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THE ART OF MAKING BOOKS
TASCHEN's Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year-
old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, to
market his massive comics collection. Within a year he began publishing
catalogs promoting his wares, but it wasn't until 1984 that his first art-
book breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40,000 remainder copies of a
Magritte book printed in English, reselling them for a fraction of their ori-
ginal price. From a young age, Taschen had been interested in art but
found that art books were too expensive and hard to obtain, and the suc-
cess of this daring move proved that Taschen was not alone in thinking
that the art-book market should be democratized. Soon he began reprint-
ing books under his own name for budget prices and the next year he
published his first original title and the first book in the Basic Art series:
Picasso. Before long, high-quality-yet-still-inexpensive hardcover books
were added to the... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE ART OF MAKING BOOKS
TASCHEN's Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year-
old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, to
market his massive comics collection. Within a year he began publishing
catalogs promoting his wares, but it wasn't until 1984 that his first art-
book breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40,000 remainder copies of a
Magritte book printed in English, reselling them for a fraction of their ori-
ginal price. From a young age, Taschen had been interested in art but
found that art books were too expensive and hard to obtain, and the suc-
cess of this daring move proved that Taschen was not alone in thinking
that the art-book market should be democratized. Soon he began reprint-
ing books under his own name for budget prices and the next year he
published his first original title and the first book in the Basic Art series:
Picasso. Before long, high-quality-yet-still-inexpensive hardcover books
were added to the lineup and in 1989 the landmark double-jumbo Van
Gogh: The Complete Paintings hit bookstores around the world.
Starting in the late 1980s, TASCHEN established subsidiaries across
the globe and continued to cement its reputation as a publisher of excel-
lent-value books while branching out into new areas such as architecture,
design, photography, lifestyle and classics. In 2000, TASCHEN surprised
the world by breaking the record for the most expensive book published
in the 20th century: copy #1 of Helmut Newton's SUMO, signed by over
80 celebrities featured in it, fetched over $300,000 at a charity auction. A
year later TASCHEN launched its cinema collection with Billy Wilder's
Some Like it Hot. Then, in 2003, TASCHEN tipped the scales with its mas-
sive, legendary Muhammad Ali tribute book, GOAT.
r
, Twenty-five years after Benedikt Taschen opened his little comics
shop, TASCHEN has grown into one of the most successful and unique
publishers in the global market, publishing an eclectic variety of books for
people of all tastes and budget ranges, distributed worldwide in over
twenty languages. Within the space of therJast few years, TASCHEN has
opened bookshops in Paris and Los Angeles, with plans to keep expanding
to new cities as our Great Adventure continues. For the future of publish-
ing, keep your eye on TASCHEN.
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