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Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Barcelona Pavillon / Haus Tugendhat

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the outstanding representatives of the New Building. He achieved legendary fame as the director of the Bauhaus in Berlin and as a teacher at the IIT in Chicago. The pavilion built at the World Exhibition in ...

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Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Isabelle Dyckerhoff
on canvas / on paper

How can you paint colour? That is the question which the Munich artist Isabelle Dyckerhoff asks herself anew before every picture. The material presence of colour, its expressive power and spatial effect are characteristic for her works on canvas ...

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Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Johannes Itten and Thun
Nature in Focus

The Bauhaus master Johannes Itten is one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town ...

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Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Textures
The History and Art of Black Hair

The book synthesizes research in history, fashion, art and visual culture to reassess the hair story of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, ...

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Glenn Esterly et al.

Bukowski by Abe Frajndlich
The Shooting

Charles Bukowski, the dirty old man of American literature whose poems and prose are closely interwoven with his life – how does one go about portraying a person like that? In 1985, the young photographer Abe Frajndlich took on this challenge. ...

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Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Folklore & Avant-Garde
The Reception of Popular Traditions in the Age of Modernism

The publication examines in depth the influence of folkloric traditions on the pioneers of Modernism in the develop- ment of their new artistic language. Craft objects and folk art are contrasted with masterpieces by artists of the avant-garde like ...

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Yang Yuanzheng

Dragon's Roar
The Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections and their Archaeological Origin

This lavishly illustrated volume focuses attention on the seven important qin zithers in the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The instruments date from the period between the late Middle Ages and modern times. The current ...

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Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long
Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection

Heinz R. Böhme has been collecting artworks of the Lost Generation for more than twenty years. The main focus of his private collection in Salzburg is the recognition of more than eighty artists whose creative work was massively restricted ...

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Ed. Gerry Beegan et al.

Angela Davis
Seize the Time

Inspired by a private archive and featuring contemporary work by artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis’s experience and politics, the essays, interviews and images in this book provide a compelling and layered ...

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Bernd Pappe et al.

Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection

The publication focuses on 150 portrait miniatures from the age of Napoleon I. They provide us with an astonishingly direct view of people who lived in this turbulent, war-torn period. The works are presented in detail in image and text. Essays by ...

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Ed. Gloria Köpnick

Hin Bredendieck
From Aurich to Atlanta

Hin Bredendieck (1904–1995) graduated from the Bauhaus and was a versatile designer and pioneering teacher of design. His outstanding œuvre and his worldwide network testify to the international significance of his work and ideas. This ...

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Ed. Victoria L. Lyall et al.

ReVisión
A New Look at Art in the Americas

ReVisión: A New Look at Art in the Americas considers what makes the Americas the Americas. With essays by leading scholars of Latin American art history, the lavishly illustrated publication explores the ways in which the past continues to ...

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Ed. Jan Dees et al.

Breaking out of Tradition
Japanese Lacquer, 1890-1950

Breaking out of Tradition traces the pioneering developments in lacquer art at the beginning of the 20th century in Japan. The lacquer artists of that time adopted a critical and creative approach to the centuries-old traditions, experimenting with ...

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Ed. Angela Lammert et al.

John Heartfield
Photography plus Dynamite

The political collages of John Heartfield (1891–1968) have earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative graphic artists of the Weimar Republic. His photomontages and book covers based on collages which had their origins in ...

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Ed. Gannit Ankori et al.

Frida Kahlo and San Francisco
Constructing Her Identity

This book marks the triumphant return of Frida Kahlo to San Francisco, the city where her artistic life began to unfold. Kahlo’s sojourns to the United States were brief, but formative. It was in the California city – the first she ...

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Ed. Wilfried Rogasch

Alfons Mucha
The Great Masters of Art

At the beginning of the twentieth century, when Alfons Mucha went to the United States for four years as a lecturer, the world-famous poster designer, Art-Nouveau book illustrator, designer, photographer and painter was greeted with enthusiasm. ...

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Esther Shakine

Exodus
Graphic Novel

EXODUS tells the true story of a Jewish girl from Hungary. After her parents were abducted by the Nazis, she and other orphaned children were forced to shift for themselves amid the total destruction throughout the country. In 1947 she found a ...

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Ed. Christoph Wagner

Cinemas
From Babylon Berlin to La Rampa Havana

Lost places of cinema—the photographer Margarete Freudenstadt has dedicated herself to cinema and strikingly captured contemporary history with her camera. Cinemas confronts her melancholic pictures of movie theaters in the former East ...

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Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen et al.

Tell me about <s>yesterday</s> tomorrow
About the Future of the Past

Historical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today’s world. The interdisciplinary authorship of this volume focuses on the connection between past and future. A bold and unusual publication whose approaches and ...

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Ed. Thomas Zuhr

All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer Publishers

This attractively designed publication documents the work of Hirmer Verlag during the past 65 years. Since 1948 a total of over 1,100 titles have appeared under this brand name. True to the motto “Art books that set standards,” the ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten
Catalogue Raisonné Vol.II. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1939-1967

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. Dario Gamboni et al.

The Aesthetics of Marble
From Late Antiquity to the Present

This magnificent book sheds new light on the celebration and uses of marble in art and literature and on the iconic potential of the stone. With 240 color illustrations, it showcases the marble cladding of architecture, the carving of marble and ...

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Ed. Mona Jalhami et al.

The Art of Orientation
An Exploration of the Mosque Through Objects

The Art of Orientation explores the mosque through 125 artefacts from across the Islamic world. It employs an original and contemporary approach by incorporating essays by leading Arab and international authors, which provide a fresh interpretation ...

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Karin Althaus et al.

Florine Stettheimer
The Great Masters of Art

“I was thrilled”, was Andy Warhol’s enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer’s life her sensuous and ironic ...

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Ed. Judith W. Mann

Painting on Stone
Science and the Sacred

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred examines a fascinating tradition long overlooked by art historians – stone surfaces used to create stunning portraits, mythological scenes, and sacred images. Written by an international team of ...

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Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Barcelona Pavillon / Haus Tugendhat

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the outstanding representatives of the New Building. He achieved legendary fame as the director of the Bauhaus in Berlin and as a teacher at the IIT in Chicago. The pavilion built at the World Exhibition in Barcelona in 1929 and the Haus Tugendhat in Brno, completed one year later, became incunabula of Modernism.

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Isabelle Dyckerhoff

on canvas / on paper

How can you paint colour? That is the question which the Munich artist Isabelle Dyckerhoff asks herself anew before every picture. The material presence of colour, its expressive power and spatial effect are characteristic for her works on canvas and paper, which are presented together in this volume for book lovers.

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Johannes Itten and Thun

Nature in Focus

The Bauhaus master Johannes Itten is one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware of the close links between his beginnings as an artist and his experience of landscape and nature in the town of Thun and Lake Thun.

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The History and Art of Black Hair

The book synthesizes research in history, fashion, art and visual culture to reassess the hair story of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, barbers and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications for self and society today.

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Bukowski by Abe Frajndlich

The Shooting

Charles Bukowski, the dirty old man of American literature whose poems and prose are closely interwoven with his life – how does one go about portraying a person like that? In 1985, the young photographer Abe Frajndlich took on this challenge. We can say this much: it was not a job that could be accomplished in one shot. The Shooting presents a photographer’s attempt to zero in on a legend.

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Folklore & Avant-Garde

The Reception of Popular Traditions in the Age of Modernism

The publication examines in depth the influence of folkloric traditions on the pioneers of Modernism in the develop- ment of their new artistic language. Craft objects and folk art are contrasted with masterpieces by artists of the avant-garde like Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Charles Sheeler and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

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Dragon's Roar

The Chinese Literati Musical Instruments in the Freer and Sackler Collections and their Archaeological Origin

This lavishly illustrated volume focuses attention on the seven important qin zithers in the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The instruments date from the period between the late Middle Ages and modern times. The current assessment of early archaeological finds extends the origins of qin instruments back to the Bronze Age and leads to a new approach.

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Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

We Haven’t Seen Each Other For So Long

Art of the Lost Generation. The Böhme Collection

Heinz R. Böhme has been collecting artworks of the Lost Generation for more than twenty years. The main focus of his private collection in Salzburg is the recognition of more than eighty artists whose creative work was massively restricted under the National Socialist regime.

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Angela Davis

Seize the Time

Inspired by a private archive and featuring contemporary work by artists who acknowledge the continued relevance of Angela Davis’s experience and politics, the essays, interviews and images in this book provide a compelling and layered narrative of her journey through the junctures of race, gender, economics and politics.

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Bernd Pappe et al.

Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection

The publication focuses on 150 portrait miniatures from the age of Napoleon I. They provide us with an astonishingly direct view of people who lived in this turbulent, war-torn period. The works are presented in detail in image and text. Essays by a number of experts on miniature painting round out the subject.

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Cultural History

Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Glenn Esterly et al.

Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Yang Yuanzheng

Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

Ed. Gerry Beegan et al.

Bernd Pappe et al.

Ed. Gloria Köpnick

Ed. Victoria L. Lyall et al.

Ed. Jan Dees et al.

Ed. Angela Lammert et al.

Ed. Gannit Ankori et al.

Ed. Wilfried Rogasch

Esther Shakine

Ed. Christoph Wagner

Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen et al.

Ed. Thomas Zuhr

Christoph Wagner

Ed. Dario Gamboni et al.

Ed. Mona Jalhami et al.

Karin Althaus et al.

Ed. Judith W. Mann

Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Glenn Esterly et al.

Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Yang Yuanzheng

Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

Ed. Gerry Beegan et al.

Bernd Pappe et al.