Combining historical and contemporary treatments of weather and climate in art, this catalog features masterworks from 1500 through the present day that engage with weather, meteorology, and climate.

Marianna Simnett’s (b. 1986) dreamlike, surreal worlds take us into a labyrinth of fragmented realities and uncanny encounters. Using video, artificial intelligence, sculpture, painting, and music, the artist creates immersive installations that simultaneously seduce and unsettle. Simnett’s close connection to the ideas of Surrealism is highlighted as a central theme.

Happy Birthday, Paula Modersohn-Becker! This volume celebrates 150 years since the birth of the fascinating artist, who remains of the most important figures of the German avant-garde. Examining her artistic development in depth and presenting works from all phases of her career, this book places particular focus on her early work, which has hitherto received little attention or recognition.

An extraordinary artistic response to the work of Otto Dix. In his series Hundert (Hundred), Ruprecht von Kaufmann explores the themes and aesthetic language of the German modernist master through more than thirty paintings, most of them at a large scale and employing a wide range of approaches. Richly illustrated with detailed reproductions and installation views, and accompanied by accessible, incisive texts, the book invites readers on an ...

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. Exploring artists’ collecting old master prints in the past and today, the book does contain well known and previously unpublished mannerist works.  

The exhibition catalogue examines medieval art and European modernism together: Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and other modern artists borrowed stylistic or thematic elements from the Gothic model, translating these motifs into a contemporary formal language. The artworks that resulted possess great emotional and creative power and continue to resonate today.  

Carl Grossberg’s (1894–1940) painting career was bracketed by the two world wars. He drew his subject matter from “the enormous wealth of new forms in the world of ...

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 iconology, immediately recognized the Hamburg school in the German-Brazilian-American artist. Thus began a friendship and an inexhaustible dialogue about art.  

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. With contributions from both Western and Uzbek perspectives, this volume presents the multifaceted work of the award-winning artist.  

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.