Brownie is a collection of photographs created by photographer David Katzenstein over ten years from 1979–89. With this series Katzenstein pays homage to the famous line of Brownie cameras introduced in 1900. He used its successor, the Kodak Dualflex, which followed in 1947. The result is a colourful, personal and sensitive view of the world.

Piles of Inspiration Everywhere explores the physical space where renowned artist Barkley Hendricks worked and lived. A collaboration between photographer David Katzenstein and Susan Hendricks, this book invites readers into the space Barkely and Susan shared for 35 years, offering readers a bold, detailed study of the artist’s life.  

Authorized by The Man Ray Trust, Permanent Attraction: Man Ray & Chess, is the first and only book on Man Ray’s chess-themed works in all media. With experience in studio art, chess, photography, cartography, prototyping, and scholarly research, the author offers a comprehensive interpretation of when, how, and why Man Ray created these timeless works.  

The architect Herman Hertzberger (*1932) is the most important representative of Dutch Structuralism. This movement, which emerged in 1960, is highly regarded in modern architecture and takes as its starting point an archetypal behaviour of humankind. Consequently, buildings must satisfy both the individual and the social needs of those who use them: architecture must be “inviting”.  

The desire for colour in photography prevailed throughout the world of photography from the very beginning. What were the early techniques? And when did colour become accessible to everyone? This volume traces the exciting path from the medium’s beginnings in the nineteenth century to widely used analogue colour photography starting with the first Kodak colour slide films in 1936.  

The remarkable work of T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011) extends from aquatic worlds to the cosmos of animal and plant life to geometric abstraction. This lavishly illustrated volume provides a multifaceted new approach to the artist. Paintings and drawings, photographs, set designs and commercial graphic works offer a comprehensive view of his oeuvre and an expression of modern romanticism.  

Play 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 emigrated in the 1930s via Italy to the United States. The volume assembles autobiographical texts and letters regarding the life’s work of the multimedial artist and designer.

With 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 extensive catalogue  documents all of the important stations of Erwin Wurm’s artistic career to date.

"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 the thirteenth to twentieth centuries dialogue with contemporary works by African artists working around the globe.

Surrealism 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 Surrealism and the following generations of artists.