Cultural History
Forthcoming Books
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Ed. Manuela Beer
Cooler and harder than glass, but softer than a diamond: rock crystal has always been regarded as an unusual material. Countless legends have grown up around its origins and its remarkable strengths. At the latest since Antiquity, rock crystal has ... -
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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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Stanley Abe
Imagining Sculpture
A Short Conjectural HistorySculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the mind’s eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China, on the other hand, statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia without being thought of as Sculpture. ... -
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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. Yvette Deseyve
Johann Gottfried Schadow
Embracing FormsJohann Gottfried Schadow’s "Princess group" has gone down in the annals of art history. As the first statue of two female historical personalities it testifies to the innovation, enormous artistry and productivity of sculpture ... -
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Ed. Synagoge Stommeln - Stadt Pulheim
One Site - One Space - One Work
30 Years of Art Projects in Stommeln SynagogueIn 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 wide-ranging ... -
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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. Kunstmuseum Thun et al.
The Other Kabul
Remains of the GardenKabul was once famous for being a city of blossoming gardens. Today our perception of the Afghan capital is dominated by images of suffering and destruction. Considering Kabul’s gardens as part of its cultural heritage, Afghan and non-Afghan ... -
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Ed. Idries Trevathan
Hijrah
In the Footsteps of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم)With the help of scholars, historians and artists, and through a range of diverse media, this book sets out to follow in the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) retracing his movements during the famous Hijrah ... -
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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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Rolf Sachsse
Anna Atkins
Blue PrintsThe English illustrator Anna Atkins (1799–1871) was in every respect a modern woman. For the publication of her plant collections she used the latest technology, the recently invented cyanotype. In 1843 she used the process to create the ... -
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Ed. Jorge F. Rivas Pérez
Appropriation and Invention
Three Centuries of Art in Spanish AmericaDrawing 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. Karolina Kühn et al.
To Be Seen
Queer Lives 1900 -1950The contributions that have been assembled in this volume present the story of queer lives – from the first emancipation movements around the turn of the (last) century via attempts at self-empowerment in the Weimar Republic to the ...