Tadao Ando
Philip Jodidio
Taschen 2001
Hardback, colour d/w, 310 x 230 mm, 176 pages
£16.99

Tadao Ando, born in 1941 in Osaka, is the best known contemporary Japanese architect. Winner of the 1992 Carlsberg Prize, the 1995 Pulitzer Prize, the 1996 Praemium Imperiale, and the 1997 Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal, he has influenced an entire generation of students, mainly through professional publications and travelling exhibitions. 

Based on visits to Ando's principal buildings, which are almost all located in Japan, and on interviews with the architect, this book provides a valuable overview of his career through his built work and current projects.

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A Life Of Picasso 1907-1917: The Painter Of Modern Life 
John Richardson
Jonathan Cape 1997
Hardback, colour d/w, 264 x 212 mm, 500 pages 
£15.00  [RRP £30.00]

In this, the second volume of his definitive biography of Picasso, John Richardson draws on the same combination of lively writing, critical astuteness, exhaustive research, and personal experience which made a bestseller out of the first volume. Here he vividly recreates the artist's life and work during the crucial decade of 1907-1917 - a period during which Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque invented Cubism and to that extent engendered Modernism. 

Thanks to his friendship with Picasso, his family, his mistresses, his fellow artists and other associates, Richardson has had unique access to untapped sources and unpublished material. Never before has Picasso's prodigious technique, his incisive vision and not least his sardonic humour been analysed with such clarity.   

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Architecture In The 20th Century
Peter Gössel & Gabriele Leuthäuser 
Taschen 2001
Paperback, 263 x 202 mm, 448 pages 
£19.99

The architecture of the 20th century is distinguished by its astonishing diversity. Just as the clash of aesthetic and commercial ambitions nevertheless produced many a happy symbiosis, so the purist and the expressive, the monumental and the picturesque come face to face. Some architects emphasised the artistic, others the social aspect of their work.

The present volume consists of 29 chapters with 460 predominantly large-format photographs, accompanied by 155 drawings that take a look behind the façades. Complementing the whole is a comprehensive biographical appendix that traces the careers of the most famous architects of the period. 

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Architecture Now!
Philip Jodidio
Taschen 2001
Paperback, 266 x 205 mm, 576 pages 
£19.99

Entering into a dialogue with fashion, ecology, politics and art, architecture has become on of the most vital and exciting forms of contemporary culture. Presented alphabetically by architect or firm, Architecture Now! is an up-to-date reference guide, with extensive photographs and illustrations, biographical and contact information for designers, and an invaluable selection of today's and tomorrow's most influential architects including Frank O. Gehry, Richard Meier, Tadao Ando, Norman Foster, Starck, Jakob & MacFarlane, Diller & Scofidio, and Herzog & de Meuron.   

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Art At The Turn Of The Millennium
Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick 
Taschen 1999
Paperback, 255 x 205 mm, 576 pages 
£19.99

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated book offers a broad overview of the international art scene at the end of the 20th century. Four pages are devoted to each of the 137 artists featured, all of whom are listed alphabetically. With over 1200 illustrations this work documents the latest trends in art and includes concise commentaries of each artist's major works. It also offers a valuable insight into the directions in which the art of the future may be heading.

Art Nouveau
Gabriele Fahr-Becker
Könemann 1997
Hardback, colour d/w, 320 x 275 mm, 425 pages 
£19.99

Unity of art and life was the declared aim of Art Nouveau in the run-up to modernity. On a basis of shared ideas and ideals, artists strived after a homogenous style that would find expression not in uniformity but in variety. Despite all the inconsistencies, a unified framework does show through the many variations. 

Art historian and Art Nouveau scholar, Gabriele Fahr-Becker pursues this yearning for an all-pervasive style in its impact on architecture, interior design, furniture, gold and silversmiths' works, art ceramics and glass, graphics and painting. Artists include Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Edvard Munch, Josef Hoffmann, Antoni Gaudi i Cornet, René Lalique and Louis Comfort Tiffany, and many others.    

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