Review
With this book, you can’t go wrong whether giving or receiving.
LA Weekly
Review
In this volume Hirmer Publishers have celebrated so worthily one of the architectural achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment and it is to be hoped they will devote future volumes to other historic houses and art collections in these islands.
The Georgian
Newest publications
-
new
Helmut C. Schulitz
The Turning Point in Architectural Design
A Historical Scenario for the FutureOver one hundred years ago, Adolf Loos had already complained: “The architect has caused architecture to sink to a graphic art.” He was pointing to a problem that had gone unnoticed for centuries. But today, in the age of ... -
new
Ed. Alex Gartenfeld et al.
Paulo Nazareth
MeleeAccompanying Paulo Nazareth’s first US museum show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami in 2019, "Melee" presents an engaging and timely look at the artist’s multifarious work and elaborates on how it engages the ... -
new
Ed. Walter Moser
Faces - The Power of the Human Visage
Helmar Lerski and Portrait Photography between the WarsStarting with Helmar Lerski’s outstanding photo series "Metamorphosis through Light" from 1935/36, the magnificent volume "Faces – The Power of the Human Visage" presents portraits from the era of the Weimar Republic. ... -
new
Ed. Dorthe Aagesen et al.
Kirchner and Nolde
Expressionism. ColonialismErnst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) and Emil Nolde (1867–1956) are leading figures in the German Expressionist movement. Turning away from Western society and the established norms of bourgeois culture, the artists looked to people, ... -
new
Kristine Bilkau et al.
Miwa Ogasawara
UnspokenPeople between light and shade, love and despair, closeness and distance, calm and restlessness. Miwa Ogasawara’s painting represents the attempt to approach Man quietly in all his nuances. In her pictures she captures the brittle, shimmering ... -
new
Ed. Iris Belle et al.
Singapore´s Building Stock
Approaches to a multi-scale documentation and analysis of transformationsSingapore 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. -
new
Ed. Sadia Abbas et al.
Shahzia Sikander
Extraordinary RealitiesPioneering Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting miniature painting to explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, ... -
new
Ed. Mona AlJalhami et al.
The Art of Orientation
An Exploration of the Mosque Through Objects"The Art of Orientation" explores the mosque through 125 artefacts from across the Islamic world. It employs an original and contemporary approach by incorporating essays by leading Arab and international authors, which provide a fresh ... -
new
Ed. Stephan Koja
In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphael’s paintings are regarded as some of the most innovative compositions to this day, 500 years ... -
new
Ed. Gerlinde Gruber et al.
Rubens's Great Landscape with a Tempest
Anatomy of a MasterpieceThe Great Landscape with a Tempest in Vienna is one of Peter Paul Rubens’s largest and most dramatic landscapes. Starting from the far-reaching discoveries during the latest restoration, the volume provides a comprehensive insight into the ... -
new
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 ... -
new
Karin Althaus et al.
Florine Stettheimer
The Great Masters of Art“I was thrilled”, was Andy Warhol’s enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer’s life her sensuous and ironic ... -
new
Ed. Wiebke Steinmetz et al.
Ruth Baumgarte
Werde, die du bist! Lebenskunst / Become Who You Are! The Art of LivingDuring a period of radical change, Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) created an artistic oeuvre in which humankind and its fragile existence form the main area of focus. This volume introduces her as a passionate creator of drawings, a versatile ... -
new
Eva Bader et al.
A major conference was held in 2018 in Davos, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s elective home, to mark the 80th anniversary of the artist’s death. The lavishly illustrated volume accompanying the event brings together international experts who ... -
new
Ed. Cheryl Sim
Relations
Diaspora and Painting / La diaspora et la peintureThis richly illustrated volume explores the multiple and evolving meanings of diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed through painting. The book, based on an exhibition held at the Phi Foundation brings together artists who ... -
new
Ed. Ingo Clauß
Elina Brotherus
Why not?Diary-like series, landscape photos and situational mood pictures – Elina Brotherus (*1972 in Helsinki) is constantly searching for new possibilities in photography. This lavishly illustrated volume with related essays pursues the latest ... -
new
Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.
Gerald Clarke
Falling RockThis survey brings together three decades of work by contemporary Native American artist Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla). Utilising wit and humour to expose historical and present-day injustice, Clarke brings a decolonial perspective to urgent cultural ... -
new
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, ... -
new
Ed. Judith W. Mann
Paintings on Stone
Science and the SacredPaintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred examines a fascinating tradition long overlooked by art historians – stone surfaces used to create stunning portraits, mythological scenes, and sacred images. Written by an international team of ... -
new
Ed. Christian Alandete et al.
Alberto Giacometti
Face to FaceAlberto Giacometti forged a singular path within European Modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as a “double of reality”. Presenting some 100 sculptures and paintings, the publication tracks the evolution of ... -
new
Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.
My Generation
The Jablonka CollectionThe Jablonka Collection is regarded as one of the highest-profile holdings of American and German art of the 1980s. In this catalogue the art dealer, gallerist and curator Rafael Jablonka (*1951) provides for the first time an insight into his ... -
new
Ed. Pia Dornacher et al.
Helmut Sturm
Subverting the RealHelmut Sturm’s paintings radiate powerful colours and forms, yet are simultaneously both lyrically tender and poetical. He developed his individual pictorial language in a study of Cubism and Art "Informel" as well as artists like ... -
new
Ed. Annegret Laabs
Max Uhlig
Die Fenster der Johanniskirche / The Windows of the St. Johannis ChurchThe Dresden artist Max Uhlig (*1937) created one of the greatest window cycles of contemporary art for the Gothic Church of Saint John in Magdeburg. Vines and coloured foliage together with lines in expressive rhythms which are a revelation in ... -
new
Ed. Klaus Kinold
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Barcelona Pavillon / Haus TugendhatLudwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the outstanding representatives of the New Building. He achieved legendary fame as the director of the Bauhaus in Berlin and as a teacher at the IIT in Chicago. The pavilion built at the World Exhibition in ... -
new
Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.
Isabelle Dyckerhoff
on canvas / on paperHow can you paint colour? That is the question which the Munich artist Isabelle Dyckerhoff asks herself anew before every picture. The material presence of colour, its expressive power and spatial effect are characteristic for her works on canvas ...