TASCHEN's Great Adventure began back in 1980, when eighteen-year-old Benedikt Taschen opened a shop in his native Cologne, Germany, tomarket his massive comics collection. Within a year he began publishingcatalogues promoting his wareS, but it wasn,t until 1984 that his first art-book breakthrough occurred: he purchased 40,000 remainder copies ofa Magritte book printed in English, reselling them for a fraction of theiroriginal price, From a young age, Taschen had been interested in art butfound 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 thinkingthat the art-book market should be democratized.

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