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Ed. Eva Fischer-Hausdorf et al.

Icons

Worship and Adoration

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Ed. Gilbert Vicario

Agnes Pelton

Desert Transcendentalist

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Ed. Bettina Baumgärtel

Angelica Kauffman

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Ed. Gunnar B. Kvaran et al.

Yoko Ono

Liberté Conquérante. Growing Freedom.

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Ed. Martin Berger et al.

The Aztecs

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Ed. Dieter Ronte

Helmut Schober

Vortex

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Ed. Matthias Frehner et al.

Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler
The Hahnloser Collection

The Hahnloser Collection was created in the early twentieth century in close friendly exchange between the collectors Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler and their famous artist friends. The publication presents some 120 works providing an ...

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Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer

Fantastic Women
Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was just one of them: between 1930 and the 1960s many more women artists contributed to the Surrealist movement than has hitherto been assumed. The male Surrealists surrounding André Breton mostly saw them only as partners or ...

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Ed. Meredith Malone

Multiplied
Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965

In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiples – three-dimensional objects issued in edition – to be broadly distributed. With a radical emphasis on multiplication and movement, Edition MAT (Multiplication ...

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Oscar Gardea Duarte et al.

Teresa Margolles
En la herida

Teresa Margolles abstracts the subject of terror: she extracts the body into abstract forms which are manifest in fired bricks or in mud, water and blood-soaked cloths. They form a memorial to the victims of the Mexican drug wars and the waves of ...

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Adriana Proser

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon
Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society

"Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon" presents sixty-seven masterpieces collected by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller. Illuminating the cultures and history of Asia, the book presents a magnificent ...

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Ed. Bettina Baumgärtel

Angelica Kauffman

Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) is regarded as the first woman artist of European standing. Well educated and very well connected, she enjoyed an international reputation. She pursued a brilliant career and was one of the outstanding artist ...

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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. Mamuka Bliadze et al.

Natela Iankoshvili
An Artist's Life between Coersion and Freedom

Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she spent her entire life in Georgia. The career of the prize-winning artist was crowned in 2000 with the opening of ...

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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. Kerstin Richter

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Miracle in the Snow
Collection Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz" Winterthur

It is snowing! Attention centres on the first painting in European art with falling snowflakes, The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Flemish artist revolutionised painting: new technological investigations attempt ...

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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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