Painting
Forthcoming Books
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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 presents new ... -
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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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Melissa Venator
German Expressionism
Paintings at the Saint Louis Art MuseumThe Saint Louis Art Museum is home to one of North America’s largest and most comprehensive collections of German Expressionist paintings. Rediscover a defining movement of modern art through this original study of works by 25 artists who ... -
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Ed. Jelena Hahl-Fontaine
Kandinsky
A Life in Letters 1889-1944Wassily Kandinsky was not only the inventor of abstract painting, but also its gifted propagandist. His letters reveal an artist who thought deeply and communicated and organised incessantly. He was also a straightforward and warm-hearted individual. ... -
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Ed. Stephanie Buhmann et al.
Roma Artist Ceija Stojka
What Should I Be Afraid of?This is the first English monograph on the artist Ceija Stojka (1933 –2013). Beginning in the 1980s, Stojka created over a thousand drawings and paintings, whose subjects range from landscapes and recollections of her happy, prewar existence ... -
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Ed. Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert et al.
Samia Halaby
Centers of EnergySamia Halaby (b. 1936) is widely recognised as a pioneer in twentieth-century abstraction and computer-generated art. The publication will bring together approximately thirty-five of Halaby’s paintings, prints and drawings in the first-ever ... -
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Ed. Marissa Del Toro et al.
"Xican-a.o.x. Body" centres the political and creative resistance of Xicanx artists from 1968 to the present. The publication presents new histories of Xicanx art, illustrating how artists foreground the Brown body to explore, expand, and ... -
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Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.
Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects
Hardcover 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. Klaus Albrecht Schröder et al.
Katharina Grosse
Why Three Tones Do Not Form a TriangleExpansion and the permanent crossing of boundaries, freedom and autonomy form the cornerstones of Grosse’s (* 1961) oeuvre. Her creative work is experimental and unpredictable. With many photos from the artist’s private archive this ... -
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Ed. Andreas Schumacher
Venezia 500
The Gentle Revolution of Venetian PaintingIn the Venice of the Renaissance, master artists like Bellini, Giorgione, Palma Vecchio and Titian explored the essence of mankind and nature and their relationship to each other with an unprecedented intensity. This attractive volume shows through ... -
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Ed. Elisabeth Leopold
Many artists share the desire for involvement with the self and their own appearance. In the oeuvre of Egon Schiele, self-portraits occupy a central role. Over a period of many years Schiele recorded himself in various poses and styles. This ... -
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Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer
Lyonel Feininger
RetrospectiveLyonel Feininger (1871–1956) was a painter, graphic artist and caricaturist. From 1919 he served as one of the original masters at the Bauhaus in Weimar and later in Dessau. In 1937 he emigrated to New York, where he worked until the ... -
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Ed. Anna-Carola Krausse et al.
Lotte Laserstein
Ett delat livThe German-Swedish painter Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) is one of the most exciting rediscoveries of recent years. The richly illustrated book with essays on Laserstein’s production in Berlin and her reception in Sweden as well as unpublished ... -
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Ed. Guido Messling et al.
Renaissance in the North
Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the FuggersHans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair are regarded alongside Albrecht Dürer as the forerunners of Renaissance painting in Germany. The prosperous Imperial and trading city of Augsburg was an important centre during this artistic golden age. ... -
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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.
Gottfried Helnwein’s (b. 1948) paintings of children are both touching and disturbing. The hyperrealistic character of his images serves to intensify this effect still further. The vulnerable and defenseless child serves as the central motif ... -
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Ed. Michael Duncan
Advance of the Rear Guard
Ceeje Gallery: Out of the Mainstream in 1960s CaliforniaLos Angeles art of the past is a treasure trove, awaiting full excavation. Hiding in plain sight have been offbeat and lyrical works by an ethnically diverse group of artists who exhibited in a 1960s gallery with an alternative take on the ... -
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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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Josephine Gabler
Käthe Kollwitz
The Great Masters of ArtKäthe Kollwitz is the woman artist from 20th-century Germany whose works are best-known internationally. She also enjoys the highest esteem beyond the boundaries of Europe. The inimitable, touching language of her graphic and sculptural works ... -
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Ed. Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
Everything at Once
Postmodernity, 1967-1992In the postmodern era the conflicts of the present day, from right-wing populism to identity politics, were already in evidence. Spectacular examples from the fields of design, architecture, cinema, pop music, philosophy, art and literature tell of ... -
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Christiane Zeiller
Max Beckmann
The Great Masters of ArtMax Beckmann (1884–1950), the outstanding Expressionist painter, is regarded as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. His works, jostling with figures and full of colour, are packed with highly symbolic messages. They ... -
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Ed. Anna-Carola Krausse et al.
Lotte Laserstein
A Divided LifeThe German-Swedish painter Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) is one of the most exciting rediscoveries of recent years. The richly illustrated book with essays on Laserstein’s production in Berlin and her reception in Sweden as well as unpublished ... -
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Ed. Anita Haldemann et al.
Jasper Johns - The Artist as Collector
From Cézanne to de KooningJasper Johns (b. 1930) ranks among the major American artists of the twentieth century. His accomplishments as a collector, however, have been little known until now. This beautifully produced volume features a selection of more than one hundred ... -
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Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.
Not my Circus, not my Monkeys
The Motif of the Circus in Contemporary ArtOriginating in late 18th-century London, the circus and its ring represent an antithesis to everyday life. The deliberate staging of beautiful make-believe and breathtaking acrobatics has long been a source of great fascination. At the same time, ... -
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Ed. Stefanie Heckmann et al.
Edvard Munch
Magic of the NorthEdvard Munch’s radical modernity in painting was a challenge for his contemporaries. This applied in particular to the art scene in Berlin around 1900 which the Norwegian Symbolist artist influenced profoundly. In return, he received support ... -
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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. 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. 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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Gerald Dagit
Edgar Degas
The Great Masters of ArtEven during his lifetime, Edgar Degas was a legend. Respected and admired by his fellow-artists – Pissarro called him “the greatest artist of the age” –, his depictions of dancers were among the most popular subjects of his time. ... -
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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 that lies far away geographically? In around 1600 the answer was: via printed graphics. Hendrick Goltzius (1558–1617) and Peter Paul ... -
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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 attitudes to sexuality. In doing so it examines widely-held and contradictory stereotypes, according to which Judaism encounters ... -
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Ed. Lisa Marei Schmidt et al.
Hanna Bekker vom Rath
Eine Aufständische für die Moderne. A Rebel for Mordern 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 ...