The roaring twenties in BerlinIt was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering psychology, of drag balls, cabaret,...więcej »
Back to the Années FollesA vivid cultural portrait of 1920s ParisParis is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumières gleams especially b...więcej »
The Museum Ludwig’s handbook of photography in the 20th centuryThe history of photography began nearly 200 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognized as a medi...więcej »
The story of modern fashion from couture to mass marketThe 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry empl...więcej »
Bringing together 50 of the most exquisite, desirable, and adrenaline-charging sports cars of all time, it recounts the enthralling endeavors in automotive design and engineering in pursuit of opti...więcej »
Botanical masterworks from the National Library of ViennaIn pursuit of both knowledge and delight, the craft of botanical illustration has always required not only meticulous draftsmanship bu...więcej »
George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial ...więcej »
Lyrical forms from FinlandAlvar Aalto (1898–1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, ...więcej »
Making sense of revolutionary new formsAbstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audie...więcej »
The definitive monograph on Ai WeiweiAs his personal circumstances move in constant flux, Ai Weiwei remains a cultural magnet. Renowned for his political activism and social media activity al...więcej »
Tadao Ando’s complete works from 1975 until todayDiscover the unique aesthetic of Tadao Ando, the only architect ever to have won the discipline’s four most prestigious prizes: th...więcej »
Well before Andy Warhol’s rise to the pinnacle of Pop Art, he created and exhibited seductive drawings celebrating male beauty. Andy Warhol Love, Sex, & Desire: Drawings 1950-1962 feature...więcej »
Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of frien...więcej »
In Animals, we discover a different side to the famed photographer who skillfully explores animals’ complex relationship with humans and the environment.Tenderness abounds, partic...więcej »
40 years of era-defining photography, now in an accessible editionWhen Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pic...więcej »
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.F...więcej »
It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited i...więcej »
From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern desig...więcej »
A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved.więcej »
In a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pionee...więcej »