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Ed. Frank Feltens
Imagined Neighbors
Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680-1980This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan’s period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century. The volume focuses on the ways Japanese painters from the ... -
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Ed. Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München
Careers by Design
Hendrick Goltzius & Peter Paul RubensHow do artists ensure that their works will still be known in later centuries? How do they reach a public in distant places? In around 1600 the answer was: via prints. Through their exceptional works and marketing strategies in this medium, ... -
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Ed. Miriam Goldmann et al.
Sensuous, bold and topical – this volume with its varied illustrations studies the entire spectrum of Jewish ideas about sexuality. In doing so it examines widely-held and contradictory stereotypes, according to which Jewish tradition either ... -
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Ed. Tatjana Bartsch et al.
The Allure of Rome
Maarten van Heemskerck Draws the CityIn 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) travelled from Haarlem to Rome. With pencil in hand he discovered Antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings lead us in masterly pictures on a journey through time ... -
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Ed. Lisa Marei Schmidt et al.
Hanna Bekker vom Rath
Eine Aufständische für die Moderne. A Rebel for Modern ArtArt collector, patron and arbiter – Hanna Bekker vom Rath (1893–1983) was a trailblazer for the artistic avant-garde and one of the most important female personalities in Germany during the pre-war and post-war modern periods. She was a ... -
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Ed. Konrad Bitterli et al.
Following the merger of three important Winterthur collections to form the Kunst Museum Winterthur, this volume presents the highlights of the three museums for the first time in splendidly illustrated form: from Rembrandt to Caspar David Friedrich ... -
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Ed. Allegra K. Davis
"Afterglow" brings together the known memorial paintings by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) for the first time, unveiling how Church returned to the medium of landscape throughout his career to create solace in times of loss. This book ... -
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Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.
Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects
Softcover EditionSurveying over four centuries, this volume brings together a wide-ranging selection of artworks and artefacts that highlight under-recognised histories of trans and gender-nonconforming communities. Through the contributions of artists, writers, ... -
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Ed. Stephan Koja
Hercules of the Arts
Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein and Vienna around 1700The publication focuses on Prince Johann Adam Andreas I of Liechtenstein (1657–1712). His skilful economic policies enabled him to increase his fortune. He purchased important artworks, invested in building projects and their artistic design, ... -
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Ed. Museum Tinguely
Otto Piene
Wege zum Paradies. Paths to ParadiseOtto Piene (1928−2014) aimed high with his art: to shape a more peaceful, and sustainable world. His expansive view explored new media and projected aesthetic forms and experiences into new spatial realms. This volume presents new scholarship ... -
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Robert Hobbs
Peter Halley
A MonographIn the 1980s, Peter Halley revitalised painting by relying on sociology and science fiction. He employed fluorescent colours and Roll-A-Tex to deconstruct early and mid-twentieth-century transcendent geometric abstraction into abstract cells and ... -
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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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Ed. Simon Kelly
"Matisse and the Sea" examines the influence of the sea across modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included artwork in coastal locations on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. This book brings ... -
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Ed. Jochen Sander
Rembrandt's Amsterdam
Golden Times?During the 17th century, Amsterdam became one of the leading economic centres in Europe. The city and its population grew rapidly, trade and art flourished. The influential bourgeoisie shaped the fortunes of the city and confidently celebrated ... -
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Ed. Astrid Ihle et al.
We Will Go Right Up to the Sun
Female Pioneers of Geometric AbstractionGeometric abstraction as a worldview: artists like Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay played an essential part in the development of non-representational art. The volume presents an overview of the evolution of geometric abstract art and takes ... -
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Ed. Dancing Foxes Press et al.
In the Company of Artists
A History of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture"In the Company of Artists" is the first major study of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the influential summer art school founded by artists for artists amidst the tumult of World War II. Skowhegans philosophy and impact, ... -
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Ed. Rehema C. Barber
Delve into a collection a century in the making with "Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts", a handbook highlighting the museum’s collection of legendary artworks from the United States and around the world, ... -
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Ed. Bernd Pappe et al.
The Romantic Era was a particularly splendid epoch in miniature portraiture. A host of artists created portraits of great sensitivity and remarkable technical perfection. 142 masterpieces from the famous Tansey Collection illustrate the golden age ... -
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Ed. Katharina Beisiegel et al.
Rediscovered & Reunited
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Frames and PaintingsErnst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchner’s intention that they belong together, over the years some paintings were separated from their original frames. In the present publication they are ... -
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Ed. Juliet Simpson et al.
Gothic Modern
From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz"Gothic Modern" illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of Europe’s north and German lands ... -
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Ed. Juliet Simpson et al.
Gothic Modern
Fra Edvard Munch til Käthe Kollwitz"Gothic Modern" illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of Europe’s north and German lands ... -
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Ed. Jan Nicolaisen et al.
Impulse Rembrandt
Teacher. Strategist. BestsellerMore than any other artist, the painter Rembrandt developed a charisma through the outstanding quality and originality of his works and through the organisation of his workshop. His pupils and successors continued his style as the Rembrandt ... -
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Ed. Alistair Hudson et al.
Mack Reflected
expanding the ZERO codeA particular quality of Heinz Mack’s art is its relevance regarding questions of our time. By means of works from all creative periods the book examines Mack’s relationship to technology, science and nature and offers exciting ... -
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Ed. Kunstmuseum Basel et al.
Paula Rego
Power GamesThe female protagonists of the Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego either come from real life or derive from the world’s great legends, fairy tales and myths. As complicated heroines of our time they have endured illegal abortions or fight ... -
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Ed. Ralph Gleis et al.
In 1867, Monet (1840–1925) turned his back on tradition when he focused on the bustling life of Paris from the balcony of the Louvre. He was fascinated by the present in the growing French capital rather than the old masters. In a series of ... -
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Ed. Iris Müller-Westermann
German Expressionism
The Artist Group Brücke and the Dawning of ModernismIn a time like our own, where a young generation feels a great need to change our way of living, thinking and organizing ourselves, the publication on the artist group Brücke feels particularly relevant. These young artists also wanted to ... -
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Ed. Iris Müller-Westermann
Tysk Expressionism
Konstnärsgruppen Brücke och modernismens gryningIn a time like our own, where a young generation feels a great need to change our way of living, thinking and organizing ourselves, the publication on the artist group Brücke feels particularly relevant. These young artists also wanted to ... -
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Ed. Antonia Hoerschelmann et al.
Erwin Wurm
English EditionWith his Fat Cars and Tiny Houses, his sculptures of cucumbers, and sausages, Erwin Wurm (b. 1954) shines a critical spotlight on consumer society’s manipulative mechanisms and their effects. On the occasion of Wurm’s 70th birthday this ... -
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Emireth Herrera Valdes et al.
Zigi Ben-Haim
A Journey of DiscoveryZigi Ben-Haim is a painter and sculptor who works with aluminium, wire mesh, burlap, newsprint and unconventional materials. His constant reinvention gives his work a dynamic and powerful vibration that sparks curiosity in its viewers and never ... -
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Ed. Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d‘Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean et al.
Xanti Schawinsky
Play, Life, IllusionPlay Life Illusion – the retrospective in book form refers to the title of a performance which Xanti Schawinsky developed in 1936 with students at Black Mountain College. The Swiss artist who worked at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau ... -
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Ed. Institut für Kulturaustausch, Tübingen
Surrealism
Worlds in DialogueSurrealism revolutionised art with fantastic, radically subjective motifs. As a political and international movement, the artists wanted to change society. The topicality of their ideas enables a fascinating comparison between important pioneers of ... -
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Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.
Gunta Stölzl & Johannes Itten
Textile Universen / Textile UniversesGunta Stölzl (1897–1983) and the Swiss artist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) were Bauhaus teachers who met in the experimental field at important stages of their biographies from their time at the Bauhaus in Weimar until well into the 1960s. ... -
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Peter van Ham
Tabo - Gods of Light
The Indo-Tibetan Masterpiece - RevisitedOver one thousand years old, the Buddhist monastery complex of Tabo with its exquisitely preserved works of art ranks among the most fascinating cultural and historical treasures of mankind. The new edition of this richly illustrated volume shows ... -
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Ed. Nichole N. Bridges
"Narrative Wisdom and African Arts" explores how historical and contemporary African arts make visible narratives rooted in collective and individual memory and knowledge. Historical works made by artists across sub-Saharan Africa during ... -
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Ed. Frank Feltens
Imagined Neighbors
Visions of China in Japanese Art 1680-1980This publication examines the Japanese artistic understanding of China from the late 1600s, Japan’s period of seclusion, to its age of modernization after the mid-nineteenth century. The volume focuses on the ways Japanese painters from the ...