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Forthcoming Books
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Eduardo Terrazas
Cosmos"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well known authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing series "Possibilities of a Structure". Which suggests at ... -
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Ed. Jürgen B. Tesch
Annette Werndl
Color is my MusicAbstract and expressive – the works of the color virtuoso Annette Werndl (b. 1956 in Deggendorf, Bavaria) are internationally appreciated and exhibited. The monograph assembles her works from the past years which were inspired mainly by ... -
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Eduardo Terrazas
Cosmos"Cosmos" offers new approaches on the stunning art works of Eduardo Terrazas (* 1936). Four well known authors present a multidisciplinary vision on the artists ongoing series "Possibilities of a Structure". Which suggests at ... -
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Ed. Debra Bricker Balken et al.
Americans in Paris
Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962"Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962" delves into the various circles of artists who lived in France following World War II. Featuring new scholarship and illuminating essays, this groundbreaking volume ... -
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Ed. Jayme Yahr
Over the course of seven decades, Twinka Thiebaud has collaborated with more than thirty artists working in photography, painting and drawing. This catalogue explores her body of work as an artist’s model alongside developments in ... -
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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.
Xenia Hausner
True LiesXenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early paintings of the 1990s up to her moving Exiles series, ... -
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Ed. Regina Selter et al.
Flowers!
In the Art of the 20th and 21st CenturiesFlowers have been a popular motif in art for centuries. As the epitome of natural beauty and earthly mortality since the Baroque era, flowers have lost none of their fascination for artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Why does modern and ... -
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Ed. Elizabeth Wyckoff
Catching the Moment
Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons CollectionThe catalogue highlights the depth and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. The artworks address a broad array of contemporary cultural issues and participate in many ... -
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Wilfried Rogasch
Gustav Klimt
The Great Masters of ArtGustav Klimt is the one artist whose name we associate in particular with Viennese Jugendstil and the “Golden Age”. As a sought-after painter of frescoes and the founding president of the Vienna Secession, the portraitist of fashionable ... -
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Ed. Roger Diederen et al.
Silent Rebels
Symbolism in Poland around 1900The turn of the 19th century was a golden age for Polish art. The publication features about 130 masterpieces of painting from this era between nineteenth-century decadence and a new beginning, and describes its roots in Polish history, culture and ... -
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Ed. Michaela Appel et al.
Inspired by Country
Bark Paintings from Northern AustraliaThe Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection of Bark Paintings from Northern Australia with works mainly from the 1950s to 1970s is currently considered the best collection of its kind outside of Australia. It includes works from the Kimberley, Wadeye, the ... -
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Annette Blaugrund et al.
Thomas Cole's Studio
Memory and InspirationIn December 1846 Thomas Cole excitedly began work in his new studio, but his early death left his great ambitions unfinished. The studio and its deep impact on future artists is described by renowned Cole scholar, Franklin Kelly and further ... -
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Ed. Dieter Buchhart et al.
Ai Weiwei
In Search of HumanityAi Weiwei is not only one of the most important contemporary artists; he is also an untiring activist and critic of authoritarian systems. "In Search of Humanity" presents a comprehensive overview of all phases of the artist’s ... -
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Ed. Guido Messling et al.
Cranach
The Early Years in ViennaAround 1500, Lucas Cranach the Elder steps onto the world stage – in Vienna. The publication explores this, the artist’s earliest period of work and presents all the paintings he produced during this time, their expressiveness radically ... -
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Ed. Ilka Voermann
Art for No One
1933-1945Between 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of the National Sociali state. Many artists emigrated. But what about the ones who remained in Germany? Under what social and economic ... -
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Ed. LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz et al.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was one of the most important students of the Weimar Bauhaus. Initially she specialised in textile and graphic design, then later worked as an interior designer. Her paintings reflect her profound study of the classical avant-garde. ... -
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Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.
René Myrha
A Singular UniverseAt the centre of René Myrha’s (*1939) expressive oeuvre lie landscapes and rigorous compositional room perspectiveswhich are transformed into stage-like settings. They form the scenery for the choreography of his figures. Myrha ... -
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Ed. Dakota Hoska et al.
Here, Now
Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum"Here, Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum" features 200 of the museum’s most notable Indigenous artworks. It reinterprets the collection and reveals new insights into the historic and contemporary work of ... -
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Ed. Heinz Kroehl et al.
The Breath of Japan
Written and Painted PoetryThe publication presents large-format works by 14 Japanese artists that fascinate us with their aura of mystery. These impressive works, created between the 1950s and the present day, fuse poetry, penmanship and painting to produce an aesthetic ... -
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Ed. Gilbert Vicario
Agnes Pelton
Desert TranscendentalistAgnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist will be the first survey of this under recognized American painter in over 22 years. Her distinctive paintings could be described as metaphysical landscapes rooted in the California desert near Cathedral City. ... -
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Ed. Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Wien et al.
Katharina Grosse
Wolke in Form eines Schwertes / Cloud in the Form of a SwordKatharina Grosse (*1961) is considered to be one of the defining painters of her generation; her powerfully colourful interventions have had a determining effect on contemporary art dialogue. Grosse’s works cross the boundaries of space and ... -
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Ed. Andrea Jahn et al.
Quite apart from her position as the wife and model of Lovis Corinth (1858–1925), Charlotte Berend-Corinth (1880–1967) shone as an artist and was, like Käthe Kollwitz, one of the few women members of the Berlin Secession. This ... -
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Ed. Thomas Zuhr
All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer PublishersFounded in 1948, Hirmer Publishers soon established a name for art books produced to the highest standards. Over the past decade they have become equally well-known in English-speaking countries, with a reputation as one of the most prestigious ... -
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Barbara Bloemink
Florine Stettheimer
A BiographyThis first full biography confirms Florine Stettheimer as one of the 20th century’s most significant, progressive artists whose work remains highly relevant today. Stettheimer was a feminist and a multi-media artist who painted several ... -
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Wiebke Steinmetz et al.
Ruth Baumgarte
Werkverzeichnis / Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I-IIIThe artistic oeuvre of Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) is firmly rooted in the representational tradition. On the basis of the latest scientific research it is presented here with a complete catalogue raisonné in an opulent, three-volume edition. ... -
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Ed. Melanie Roumiguière et al.
Olga Costa
Dialogues with Mexican ModernismIn her elective home country of Mexico, the artist Olga Costa (1913–1993), a native of Leipzig, has long been established as an important female voice of Mexican Modernism. This volume presents impressively her autonomous artistic work ... -
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Ed. Astrid Ihle et al.
Street Life
Die Straße in der Kunst von Kirchner bis Streuli - The Street in Art from Kirchner to StreuliThe significance of the street is complex: it is a place of representation, self-dramatisation and communication, of resistance and protest. In this lavishly illustrated volume we encounter the bandwidth of this highly topical subject and its ... -
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Ed. Ilka Voermann
Chagall
World in TurmoilMarc Chagall (1887–1985) is regarded as the poet amongst modernist artists. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are less well known. In them, his bright colour palette became darker. Even in the early 1930s, Chagall addressed the ... -
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Ed. Ilka Voermann
Chagall
Verden i opprørMarc Chagall (1887–1985) is regarded as the poet amongst modernist artists. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are less well known. In them, his bright colour palette became darker. Even in the early 1930s, Chagall addressed the ... -
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Ed. Ralf Burmeister et al.
Magyar Modern
Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933Important artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the banks of the Spree and were present in the Berlin avant-garde. The publication presents a brilliant overview of the close links between the culture of the Weimar ... -
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Ed. Sébastien Delot et al.
Etel Adnan
English EditionFor the first time, the Lebanese-American writer and artist Etel Adnan is being honoured with a comprehensive retrospective in Germany. This volume presents her fascinating work from all creative phases and media. Politically, poetically and ... -
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Ed. Belvedere et al.
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) is world famous for his golden, ornamental works, his flowing colours and his sensuous portrayal of women. But where did he find the inspiration for his multi-faceted oeuvre? How well did he know Vincent van Gogh? Did ... -
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Ed. Risa Levitt Kohn
Memory, Identity, Encounter
Ukrainian Jewish JourneysBringing together two communities with a shared history of statelessness, "Memory, Identity, Encounter" focuses on the cultural similarities of the two groups, while delving into the complex and difficult histories of both populations ... -
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Ed. Synagoge Stommeln - Stadt Pulheim
Stommeln Synagogue
30 Years of Art ProjectsIn 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examination of this historically significant location. Since then it has continued to make a contribution to a culture of remembrance. A ... -
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Ed. Colin B. Bailey et al.
Georg Baselitz. 100 Drawings
From the Beginning until the PresentThe famous international German artist Georg Baselitz has donated a collection of works on paper to both the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The publication combines the 100 sheets to create a ... -
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Kevin D. Dumouchelle
Heroes
Principles of African Greatness"Heroes: Principles of African Greatness" is a multilayered project that relays the stories of the key heroic principles and people in Africa’s arts and history, and considers the core values of leadership – justice, ... -
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Ed. Kunstmuseum Thun et al.
The Other Kabul
Remains of the GardenKabul was once famous as a city of blossoming gardens. What once was, can one day become again, wrote the political scientist Ekkehart Krippendorff. In line with this motto, some twenty artists from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, the United ... -
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Marilyn McCully et al.
Picasso. Women Of His Life
A TributeIt is a widely held view that Picasso’s creative work received a fresh impetus with each new muse in his life. Rather than Picasso’s biography or stylistic phases, this volume pays tribute to the individual fates of the women who left ... -
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Christoph Wagner
Paul Cézanne
The Great Masters of ArtHis paintbrush set everything in motion: the landscape of Provence, the colourful still lifes, his portraits and the picturesque coast of southern France. More than any other artist, Paul Cézanne, the “Father of Modernism”, ... -
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Gilbert Vicario
Agnes Pelton
The Great Masters of ArtThe spiritually inspired pictures of Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) have their roots in the desert of California, a place where the artist settled in 1932 and where she lived until her death. She wrote of her highly symbolic paintings that her ... -
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Ed. Debra Diamond et al.
A Splendid Land
Paintings from Royal UdaipurHow and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions and cultural landscapes in South Asia? "A Splendid Land" is the first book to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years ... -
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Ed. Jorge F. Rivas Pérez
Appropriation and Invention
Three Centuries of Art in Spanish America, Selections from the Denver Art MuseumDrawing from the renowned collection of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, this splendid catalogue examines the processes of appropriation and invention in the arts of Spanish America of three centuries from the 1520s to the 1820s. Essays ... -
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Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.
The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (*1952) is one of the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde and Arte Cifra, the Italian version of Neo-Expressionism. Among his extensive oeuvre, the publication focuses on ... -
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Ed. Stephan Koja et al.
Edward Hopper
Inner and Outer WorldsEdward Hopper is one of the bestknown American artists of the 20th century. His works are regarded as the epitome of a representation of American life. This catalogue casts a fresh look at Hopper’s oeuvre and analyses it in a dialogue with ... -
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Turry M. Flucker
This book spotlights a complex art collection established at the intersection of modern art and social justice. In 1963, as civil rights protests swirled across the fiercely segregated state, this liberal arts college became an unlikely hub in ... -
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Dorothy Moss et al.
Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. "Kinship", published on the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery’s next “Portraiture Now” exhibition, features the work of eight ... -
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Ed. Hanna G. Diedrichs gen. Thormann
Kubra Khademi
Political BodiesKubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her life as a woman and a person with direct experience as a refugee. This makes it both political and highly topical. Multi-faceted themes pervade her art, including her function as ... -
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Rudolf Leopold
Egon Schiele. Catalogue raisonné
Paintings, Watercolours, DrawingsThe monograph on Egon Schiele edited by Rudolf Leopold in 1972 forms the basis for Egon Schiele’s world fame. This important document of art-historical literature has long been out of print, but it is now available once more in a revised ... -
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Ed. Mirjam Fischer et al.
Stéphane Zaech
NefertitiThe artist monograph presents a representative overview of the artistic work of Stéphane Zaech (b. 1966). His paintings are technically sophisticated and are created through an investigation of the works of the old masters – Titian, ... -
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Ed. Lisa Fischman
Kanishka Raja
I and IKanishka Raja’s ravishingly patterned work, as the artist put it, “explores the intersection of representation, craft, technology, and the gaps that occur in the transmission of information.” Conceptually heady and aesthetically ... -
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Ed. Hannelore Fischer
Käthe Kollwitz
A Survey of her Works. 1888 - 1942“I want to have an effect during this age in which people are so perplexed and in need of help.” This sentence, a diary entry from 1922, is the creed of a great artist. It is as topical today as it was then. Käthe ...