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Wolfgang Jean Stock

Schöpferische Wiederherstellung - Creative Reconstruction

Hans Döllgast - Karljosef Schattner - Josef Wiedemann

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Ed. Maya Vinitsky

Solar Guerilla

Constructive Responses to Climate Change

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Leslie Erganian et al.

New West

49,90 €

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten

Great Masters in Art

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Ed. Achim Sommer

Joana Vasconcelos

Maximal

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Nitsch

Spaces of Color

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Ed. Frank Matthias Kammel et al.

Structuring Fashion
Foundation Garments through History

The shaping of the body through clothing has repeatedly played a major role across the centuries; in Europe changes in fashion were always accompanied by changes to the cut of clothing and hence to the silhouette of the body. This lavishly ...

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Ed. Stephan Berg et al.

Now!
Painting in Germany Today

The editors visited numerous studios throughout Germany in order to select 53 artists from among the current generation of 30 to 40-year-olds who are currently breaking new ground in the painting of panel pictures. The publication and simultaneous ...

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Ed. Matthias Mühling et al.

Senga Nengudi

For almost fifty years, Senga Nengudi (b. 1943, USA) has shaped an œuvre that inhabits a specific and unique place between sculpture, dance and performance. Her iconic R.S.V.P sculptures – performative objects made from pantyhose and ...

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Ed. Christoph Wagner

Cinemas
From Babylon Berlin to La Rampa Havana

Lost places of cinema—the photographer Margarete Freudenstadt has dedicated herself to cinema and strikingly captured contemporary history with her camera. Cinemas confronts her melancholic pictures of movie theaters in the former East ...

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Ed. Nicole Gnesa

Michele Melillo

The paintings and drawings of Michele Melillo (*1977) enchant the viewer with their lightness and harmonious colours. Accompanied by an explanatory essay by Veit Ziegelmaier, this comprehensive artist monograph reproduces for the first time works ...

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Ed. Maya Vinitsky

Solar Guerilla
Constructive Responses to Climate Change

At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic change in the climate has led to the realization that capitalism has a destructive effect on the ...

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Ed. Amanda Gilvin

Fatimah Tuggar
Home's Horizons

Renowned for work that layers binary code with handmade craft, Fatimah Tuggar is one of the most original, incisive conceptual artists of the digital age. Tuggar’s sculptures, photomontages, videos, and interactive works challenge ...

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Leslie Erganian et al.

New West

Few regions have undergone a more rapid and radical development than the American West in the mid-twentieth century. The modern infrastructure, technical innovations, spectacular architecture and new leisure activities have been recorded on ...

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Ed. Lynn Gumpert

Modernisms
Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection

Modernisms explores art from the 1960s and early ’70s from Iran, Turkey, and India via selections from an unparalleled collection at New York University. Featuring new scholar ship and seminal essays, this book also illustrates paintings, ...

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Wolfgang Pehnt

Egon Eiermann
Deutsche Olivetti. Frankfurt am Main

The ensemble with its prominent twin towers that Egon Eiermann (1904–1970) built in Frankfurt am Main for the Italian office machinery company Olivetti, was the Karlsruhe architect’s last major project. His priorities lay in the slender ...

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Ed. Kunstmuseum Luzern

Turner - The Sea and the Alps

Extensive journeys in Britain and continental Europe provided an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the visionary colour compositions of J. M. William Turner. In Switzerland he experienced the beauty and menace of the Alps, and by the sea the ...

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Outsider & Vernacular Art
The Victor F. Keen Collection

In the last five decades the popularity of outsider art – works by artists working outside of the art establishment – has grown exponentially. Museums, galleries, and the public worldwide have embraced these powerful works. Victor ...

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Carla Schulz-Hoffmann

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz's various creative phases are exemplified by 31 of his masterpieces that are held within the Bavarian State Painting Collections. The volume analyses for the first time these important paintings and sculptures within the ...

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Ed. Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems

Franz Hauer
Self-made Man and Art Collector

The book is dedicated to legendary Viennese art collector Franz Hauer. The son of a mailman from Lower Austria became one of the key figures of his time. Franz Hauer started out penniless, became an exemplary self-made man, and built an art ...

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Ed. Achim Sommer

Joana Vasconcelos
Maximal

The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (*1971) is famous internationally for her three-dimensional works, in which she explores the boundaries between tradition and modernism, high and everyday culture, craftsmanship and industrial production in a ...

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Ed. Gonzalo Casals et al.

Queer Holdings
A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection

Founded in the context of social movements of the late 1960s, The Leslie-Lohman Museum is dedicated to preserving art that speaks to the LGBTQ experience and fostering the artists who create it. Queer Holdings aims to reclaim scholarship from a ...

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Nitsch
Spaces of Color

Hermann Nitsch produced his first “poured” paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the artist is primarily concerned with the substance of the paint, which he investigates from one Painting Action to the next. This ...

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Ed. Ralph Gleis

Gustave Caillebotte
Painter and Patron of Impressionism

The painting Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) is an icon of Impressionism.This volume presents the work in the context of Caillebotte’s innovative artistic work, introducing him as a driving force in the ...

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Ed. Frank Vorpahl

Georg Forster
The South Seas at Wörlitz

At the age of seventeen Georg Forster embark ed on a voyage around the world with the famous Captain James Cook. Shortly after his return in 1775 the explorer met the open-minded Prince Franz of Dessau and his consort Louise in London.They returned ...

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Meike Hoffmann et al.

Escape into Art?
The Brücke Painters in the Nazi Period

Based on the extensive stocks of the Brücke-Museum, the publication discusses in detail the everyday reality of the artists under the National Socialists. The measures carried out against the former “Brücke” members as a ...

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Ed. Ute Ackermann et al.

Bauhaus Museum Weimar
The Bauhaus Comes from Weimar

The Bauhaus originated in Weimar and returns to a new building there in the spring of 2019. In the newly built Bauhaus Museum Weimar the treasures of the world’s oldest Bauhaus collection will be shown as an ensemble. This volume does not ...

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Ed. Anke Blümm et al.

Haus am Horn
Bauhaus Architecture in Weimar

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Ed. Thomas Föhl et al.

Neues Museum Weimar
Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900

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Ed. Antonia Hoerschelmann et al.

Maria Lassnig
Ways of Being

This volume gathers together paintings, drawings, films, and sculptures by Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) from a creative career that spanned some seventy years. It explains how she thought of herself in relation to the art scene of her time. This ...

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Ed. Bettina Zorn

The Elegance of Hosokawa
Tradition of a Samurai Family

Members of the Daimyō Hosokawa family served the shogun from the Muromachi Period (1333–1568) as samurai. But the Hosokawa achieved fame not only for their success as warriors. As patrons of the arts and artists across the centuries, they ...

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