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Kay Nielsen. 1001 Nights by Taschen (Editor)
Category: Art
In the late 1910s, in a Europe ravaged by World War I, Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen put the finishing touches on his illustrations of A Thousand and One Nights. The results are considered masterpieces of early 20th-century illustration: bursting with sumptuous colors of deep blues, reds, and gold leaf ...Show more
Living in Provence by Angelika Taschen
Category: Architecture | Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
BienvenueThe textures and tones of dreamy ProvenceNestled in the south of France, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, is a land renowned for its lavender fields, fine cuisine, golden sun, and dreamy landscapes.The region of Provence has inspired such masters as Alphonse Daudet and Vincent van Gogh. So enth ...Show more
M.C. Escher. The Graphic Work by TASCHEN
Category: Art
Twisted mind: The graphic pattern genius of M. C. Escher. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898 1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time ...Show more
Magritte by Taschen
Category: Art
This is not a book: Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe,"Rene Magritte (1898 1967)created an echo-chamber of object and image, name and thing, reality and representation.Like other S ...Show more
Modern Art. A History from Impressionism to Today by TASCHEN
Category: Art
Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they esc ...Show more
Taschen 365 Day-by-day. 'The Flower Garden' by Annick Volk (Editor); Petra Lamers-Schuetze (Editor); Klaus Honnef; A. Taschen
Category: Gardening | Series: Taschen Perpetual Calendar
Botanical bliss Give yourself flowers every day of the year Brighten up your desktop with seasonal blooms Each day you'll encounter a fresh image from Basilius Besler's hand-painted 17th-century engravings of the Garden at Eichstatt in Bavaria, one of the most beautiful gardens in Europe. This is gree ...Show more
The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher by TASCHEN (Editor)
Category: Art
Long before the first computer-generated 3-D images, M.C. Escher was a master of the third dimension. His impossible geometry and illusions, bordering between the scientific and psychological, are an homage to the possibilities of the human mind. This collection presents the artist's key graphic works i ...Show more
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