Forthcoming Books

Since the late 1960s, Anselm Kiefer has made art that explores the profound depths of human history. For his first American retrospective in twenty years, he takes the river as a metaphor for the flux of life and passage of time. Breathtaking new landscapes join iconic works to celebrate the achievements of his nearly sixty-year career.    

Around eighty works from all Max Beckmann’s creative phases reveal him as an idiosyncratic interpreter of the world. Drawing was existential for him as an artist: with pencil, chalk, pen and pastel he collected motifs, searched for new formal solutions and pictorial inventions, developed multi-layered compositions and shaped his worldview. In the cosmos of his drawings we get to know Beckmann anew.  

Artistic presentation made marvellous: a baguette as a balloon, a square with a jetpack, and voyeuristic potatoes. These are just some examples of Francisco Sierra’s photorealistic oil paintings. He rearranges everyday life, transforming objects into enigmatic and ambiguous worlds, showing the power that figurative painting continues to have today.

Eine außergewöhnliche Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk Otto Dix’. Ruprecht von Kaufmanns Werkserie HUNDERT greift auf unterschiedliche Weisen in mehr als dreißig, meist großformatigen Gemälden Themen und Ästhetik des künstlerischen Vorbilds auf. Mit Detail- und Installationsansichten reich bebildert und mit eingängigen Texten nimmt der Band mit auf eine inspirierende Reise durch die 20er-Jahre zweier Jahrhunderte.

Book art at its finest! This volume presents a distinguished French Gothic prayer book in a lavish and playful light. The breviary’s illuminated texts are marvellously executed: cheerful and whimsical motifs with tiny figures and bustling creatures enliven the manuscript pages, shown here as part of a dedicated monograph. Large reproductions and numerous details celebrate the imaginative decorative art that makes leafing through the book a delight.

Three hundred works from twenty-one countries form a European panorama of the many facets of realism in art that were ubiquitous in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. They tell of poverty and misery, economic upheaval, artistic flourishing and progress, urban culture, nightlife, emancipation and diversity.  

Two generations of esoteric exploration and material transmutation: The first examination of Beth Ames Swartz and Julianne Swartz’s intergenerational investigation of ethereal systems and the transcendent potential of art, highlighting the alignments within the artistic practices of mother and daughter.

Viewing mannerism in the 21st century: The publication presents highlights from the print collection of Georg Baselitz, one of today’s most celebrated artists, and a selection from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest’s collection. Exploring artists’ collecting old master prints in the past and today, the book does contain well known and previously unpublished mannerist works.  

The comprehensive monograph on Juergen Staack (b. 1978): What is a (photographic) image, and what can it do? For more than twenty years, the artist has been exploring the intersections of photography, conceptual art, performance and language. Through numerous illustrations and texts, this volume traces how Staack’s artistic practice expands the concepts, interpretations and terminology of photography. » further information