Contemporary Art
Forthcoming Books
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Ed. Robert Ferry et al.
Land Art as Climate Action
Designing the 21st Century City ParkA beautiful regenerative landscape emerges within a city park, integrating clean energy in ways that improve human thriving. Land Art as Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park expands the realm of the possible using existing clean ... -
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Ed. Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft
Re-Orientations
Europe and Islamic Art from 1851 to TodayThe art and architecture of the Islamic world strongly influenced the development of Western modernism. Some 170 works from the mid-19th century to the present day illustrate this fascinating cultural exchange. Beguiling examples of fine and ... -
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Ed. Kristin Bauer et al.
Kristin Bauer
This Is Like That 2017-2020"This Is Like That" is a conceptually designed book as art object that archives the artist’s work from 2017 to 2020, including essays and dialogue from collaborating curators and writers exploring historic and contemporary ... -
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Amanda Malmstrom et al.
Women Reframe American Landscape
Susie Barstow & Her Circle – Contemporary PracticesIlluminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this book reinserts the important 19th-century American artist Susie Barstow into the history of the Hudson River School and presents contemporary artists who expand how we think ... -
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Ed. Julia Tulovsky
Komar & Melamid
A Lesson in HistoryAmong the most compelling artists in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-Americans Komar and Melamid used humour and irony to lambaste Soviet officialdom. With new scholarship and full-color illustrations, the book explores their journey ... -
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Helmut Friedel
Arnulf Rainer
Rosarot HimmelblauThe art of Arnulf Rainer (*1929) is baffling. The “black overpainting”, with which he covers previous work, is world famous. We overlook the fact that overpaintings in red, blue, green and white also exist and thus that colour always ... -
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Wiebke Steinmetz et al.
Ruth Baumgarte
Werkverzeichnis / Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I-IIIThe artistic oeuvre of Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) is firmly rooted in the representational tradition. On the basis of the latest scientific research it is presented here with a complete catalogue raisonné in an opulent, three-volume edition. ... -
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Ed. Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
Funk You Too!
Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic SculptureFunk You Too! arrives at a moment when clay has unprecedented currency in the art world as a sculptural medium. It is the first book to connect the history of Funk Art to contemporary ceramic practice through an exploration of the enduring role of ... -
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Ed. Alex Gartenfeld et al.
Chakaia Booker
The Observance"Chakaia Booker: The Observance" is the first comprehensive monograph on this important yet understudied American artist. Illuminating more than three decades of Booker’s practice, the publication explores her signature form – ... -
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Ed. 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 ... -
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Dorothy 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 ... -
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Ed. 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 ... -
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Ed. 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 ... -
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Ed. Susanne Gaensheimer et al.
Reinhard Mucha
An Initial Suspicion… For me, things only become interesting when they contain some mysterious corner somewhere which continues to elude us. And so I am really rather sorry that Mucha was not included, because he is formally incredibly good and is nonetheless ... -
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Ed. 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 ... -
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Ed. 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 ... -
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Ed. 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 ... -
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Ed. Yury Kharchenko
Yury Kharchenko
Painting 2018 – 2023Yury Kharchenko is an outstanding representative of contemporary painting. He creates works in cycles which reflect his profound connections with existential themes like darkness and light. He combines masterful colourfulness with dense substance ... -
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Kevin D. Dumouchelle
Heroes
Principles of African Greatness"Heroes: Principles of African Greatness" is a multilayered project that relays the stories of the key heroic principles and people in Africa’s arts and history, and considers the core values of leadership – justice, ... -
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Ed. Wen-shing Chou et al.
C.C. Wang
Lines of AbstractionC.C. Wang (1907–2003) is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art. The book recenters Wang’s extraordinary career on his own ... -
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Ed. Marcus Andrew Hurttig et al.
Re-Connect
Kunst und Kampf im Bruderland - Art and Conflict in BrotherlandThe creation of transnational art has become a matter of course in our globalised world. But what did the art produced by migrants in East Germany look like? The publication throws light on topics such as the cultural diplomacy of the GDR and its ... -
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Michael Flomen
Photograms and Photographs. 2020-1970Master printer Michael Flomen expands his darkroom out into the wild to create large-scale, avant-garde, cameraless photograms in confluence with nature. From the streets of the world to the wilds of North America, this monograph traces in 182 ... -
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Ed. Claudia Giannetti
Analívia Cordeiro
From Body to CodeConsidered a pioneer in both video art and computer-based video dance as well as an innovator in body art, the Brazilian artist, dancer, and choreographer Analívia Cordeiro (*1954) has been developing since the early 1970s a continuous and ... -
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Ed. Miranda Driscoll
George Bolster
When Will We Recognize UsThis monograph examines the multidisciplinary practice of conceptual Irish artist George Bolster, who addresses the crises facing our species, and our willingness to live in the past through belief systems. Bolster’s ambitious immersive text ... -
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Robert Fleck et al.
Mack
PaintingAfter a long break, Heinz Mack has been focusing intensively on painting again for over thirty years. A cross-section of his Chromatische Konstellationen from 1991 until the present day shows how he translates the greatest possible purity of ... -
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Ed. Elissa Auther et al.
Sonya Clark
We Are Each OtherThis is the first publication to document and contextualise Clark’s large-scale, collaborative art works. These projects demonstrate Clark’s career-long commitment to addressing the urgent issue of racial inequality in U.S. society and ... -
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Ed. Karsten Löckemann
Imi Knoebel (b. 1940) is regarded as a master of non-representational art. The monograph accompanying the retrospective in the Sammlung Goetz shows the entire spectrum of his creative artistic work from the 1960s until the present day. There is a ...