MC Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an achitect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature. The resulting dimensional and perspectival illusions bring us into confromtation with the limitations of our sensory perception.

Why did renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher create the pictures? How did he construct them? And how are the various images Escher created interrelated? This book, including biographical data, illustrations, and explications of mathematical problems, offers answers to these and other questions.

Amazing Archival Images from the Internet.

A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers are the expression of a period, of a particular time in their lives. Many are works of art and have become as famous as the music they stand for -

Twenty-nine woodcuts and lithographs make use of optical illusions and unusual perspectives and are accompanied by the artist's comments.

Award-winning author/illustrator Shaun Tan brings us a powerful and evocative wordless graphic novel.

Award-winning illustrator and graphic designer Nigel Holmes depicts the things we do every day like you've never seen them before. Pruning a rose or building a sandcastle might seem like common activities, but when you see them visualized on paper in wordless, step-by-step diagrams, you'll discover them anew. From how to tie a knot in a cherry stem with your tongue to how to make a grilled cheese

First published in Germany during the Weimar period, this is a stunning wordless portrait of urban Europe during those tense and dynamic years.

Photographer Kyoichi Tsuzuki rode his scooter all over Tokyo snapping shots of how urban Japanese really live. He reveals the real Tokyo style: micro-apartments, mini and modular everything crammed into a space where every inch counts.'

A comic/graphic novel that won the Guardian First Book Award 2001. It is the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.

Rorschach, a half-psychotic vigilante must convince his ex team-mates, now middle-aged and retired, that he has uncovered a plot to murder the remaining superheroes - along with millions of innocent civilians. Even reunited, will the remnants of the 'Watchmen' be enough to avert a global apocalypse?

Combined here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.

Examines the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II. This catalogue features imagery that ranges from artistic impressions of the first fully mechanized war, to radical geometric abstractions, to the colourful jazz age images of speed, sport and diversion.

Covering the 1920s to the 1960s, this book brings together vintage ads, postcards, brochures, and photographs as well as period Top 10 lists covering surf superstars, songs, and surfing spots. If you've ever found yourself waxing nostalgic for bygone beach culture, this is the book for you.

The Protest Art of Emory Douglas. First book to show the provocative posters and groundbreaking graphics of the revolutionary Black Panther Party, which was founded in the late 1960s in the wake of the murder of Malcolm X.

Four wordless graphic novels by Frans Masereel (1918), Lynd Ward (1932), Giacomo Patri (1938) and Laurence Hyde (1951).