The story of modern fashion from couture to mass market
The 20th century saw fashion evolve from an exclusive Parisian salon business catering for the wealthy elite into a global industry employing millions, with new trends whisked into stores before the last model has even left the catwalk.
Along the way, the signature silhouettes of each era evolved beyond recognition. For women, House of Worth crinolines gave way to Vionnets bias-cut gowns, Diors New Look to Quants Chelsea Look, Halstons white suit to Frankie B.s low-rise jeans. In menswear, ready-made suits signaled the demise of bespoke tailoring, long before Hawaiian shirts or skinny jeans entered the game.
20th-Century Fashion offers a retrospective of the last hundred years of style via 400 fashion advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection. The images trace not only the changing trends but also the evolution in their marketing and audience, as fashion was adopted into popular culture and the mass market, decade by decade. An in-depth introduction and illustrated timeline detail the style-makers and trendsetters, and how historic events, design houses, retailers, films, magazines, and celebrities shaped the way we dressed-then and now.
From the archives of cinematic genius
In 1968, when Stanley Kubrick was asked to comment on the metaphysical significance of 2001: A Space Odyssey, he replied: Its not a message I ever intended to convey in words. 2001 is a nonverbal experience… I tried to create a visual experience, one that directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophic content.
Now available as part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, The Stanley Kubrick Archives borrows from the directors philosophy. From the opening sequence of Killers Kiss to the final frames of Eyes Wide Shut, it allows the masterful visuals of Kubricks films to impress through a sequence of compelling, mesmerizing stills. We uncover Kubricks creative process through fascinating archival material, including set designs, sketches, correspondence, documents, screenplays, drafts, notes, and shooting schedules.
Accompanying the visual and archival material are essays by noted Kubrick scholars, articles written by and about Kubrick, and a selection of Kubricks best interviews. The result is a visual, archival, and scholarly journey through masterworks of 20th-century cinema and the meticulous mind of the director behind them.
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, competitive, and fast-evolving areas in design today. It is influenced by various factors such as the consumers requirements, the ever-increasing marketing demands, evolving environmental policies, and the practice of adhering to the context of cultural aspects and diversity. By developing at such a demanding and rapid pace, package design encompasses many different elements and specialists, including designers, service providers, material suppliers, and printers. As a result, it has become a universe in itself.
Pentawards has capitalized on this to create the most dynamic and diverse award in the field, which has existed for 15 years. The Pentawards sets a global benchmark for quality each year by scouting the areas cleverest and most eclectic designs. The Package Design Book — Volume 2 presents winners from the past decade in celebrating packaging as a kaleidoscopic art form. It showcases not only the new and unexpected developments but also a clear vision of the evolution of the entire industry, especially in the areas of new materials and sustainability.
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Les genies delaisses de limpressionnisme
Cest la vue dun port, une scene experimentale aux touches imprecises, qui donna son nom a limpressionnisme. Quand Impression, soleil levant de Claude Monet fut expose en avril 1874, les critiques se sont empares du nom de l?uvre et de son rendu esthetique en apparence mal maitrise de la lumiere et du mouvement de leau pour designer cette nouvelle tendance, impressionniste, de lart.
Comme dans bien dautres mouvements artistiques majeurs, les critiques dart ont ete bien mal inspires. Aujourdhui, limpressionnisme est un serieux candidat au titre de courant pictural prefere au monde. Avec ses expositions ultra-frequentees, ses prix de vente aux encheres record et ses musees bondes, les ?uvres autrefois ignorees, car considerees comme inachevees ou floues, sont a present vivement appreciees pour leur ambiance evocatrice du temps et des lieux ainsi que pour le sens artistique qui se degage des coups de pinceau librement poses sur la toile.
Malgre sa popularite et une multitude de publications, certains aspects de la peinture impressionniste comme certains de ses artistes restent encore insuffisamment explores. Cet ouvrage de TASCHEN entend combler cette lacune en tracant le portrait de pionniers injustement delaisses comme Berthe Morisot, Lucien Pissarro et Gustave Caillebotte et en se penchant sur les specificites de limpressionnisme, depuis la peinture en plein air jusquaux vifs contrastes de couleur, sans se limiter a la France, pays dorigine du mouvement, mais en abordant aussi les autres pays europeens et lAmerique du Nord.
Von Weimar in die Welt — Mythos Bauhaus
In einem kurzen Zeitraum von nur vierzehn Jahren zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen veranderte die deutsche Kunst- und Gestaltungsschule Bauhaus das Antlitz der Moderne. Mit utopischen Idealen fur die Zukunft entwickelte sie eine bahnbrechende Fusion aus Kunst, Handwerk und Technik, die sie quer durch alle gestalterischen Medien und Methoden umsetzte, vom Film bis zum Theater, von der Bildhauerei bis zur Topferei.
Dieses Referenzwerk entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum fur Gestaltung in Berlin, der weltgro?ten Sammlung zur Geschichte des Bauhauses. Uber 250 neue Fotografien, Schriften, Studien, Skizzen, Plane und Modelle dokumentieren nicht nur die realisierten Arbeiten, sie lassen auch den Geist von Bauhaus wieder lebendig werden. Von zwanglosen Aufnahmen beim Gruppenturnen bis zu Zeichnungen aus dem Unterricht von Paul Klee, von ausfuhrlichen Bauplanen bis zu einem schnittigen Aschenbecher von Marianne Brandt — sie alle sind Zeugnisse einer idealistischen Kreativgemeinschaft, die entschlossen war, Gestaltung vollig neu zu denken und eine bessere Zukunft fur moderne Menschen zu formen.
Das Buch zeigt Bauhaus nicht nur als bahnbrechende Bewegung des Modernismus, sondern auch als Musterbeispiel einer Kunsterziehung, in der schopferischer Ausdruck und zukunftsweisende Einfalle zu Produkten fuhrten, die schon und funktional zugleich waren. Diese handliche Ausgabe stellt Kunstler wie Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Gertrud Grunow, Paul Klee, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Lilly Reich und viele andere vor.
Luminary design of the 20th century
Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th centurys most interesting electric lights, from Tiffanys beautiful leaded-glass shades to completely outrageous designs from the late 1960s and 1970s to the latest high-tech LED lamps. All major styles are represented here-Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Modern Movement, De Stijl, Postwar, Pop, Radical, Postmodern, and Contemporary-in 640 pages of truly illuminated works.
This definitive reference work is a must-have for collectors and design fans.
Burton Holmes, the man who brought the world home
It was the Belle Epoque, a time before air travel or radio, at the brink of a revolution in photography and filmmaking, when Burton Holmes (1870-1958) began a lifelong journey to bring the world home.
From the grand boulevards of Paris to Chinas Great Wall, from the construction of the Panama Canal to the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, Holmes delighted in finding the beautiful way around the world and made a career of sharing his stories, colorful photographs, and films with audiences across America. He coined the term travelogue in 1904 to advertise his unique performance and thrilled audiences with two-hour sets of stories timed to projections of multihued, hand-painted glass-lantern slides and some of the first moving pictures.
Paris, Beijing, Delhi, Dubrovnik, Moscow, Manila, Jakarta, Jerusalem: Burton Holmes was there. He visited every continent and nearly every country on the planet, shooting over 30,000 photographs and nearly 500,000 feet of film. This book represents the best of the Holmes archive, brimming with brilliant color photographs. A rare window onto the world of 100 years ago, it is also the ultimate inspiration to strike out on a travel adventure of your own.
Drawings of an era-defining mastermind
One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci remains the quintessential Renaissance genius. Creator of the worlds most famous paintings, this scientist, artist, philosopher, inventor, builder, and mechanic epitomized the great flowering of human consciousness that marks his era.
As part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, Leonardo da Vinci — The Graphic Work features top-quality reproductions of 663 of Leonardos drawings, more than half of which reside in the Royal Collection of Windsor Castle. From anatomical studies to architectural plans, from complex engineering designs to pudgy infant portraits, delve in and delight in the delicate finesse of one of the most talented minds, and hands, in history.
Eugene Atgets 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 acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers, but became enraptured by what he called documents of the city and its environs. His scenes rarely included people, but rather the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that made up the societal and cultural stage.
Atget was not particularly renowned during his lifetime but in the 1920s came to the attention of the Dada and Surrealist avant-garde through Man Ray. Four of his images, with their particular fusion of mimesis and mystery, appeared in the surrealist journal, La Revolution Surrealiste, while Ray and much of his artistic circle purchased Atget prints. Atgets fame grew after his death, with several articles and a monograph by Berenice Abbott. Several leading photographers, including Walker Evans and Bill Brandt, have since acknowledged their debt to Atget.
This fresh TASCHEN edition gathers some 500 photographs from the Atget archives at Musee Carnavalet and the Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris to celebrate his outstanding eye for the urban environment and evocation of a Paris gone by. Down main streets and side streets, past shops and churches, through courtyards and arcades and the 20 arrondissements, we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making of a modern photographic master.
100 illustrators to remember
Drawn from Taschens Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe. With featured artists including Istvan Banyai, Gary Baseman, Seymour Chwast, Paul Davis, Brad Holland, Mirko Ilic, Anita Kunz, and Christoph Niemann, the international overview provides an invigorating record of the dynamism and diversity of the illustration scene.
Each illustrator is featured with a self-portrait, samples from their portfolio, and a succinct description by Steven Heller, with a supplementary list of selected exhibitions and publications. In his introduction, Steven Heller describes the dynamic realm of illustration today and the challenging process of selection within this highly competitive and ever-moving genre.
An encyclopedia of modern architecture
With more than 280 entries, this architectural A-Z, now part of our Bibliotheca Universalis series, offers an indispensable overview of the key players in the creation of modern space. From the period spanning the 19th to the 21st century, pioneering architects are featured with a portrait, concise biography, as well as a description of her or his important work.
Like a bespoke global architecture tour, youll travel from Manhattan skyscrapers to a Japanese concert hall, from Gaudis Palau Guell in Barcelona to Lina Bo Bardis sports and leisure center in a former factory site in Sao Paulo. Youll take in Gio Pontis colored geometries, Zaha Hadids free-flowing futurism, the luminous interiors of SANAA, and Charles Rennie Mackintoshs unique blend of Scottish tradition and elegant japonisme.
The books A to Z entries also cover groups, movements, and styles to position these leading individual architects within broader building trends across time and geography, including International Style, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and much more. With illustrations including some of the best architectural photography of the modern era, this is a comprehensive resource for any architecture professional, student, or devotee.
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 Christian mysticism, through the fascinating world of alchemy to the art of the Romantic era. The enigmatic hieroglyphs of cabalists, Rosicrucians, and freemasons are shown to be closely linked with the early scientific illustrations in the fields of medicine, chemistry, optics, and color theory. Even for those with no knowledge of the fascinating history of alchemy, this book is a delight to explore. Each richly illustrated chapter begins with an introduction and quotes from alchemists by specialist Alexander Roob. The roots of surrealism and many other more recent artistic movements can be found in this treasure trove.
From the Model T and DB5 to the VW Beetle and the Hummer
Time-travel through the Automobile Age with a collection that puts you in the drivers seat. 20th Century Classic Cars offers a lush visual history of the automobile, decade by decade, via 400-plus print advertisements from the Jim Heimann Collection.
Using imagery culled from a century of auto advertising, this book traces the evolution of the auto from horseless carriage to rocket on wheels-and beyond. With an introduction and chapter text by former New York Times automotive writer Phil Patton, as well as an illustrated timeline, this volume highlights the technological innovations, major manufacturers and dealers, historical events, and influence of popular culture on car design.