting and reality. From early photographic...

The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection...

Destination exoticPaul Gauguin's Pacific visions radiate with color and sunshine Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor...

In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity....

Walter Gropius (1883–1969) set out to build for the future. As the founding director of the Bauhaus, the Berlin-born architect had an inestimable...

Reproducing all the original images from "The Book Of Miracles" - first surfacing a few years ago - it conveys a unique view of the concerns...

Renaissance presence Hans Holbein the Younger, portraitist extraordinaire Religion, Renaissance, and Reformation - these three ideologies...

Explore las estructuras neofuturistas de Santiago Calatrava atravesando sus múltiples y célebres puentes y recorriendo sus edificios culturales,...

Santiago Calatrava es un arquitecto, ingeniero estructural, escultor y artista de renombre internacional. Autor de proyectos como el Complejo...

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated...

Readymade man Changing the course of 20th-century art When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887 1968) declared it to...

Often imitated but never equaled, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future...

Meet the artist whose majestic wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai, master artist and printmaker, is not only one of the giants...

An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious...

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 of...

Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work,...

The solitude of man and the bleak beauty of nature are prominent themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the great romantic...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment.In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction...

For Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language...

Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 – August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light...