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This book is borne of a sustained career-long engagement by its author with the richly nuanced ideas, thoughts, intellectual and artistic traditions with which Kollwitz immersed herself in order to produce art that continues to inspire passion and ...
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His works are engaging because of their mysterious processes, and because they use universal, ephemeral materials like dust, water, and light to tackle heavy, eternal issues like violence, grief, and selfhood.
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newEd. Manuela Beer
Cooler and harder than glass, but softer than a diamond: rock crystal has always been regarded as an unusual material. Countless legends have grown up around its origins and its remarkable strengths. At the latest since Antiquity, rock crystal has ... -
newEd. Sabine Hoffmann et al.
Olga Costa
Dialogues with Mexican ModernismIn her elective home country of Mexico, the artist Olga Costa (1913–1993), a native of Leipzig, has long been established as an important female voice of Mexican Modernism. This volume presents impressively her autonomous artistic work ... -
new ebookDorothy Moss et al.
Kinship
E-BookRecent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. "Kinship", published on the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery’s next “Portraiture Now” exhibition, features the work of eight ... -
newEd. Astrid Ihle et al.
Street Life
Die Straße in der Kunst von Kirchner bis Streuli - The Street in Art from Kirchner to StreuliThe significance of the street is complex: it is a place of representation, self-dramatisation and communication, of resistance and protest. In this lavishly illustrated volume we encounter the bandwidth of this highly topical subject and its ... -
newStanley Abe
Imagining Sculpture
A Short Conjectural HistorySculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the mind’s eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China, on the other hand, statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia without being thought of as Sculpture. ... -
newEd. Ralf Burmeister et al.
Magyar Modern
Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933Important artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the banks of the Spree and were present in the Berlin avant-garde. The publication presents a brilliant overview of the close links between the culture of the Weimar ... -
newEd. Ilka Voermann
Chagall
World in TurmoilMarc Chagall (1887–1985) is regarded as the poet amongst modernist artists. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are less well known. In them, his bright colour palette became darker. Even in the early 1930s, Chagall addressed the ... -
newEd. Ilka Voermann
Chagall
Verden i opprørMarc Chagall (1887–1985) is regarded as the poet amongst modernist artists. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are less well known. In them, his bright colour palette became darker. Even in the early 1930s, Chagall addressed the ... -
newEd. Yvette Deseyve
Johann Gottfried Schadow
Embracing FormsJohann Gottfried Schadow’s "Princess group" has gone down in the annals of art history. As the first statue of two female historical personalities it testifies to the innovation, enormous artistry and productivity of sculpture ... -
newEd. Synagoge Stommeln - Stadt Pulheim
One Site - One Space - One Work
30 Years of Art Projects in Stommeln SynagogueIn 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examination of this historically significant location. Since then it has continued to make a contribution to a culture of remembrance. A wide-ranging ... -
newEd. Debra Diamond et al.
A Splendid Land
Paintings from Royal UdaipurHow and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions and cultural landscapes in South Asia? "A Splendid Land" is the first book to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years ... -
newEd. Sébastien Delot et al.
Etel Adnan
English EditionFor the first time, the Lebanese-American writer and artist Etel Adnan is being honoured with a comprehensive retrospective in Germany. This volume presents her fascinating work from all creative phases and media. Politically, poetically and ... -
newEd. Franziska Leuthäußer et al.
STOA169
The Artist Columned HallA hall of art surrounded by nature, supported by 121 individually designed pillars created by famous artists from all over the world: Bernd Zimmer has been pursuing this idea and its realization for over 30 years. The volume is lavishly illustrated ... -
newMarilyn McCully et al.
Picasso. Women in His Life
An HomageIt is a widely held view that Picasso’s creative work received a fresh impetus with each new muse in his life. Rather than Picasso’s biography or stylistic phases, this volume pays tribute to the individual fates of the women who left ... -
newEd. Belvedere et al.
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) is world famous for his golden, ornamental works, his flowing colours and his sensuous portrayal of women. But where did he find the inspiration for his multi-faceted oeuvre? How well did he know Vincent van Gogh? Did ... -
newGilbert Vicario
Agnes Pelton
The Great Masters of ArtThe spiritually inspired pictures of Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) have their roots in the desert of California, a place where the artist settled in 1932 and where she lived until her death. She wrote of her highly symbolic paintings that her ... -
newEd. Nicholas Bell et al.
Mary Mattingly
What Happens AfterAs we navigate the early decades of a new epoch defined by the measurable human imprint on the earth, the question of how we will reconcile our behaviour with the evidence of its catastrophic effect is yet to be answered. With her works on ... -
newEd. Zoë Chan et al.
Jin-me Yoon
About TimeJin-me Yoon is an important Canadian lens-based artist who has been working steadily since emerging on Vancouver’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s. "About Time" focuses on Yoon’s monumental and multifaceted production of ... -
newGisela Geiger
Heinrich Campendonk
The Great Masters of ArtThe youngest member of the Blauer Reiter group was overshadowed for a long time by fellow painters such as Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, and Paul Klee. But in recent years, Heinrich Campendonk has enjoyed an unparalleled rediscovery ... -
newEd. Colin B. Bailey et al.
Georg Baselitz. 100 Drawings
From the Beginning until the PresentThe famous international German artist Georg Baselitz has donated a collection of works on paper to both the Albertina Museum in Vienna and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The publication combines the 100 sheets to create a ... -
newEd. Kunstmuseum Thun et al.
The Other Kabul
Remains of the GardenKabul was once famous for being a city of blossoming gardens. Today our perception of the Afghan capital is dominated by images of suffering and destruction. Considering Kabul’s gardens as part of its cultural heritage, Afghan and non-Afghan ... -
newRudolf 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 ... -
newDorothy Moss et al.
Recent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. "Kinship", published on the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery’s next “Portraiture Now” exhibition, features the work of eight ... -
newRegine Keller
Grün
Günther Grzimek: Planning, Design, ProgramThe Olympiapark in Munich is one of the most famous projects of the landscape architect Günther Grzimek (1915–1996), yet his entire oeuvre has proved to be pioneering and timeless. He advocated for a new form of urban green space in ... -
newEd. Elsy Lahner et al.
The Italian-American artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952) is one of the main representatives of the postmodern Transavantgarde and Arte Cifra, the Italian version of Neo-Expressionism. Among his extensive oeuvre, the publication focuses on ...