Contemporary Art
Forthcoming Books
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newEd. Manuchehr Kudratov
The work of the Uzbek artist Bobur Ismoilov (b. 1973, Tashkent) portrays a theatrical world: at times showing costumed individuals, at other times scenes filled with all kinds of figures telling stories that are fairytale-like, mysterious, and surreal. ... -
newEd. Sara Hume et al.
A Meeting of Cultures
Fashioning North AfricaA Meeting of Cultures is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Lavishly illustrated, it broadens the scope of scholarship on the fashion industry, ... -
newEd. Ralph Gleis et al.
This volume presents the art of light in all its facets. Using materials such as mirrors, black light, neon tubes and glass bottles, Brigitte Kowanz created objects and spatial artworks in which she staged light. “What is light?” is the ... -
newJaune Quick-to-See Smith
Indigenous Identities
Here, Now & AlwaysIndigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always marks the largest editorial endeavor in the late artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s career and emphasizes her pivotal role in bringing forth a living Native Art history. Indigenous-led, the ... -
newEd. Rehema C. Barber
Delve into a collection a century in the making with 101 Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (KIA), which honors our past and points toward our future. -
newEd. Stephan Berg
It is always with us: our shadow. But when it comes to art, what role does this constant companion play? Richly illustrated and vividly narrated, this publication reveals the wide range of approaches and levels of meaning that shadow has in ... -
newEd. Susan Hendricks et al.
Barkley L. Hendricks
Piles of Inspiration EverywherePiles of Inspiration Everywhere explores the physical space where renowned artist Barkley Hendricks worked and lived. A collaboration between photographer David Katzenstein and Susan Hendricks, this book invites readers into the space Barkley and ... -
newEd. Rose Dergan et al.
Linda Lighton: Love and War
A Fifty Year Survey, 1975-2025For fifty years, American artist Linda Lighton has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms. This monographic catalogue marks the first substantial survey of her pioneering work, which ... -
newEd. Ralf Beil et al.
This lavishly illustrated volume approaches the vast continent of Africa from a variety of viewpoints; beyond prejudice and stereotypes, via cultural history and contemporary art: by means of permanent changes of perspective and a diversity of ... -
newRobert Fleck
Mack - Face to Face
An Artist's LifeMuch has been written about Heinz Mack, but this book truly stands out. Recounting his life through the pen of Robert Fleck, the artist himself gives us deep insights into the motivations and goals of his artistic work – almost as if we were ... -
newEd. Ralph Gleis et al.
A tiger shark in formaldehyde. A diamond-encrusted skull. Damien Hirst is one of the most important contemporary artists and a legend in the Young British Artist movement of the 1990s. He planned his iconic paintings, sculptures, and installations ... -
newEd. Tulga Beyerle et al.
Hello Image
The Staging of ThingsHow are design products presented? How do designers, photographers, graphic artists and companies work together? This publication visualises the creative collaboration of various actors from these fields, highlighting classics of design, ... -
newMartin Kiefer et al.
Anyone who has seen Amnon David Ar’s luminous, colourful works will not forget them. His highly aesthetic paintings show subjects that are often humorous and that create a tension field between fantasy and reality. This volume shows all the ... -
newEd. Francesca Du Brock
How to Survive
Living with Care in the Climate CrisisEssays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds of love, responsibility, and reciprocity, encouraging consideration of ... -
newEd. Camila Maissune et al.
The visual and textual proposals presented in this book challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present, and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental ... -
newEd. Julie Decker
Distant Early Warning Systems
From the Cold War to the CosmosArt, climate change and geopolitics at a time of rapid social and technological change. The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations ... -
newEd. Alexandra Schwartz
Saya Woolfalk
The Empathic UniverseSaya Woolfalk: The Empathic Universe is the first full-scale monograph on this internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist. Woolfalk’s immersive installations are as visually stunning as they are intellectually engaging, winning ardent ... -
newEd. Nancy Princenthal et al.
Anonymous Was A Woman
The First 25 YearsAnonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years celebrates the transformative impact of women artists on contemporary art since the founding of the titular grant. In addition to new essays, the book offers a biographical description with selected ... -
newEd. Laura Addison et al.
Alexander Girard’s Imagined Worlds examines a modern design luminary whose collection of global folk art and vernacular forms informed his expansive design practice. The book focuses on the Museum of International Folk Art, its displays ... -
newEd. Valerie Ucke
Louise Nevelson - The Poetry of Searching
Collages that take you on a journey of discoveryA 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, ... -
newEd. Kunst Meran Merano Arte
Franz Wanner. Suspended Presences. Images of Exploitation
Images of ExploitationHighly 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 ... -
newEd. Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
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 ... -
newEd. Katrin Sperry et al.
George Steinmann
MindmapsGeorge 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 ... -
newEd. Roger Diederen et al.
An exhibition highlight in book form: his magical universes are shown all over the world and are now coming to Munich. Miguel Chevalier (*1959) is one of the pioneers of virtual art. For his dazzling work, he uses the latest technologies including ... -
newEd. Susanne Gaensheimer et al.
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 ... -
newEd. Dancing Foxes Press et al.
In the Company of Artists
A History of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture"In the Company of Artists" is the first major study of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the influential summer art school founded by artists for artists amidst the tumult of World War II. Skowhegans philosophy and impact, ... -
newDoris von Drathen
From egg tempera to chalk and oil paint, Janaina Tschäpe has mastered a style of painting that combines Nordic depth with supple, airborne line dancing. The author Doris von Drathen, an art historian specializing in Aby Warburg’s ... -
newEd. Matilde Guidelli-Guidi et al.
Senga Nengudi
Populated AirRadically 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. -
newEd. Carrie Cushman
Human Marks
Tattooing in Contemporary ArtHuman 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, ... -
newEd. Julie Joyce et al.
A visually rich examination of how contemporary art, design, and culture have responded to Big Data and its outsized role in modern life. Inspired by the growing field of data visualization, Seeing the Unseeable focuses on the myriad issues and ... -
newEd. Maria Schneider
Julia Avramidis
LayersThe pictures of Julia Avramidis are never conclusively explicable; there is no simple solution to her riddles and secrets. Despite the abstraction of the representational, the collages – seemingly thrown together in haste – permit us to ...