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"I never painted my dreams, I painted my own reality. " -Frida KahloFrida Kahlo is one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. Her tragic and dramatic personal life has been the subject of numerous biographies and a major film starring Salma Hayek. In recent years, public interest in Kahlo's life has threatened to eclipse serious consideration of her artistic achievement. This beautifully produced book, which accompanies a major exhibition, presents an enlightening retrospective of her work, refocusing attention on the artistic qualities that have made her paintings some of the most iconic images of the last 100 years.Presenting major works alongside the lesser-known, and incorporating paintings, drawings, and photographs, the volume offers a thoroughly researched, accessible overview of Kahlo's career, with essays by leading critics and an extensive illustrated glossary that explores key recurring elements in her paintings.

Nippon nests: Today's most exceptional Japanese homes So rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it’s hard to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding new ways to refurbish and take inspiration from the ways of old. Whether it’s a pristinely preserved traditional house or a cutting-edge apartment, the best Japanese homes share a love of cleverly designed spaces and warm materials such as wood, bricks, and bamboo. From a thatched roof farmhouse occupied by a Zen priest to Tadao Ando’s experimental 4x4 House, Shigeru Ban’s conceptual Shutter House, and a beautiful homage to bamboo in the form of a home, this book traverses the multifaceted landscape of Japanese living today. Also included is a list of addresses and a glossary of terms, such as tatami. Text in English, French, and German

Mit den experimentellen Konstruktionen der Expo ’70 in Osaka brach eine neue Ära an. Seither fällt Japan eine Schlüsselposition in der globalen Architektur zu. Dieses Buch fasst das Neueste in der japanischen Baukunst zusammen und zeigt, dass Meister wie Tadao Ando, SANAA, Shigeru Ban, Kengo Kuma und Junya Ishigami Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft miteinander verbinden, um nachhaltiger und intelligenter zu bauen denn je.

Zaha Hadid (1950 - 2016) was a revolutionary architect. For years, she was widely acclaimed and won numerous prizes despite building practically nothing. Some even said her work was simply impossible to build. Yet, during the latter years of her life, Hadid’s daring visions became a reality, bringing a new and unique architectural language to cities and structures such as the Port House in Antwerp, the Al Janoub Stadium near Doha, Qatar, and the spectacular new airport terminal in Beijing.By her untimely death in 2016, Hadid was firmly established among architecture’s finest elite, working on projects in Europe, China, the Middle East, and the United States. She was the first female architect to win both the Pritzker Prize for architecture and the prestigious RIBA Royal Gold Medal, with her long-time Partner Patrik Schumacher now the leader of Zaha Hadid Architects and in charge of many new projects.Based on the massive TASCHEN monograph, this book is now available in an extensively updated and accessible edition covering Hadid’s complete works, including ongoing projects. With abundant photographs, in-depth sketches, and Hadid’s own drawings, the volume traces the evolution of her career, spanning not only her most pioneering buildings but also the furniture and interior designs that were integrated into her unique, and distinctly 21st-century, universe.

Even though New York skyscrs were their pictorial theme for a time, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) found mostly in nature: flowers, barren, deserted landscapes and animal bones that bleach in the desert sand. Some of her subjects occupied her for decades and produced a dozen or more variations of an origin image. Famous and an American icon, she became an American icon due to her flower images. By magnifying the tiniest petals into a canvas-filling format, O'Keeffe created a protoabstract imagery of shapes and lines that earned her the nickname "Mother of American Modernism."As posters and art prints, her pictures are now distributed millions of times all over the world. In 1946, O'Keeffe was the first artist to attend a solo exhibition at New York MoMA. After the death of her husband and impresarios, photographer legend Alfred Stieglitz, O'Keeffe moved to the desert of New Mexico, which now provided her with the motifs for her pictures with her sharp shadows, glowing light, rock formations, canyons and lonely adobe houses.Richly illustrated with key works of the painter from all stages of work, portraits Alfred Stieglitz made of her, as well as later photographs, this volume of our Basic Art series documents the most important stations in Georgia O'Keefe's long and productive artist life.About the rangeSince its first publication in 1985, the Basic Art Series has become the best-selling art book series of all time. Each title in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series contains:A detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, which appreciates its cultural and historical significance.a concise biographyA total of around 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions.

The Case Study House program (1945–1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles area and oversaw the design of 36 prototype homes, sought to make available plans for modern residences that could be easily and cheaply constructed during the postwar building boom.The program’s chief motivating force was Arts & Architecture editor John Entenza, a champion of modernism who had all the right connections to attract some of architecture’s greatest talents, such as Richard Neutra, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eero Saarinen. Highly experimental, the program generated houses that were designed to redefine the modern home, and had a pronounced influence on architecture—American and international—both during the program’s existence and even to this day.TASCHEN brings you a retrospective of the entire program with comprehensive documentation, brilliant photographs from the period and, for the houses still in existence, contemporary photos, as well as extensive floor plans and sketches.About the seriesTASCHEN is 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. The 40 series presents new editions of some of the stars of our program—now more compact, friendly in price, and still realized with the same commitment to impeccable production.