Cultural History
Forthcoming Books
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Ed. Andreas Hemmerle et al.
The BMW Group Home Plant in Munich
3rd revised, enlarged, and newly designed editionThe roots of the BMW Group lie in Munich. History was written here. The third edition of the book is being published in the jubilee year of the Munich home plant. It looks back on 100 years of lively history and describes the eventful present with ... -
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Ed. Andreas Hemmerle et al.
The BMW Group Home Plant in Munich
3rd revised, enlarged, and newly designed editionThe roots of the BMW Group lie in Munich. History was written here. The third edition of the book is being published in the jubilee year of the Munich home plant. It looks back on 100 years of lively history and describes the eventful present with ... -
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Ed. Debra Bricker Balken et al.
Americans in Paris
Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962"Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962" delves into the various circles of artists who lived in France following World War II. Featuring new scholarship and illuminating essays, this groundbreaking volume ... -
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David Katzenstein
RitualThese photographs by David Katzenstein emerged from his lifelong artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. His mission led him to travel to many parts of the world to experience other cultures and peoples firsthand, capturing images that ... -
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Ed. Andreas Braun
BMW M
The Most Powerful Letter in the WorldBMW M achieved spectacular victories on all the world’s famous racing circuits. The brand also stands for a wide range of innovative high-performance limousines, many of which have achieved cult status and a high collector’s value. This ... -
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Ed. Maria Antonella Pelizzari et al.
125th Street
Photography In HarlemHarlem’s 125th Street is a marker of 20th-century urban experience that encapsulates powerful stories of business and consumption, real estate and gentrification, glamourand entertainment, and political uprising. The book explores works and ... -
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Ed. Jayme Yahr
Over the course of seven decades, Twinka Thiebaud has collaborated with more than thirty artists working in photography, painting and drawing. This catalogue explores her body of work as an artist’s model alongside developments in ... -
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Tom Avermaete et al.
Olmsted Trees
Stanley GreenbergFrederick Law Olmsted (1822 – 1903) is considered as the father of landscape architecture in the United States and created several renowned urban parks and park systems around the country. With a stunning black and white series of trees by ... -
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Ibrahim Mohamed Jaidah
Qatari Style
Unexpected InteriorsQatari Style investigates the architectural identity of Qatar, which celebrates the warmth and hospitality of the Middle East. The selected interiors are pioneering examples of how new and foreign influences can be absorbed harmoniously into the ... -
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Ed. Michaela Appel et al.
Inspired by Country
Bark Paintings from Northern AustraliaThe Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection of Bark Paintings from Northern Australia with works mainly from the 1950s to 1970s is currently considered the best collection of its kind outside of Australia. It includes works from the Kimberley, Wadeye, the ... -
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Ed. Ilka Voermann
Art for No One
1933-1945Between 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of the National Sociali state. Many artists emigrated. But what about the ones who remained in Germany? Under what social and economic ... -
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Ed. LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz et al.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was one of the most important students of the Weimar Bauhaus. Initially she specialised in textile and graphic design, then later worked as an interior designer. Her paintings reflect her profound study of the classical avant-garde. ... -
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Ed. Dakota Hoska et al.
Here, Now
Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum"Here, Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum" features 200 of the museum’s most notable Indigenous artworks. It reinterprets the collection and reveals new insights into the historic and contemporary work of ... -
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Ed. Heinz Kroehl et al.
The Breath of Japan
Written and Painted PoetryThe publication presents large-format works by 14 Japanese artists that fascinate us with their aura of mystery. These impressive works, created between the 1950s and the present day, fuse poetry, penmanship and painting to produce an aesthetic ... -
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Ed. Thomas Zuhr
All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer PublishersFounded in 1948, Hirmer Publishers soon established a name for art books produced to the highest standards. Over the past decade they have become equally well-known in English-speaking countries, with a reputation as one of the most prestigious ... -
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Barbara Bloemink
Florine Stettheimer
A BiographyThis first full biography confirms Florine Stettheimer as one of the 20th century’s most significant, progressive artists whose work remains highly relevant today. Stettheimer was a feminist and a multi-media artist who painted several ... -
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Christoph Wagner
Johannes Itten
Catalogue Raisonné Vol.II. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1939-1967The 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. Marie Brassard et al.
"The Infinite" documents the making of the ground-breaking immersive VR experience shot entirely aboard the International Space Station. Artists and astronauts joined forces to capture life in the cosmos as never before. In this oversize ... -
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Ed. Thomas Köster
Mary Bauermeister
In a Fairytale World. House and GardenMary Bauermeister (*1934) is regarded as the “mother” of the Fluxus movement. During the 1960s she set out from the United States and conquered the art world with her lens boxes and stone spirals. Her works are represented in many major ... -
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Scott A. Shields
The Candy Store
Funk, Nut, and Other Art with a KickAdeliza McHugh helped put the whimsical, funky, and irreverent aesthetic of California’s Central Valley on the art-historical map at her legendary Candy Store Gallery. Published on what would be the 60th anniversary of the gallery’s ... -
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Ed. Ute Franke et al.
Iran
Five Millennia of Art and CultureLying between deserts, mountain chains and seas, Iran developed a fascinating cultural landscape. 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilisations during the 3rd millennium BC until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early 18th ... -
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Ed. Karolina Kühn et al.
To Be Seen
Queer Lives 1900 -1950The contributions that have been assembled in this volume present the story of queer lives – from the first emancipation movements around the turn of the (last) century via attempts at self-empowerment in the Weimar Republic to the ... -
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Ed. Risa Levitt Kohn
Memory, Identity, Encounter
Ukrainian Jewish JourneysBringing together two communities with a shared history of statelessness, "Memory, Identity, Encounter" focuses on the cultural similarities of the two groups, while delving into the complex and difficult histories of both populations ... -
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Ed. Debra Diamond et al.
A Splendid Land
Paintings from Royal UdaipurHow and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions and cultural landscapes in South Asia? "A Splendid Land" is the first book to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years ... -
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Ed. Idries Trevathan
Hijrah
In the Footsteps of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم)With the help of scholars, historians and artists, and through a range of diverse media, this book sets out to follow in the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) retracing his movements during the famous Hijrah ... -
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Ed. Hanna G. Diedrichs gen. Thormann
Kubra Khademi
Political BodiesKubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her life as a woman and a person with direct experience as a refugee. This makes it both political and highly topical. Multi-faceted themes pervade her art, including her function as ... -
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Ed. Lisa Fischman
Kanishka Raja
I and IKanishka Raja’s ravishingly patterned work, as the artist put it, “explores the intersection of representation, craft, technology, and the gaps that occur in the transmission of information.” Conceptually heady and aesthetically ... -
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Ed. Agnes Husslein-Arco et al.
Heidi Horten Collection
The House and its HistoryA new art location will be opening in the heart of Vienna in the spring of 2022. The museum for the famous collection of Heidi Goëss-Horten will be completed between the Albertina and the Opera House. The first museum publication is dedicated ... -
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Dietrich Götze et al.
Fascinating Glass
The Renate and Dietrich Götze CollectionGlass is a magical material through which light can shine. Throughout its millennial history, its colourful splendour and malleability have always exerted a particular fascination and a creative attraction. The book offers a profound and lavishly ... -
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Ed. Jorge F. Rivas Pérez
Appropriation and Invention
Three Centuries of Art in Spanish America, Selections from the Denver Art MuseumDrawing from the renowned collection of Latin American Art at the Denver Art Museum, this splendid catalogue examines the processes of appropriation and invention in the arts of Spanish America of three centuries from the 1520s to the 1820s. Essays ...