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Ed. Alexander Eiling et al.

MAKING VAN GOGH

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Cover for Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

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Adriana Proser

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon

Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society

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Hans-Michael Koetzle

László Moholy-Nagy

The Great Masters of Art

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Ed. Henriette Huldisch

Ericka Beckman

Double Reverse

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Ed. Andreas Hoffer et al.

Adrian Paci

Lost Communities

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Ed. Dieter Buchhart et al.

Basquiat by Himself

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Ed. Angela Lammert et al.

John Heartfield
Photography plus Dynamite

The political collages of John Heartfield (1891–1968) have earned him a reputation as one of the most innovative graphic artists of the Weimar Republic. His photomontages and book covers based on collages which had their origins in ...

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Ed. Jürgen B. Tesch

Heinrich Knopf
Iron Society

The artist Heinrich Knopf (* 1949) lives in Munich and at Lake Garda. Even in his youth he focused on the transformation of iron, one of the oldest materials used in art. His sculptures radiate lightness and movement and invite the viewer to a ...

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Ed. Gannit Ankori et al.

Frida Kahlo and San Francisco
Constructing Her Identity

This book marks the triumphant return of Frida Kahlo to San Francisco, the city where her artistic life began to unfold. Kahlo’s sojourns to the United States were brief, but formative. It was in the California city – the first she ...

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Hans-Michael Koetzle

László Moholy-Nagy
The Great Masters of Art

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher and founder of the “New Bauhaus” and the “School of Design” in Chicago, is one of the most important artist personalities of the modern age. ...

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Isabel Schulz

Kurt Schwitters
Merz Art

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is one of the most influential protagonists of the avant-garde, both as an artist and an author. With his utopia of the total Merz vision of the world he aimed at the unification of art and non-art. The art of ...

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Frank Laukötter

Paula Modersohn-Becker
The Great Masters of Art

When Paula Modersohn-Becker’s artist friends examined her extensive estate a few weeks after her death, they were overwhelmed. They only gradually realised that in the painter, who had died so young, they had had an outstanding artist in ...

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Ed. Wilfried Rogasch

Alfons Mucha
The Great Masters of Art

At the beginning of the twentieth century, when Alfons Mucha went to the United States for four years as a lecturer, the world-famous poster designer, Art-Nouveau book illustrator, designer, photographer and painter was greeted with enthusiasm. ...

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Esther Shakine

Exodus
Graphic Novel

EXODUS tells the true story of a Jewish girl from Hungary. After her parents were abducted by the Nazis, she and other orphaned children were forced to shift for themselves amid the total destruction throughout the country. In 1947 she found a ...

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Ed. Ina Fuchs et al.

Juul Kraijer
Zweiheit / Twoness

The publication provides an overview of the fascinating work of the contemporary Dutch artist Juul Kraijer. Her monumental drawings, photographs, sculptures and video works sound out and dissolve the boundaries of the human body and show hybrid ...

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Ed. Matthias Frehner et al.

Van Gogh, Cézanne, Matisse, Hodler
The Hahnloser Collection

The Hahnloser Collection was created in the early twentieth century in close friendly exchange between the collectors Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler and their famous artist friends. The publication presents some 120 works providing an ...

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Ed. Ingrid Pfeiffer

Fantastic Women
Surreal Worlds from Meret Oppenheim to Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was just one of them: between 1930 and the 1960s many more women artists contributed to the Surrealist movement than has hitherto been assumed. The male Surrealists surrounding André Breton mostly saw them only as partners or ...

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Ed. Meredith Malone

Multiplied
Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965

In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiples – three-dimensional objects issued in edition – to be broadly distributed. With a radical emphasis on multiplication and movement, Edition MAT (Multiplication ...

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Oscar Gardea Duarte et al.

Teresa Margolles
En la herida

Teresa Margolles abstracts the subject of terror: she extracts the body into abstract forms which are manifest in fired bricks or in mud, water and blood-soaked cloths. They form a memorial to the victims of the Mexican drug wars and the waves of ...

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Adriana Proser

Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon
Masterworks from the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society

"Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon" presents sixty-seven masterpieces collected by John D. Rockefeller 3rd and his wife Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller. Illuminating the cultures and history of Asia, the book presents a magnificent ...

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Ed. Bettina Baumgärtel

Angelica Kauffman

Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) is regarded as the first woman artist of European standing. Well educated and very well connected, she enjoyed an international reputation. She pursued a brilliant career and was one of the outstanding artist ...

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Ed. Henriette Huldisch

Ericka Beckman
Double Reverse

Since the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, Hampstead, NY) has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. Often shot against black, spatially ambiguous back drops, her moving image works are structured ...

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Ed. Dieter Ronte

Helmut Schober
Vortex

The painter and performance artist Helmut Schober (* 1947) is famous internationally. For some 40 years he has devoted his attention to the vortex and its trans-cultural content. Over the decades the vortex has remained a constant in his ...

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Ed. Lynn Gumpert et al.

Taking Shape
Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s

Taking Shape traces the emergence and development of abstraction in the Arab world through paintings and sculpture dating from the 1950s to the 1980s. Drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah (UAE), this book features ...

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Ed. Mamuka Bliadze et al.

Natela Iankoshvili
An Artist's Life between Coersion and Freedom

Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she spent her entire life in Georgia. The career of the prize-winning artist was crowned in 2000 with the opening of ...

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Ed. Andreas Hoffer et al.

Adrian Paci
Lost Communities

Emigration, being lost in a strange world, the search for a new identity and longing for things and people that have been lost form the central topics in the work of the Albanian artist Adrian Paci. The volume presents his iconic works which have ...

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Ed. Kerstin Richter

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Miracle in the Snow
Collection Oskar Reinhart "Am Römerholz" Winterthur

It is snowing! Attention centres on the first painting in European art with falling snowflakes, The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Flemish artist revolutionised painting: new technological investigations attempt ...

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Ed. Hilti Art Foundation

Hilti Art Foundation. The Collection
Vol. 1: Classical Modernism 1880-1950

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 1 of the two-part catalogue of the collection presents 80 selected works ...

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Ed. Finbarr Barry Flood

There Where You Are Not
Selected Writings of Kamal Boullata

There Where You Are Not brings together the writings of celebrated Palestinian artist and theorist Kamal Boullata. Produced over four decades of exile in Europe, North Africa, and the United States, the essays explore intersections between ...

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Ed. Burcu Dogramaci

Uninterrupted Fugue
Art by Kamal Boullata

Uninterrupted Fugue features a selection of critical essays about the art of Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata. Written by leading scholars and appearing for the first time in a single volume, this range of analytical perspectives on art and exile, ...

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Enrique Xavier de Anda Alanís et al.

The Whole World a Bauhaus

The whole world a Bauhaus? The publication accompanying the worldwide exhibition series takes the quotation of the former Bauhaus student and subsequent university teacher Fritz Kuhr as a starting point for reflections on the Bauhaus not only as a ...

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