Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), scion of an ancient aristocratic family, was a crippled dwarf. In Paris he was drawn to the world of the red-light district around Montmartre. Lautrec recorded what he saw, and transferred his observations to paper and canvas. This monograph examines the close relations between Lautrec's work and life.

Gustav Klimt's art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. His fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his time.

After a monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was struck down by illness and no longer able to stand upright and use a paintbrush. At this stage in his life, he developed a technique of drawing shapes on brightly colored paper. This title presents the most important result of cut-outs period: Jazz.

Caravaggio was one of the most mysterious and revolutionary painters in the history of art. As this volume in Taschen's Art Album series shows, he created a new language of theatrical realism that lives on through his paintings.

Wonderfully indecent pictures from famous scribblers and anonymous talents alike (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age - whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso - have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, and ...

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. This monograph presents the infamous Surrealist in full color and in his own words. It features his imagery, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe.

In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte launched an expedition of 35,000 soldiers to conquer Egypt. Napoleon's ships also carried some 500 scholars, scientists and artists whose task it was to study the country and its customs. This volume recreates two major themes of their resultant work: Antiquites , including the Rosetta stone, and Etat Moderne .

Born in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, Symbolist painting plunged headlong into the cultural space opened up by the poetry of Baudelaire and Mallarme and by the operas of Wagner. Symbolist painters sought not to represent appearances but to express the Idea, and the imaginary therefore plays an important part in their work.

This illustrated work takes a look at the wonderful world of post-impressionism through the eyes of Manet (1832-1883), painter and graphic artist.

Women have always known how to stimulate the latent fetishism of the men around them. This title demonstrates how the conflict between the need to conceal and the will to reveal has provided women with the means to explore their own sexuality and exercise an erotic ascendancy over men.

Kasimir Malevitch (1878-1935) was Russia's foremost pioneer of geometric abstract art. This work gives a brief introduction to the life and work of this prolific painter, designer and writer.

Painter, sculpter, writer and film maker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. This biography presents the infamous Surrealist in full colour and in his own words.

This album presents the work of Michelangelo, one of the great Renaissance artists who transformed the history of art, attaining to ever closer imitation of nature whilst altering it to their taste. Michelangelo tried to reconcile the forces that inhabited him: earthly passions and fear of God.

This title explores the influence of homosexuality in early Asian and Greek paintings to modern day art.

Traces Henri Matisse's search for balance, purity and serenity, from the chromatic brilliance of his Fauve period, through his travels, the Orient, geometric synthesis, and the odalisques to the triumph when, at the age of eighty, he invented his gouache cut-outs. He is acknowledged as an artist whose canvases are difficult to reproduce in print.

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. This monograph presents the infamous Surrealist in full color and in his own words. It features his provocative imagery, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe.

In Balthus' work he has always resisted the fashion of the day and remained true to traditional techniques and subjects. This volume presents a selection of his paintings.

Etchings, woodcuts, paintings, illustrations, drawings, photographs, and advertisements featuring the devil, by the likes of Da Vinci, Bosch, Pierre et Gilles, Giger, and many more, populate the pages of this evil text.