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Self-Portraits | The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of...

Magic 1400s–1950s | The world’s greatest magicians from the Middle Ages to the 1950s Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as her...

Goya | From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain's most revered and controver...

Salvador Dali. 1904-1989. The Paintings | This book deals with the seminal surrealist. It explores Dali's grandiose and grotesque oeuvre. Picasso called Dali "an outboard motor that's always running."...

Contemporary Concrete Buildings | Concrete? That characterless stuff of parking lots or Communist tower blocks, right? Well, yes. And no. Concrete is actually a name applied to a remarkably wide range...

Cabinet of Natural Curiosities | Albertus Seba’s unrivalled catalog of animals, insects and plants The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century’s greatest natural history achievements...

Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses around the World | Step into the world's most beautiful private abodes Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the wo...

Eugene Atget. Paris | Eugene Atget’s unique city portrait A flaneur and photographer at once, Eugene Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acti...

Pre-Raphaelites | Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincer...

The Polaroid Book | Shots from the world’s greatest collection of Polaroid images The Polaroid Corporation’s photography collection is the greatest portfolio of Polaroid images in the world. Begun by ...

Sir. Mario Testino | "The way men are seen in photography, in fashion, and the way that men look at pictures of themselves has changed in recent years. It is a subject that has come into focus: The ma...

Annie Leibovitz | When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge....

Bauhaus. 1919-1939 | The definitive reference work in a revised and updated edition In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of ...

20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads | Selling the most delicious vices Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium o...

Piano. Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Complete Works 1966-Today | The Italian master's complete oeuvre Renzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, ...

Michelangelo. The Complete Paintings, Sculptures and Architecture | Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famo...

Neutra | In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls a...

Logo Design. Global Brands | A monumental logo compilation: round two Following up on the best-selling Bibliotheca Universalis logo manual, this second volume focuses on corporate identity. In a globa...

Japanese Woodblock Prints | A visual history of 200 Japanese masterpieces From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Emile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous co...

Botero | Fernando Botero's fulsome and frolicking forms Fernando Botero is an artist with his own style. For more than six decades, the Colombian's "Boterismo" technique has captured collectors, insti...

Living in Mexico | The most remarkable abodes from Costa Careyes to the Yucatan Peninsula South of the border, rich colors and woven textiles form a unique design aesthetic, crafted by the union of lo...

The History of Graphic Design. Volume 1. 1890–1959 | A comprehensive look at hundreds of landmark projects, industry leader profiles, and illustrated timelines for each decade History is a complex bus...

Italy 1900. A Portrait in Color | Journey back to early 20th-century Italy "You may have the universe," composer Giuseppe Verdi once said, "if I can have Italy." Back in the mid-19th century, Verdi's ...

Expressionism | Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective rea...

Wassily Kandinsky | Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape paintin...

Monet. Le Triomphe de l'Impressionnisme | L’essence de l’Impressionnisme A part Turner, aucun artiste n’a comme Claude Monet (1840–1926) travaille autant a capturer la lumiere sur la toile. De tous le...

Bosch. The Complete Works | The complete works of Hieronymus Bosch A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with just 20 pai...

Mario Testino. I Love You | In I Love You, Mario Testino presents a celebration of weddings. A beginning in life -that is also a culmination and a public promise - captured by a unique photographic po...

Michelangelo | Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculp...

The Dog in Photography 1839–Today | A photo tribute to our four-pawed friends In celebration of the world’s favorite animal, we bring you over 400 photographs of or about dogs. With pictures from the ...

Histoire de la Photographie. De 1839 nos jours | La photographie a travers les ages La carriere de George Eastman pourrait etre l’illustration parfaite du reve americain. Le fondateur de Kodak a en ef...

Monet. The Triumph of Impressionism | The essential Impressionist No other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840–1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the I...

Lautner | With his geometric structures perched upon the hillsides, beaches, and deserts of California, John Lautner (1911-1994) was behind some of the most striking and innovative architectural desig...

Ando. Complete Works 1975-Today | Tadao Ando's complete works from 1975 until today Discover the completely unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline's four mo...

King Tut. The Journey through the Underworld | Buried in the 14th century BC but unearthed by Howard Carter in 1922, the objects entombed with Tutankhamun are an invaluable window into a long-extinct ...

Bruegel. The Complete Works | The life and times of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/30-1569) were marked by stark cultural conflict. He witnessed religious wars, the Duke of Alba's brutal rule as go...

Japanese Woodblock Prints. 1680-1938 | From Edouard Manet's portrait of naturalist writer Emile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh's meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he dev...

Gustav Klimt. Complete Paintings | A century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. In ...

The Complete Costume History by Auguste Racinet | Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume historique was in its day the most wide-ranging and incisive study ...

The Blaue Reiter | The charge of 20th-century expressionism Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911-1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the ...

Stone Age. Ancient Castles of Europe | Castles and fortresses of medieval Europe Follow photographer Frederic Chaubin as he embarks on a unique, century-spanning journey through Europe. Featuring imag...

Pop Art | When the kitschy, banal, and mass-market became art Peaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogatio...

Horror Cinema | Get ready to quake in fear with this revised and expanded edition of our history of horror cinema. From serial killers to satanists, The Shining to Scream, some 600 pages explore the g...

The Beatles. On the Road 1964-1966 | The best of Harry Benson’s era-defining Beatles portfolio, capturing the Liverpudlian quartet on the road, performing, and coming to terms with skyrocketing fame. ...

Egyptian Art | A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the m...

Alchemy & Mysticism | A fantastic journey through the history of esoteric lore The Hermetic Museum takes readers on a magical mystery tour spanning an arc from the medieval cosmogram and images of Chr...

The Copy Book | An updated edition of the best-selling reference work for copywriting In 1995, the D&AD published a book on the art of writing for advertising. The then best-selling book remains a...

Mies van der Rohe | Perfektion im Purismus Er pragte das Motto „weniger ist mehr“ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) war einer der Grundervater der modernen Architektur und beeinflusste die Asthet...

Logo Beginnings | The origins of modern logos Countless global brands, including Rolex, BMW, Louis Vuitton, and the New York Yankees, still use logos that were designed over 100 years ago. Yet there h...

Egypt. People, Gods, Pharaohs | Everyday life in Ancient Egypt How much do we really know about Ancient Egypt? The pharaohs and pyramids are familiar history fodder, but what about the farmers, the so...

The Package Design Book. Volume 2 | An international guide to award winning packaging design The field of package design never ceases to expand and innovate, making it one of the most vibrant, competi...

Iheronimus Bosch. The Complete Works | In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) was more tha...

Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery. The Complete | Discover one of the most comprehensive and beautifully illustrated anatomical treatises ever published. The product of more than two decades of dedic...

Michelangelo. The Graphic Work | Michelangelo’s breathtaking drawings Very few artists can claim such lasting and worldwide fame and importance as Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564). The nickname il ...

Vienna Around 1900 | Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstra...

Photographers A-Z | An encyclopedia of 20th-century photographers and their finest publications Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th ce...

Afghanistan | Magnum photographer Steve McCurry’s Afghanistan retrospective Afghanistan has long been a country overwhelmed by tribal rivalries, colonial wars, and geo-political conflict. The Afghans ...

100 Movies of the 1990s | The ultimate 1990s movie compendium The last decade of the 20th century consolidated once again the fascinating power of the silver screen, both by looking to the future and ...

The Ultimate Sneaker Book | A 15-year anthology of cult magazine Sneaker Freaker Back in 2002, Simon “Woody” Wood was dreaming up schemes to get free sneakers. Two weeks later, he was the proud owner ...

Van Gogh. L'uvre complet - Peinture | Genie et angoisse existentielle d’un maitre de l’expressionnisme L’histoire de Vincent van Gogh est l’une des plus tragiques de l’histoire de l’art. Aujourd’hui, ...

Rodin | When marble and clay come alive While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early...

Araki | Decades' worth of images have been distilled down to 512 pages of photographs in this ultimate retrospective collection of Nobuyoshi Araki's work, selected by the artist himself. First publish...

Jazz. New York in the Roaring Twenties | Big city, big bands: New York's jazz scene of the 1920s It's the Roaring Twenties, and New York is aflame with jazz fever. Crowds flock to the nightclubs and d...

Raphael | The heavenly grace and human grandeur of a supreme Renaissance master In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and arc...