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Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Textures

The History and Art of Black Hair

39,95 £ [UK]

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Isabel Schulz

Kurt Schwitters

Merz Art

15,00 £ [UK]

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Cover for We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long

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Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long

Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection

39,95 £ [UK]

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Ed. Thomas Köster

Mary Bauermeister

In a Fairytale World. House and Garden

35,00 £ [UK]

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Cover for Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler

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Ed. Matthias Frehner et al.

Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler

The Hahnloser Collection

45,00 £ [UK]

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Ed. Angela Lammert et al.

John Heartfield

Photography plus Dynamite

35,00 £ [UK]

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Ed. Hilti Art Foundation

Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection
Vol. 2: Art from 1950 to the Present Day

The private art collection of the Hilti Art Foundation includes over 200 top-quality paintings, sculptures and photographs from Classical Modernism to the present day. Volume 2 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 120 selected works ...

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Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Johannes Itten and Thun
Nature in Focus

The Bauhaus master Johannes Itten is one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town ...

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Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Textures
The History and Art of Black Hair

The book synthesizes research in history, fashion, art and visual culture to reassess the hair story of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, ...

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Glenn Esterly et al.

Bukowski by Abe Frajndlich
The Shooting

Charles Bukowski, the dirty old man of American literature whose poems and prose are closely interwoven with his life – how does one go about portraying a person like that? In 1985, the young photographer Abe Frajndlich took on this challenge. ...

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Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Folklore & Avant-Garde
The Reception of Popular Traditions in the Age of Modernism

The publication examines in depth the influence of folkloric traditions on the pioneers of Modernism in the develop- ment of their new artistic language. Craft objects and folk art are contrasted with masterpieces by artists of the avant-garde like ...

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Yang Yuanzheng

Dragon's Roar
The Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections and their Archaeological Origin

This lavishly illustrated volume focuses attention on the seven important qin zithers in the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The instruments date from the period between the late Middle Ages and modern times. The current ...

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Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long
Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection

Heinz R. Böhme has been collecting artworks of the Lost Generation for more than twenty years. The main focus of his private collection in Salzburg is the recognition of more than eighty artists whose creative work was massively restricted ...

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Ed. Markus Heinsdorff

Markus Heinsdorff
static + dynamic

The book presents the installation artist Markus Heinsdorff’s continuing study of the topics of space, the forces of nature and upcycling by means of over 40 works. The overview is completed by text contributions by famous authors who ...

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Ed. Gerry Beegan et al.

Angela Davis
Seize the Time

Inspired by a private archive and featuring contemporary work by artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis’s experience and politics, the essays, interviews and images in this book provide a compelling and layered ...

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Wilhelm Hausenstein

Kairouan
Or how Paul Klee became a Painter

The impressions which Paul Klee collected on his journey to Tunisia in 1914, and especially to the city of Kairouan, were of fundamental significance: »Colour and I are one. I am a painter.« A few years later, in 1921, Wilhelm ...

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Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung

Ann Wolff
The Early Drawings - Frühe Zeichnungen (1981-1988)

The German-Swedish artist Ann Wolff is a pioneer of the studio glass movement in Europe. Born in Lübeck in 1937, she has achieved international fame for her sculptures which mainly use the material glass, but she has always drawn as well.This ...

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Ed. Ralph Gleis

Decadence and Dark Dreams
Belgian Symbolism

Sensuousness, magic, a profound momentousness and irrationality are the hallmarks of the new art movement of Belgian Symbolism, which emerged during the 1880s. From Georg Minne and Félicien Rops to Fernand Khnopff and James Ensor, the portraits, ...

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Bernd Pappe et al.

Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection

The publication focuses on 150 portrait miniatures from the age of Napoleon I. They provide us with an astonishingly direct view of people who lived in this turbulent, war-torn period. The works are presented in detail in image and text. Essays by ...

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Ed. Thomas Köster

Mary Bauermeister
In a Fairytale World. House and Garden

Mary Bauermeister (*1934) is regarded as the “mother” of the Fluxus movement. During the 1960s she set out from the United States and conquered the art world with her lens boxes and stone spirals. Her works are represented in many major ...

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Ed. Gloria Köpnick

Hin Bredendieck
From Aurich to Atlanta

Hin Bredendieck (1904–1995) graduated from the Bauhaus and was a versatile designer and pioneering teacher of design. His outstanding œuvre and his worldwide network testify to the international significance of his work and ideas. This ...

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Ed. Victoria L. Lyall et al.

ReVisión
A New Look at Art in the Americas

ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas considers what makes the Americas the Americas. With essays by leading scholars of Latin American art history, the lavishly illustrated publication explores the ways in which the past continues to ...

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Ed. Jan Dees et al.

Breaking out of Tradition
Japanese Lacquer, 1890-1950

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan. The lacquer artists of that time adopted a critical and creative approach to the centuries-old traditions, experimenting with ...

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Ed. Zweigstelle Berlin

Elvira Lantenhammer
Color Siteplan

Elvira Lantenhammer’s paintings are colour events which rely to a considerable extent on intensity of colour. The choice of colour and its application take place intuitively in an examination of the effects of colours and their interaction ...

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Ed. Dr. Marion Bornscheuer

Astrid Lowack
The Elements of Transcendence

The elements of Astrid Lowack’s (*1969) photographic-artistic transcendence are light, movement and water. As the driving forces of life they relentlessly bring about change and reflect our innermost being – our feelings and experiences. ...

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Ed. Alexandra Barcal et al.

Franz Gertsch
Looking Back

The internationally famous Swiss artist Franz Gertsch will celebrate his 90th birthday in 2020. The Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, which has a long-standing relationship with the artist and which is one of the most important presentation locations ...

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Ed. Angela Lammert et al.

John Heartfield
Photography plus Dynamite

The political collages of John Heartfield (1891–1968) have earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative graphic artists of the Weimar Republic. His photomontages and book covers based on collages which had their origins in ...

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Ed. Jürgen B. Tesch

Heinrich Knopf
Iron Society

The artist Heinrich Knopf (* 1949) lives in Munich and at Lake Garda. Even in his youth he focused on the transformation of iron, one of the oldest materials used in art. His sculptures radiate lightness and movement and invite the viewer to a ...

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Ed. Gannit Ankori et al.

Frida Kahlo and San Francisco
Constructing Her Identity

This book marks the triumphant return of Frida Kahlo to San Francisco, the city where her artistic life began to unfold. Kahlo’s sojourns to the United States were brief, but formative. It was in the California city – the first she ...

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Hans-Michael Koetzle

László Moholy-Nagy
The Great Masters of Art

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher and founder of the “New Bauhaus” and the “School of Design” in Chicago, is one of the most important artist personalities of the modern age. ...

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Isabel Schulz

Kurt Schwitters
Merz Art

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is one of the most influential protagonists of the avant-garde, both as an artist and an author. With his utopia of the total Merz vision of the world he aimed at the unification of art and non-art. The art of ...

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