Since the late 1960s, Anselm Kiefer has made art that explores the profound depths of human history. For his first American retrospective in twenty years, he takes the river as a metaphor for the flux of life and passage of time. Breathtaking new ...

Around eighty works from all Max Beckmann’s creative phases reveal him as an idiosyncratic interpreter of the world. Drawing was existential for him as an artist: with pencil, chalk, pen and pastel he collected motifs, searched for new formal ...

Artistic presentation made marvellous: a baguette as a balloon, a square with a jetpack, and voyeuristic potatoes. These are just some examples of Francisco Sierra’s photorealistic oil paintings. He rearranges everyday life, transforming ...

Book art at its finest! This volume presents a distinguished French Gothic prayer book in a lavish and playful light. The breviary’s illuminated texts are marvellously executed: cheerful and whimsical motifs with tiny figures and bustling ...

Three hundred works from twenty-one countries form a European panorama of the many facets of realism in art that were ubiquitous in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. They tell of poverty and misery, economic upheaval, artistic flourishing and ...

Two generations of esoteric exploration and material transmutation: The first examination of Beth Ames Swartz and Julianne Swartz’s intergenerational investigation of ethereal systems and the transcendent potential of art, highlighting the ...

Viewing mannerism in the 21st century: The publication presents highlights from the print collection of Georg Baselitz, one of today’s most celebrated artists, and a selection from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest’s collection. ...

The comprehensive monograph on Juergen Staack (b. 1978): What is a (photographic) image, and what can it do? For more than twenty years, the artist has been exploring the intersections of photography, conceptual art, performance and language. ...

More artist’s book than monograph, this volume traces the exciting interplay between Iman Issa’s (b. 1979) objects, photos , text and video. Is an artwork at the mercy of the viewer’s interpretation, and does its meaning change ...

Lavishly illustrated, Tiffany Chung: indelible traces is the first scholarly monograph to provide a comprehensive introduction to the multi -disciplinary artist’s work over the last 25 years. Best known for her extraordinarily drawn or ...

Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nation’s period between 1948 and 1978 led to artistic innovation. As Iran modernised, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique ...

Käte Steinitz (1889–1975) is today best known for her collaboration with Kurt Schwitters. This monograph covers her multifaceted activities as an artist and writer in avant-garde circles during the Weimar Republic, as well as her ...

A remarkable artist from the New York art scene – in Germany at last! Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) devoted herself to a wide variety of artforms and became a virtually unrivalled master in collage. Featuring more than fifty artworks, ...

Highly political and controversial: this is art that addresses events of the past which still affect the present. Under the Nazi regime, twenty-six million people in various countries across Africa and Europe were forced into labor. Their ...

George Steinmann is a visual artist, musician and researcher. In his Mindmaps, he addresses the state of our planet. The poetry of these mostly small-format sheets is based on structures, autonomous chemical reactions, and the conviction that even ...

A fascinating book featuring both photographymand architecture: the Deutschlandhaus, designed by Fritz Block and Ernst Hochfeld in 1929, was Hamburg’s first commercial building in the International Style. Despite its historical significance, ...

A topic that affects us all: family. Everyone has one, and each is different. Contributions from newspapers, academia, forums and blogs, together with literary texts, personal accounts and photographic works, open up a worldwide kaleidoscope of ...

This publication presents an updated catalogue raisonné of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s architectural drawings, expanding the foundational edition published in German by Heinrich Brauer and Rudolf Wittkower in 1931 and here translated into ...

Radically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi’s art, this book publishes never-before-seen drawings, prints, photographs, performance scores, and poetry, spaninng five decades of her practice.  

One of the most outstanding male nudes from the Mannerist period – Giambologna’s bronze statuette Mars (ca. 1570) is among the most impressive depictions of the god of war. It unites ancient ideals with artistic innovation. This symbol ...

Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by sixteen artists who also tattoo, this richly illustrated book unpacks how the ethics, strategies, ...

Desire, eroticism, playing with gender – these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to the creative process, but rather as foundational. By approaching the art through a perspective of queer ...

The second volume from the “Art of the Lost Generation” Museum continues to explore artists who were excluded, persecuted, censored or driven into obscurity under the Nazi regime. As one of the era’s few remaining contemporary ...

The synagogue on Munich's Reichenbachstrasse, known as "Die Reichenbach," is one of the most valuable and rare testimonies to Jewish history. The last synagogue built in Germany before the Nazi era, it was designed in 1931 by ...