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Ed. Ralph Gleis

Gustave Caillebotte

Painter and Patron of Impressionism

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Ed. Henriette Huldisch

Ericka Beckman

Double Reverse

29,95 £ [UK]

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Ed. Jürgen B. Tesch

Abe Frajndlich

New York City

35,00 £ [UK]

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Marianne von Manstein et al.

Wilhelm Leibl

The Art of Seeing

39,95 £ [UK]

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Nitsch

Spaces of Color

38,00 £ [UK]

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Ed. Eva Fischer-Hausdorf et al.

Icons

Worship and Adoration

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Ed. Henriette Huldisch

Ericka Beckman
Double Reverse

Since the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, Hampstead, NY) has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. Often shot against black, spatially ambiguous back drops, her moving image works are structured ...

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Ed. Dieter Ronte

Helmut Schober
Vortex

The painter and performance artist Helmut Schober (* 1947) is famous internationally. For some 40 years he has devoted his attention to the vortex and its trans-cultural content. Over the decades the vortex has remained a constant in his ...

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Ed. Lynn Gumpert et al.

Taking Shape
Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s

Taking Shape traces the emergence and development of abstraction in the Arab world through paintings and sculpture dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. Drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah (UAE), this book features ...

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Ed. Andreas Hoffer et al.

Adrian Paci
Lost Communities

Emigration, being lost in a strange world, the search for a new identity and longing for things and people that have been lost form the central topics in the work of the Albanian artist Adrian Paci. The volume presents his iconic works which have ...

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Ed. Hilti Art Foundation

Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection
Vol. 1: Classical Modernism 1880-1950

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 1 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 80 selected works ...

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Ed. Finbarr Barry Flood

There Where You Are Not
Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata

There Where You Are Not brings together the writings of celebrated Palestinian artist and theorist Kamal Boullata. Produced over four decades of exile in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, the essays explore intersections between ...

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Ed. Burcu Dogramaci

Uninterrupted Fugue
Art by Kamal Boullata

Uninterrupted Fugue features a selection of critical essays about the art of Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata. Written by leading scholars and appearing for the first time in a single volume, this range of analytical perspectives on art and exile, ...

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Enrique Xavier de Anda Alanís et al.

The Whole World a Bauhaus

The whole world a Bauhaus? The publication accompanying the worldwide exhibition series takes the quotation of the former Bauhaus student and subsequent university teacher Fritz Kuhr as a starting point for reflections on the Bauhaus not only as a ...

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Ed. Eva Fischer-Hausdorf et al.

Icons
Worship and Adoration

When considering the term icon, how can the idea of cultic worship be connected with the concept of the transcendental today? The qualities of the traditional icon continue to have an effect, particularly in the spiritual presence and auratic power ...

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Marianne von Manstein et al.

Wilhelm Leibl
The Art of Seeing

Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900) is regarded as one of the most significant portraitists and an important representative of Realism in Europe. With large-format illustrations of 40 paintings and 60 drawings, this volume accompanies the first ...

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Ed. Alexander Eiling et al.

MAKING VAN GOGH

Making van Gogh focuses on the œuvre of Vincent van Gogh in the context of its reception. The publication examines the particular role which German gallerists, collectors, critics and museums played in the story of his success. At the same ...

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Robert Fleck et al.

Heinz Mack
A 21st Century Artist

Heinz Mack is an artist who has left his mark on our times. He has made a pioneering contribution to the question of a new concept of art, which has been of fundamental importance since the post-war period. This volume offers for the first time a ...

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Ed. Dietrich Fink et al.

Architects on Architects

Hans Kollhoff on Oswald Mathias, Tom Emerson on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Donatella Fioretti on Walter Gropius – these are just three of the fascinating pairs. In this compilation of conversations and essays, architects speak about architects ...

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Ed. Martin Berger et al.

The Aztecs

Five hundred years ago, the landing of Hernán Cortés in Mexico marked the end of the Aztec Empire. This volume presents the wealth of this culture with spectacular, sometimes unpublished finds: rare feathered shields, impressive stone ...

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Ed. Frank Matthias Kammel et al.

Structuring Fashion
Foundation Garments through History

The shaping of the body through clothing has repeatedly played a major role across the centuries; in Europe changes in fashion were always accompanied by changes to the cut of clothing and hence to the silhouette of the body. This lavishly ...

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Ed. Gunnar B. Kvaran et al.

Yoko Ono
Liberté Conquérante. Growing Freedom.

Yoko Ono is a leading experimental and avant-garde artist. In Tokyo during the 1950s, she introduced original questions about the concept of art and the art object, breaking down the traditional boundaries between branches of art. She has since ...

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Ed. Stephan Berg et al.

Now!
Painting in Germany Today

The editors visited numerous studios throughout Germany in order to select 53 artists from among the current generation of 30 to 40-year-olds who are currently breaking new ground in the painting of panel pictures. The publication and simultaneous ...

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Ed. Matthias Mühling et al.

Senga Nengudi
Topologien / Topologies

For almost fifty years, Senga Nengudi (b. 1943, USA) has shaped an œuvre that inhabits a specific and unique place between sculpture, dance and performance. Her iconic R.S.V.P sculptures – performative objects made from pantyhose and ...

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Ed. Christoph Wagner

Cinemas
From Babylon Berlin to La Rampa Havana

Lost places of cinema—the photographer Margarete Freudenstadt has dedicated herself to cinema and strikingly captured contemporary history with her camera. Cinemas confronts her melancholic pictures of movie theaters in the former East ...

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Ed. Nicole Gnesa

Michele Melillo

The paintings and drawings of Michele Melillo (*1977) enchant the viewer with their lightness and harmonious colours. Accompanied by an explanatory essay by Veit Ziegelmaier, this comprehensive artist monograph reproduces for the first time works ...

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Ed. Maya Vinitsky

Solar Guerrilla
Constructive Responses to Climate Change

At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic change in the climate has led to the realization that capitalism has a destructive effect on the ...

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Ed. Amanda Gilvin

Fatimah Tuggar
Home's Horizons

Renowned for work that layers binary code with handmade craft, Fatimah Tuggar is one of the most original, incisive conceptual artists of the digital age. Tuggar’s sculptures, photomontages, videos, and interactive works challenge ...

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Leslie Erganian et al.

New West

Few regions have undergone a more rapid and radical development than the American West in the mid-twentieth century. The modern infrastructure, technical innovations, spectacular architecture and new leisure activities have been recorded on ...

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Ed. Risa Levitt Kohn

Memory, Identity, Encounter
Ukrainian Jewish Journeys

Bringing 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. Iris Belle et al.

Singapore´s Building Stock
Approaches to a multi-scale documentation and analysis of transformations

Singapore is rejuvenating and transforming her building stock constantly and in comparatively short cycles. The book analyses these transformations of the global city and shows documents, plans and sources dating from the past two centuries.

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