Review
The artists turn away from narratives of containment, in search of what the archives fail to remember.
Hyperallergic
Review
The catalogue explores the efforts by the Pakistani-American artist to bring the aesthetic of centuries-old Indo-Persian manuscripts into dialogue with contemporary art and Western art history.
The Wall Street Journal
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Captivating catalogue of mixed-media design.
New York Times
Newest publications
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newEd. 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 ... -
newEd. Magdalena Broska et al.
Adolf Luther
Licht LightLight and space, transparency and beauty were the ideals in the art of Adolf Luther (1912–1990). More than many another artist, his numerous light integrations and optically fascinating concave-mirror objects left their mark on the reality ... -
newEd. Sergio Risalti et al.
Wolfgang Laib in Florence
Without Time – Without Place – Without BodyIn 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents ... -
newEd. Sergio Risalti et al.
Wolfgang Laib a Firenze
Without Time – Without Place – Without BodyIn 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents ... -
newBarbara 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 ... -
newChristoph 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 ... -
newEd. 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 ... -
newEd. Patrice Giasson
Nicolás De Jesús
A Mexican Artist for Global JusticeWell-known for his etchings on bark paper featuring dazzling skeleton-characters working, celebrating, walking the streets, or crossing borders, Nicolás De Jesús’s political commitment is also expressed through powerful ... -
newEd. George Bolster et al.
An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art
The Shelley & Donald Rubin FoundationThe two volume publication "An Incomplete Archive of Activist Art" reflects on the Rubin Foundation’s art and social justice initiative over the last six years, including thematic essays, round-table discussions, newly commissioned ... -
newPeter Reuss et al.
Jürgen Schilling
Natur der Landschaft / Nature du paysage / Nature of LandscapeFor the past forty years, Jürgen Schilling (b. 1954) has been drawing the landscape of southern France. The art historian Wilhelm Schlink has accompanied his career from the beginning as a friend and collaborative thinker. Schlink describes in ... -
newEd. 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 ... -
newScott 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 ... -
newEd. 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 ... -
newEd. Nicole Gnesa
EVA & ADELE
Keep the Rosy Wing StrongEVA & ADELE’s work finds its raison d’être in their permanent, lifelong performance which takes place worldwide throughout the public space. The work group CUM (lat. WITH) is the essence of the interactive process. It was ... -
newEd. Frank Feltens et al.
Sesson Shūkei
A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval JapanThree essays by leading scholars in the field of Japanese art explore Sesson Shūkei’s unique life and unconventional painting style, as well as how scholarly perceptions of the artist have changed over time. Fifty-three entries highlight ... -
newEd. Robert Ferry et al.
Land Art of the 21st Century
Land Art Generator Initiative at Fly Ranch"Land Art of the 21st Century" explores how innovation and creativity are contributing to the sustainable infrastructures that will bring human culture into harmony with the Earth’s natural systems. The canvas is Fly Ranch, Nevada. ... -
newEd. David Lamelas et al.
Plotting narratives that blur the line between fact and fiction, David Lamelas is a pioneering figure of conceptual art. "Life as Activity: David Lamelas" draws vivid connections within the artist’s multifaceted practice, and ... -
newEd. Gonzalo Casals
Tamara Kostianovsky
Rapacious BeautyLatinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky began using her discarded clothes as artistic material shortly after immigrating to the United States, addressing cultural and physical displacement, assimilation and identity, and the brutal history of Latin America. ... -
newEd. Susanne Gaensheimer et al.
Using collage and montage as a medium and always in connection with his own biography, Marcel Odenbach investigates politically and culturally relevant topics of his time, such as for example the process of coming to terms with Nazi crimes, ... -
newEd. Gean Moreno
Tomás Esson
The Goat"The GOAT" is the first monograph of Afro-Cuban artist Tomás Esson. It features paintings created over a span of thirty-five years and showcases a distinct style that overflows with energy, biting humour and suggestive narratives ... -
newPavel Odvody
PhotographyThe black and white photographs by Pavel Odvody (*1953) fuse sensibility, memory and fantasy in an original manner. His exploration of the psyche, beyond the body, is what gets under the observer’s skin. Moments of nakedness, staged in ... -
newEd. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden et al.
Dreams of Freedom
Romanticism in Russia and GermanyCaspar David Friedrich and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov are the most important artists of the Romantic era in their native countries of Germany and Russia. At the centre of this opulent book are night scenes and moonlit landscapes, views of Dresden ... -
newEd. Ingrid Pfeiffer
No other artist of Classical Modernism has achieved a similar mythical status to that of Paula Modersohn-Becker. At the same time, the view of her work is often distorted by clichés. This comprehensive publication pays particular attention ... -
newEd. Martin Schwander
Édouard Vuillard
Im Louvre - Bilder für eine Basler Villa / In the Louvre – Paintings for a Basel VillaIn 1921/22 Édouard Vuillard created a cycle of six paintings for the entrance hall of the Villa Bauer in Basel. Four large-format pictures show exhibition rooms in the Louvre from Antiquity to French Rococo painting. Two sopraporte ... -
newEd. Holger Kube Ventura et al.
Gianni Caravaggio
When Nature was Young - Als Natur jung warThe perception of nature and landscape is a central theme for the Italian artist Gianni Caravaggio (b. 1968). His poetic sculptures and installations aim to arouse in the viewer the memory of feelings evoked by the experience of nature and focus on ...