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We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best possible experience on our website, to serve personalised content or relevant ads. Working for taschen since 1987, she has published numerous titles on art, architecture, photography, design, travel, and lifestyle. Media in category taschen the following 9 files are in this category, out of 9 total. Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by benedikt taschen in cologne, germany. In the 80s, it was the centre of the west german artscene, and was an important link to american artists. These seductive books have slick production values, excellent illustrations, and smart texts. It was originally centered on comics only, when the then18yearold taschen found himself with an enormous collection of new, rare and collectible comics, and decided to set up a. The colour woodcut in vienna around 1900 jeanmichel.
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