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Ever since ancient astronomers gazed up at a distant ruby spark in the night sky and named it for their god of war, Mars has captivated the human imagination as a source of endless speculation and a beacon of hope for its potential habitability. The many mysteries of the fourth planet from the sun are uncovered through six decades of missions and pioneering research at NASA-photographs have revealed a rocky world, visually so much like our own, that likely supported ancient life.See the earliest close-up images of Mars taken by the Mariner 4 spacecraft in 1965, the first ever captured of another planet, along with historical illustrations, before scientific advancement matched our curiosity. Science and art collide as NASA's later missions capture ancient riverbeds, polar ice caps, dust devils, vast canyons, and formidable volcanoes in an endlessly varied landscape. As they traverse Mars' scarred surface, NASA's rovers have operated as mechanical extensions of humankind for the past 25 years-until we can get there ourselves-marveling at mountain ranges and blue sunsets, drilling holes, and searching for traces of water.Through hundreds of cutting-edge photographs from NASA and JPL's extensive archives, we join NASA scientists in the ongoing quest to better understand Mars. Essays from some of the masterminds behind NASA's missions to the Martian planet James L. Green and Robert Manning, curator Margaret Weitekamp, poet Nikki Giovanni, and more illuminate the latest electrifying research on the red planet and its enduring hold on our culture.

Jim Heimanns neues Buch Menu Design In Europe ist ein genussvoller Augenschmaus mit hunderten europäischen Speisekarten aus der Zeit vom frühen 19. Jahrhundert bis zum Ende des Jahrtausends. Es erzählt die Geschichte der kontinentalen Küche und bietet zugleich einen umfassenden Überblick über grafische Stile, weshalb sowohl Feinschmecker als auch Designliebhaber auf ihre Kosten kommen.Die Dominanz der französischen Küche lieferte die Grundlage für die kulinarischen Köstlichkeiten, die sich überall auf dem Kontinent (und darüber hinaus) verbreiteten. Als im 19. Jahrhundert immer mehr Gaststätten und Restaurants eröffneten, entstand aus dem Bedarf nach einer formelleren Präsentation der angebotenen Speisen eine Reihe von gedruckten Speisekarten, die sowohl extravagant als auch einfach sein konnten. Erinnert die Speisekarte des Pariser Le Grand Vefour von 1891 mit ihrem komplizierten Stanzmuster an ein belebtes Bistro der Belle Époque, versetzt uns die Speisekarte des Londoner Royal Palace Hotels von 1932 an die Bar eines pulsierenden Nachtclubs des Jazz-Zeitalters. Am anderen Ende des Designspektrums bildet die Speisekarte des Restaurants Lasserre aus der Mitte des Jahrhunderts surrealistische Einfachheit ab. Es sind verschiedene Stildekaden vertreten - von Jugendstil- und Art-déco-Meisterwerken bis hin zu den grafischen Aneignungen der DDR. Gezeigt werden auch die Michelin-Restaurants der Starkoch-Ära und seltene Exemplare wie ein deutsches Militärmenü aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.Die Speisekarten sind nicht nur eine Auflistung von Gerichten, sondern stehen oft für ein unvergessliches Gourmet-Erlebnis und wurden manchmal mit genauso viel Sorgfalt und Liebe zum Detail präsentiert wie das Essen selbst. Auch wenn man nicht im Jahr 1952 ins La Tour d'Argent einkehren und das berühmte Entengericht Le Caneton Tour d'Argent probieren kann, so kann man sich beim Anblick der Themenillustration mit den Wasservögeln und dem Abendangebot doch vorstellen, wie es gewesen sein muss. Neben einem Essay des Grafikdesign-Historikers Steven Heller und Bildunterschriften des führenden Sammlers und Antiquars Marc Selvaggio enthält Menu Design In Europe Speisekarten aus wichtigen Sammlungen und Institutionen, die zusammen ein üppiges Fest für die Augen und ein historisches Dokument über zwei Jahrhunderte kulinarischer Traditionen ergeben.

Architect Tadao Ando's designs have been described as haikus crafted from concrete, water, light, and space. This is a tribute to his body of work completed from 1975 until such recent projects as the Hansol Museum in South Korea and Teatrino in Venice, Italy. Each structure is profiled through photographs and architectural drawings, providing...

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Remote Experiences ist der visuelle Bericht von den außergewöhnlichen Reisen des Fotografen David De Vleeschauwer durch die unerforschten Gebiete der Welt. Auf der Suche nach dem besten Trips erkundet er seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten mit großer Leidenschaft die ganze Welt. Im vorliegenden Buch konzentriert er sich auf 12 unerwartete Reiseziele und wandert mit der Leichtigkeit des erfahrenen Entdeckers von Norden nach Süden. Seine Fotoreportage erweckt eine vielschichtige Sammlung von Erinnerungen zum Leben. Er wagt sich in paradiesische, abseits der Touristenströme gelegene, vergessene Königreiche wie den sehr alten buddhistischen Dörfern in den Ausläufern des Himalaya und folgt den Spuren von Pilgern und Schafhirten in Italien. Von der Safari in den Ebenen Botswanas bis zu den äußeren Gefilden der Antarktis an Bord eines Superyacht-Eisbrechers skizziert dieser einzigartige Reiseführer seine eigene Geografie der Welt. Unterwegs begegnen wir Menschen, Landschaften und sogar Schiffen, die zu den unerwarteten Helden dieser wundersamen Abenteuer werden. De Vleeschauwers Erlebnisse zeigen eine Welt, in der das Fremde vertraut und das Verborgene zugänglich wird. In unserem digitalen, viel zu konsumorientierten Zeitalter sehnen sich die Menschen nach einem echten Gefühl für einen Ort, der schroff, kultiviert oder einfach sein kann.Ergänzt durch detaillierte Beschreibungen von Trips, deren Preis von erschwinglichen 250 Euro bis zu einer Million Euro reicht, nimmt Remote Experiences seine Leser mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise zu jenen übersehenen oder auch vergessenen Orten, "an denen die Zeit stillsteht", und ermutigt uns, ebenfalls anzuhalten - bis wir uns wieder auf den Weg machen...

Explore the finest work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the 18th-century engraver famed for his architectural views of Rome and his imaginary prisons. In this Bibliotheca Universalis edition, you'll find all the extraordinary detail and fantasy with which Piranesi shaped not only the European image of Italy, but also an impressive artistic...

Sir William Hamilton, vulcanologist and envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, amassed an invaluable collection of ancient Greek vases, sold to the British Museum in 1772. He commissioned Pierre-Francois Hugues d'Hancarville to document the pieces before they were shipped to London: the result was a neoclassical masterpiece, reproduced here by...

Latin American folk hero, husband of Frida Kahlo, devout Communist, and Mexico's most important artist: the oeuvre of Diego Rivera is finally done justice in this monograph constituting the most comprehensive study of his work ever made. More than a half century after his death, Rivera's story, complete mural works, and recently discovered...

Peasant workers, production lines, and eager schoolchildren: this rare and fascinating publication brings together key artworks from Max Gottschalk's vast collection of Chinese propaganda posters. Produced between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, these images are an astonishing document of the utopian dreams of...

Angela Merkel: An epoch ends - and with it a unique project worldwide. Between 1991 and 2021, the exceptional politician was photographed regularly by Herlinde Koelbl. The result is a journey through the era of Angela Merkel, revealing the portrait of a remarkable physical and psychological transformation and the record of an extraordinary...

Bruce Weber describes this first career-spanning collection of his famed dog photographs as his most personal book. It celebrates the human-animal bond, illuminating how connection to one's pets can fuel creativity, provide companionship, and foster an abundance of joy. Also available in two Art Editions with prints, each limited to...

In true Pop Art style, movies of the 1960s blurred the lines between art, mass market, and pop culture into one vibrant cinematic decade. From Barbarella to Mrs. Robinson, James Bond to Jean-Luc Godard, this book gathers the must-see films of a transformational era, shaped by art form innovation, Spaghetti Westerns, sci-fi star turns, and...

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Explore how the female leg became central to women's emacipation, from the French Revolution to the sexual revolution.

The 2010s saw Netflix take on Hollywood, indie movies make history, and Star Wars strike back. Look back on the very best of film from 2011-2020 in this new compendium distilling the big-screen spirit of the decade. Entries featuring stills, detailed synopses, and trivia guide us across the Marvel Universe and through landmark projects such as...

In 1961, three years after meeting Jeanne-Claude in Paris, Christo made a study of a mammoth project that would wrap one of the city's most emblematic monuments. 60 years, 25,000 square meters of recyclable fabric, and 3,000 meters of rope later, the artists' vision finally came true. Discover their posthumous installation with this book...

For many film lovers, the 1970s represent a high point in creativity, a golden age of individualist directors making their marks. In this book you'll find a host of key movies of the era that saw a flowering of talent and the arrival of the blockbuster with the likes of Jaws and Star Wars.

Prepare to embark on a journey through space and time with The NASA Archives, a visual celebration of humankind's unstoppable urge to travel away from Earth to worlds beyond. Featuring hundreds of historic photographs and concept renderings, this collection guides us through NASA's 60-year history.

Updated with many recently completed projects, this monograph is jam-packed with photographs, sketches, and plans that span Renzo Piano's entire career to date. It includes works like the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA and the San Giogrio Bridge in Genoa, as well as other newly finished projects like the Chateau La Coste Art Gallery...

Ellen von Unwerth's knock-out collection of female sexuality, starring some of the most iconic women of our time including Claudia Schiffer, Eva Mendes, Kate Moss, and Dita Von Teese. Enter a world of femininity, playfulness, and fetish in which subjects intermittently flaunt or guard, but always own, their fantasies.

From Azzedine Alaia and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent, celebrate over a century's worth of fashion greats. This updated edition features photographs of hundreds of garments selected from the permanent collection of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, distilling the unique philosophy and...

Art history acquires a new rhythm in this unique anthology of artists' record covers from the 1950s to today. More than 450 covers trace the thrilling interaction between music and visual art and the ways in which modernism, Pop Art, and conceptual practice have all informed the way we see the sounds we hear. Featured covers include Salvador...

Art meets science in this beautiful catalogue of botanical illustration. Drawn from the archives of the National Library of Vienna, these exquisite color reproductions range from 6th-century manuscripts to 19th-century masterpieces and celebrate both the skill of botanical artists and the abundance of natural flora.

The magic and mystery of the Big Top come alive in this history of the American circus. Famed photographs and little-known images capture the 19th- and 20th-century showbiz phenomenon, a unique traveling art form that eventually paved the way for television and film. From sad clowns to titillating tightrope walkers, join the circus on stage,...

Find yourself up close and personal with the King. Now available as a standard TASCHEN edition, this collection brings together over 300 photographs of Elvis from the legendary portfolio of Alfred Wertheimer. Extraordinary in their intimacy and unparalleled in scope, these pictures immortalize a young man in the very process of making history.

Wander the halls of Italy's Renaissance libraries, revel in the Sahara's imposing silence as described by Paul Bowles, or stroll the streets of Josephine Baker's Paris. The writers and photographers of The New York Times are your guides to the history, literature, art, or cuisine of a destination in 100 stories from the Cultured Traveler column.