More artist’s book than monograph, this volume traces the exciting interplay between Iman Issa’s (b. 1979) objects, photos , text and video. Is an artwork at the mercy of the viewer’s interpretation, and does its meaning change ...

Lavishly illustrated, Tiffany Chung: indelible traces is the first scholarly monograph to provide a comprehensive introduction to the multi -disciplinary artist’s work over the last 25 years. Best known for her extraordinarily drawn or ...

Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nation’s period between 1948 and 1978 led to artistic innovation. As Iran modernised, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique ...

Käte Steinitz (1889–1975) is today best known for her collaboration with Kurt Schwitters. This monograph covers her multifaceted activities as an artist and writer in avant-garde circles during the Weimar Republic, as well as her ...

A remarkable artist from the New York art scene – in Germany at last! Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) devoted herself to a wide variety of artforms and became a virtually unrivalled master in collage. Featuring more than fifty artworks, ...

Highly political and controversial: this is art that addresses events of the past which still affect the present. Under the Nazi regime, twenty-six million people in various countries across Africa and Europe were forced into labor. Their ...

George Steinmann is a visual artist, musician and researcher. In his Mindmaps, he addresses the state of our planet. The poetry of these mostly small-format sheets is based on structures, autonomous chemical reactions, and the conviction that even ...

A fascinating book featuring both photographymand architecture: the Deutschlandhaus, designed by Fritz Block and Ernst Hochfeld in 1929, was Hamburg’s first commercial building in the International Style. Despite its historical significance, ...

A topic that affects us all: family. Everyone has one, and each is different. Contributions from newspapers, academia, forums and blogs, together with literary texts, personal accounts and photographic works, open up a worldwide kaleidoscope of ...

An indispensable and authoritative work on the great Baroque architect

Radically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi’s art, this book publishes never-before-seen drawings, prints, photographs, performance scores, and poetry, spaninng five decades of her practice.  

One of the most outstanding male nudes from the Mannerist period – Giambologna’s bronze statuette Mars (ca. 1570) is among the most impressive depictions of the god of war. It unites ancient ideals with artistic innovation. This symbol ...

Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by sixteen artists who also tattoo, this richly illustrated book unpacks how the ethics, strategies, ...

Desire, eroticism, playing with gender – these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to the creative process, but rather as foundational. By approaching the art through a perspective of queer ...

The second volume from the “Art of the Lost Generation” Museum continues to explore artists who were excluded, persecuted, censored or driven into obscurity under the Nazi regime. As one of the era’s few remaining contemporary ...

The synagogue on Munich's Reichenbachstrasse, known as "Die Reichenbach," is one of the most valuable and rare testimonies to Jewish history. The last synagogue built in Germany before the Nazi era, it was designed in 1931 by ...

An exhibition highlight in book form: his magical universes are shown all over the world and are now coming to Munich. Miguel Chevalier (*1959) is one of the pioneers of virtual art. For his dazzling work, he uses the latest technologies including ...

The exhibition catalogue examines medieval art and European modernism together: Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz and other modern artists borrowed stylistic or thematic elements from the Gothic model, translating these motifs into a ...

Her love: playing with colour and form. Her approach: large-format image grounds cut with a milling machine that Ana Kostova (b. 1995) sands and paints by hand. Unique in technique, unique in effect – precise, brightly coloured, richly varied. ...

Influenced by “organic architecture”, Stephan Maria Lang creates beautiful ensembles of houses and gardens. Generous living spaces connected with nature, they become even more captivating over the years. Lang’s designs and ...

Carl Grossberg’s (1894–1940) painting career was bracketed by the two world wars. He drew his subject matter from “the enormous wealth of new forms in the world of technology,” recognizing both its potential and dangers. The ...

From egg tempera to chalk and oil paint, Janaina Tschäpe has mastered a style of painting that combines Nordic depth with supple, airborne line dancing. The author Doris von Drathen, an art historian specializing in Aby Warburg’s ...

A visually rich examination of how contemporary art, design, and culture have responded to Big Data and its outsized role in modern life. Inspired by the growing field of data visualization, Seeing the Unseeable focuses on the myriad issues and ...

In its feel, plasticity, luminosity and narrative quality, glass is a material like no other, captivating us with its immediacy. Artists such as Monica Bonvicini, Erwin Eisch, Carlos Garaicoa, Mona Hatoum, Shirazeh Houshiary, Laure Prouvost, Kiki ...

A book with bestseller potential – Edvard Munch, a key figure of European modernism, and one of his most important themes: angst. Everyone knows it and fears it – regardless of cultural and social background – yet ...