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Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Textures

The History and Art of Black Hair

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Ed. Gloria Köpnick

Hin Bredendieck

From Aurich to Atlanta

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Isabel Schulz

Kurt Schwitters

Merz Art

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Ed. Annick Haldemann et al.

Rethinking Kirchner

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Ed. Annegret Laabs

Max Uhlig

Die Fenster der Johanniskirche / The Windows of the St. Johannis Church

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Ed. Christian Alandete et al.

Alberto Giacometti

Face to Face

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Ed. Wiebke Steinmetz et al.

Ruth Baumgarte
Werde, die du bist! Lebenskunst / Become Who You Are! The Art of Living

During a period of radical change, Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) created an artistic oeuvre in which humankind and its fragile existence form the main area of focus. This volume introduces her as a passionate creator of drawings, a versatile ...

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Ed. Annick Haldemann et al.

Rethinking Kirchner

A major conference was held in 2018 in Davos, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s elective home, to mark the 80th anniversary of the artist’s death. The lavishly illustrated volume accompanying the event brings together international experts who ...

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Ed. Cheryl Sim

Relations
Diaspora and Painting / La diaspora et la peinture

This richly illustrated volume explores the multiple and evolving meanings of diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed through painting. The book, based on an exhibition held at the Phi Foundation brings together artists who ...

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Ed. Ingo Clauß

Elina Brotherus
Why not?

Diary-like series, landscape photos and situational mood pictures – Elina Brotherus (*1972 in Helsinki) is constantly searching for new possibilities in photography. This lavishly illustrated volume with related essays pursues the latest ...

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Ed. David Evans Frantz et al.

Gerald Clarke
Falling Rock

This survey brings together three decades of work by contemporary Native American artist Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla). Utilising wit and humour to expose historical and present-day injustice, Clarke brings a decolonial perspective to urgent cultural ...

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Xenia Hausner
True Lies

Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early paintings of the 1990s up to her moving Exiles series, ...

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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. Christian Alandete et al.

Alberto Giacometti
Face to Face

Alberto Giacometti forged a singular path within European Modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as a “double of reality”. Presenting some 100 sculptures and paintings, the publication tracks the evolution of ...

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Ed. Rafael Jablonka et al.

My Generation
The Jablonka Collection

The Jablonka Collection is regarded as one of the highest-profile holdings of American and German art of the 1980s. In this catalogue the art dealer, gallerist and curator Rafael Jablonka (*1951) provides for the first time an insight into his ...

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Ed. Pia Dornacher et al.

Helmut Sturm
Subverting the Real

Helmut Sturm’s paintings radiate powerful colours and forms, yet are simultaneously both lyrically tender and poetical. He developed his individual pictorial language in a study of Cubism and Art "Informel" as well as artists like ...

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Ed. Annegret Laabs

Max Uhlig
Die Fenster der Johanniskirche / The Windows of the St. Johannis Church

The Dresden artist Max Uhlig (*1937) created one of the greatest window cycles of contemporary art for the Gothic Church of Saint John in Magdeburg. Vines and coloured foliage together with lines in expressive rhythms which are a revelation in ...

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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. Hilti Art Foundation

Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection
Vol. 2: Art from 1950 to the Present Day

The private art collection of the Hilti Art Foundation includes over 200 top-quality paintings, sculptures and photographs from Classical Modernism to the present day. Volume 2 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 120 selected works ...

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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. The Shooting
By Abe Frajndlich

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 ...

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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. Markus Heinsdorff

Markus Heinsdorff
static + dynamic

The book presents the installation artist Markus Heinsdorff’s continuing study of the topics of space, the forces of nature and upcycling by means of over 40 works. The overview is completed by text contributions by famous authors who ...

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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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Wilhelm Hausenstein

Kairouan
Or how Paul Klee became a Painter

The impressions which Paul Klee collected on his journey to Tunisia in 1914, and especially to the city of Kairouan, were of fundamental significance: »Colour and I are one. I am a painter.« A few years later, in 1921, Wilhelm ...

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Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung

Ann Wolff
The Early Drawings - Frühe Zeichnungen (1981-1988)

The German-Swedish artist Ann Wolff is a pioneer of the studio glass movement in Europe. Born in Lübeck in 1937, she has achieved international fame for her sculptures which mainly use the material glass, but she has always drawn as well.This ...

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Ed. Ralph Gleis

Decadence and Dark Dreams
Belgian Symbolism

Sensuousness, magic, a profound momentousness and irrationality are the hallmarks of the new art movement of Belgian Symbolism, which emerged during the 1880s. From Georg Minne and Félicien Rops to Fernand Khnopff and James Ensor, the portraits, ...

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