#taschen

[thefugitivesaint]

Jennie Harbour (1893-1959), 'The Little Mermaid', ''Taschen Magazine'', Winter 2013 Originally published in ''Hans Andersen's Stories'', 1932

[mypastnow]

[zegalba]

Issey Miyake: Retrospective (1995)

[american-tyger]

ᴄʜᴇᴛ ʙᴀᴋᴇʀ & ʜᴀʟᴇᴍᴀ ᴀʟʟɪ. 1955. From the book 𝙅𝙖𝙯𝙯 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙣 by photographer William Claxton (Taschen, 1999).

[germanpostwarmodern]

This book is a sin of my youth: Philip Jodidio's "Piano. Renzo Piano Building Workshop 1966-2005", published in 2005 by Taschen. It is way too heavy and unwieldy to be consulted frequently, although the content and especially the photos are wonderful. Renzo Piano surely doesn't require many introductory words: he studied architecture at Milan Polytechnic University until 1964 and in 1971 won the competition for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris together with his collaborator Richard Rogers. Many, many projects followed, among them the high-profile extension of the Kimbell Art Museum or the Maison Hermès in Tokyo, and in 1998 he also received the Pritzker Prize. The book includes a brief introduction to the life and work of the architect but mainly focuses on his many major projects, each extensively documented in photos, plans and drawings. Of course the book as such provides a great and visually stunning overview of Renzo Piano's work but I highly recommend the much more handy later editions.

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 512

Masterpieces of Illumination (Codices illustres): The world’s most famous illuminated manuscripts 400 to 1600

Ingo F. Walther and Norbert Wolf

Taschen 2005

This edition, part of Taschen’s 25th anniversary series of reissues, is a stunning overview of history’s most glorious illuminated manuscripts. While a downside of the book is that it is mostly concerned with Western manuscripts (there are some examples from the Middle East), the book provides examples from over 450 works. With book details, brief histories, and 2 to 4 high quality scans from each work, this is an excellent historical journey of some of the most beautiful books that have ever been made.

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a look at Taschen: Oliver Payne & Nick Relph. This beautifully designed exhibition catalog was printed by Busch Druck Medien Verlag (Bielefeld, Deutschlan) and published by Kerber Verlag in New York in 2004. It accompanied the exhibition Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, which was presented by the National Museum of Art (Oslo) and the Musee d'Art Moderne (Paris) the same year. Designed by graphic designer and artist Halvor Bodin, the text was authored by Payne & Relph in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andrea Kroknes (Senior Curator of the National Museum), and Sune Nordgren (director of the National Museum at the time).  

Oliver Payne & Nick Relph are a British artist duo who internationally exhibited film, video, & installation works from 1999 until 2009. Their practice grappled with themes of cultural identity, subcultures (such as skater, gaming, and DIY cultures), and corporate imperialism. This publication is particularly interesting within the context of our collection because it juxtaposes the design language of Fine Press movement forerunners like the Kelmscott Press with the lo-fi aesthetics of early internet & DIY culture and advertising, bringing the principles of the Arts & Crafts movement into critical conversation with the aesthetic and cultural landscape of our time.

In their early video work Driftwood (a "psycho-geographical tour of London"), Payne & Relph call to 'smash the symbols of the Empire in the name of nothing but the heart's longing for grace.' They demonstrate this ethos by gaming information and cataloging systems through their choice of the title Taschen, the moniker of one of the most ubiquitous and celebrated publishers of art books, thereby hacking their way into in a realm where artists working in new media and experimental art were rarely represented.

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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[yiliy]

"Darth Vader is the bad father.

Ben Kenobi is the good father.

Star Wars came out of my desire to make a modern fairy tale. Fairy tales are how people learn about good and evil and how to conduct themselves in society."

- George Lucas

for The Star Wars Archives: 1977–1983 - Episodes IV-VI 40th Anniversary Edition by Paul Duncan for TASCHEN

[itsallmadonnasfault]

[nk-salinger]

Thank you darling @inversio-somni !

21.12.2024

[thefugitivesaint]

David LaChapelle, 'Self-Portrait as a House' (2013), ''Taschen Magazine'', 2017

[coldcolornut]

[zegalba]

Issey Miyake: Retrospective (1995)

[american-tyger]

ᴀʟғʀᴇᴅ ʜɪᴛᴄʜᴄᴏᴄᴋ (front) in a 1925 publicity photo. At his side is Alma Reville; the two would be married just weeks later. From the book Alfred Hitchcock: Architect of Anxiety (Taschen, 2011).

[germanpostwarmodern]

When legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman passed away in 2009 he left a vast archive of more than 260,000 photographs. Already in 2000 Pierluigi Serraino together with Taschen published a selection of photos and projects in the volume „Modernism Rediscovered“, an already impressive gathering of beautiful California modern architecture. As a follow-up the publisher in 2007 released an even more comprehensive selection in the form of the present three-volume tome: on about 1,000 pages „Julius Shulman: Modernism Rediscovered“ not only collects architecture from California but also from other parts of the US as well as from Shulman’s travels to Israel, Mexico or Hongkong. The result is an incredible portfolio of beautiful photographs of outstanding architecture, some iconic but most of them hidden gems that are a joy to discover thanks to Shulman’s keen eye: through his natural understanding of the idea underlying the architectural surface and the building’s positioning in the surrounding landscape. At the same time his photographs give expression to an optimistic zeitgeist and a leisure lifestyle that is long gone.

With this said the present volumes open up a window to the past and a comprehensive overview of a legendary photographer’s work that is simply breathtaking. Glad to have it in my library!

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 566

The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic

Jürgen Holstein, ed.

Taschen 2015

Between the first and second World Wars, the Weimar Republic in Germany was renowned as an intellectual and cultural hub. Centered around Berlin, the Weimar Republic introduced groundbreaking advances in design, music, philosophy, art, and literature, and along with this came equally groundbreaking book cover designs. Culled from the remarkable collection of Jürgen Holstein, this book presents 1,000 of some of the most forward-thinking book jacket designs ever produced. During the brief fourteen years of the Republic, graphic design and typography flourished and bold experimentation became the norm, only for most of the work to be suppressed, burned, or driven out with the rise of National Socialism. So, not only is this a stunning book, but it is also an important reference of a significant chapter of cultural history.