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Art-Book Publisher Stripped to the Essence

By AAN Staff
september 13, 2002  05:23 pm
Art-Book Publisher Stripped to the Essence
LA Weekly's Brendan Bernhard interviews a naked Benedikt Taschen, the king of the coffee table art book, as he lies flat on his back at an LA spa."Taschen is a postmodern tycoon for the 21st century, a brash and stylish entrepreneur who has turned the world of illustrated-book publishing upside down. ... The jet-setting 41-year-old German publisher produces exquisite coffee-table books that range in subject matter from the complete etchings of 18th-century Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi to the pornographic digital diaries of 21st-century Internet exhibitionist Natacha Merritt."
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