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Ed. Bettina Zorn

The Elegance of Hosokawa

Tradition of a Samurai Family

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Ed. Gilbert Vicario

Agnes Pelton

Desert Transcendentalist

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Ed. Karin Althaus et al.

World Receivers

Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz

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Yigal Gawze

Form and Light

From Bauhaus to Tel Aviv

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Ed. Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung, Wiesbaden

Dazzled by Color

Abstract Painting. The Reinhard Ernst Collection

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Alexandra Palmer

Christian Dior

History and Modernity, 1947-1957

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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 This volume presents the wealth of this culture with spectacular, sometimes unpublished finds: rare feathered shields, impressive stone ...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. Gonzalo Casals et al.

Queer Holdings
A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection

Founded in the context of social movements of the late 1960s, The Leslie-Lohman Museum is dedicated to preserving art that speaks to the LGBTQ experience and fostering the artists who create it. Queer Holdings aims to reclaim scholarship from a ...

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Nitsch
Spaces of Color

Hermann Nitsch produced his first “poured” paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the artist is primarily concerned with the substance of the paint, which he investigates from one Painting Action to the next. This ...

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Ed. Ralph Gleis

Gustave Caillebotte
Painter and Patron of Impressionism

The painting Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) is an icon of Impressionism.This volume presents the work in the context of Caillebotte’s innovative artistic work, introducing him as a driving force in the ...

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Ed. Frank Vorpahl

Georg Forster
The South Seas at Wörlitz

At the age of seventeen Georg Forster embark ed on a voyage around the world with the famous Captain James Cook. Shortly after his return in 1775 the explorer met the open-minded Prince Franz of Dessau and his consort Louise in London.They returned ...

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Meike Hoffmann et al.

Escape into Art?
The Brücke Painters in the Nazi Period

Based on the extensive stocks of the Brücke-Museum, the publication discusses in detail the everyday reality of the artists under the National Socialists. The measures carried out against the former “Brücke” members as a ...

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Ed. Ute Ackermann et al.

Bauhaus Museum Weimar
The Bauhaus Comes from Weimar

The Bauhaus originated in Weimar and returns to a new building there in the spring of 2019. In the newly built Bauhaus Museum Weimar the treasures of the world’s oldest Bauhaus collection will be shown as an ensemble. This volume does not ...

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Ed. Anke Blümm et al.

Haus am Horn
Bauhaus Architecture in Weimar

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Ed. Thomas Föhl et al.

Neues Museum Weimar
Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900

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Ed. Antonia Hoerschelmann et al.

Maria Lassnig
Ways of Being

This volume gathers together paintings, drawings, films, and sculptures by Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) from a creative career that spanned some seventy years. It explains how she thought of herself in relation to the art scene of her time. This ...

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Ed. Bettina Zorn

The Elegance of Hosokawa
Tradition of a Samurai Family

Members of the Daimyō Hosokawa family served the shogun from the Muromachi Period (1333–1568) as samurai. But the Hosokawa achieved fame not only for their success as warriors. As patrons of the arts and artists across the centuries, they ...

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Florian Strob

Bauhaus Dessau
Architecture

“Art and technology: a new unit” – It was with this slogan that the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925/26. The seven years in Dessau were most productive for the designers and architects at the Bauhaus. This illustrated volume ...

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Ed. Christian Briend et al.

The Cubist Cosmos
From Picasso to Léger

This volume unfolds the development of Cubism between 1907 and 1917. It conveys the moment’s enormous stylistic range and its revolutionary potential for the art that would follow during the twentieth century. It also presents as part of the ...

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Ulrich Luckhardt

Lyonel Feininger
Great Masters in Art

Elegant sailing ships, expansive seascapes, crystal-clear expansive views of architecture – with his unique pictorial language and range of subjects Lyonel Feininger became one of the most important artists of Classic Modernism, whose works ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten
Great Masters in Art

When the State Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1918, the Swiss artist and art theorist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was one of the first teachers to be appointed by Walter Gropius. With his preliminary course Itten had a considerable effect on the ...

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Ed. Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung, Wiesbaden

Dazzled by Color
Abstract Painting. The Reinhard Ernst Collection

The broad spectrum of abstract-expressive art during the post-war period in Europe, Japan, and the United States is reflected in the Wiesbaden collection of Reinhard Ernst. For the first time a selection of 160 outstanding works from the collection ...

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Brigitte Salmen

Marianne von Werefkin
Great Masters in Art

She was not only a talented artist but also a shrewd free thinker and hostess: at the beginning of the twentieth century famous artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Alfred Kubin, Adolf Erbslöh, Erma Bossi, Franz Marc and ...

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Ed. George Bolster et al.

The Supper Club
By Elia Alba

Elia Alba’s The Supper Club photographic portrait series depicts U.S.-based artists of colour. Alongside the portraits are excerpts from dinner conversations addressing issues that relate to race and visual culture on themes ...

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Ed. Pedro Gadanho

Fiction and Fabrication
Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn

How do digital photography and Photoshop influence the representation of architecture? “Fiction & Fabrication” assembles fascinating contemporary photographic works from all over the world. From fictional constructions to real ...

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Ed. Manuela Beer et al.

Museum Schnütgen
A Survey of the Collection

The new guide to the collection of the Museum Schnütgen offers a compact, chronological overview of the internationally famous, high-quality and multi-faceted collection of the museum. The volume presents some 250 works from the various ...

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Ibrahim Mohamed Jaidah

Qatari Style
Unexpected Interiors

Qatari Style investigates the architectural identity of Qatar, which celebrates the warmth and hospitality of the Middle East. The selected interiors are pioneering examples of how new and foreign influences can be absorbed harmoniously into the ...

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Ed. Agathe Weishaupt et al.

Peter Weber
Volume 1: Structure and Folding. Volume 2: Catalogue Raisonné 1968-2018

Created in one piece and without cutting the surface, Peter Weber’s works position the phenomenon of folding in the field of vision of their viewers. The entire bandwidth of his oeuvre, extending back over 50 years, is now being compiled and ...

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Alexandra Palmer

Christian Dior
History and Modernity, 1947-1957

Arguably the most famous fashion designer of the 20th century, Christian Dior’s feminine fashions were desired, worn, and emulated by women around the world. This new publication by ROM Press explores the brilliance behind Dior’s ...

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Riccardo Naldi

Magnificence of Marble
Bartolomé Ordóñez and Diego de Silóe

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. During the period between 1513 and 1518, Bartolomé Ordóñez and Diego de ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten
Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1907-1938

The Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was not only a pioneering art theorist and a prominent teacher at the Bauhaus, but he also left an extensive and wide-ranging oeuvre which is only known in part today. The lavishly illustrated ...

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