While printed media sadly struggles to maintain relevance in the digital information age, TASCHEN remains a global brand with global influence. The luxury art book publisher has been showcasing beautiful and covetable coffee table books for four decades, establishing a diverse and inclusive collection, publishing books that span art, photography, architecture, food, design, pop culture, as well as fetish, erotica, and queer art.
From August 29 through September 1 book lovers can explore great deals online at taschen.com and in TASCHEN flagship stores worldwide. The biannual sale from the iconic book publisher features display copies at up to 75% off across a wide array of categories, including art, fashion, photography, design, architecture, travel, and more. So, if you’ve had your eye on a few titles, or have a bookshelf to fill, now is the time to snap up a book (or several) before they sell out!
Here are plant-terra's picks across art, travel, food and photography.
Photographer, renowned vegetarian chef, and activist, Mary McCartney, brings together two of her favorite passions in Feeding Creativity — food and art. Cooking 60 of her favourite vegetarian recipes to share with friends, family (like her dad, Paul McCartney, and her sister, fashion designer Stella McCartney), musicians, actors, and artists, she shares her photographs, recipes, and anecdotes from those culinary encounters. The book features Jeff Koons (and Rainbow Sprinkle Cake), David Hockney, Chrissie Hynde, and Johnny Marr, Tracey Emin, Cindy Sherman, and more, enjoying her delish food and chats. Want to try the Citrus Syrup Polenta cake served up to the artist Ed Ruscha, or the Peanut, Pretzel, and Chocolate cookies enjoyed by George Condo? Well, now you can. Grab yourself a copy!
TASCHEN’s Jean-Michel Basquiat provides an unprecedented insight into the work of the titular American artist whose name to this day remains synonymous with the New York art scene of the 1980s. The book traces the artist’s career from his early spray-painted poems and social commentary on the walls of the city, to the career-defining, and auction record-breaking, subversive paintings that today adorn the walls of museums and international collections. Sampling from his everyday life, Basquiat filled his canvases with black figures, words, signs and ciphers, to create startlingly energetic and raw paintings that are just as fresh today as when they were created a quarter of a century ago. The book features colour reproductions of his most seminal paintings, drawings and notebook sketches, as well as insight into the artist’s world and inspiration, from jazz, hip hop, pop culture, graffiti, boxing, basketball and art. A great gift idea and addition to any art lover’s library.
The fourth volume in The Library of Esoterica explores the historic roots of plants in myth and magickal practices. Celebrating the magick of the natural realm, Plant Magick delves into the symbolism, ceremony, and our ritual relationships with the botanical world. Through essays, interviews, and more than 400 images—from ancient Egyptian stonework to Victorian botanical art, to contemporary works celebrating nature — Plant Magick chronicles the symbiotic relationship between plants and people, and the power of plants throughout history, and celebrates botanicals as creative muse – from ancient Greek sculptures to Renaissance paintings to visionary art inspired by psychoactive plants, cacti, and mushrooms.
In Animals, famed American photographer Steve McCurry captures images of animals and humans together, from an elephant or street dogs resting with their human, to a dog led through the rubbles of Kabul. The photographer presents his favorite shots of animals in this collection ranging from Asia to South America, the United States to Europe. These images are a touching tribute to the creatures who share our planet, exploring animals’ complex relationship with humans and the environment. Through McCurry’s lens, we discover an appreciation for each creature’s beauty and dignity.
Escape to some of the world’s most remote destinations with photographer David De Vleeschauwer and travel journalist Debbie Pappyn. Immerse yourself in 12 journeys that unfold through fascinating firsthand texts and enthralling photographs. With personal accounts revealing useful travel tips, Remote Experiences takes us on an extraordinary visual tour of our globe from north to south. De Vleeschauwer ventures to paradise-like, off-the-radar forgotten kingdoms with ancient Buddhist outposts in the foothills of the Himalayas and traces the footsteps of pilgrims and shepherds in Italy, the plains of Botswana to the outer realms of Antarctica aboard a superyacht icebreaker. De Vleeschauwer's shared experiences depict a world where the foreign becomes familiar, the isolated accessible. Complete with travel accounts and detailed descriptions of trips that range in price from an affordable 250 euros to an ambitious one million euros, Remote Experiences takes its readers on an unforgettable voyage to those overlooked or sometimes forgotten spaces “where time stands still”.
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