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In this essential TASCHEN introduction to Tadao Ando we explore the hybrid of tradition, modernism, and function that allows his buildings to enchant architects, designers, fashion designers, and beyond. Through key projects including private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces, we explore a uniquely monumental yet comforting aesthetic that draws as much on the calm restraint of Japanese tradition as the compelling modernist vocabularies of Bauhaus and Le Corbusier. With featured projects in Japan, France, Italy, Spain, and the United States, we see not only Ando’s global reach but also his refined sensitivity for the environs: the play of light through windows, and, in particular, the interaction of buildings with water. From the mesmerizing Church of the Light in Osaka to the luminous Punta della Dogana Contemporary Art Center in Venice, this is a radiant tour through a distinctly contemporary form as much as a timeless appeal of light, elements, and equilibrium.

In 1965, Steve Schapiro started documenting Andy Warhol for LIFE magazine: Warhol was cementing a reputation as an important Pop artist who drew his inspiration from popular culture and commercial objects. With his sunglasses, blond wig, and bland public utterances, Warhol was enigmatic, charismatic, intensely ambitious, and aware that to become a star, you needed the presence of people to document your ascent. Schapiro, also ambitious and hardworking, who in his own words “kept quiet and smiled a lot,” was an ideal witness to Warhol’s relentless rise from cult New York artist to 20th-century icon. Ironically, LIFE never published the story, so many of these images are seen here for the first time, scanned from negatives found deep in Schapiro’s archive.

Quien mas quien menos se ha sentido atrapado en algun momento de su vida por alguna saga interminable repleta de señores oscuros, magos barbudos, espadas magicas, duendes, quimeras o elfos.El exito de dos nuevas superproducciones televisivas basadas en sagas literarias La casa del dragon, precuela de Juego de tronos, y Los anillos de poder, precuela de El señor de los anillos hacen de este un momento ideal para publicar un libro que de un repaso al genero narrativo que lleva un siglo arrasando.Historias apasionantes en las que el mal se enfrenta al bien encarnado en sus mas diferentes valores: la valentia, el honor o la honradez, aderezado siempre con un tono de epica. Y que el autor de este libro ha sintetizado con manos expertas y mucho conocimiento para hacer de ello un compendio de lo mas granado del mundo de la literatura, el cine, el comic o los videojuegos.Fantasia de leyenda: De Dragones y mazmorras a El ultimo unicornio.Un mundo de fantasia medieval de la mano de George R. R. Martin: Cancion de hielo y fuego.Fantasias para todos los gustos: De Willow a El priorato del naranjo.Fantasias camp: De Krull a La leyenda del buscador.Cronicas de la carcajada: de Mundodisco a Nimona.Una fantasia epica distinta: de la Saga de la Tumba Sellada a Step by Bloody Step.Videojuegos de fantasia: De World of Warcraft a Dragon Quest.

At the dawn of the Victorian era in her open-air laboratory in Halstead, Kent, Anna Atkins embarked on a radical experiment to document botanical species using a completely new artistic medium. The inimitable cyanotype photograms of algae and ferns she created were made into the first books to feature photographic images. Striking yet ethereal, these albums are a perfect synthesis of art and science.Although the cyanotype technique was discovered by her friend John Herschel, Atkins was the first to realize both its practical purpose for own her interests in botany and taxonomy, and its intriguing artistic potential.

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. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds).This incredible collection is now available in an accessible XXL book format. Leibovitz drew on more than 40 years of work, starting with the photojournalism she did for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s through the conceptual portraits she made for Vanity Fair and Vogue.

Clara y Dani, de visita al museo de la música, han hecho enfurecer al dios Pan, despertando así la magia del museo. Instrumentos que vuelan, personajes que aparecen desde los cuadros… todo se ha tornado en caos y desorden. Pan les ha retado a aprender a tocar el piano, conocer sus conceptos esenciales y descifrar una serie de sencillos códigos. Solo si superan las diferentes pruebas musicales detendrán la magia y todo volverá a la normalidad.