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Yigal Gawze

Form and Light

From Bauhaus to Tel Aviv

39,95 £ [UK]

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Ed. Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung, Wiesbaden

Dazzled by Color

Abstract Painting. The Reinhard Ernst Collection

54,00 £ [UK]

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Riccardo Naldi

Magnificence of Marble

Bartolomé Ordóñez and Diego de Silóe

45,00 £ [UK]

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Peter van Ham

Alchi

Treasure of the Himalayas

54,00 £ [UK]

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Ed. George Bolster et al.

The Supper Club

By Elia Alba

24,95 £ [UK]

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Alexandra Palmer

Christian Dior

History and Modernity, 1947-1957

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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 ...

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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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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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Ed. Bernd Ebert et al.

Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows ...

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Ed. Jacob Proctor

Alex Katz
Painting the Now

Over a career that now spans nearly seven decades, the American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927, New York) has devoted himself to the representation of the here and now and to the immediacy of human perception – a commitment to what the artist has ...

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Ed. Karl Borromäus Murr

Koho Mori-Newton
No Intention

The Japanese artist Koho Mori-Newton is a master when it comes to handling silk, which he places in an exciting dialogue with architecture. In this way he creates cult-like spaces which interact with light in a fascinating way. In addition to the ...

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Ed. Gaëlle Morel et al.

True to the Eyes
The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection

This catalogue, published in conjunction with an accompanying exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, Canada, presents a selection of more than 200 photographs from the extraordinary and eclectic collection of Howard and Carole Tanenbaum.

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Ed. Niels Lehmann et al.

Fragments of Metropolis - East | Osten
The Expressionist Heritage in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

The Architecture of Expressionism is the upheaval of architecture in the roaring twenties – with regionally different emphases, schools and protagonists. The series’ third volume documents all surviving buildings in Poland, the Czech ...

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Ed. Karin Althaus et al.

World Receivers
Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz

Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz (1892–1963) in Switzerland ...

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Ed. Philipp Demandt et al.

King of the Animals
Wilhelm Kuhnert and the Image of Africa

Wilhelm Kuhnert was a pioneer. He was one of the first European artists to travel to the largely unexplored savannahs and jungles of the German colonies in North and East Africa. Under hazardous conditions he documented at close quarters the ...

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Ed. Hermann Mayer et al.

James Loeb
Sammler und Mäzen in München, Murnau und weltweit / Collector and Patron in Munich, Murnau and Beyond

James Loeb (1867–1933), the son of a German-Jewish banker in New York, followed his artistic and art historical inclinations and used his tremendous financial wealth for the purpose of cultural and social philanthropism. This publication ...

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Ed. Robert Ferry et al.

Energy Overlays
Land Art Generator Initiative

Energy Overlays provides a glimpse into our post-carbon future where energy infrastructure is seamlessly woven into the fabric of our cities as works of public art. Fifty designs use a variety of renewable energy technologies to arrive at ...

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Ed. Andreas Schumacher

Florence and its Painters
From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci

Painting re-invented itself during the 15th century in Florence. Artists experimented in an innovative manner with pictorial subjects, forms and techniques and thus arrived at an unprecedented diversity of means of artistic expression. ...

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Yigal Gawze

Form and Light
From Bauhaus to Tel Aviv

"Yigal Gawze’s photographs capture the abstraction, the simplicity and the optimism of early modernism in Tel Aviv. He distils the essence of the Bauhaus to bring it alive in a modern city and concentrates on the subtle effects ...

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Ed. Kerstin Jesse et al.

Egon Schiele
The Making of a Collection

2018 marks the centenary of Egon Schiele’s death. To coincide with this occasion the publication will present the painting collection of the Belvedere Vienna including highlights such as Eduard Kosmack, House Wall, Death and Girl, ...

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Ed. Pieter Bisboer et al.

Frans Hals
A Familiy Reunion

Frans Hals (1582/83–1666) is one of the foremost portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This exhibition is the first devoted to his family group portraiture. The show and the catalogue unite all of his four family portraits ...

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Ed. Ina Ewers-Schultz et al.

Tailored For Freedom
The Artistic Dress in 1900 in Fashion, Art, and Society

Seen as an expression of individuality and personality, fashion around 1900 became a synonym for the physical and social emancipation of women and progressed to become an object of artistic interest. The clothes designs of famous artists like ...

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Ed. Kathrin Beßen et al.

Cao Fei

The projects of Beijing-based artist Cao Fei (*1978) reflect the evolving societal and urban situation in China. Her works often make use of the latest digital media. Lying on the threshold between reality and fiction, the videos, photographs, ...

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