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Christian Dior

History and Modernity, 1947-1957

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Meike Hoffmann et al.

Escape into Art?

The Brücke Painters in the Nazi Period

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Outsider & Vernacular Art

The Victor F. Keen Collection

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Florian Strob

Bauhaus Dessau

Architecture

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Yigal Gawze

Form and Light

From Bauhaus to Tel Aviv

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Ed. Gonzalo Casals et al.

Queer Holdings

A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection

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Ed. Amanda Gilvin

Fatimah Tuggar
Home's Horizons

Renowned for work that layers binary code with handmade craft, Fatimah Tuggar is one of the most original, incisive conceptual artists of the digital age. Tuggar’s sculptures, photomontages, videos, and interactive works challenge ...

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Leslie Erganian et al.

New West

Few regions have undergone a more rapid and radical development than the American West in the mid-twentieth century. The modern infrastructure, technical innovations, spectacular architecture and new leisure activities have been recorded on ...

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Ed. Lynn Gumpert

Modernisms
Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection

Modernisms explores art from the 1960s and early ’70s from Iran, Turkey, and India via selections from an unparalleled collection at New York University. Featuring new scholar ship and seminal essays, this book also illustrates paintings, ...

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Wolfgang Pehnt

Egon Eiermann
Deutsche Olivetti. Frankfurt am Main

The ensemble with its prominent twin towers that Egon Eiermann (1904–1970) built in Frankfurt am Main for the Italian office machinery company Olivetti, was the Karlsruhe architect’s last major project. His priorities lay in the slender ...

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Ed. Kunstmuseum Luzern

Turner - The Sea and the Alps

Extensive journeys in Britain and continental Europe provided an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the visionary colour compositions of J. M. William Turner. In Switzerland he experienced the beauty and menace of the Alps, and by the sea the ...

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Outsider & Vernacular Art
The Victor F. Keen Collection

In the last five decades the popularity of outsider art – works by artists working outside of the art establishment – has grown exponentially. Museums, galleries, and the public worldwide have embraced these powerful works. Victor ...

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Carla Schulz-Hoffmann

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz's various creative phases are exemplified by 31 of his masterpieces that are held within the Bavarian State Painting Collections. The volume analyses for the first time these important paintings and sculptures within the ...

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Ed. Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems

Franz Hauer
Self-made Man and Art Collector

The book is dedicated to legendary Viennese art collector Franz Hauer. The son of a mailman from Lower Austria became one of the key figures of his time. Franz Hauer started out penniless, became an exemplary self-made man, and built an art ...

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Ed. Achim Sommer

Joana Vasconcelos
Maximal

The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (*1971) is famous internationally for her three-dimensional works, in which she explores the boundaries between tradition and modernism, high and everyday culture, craftsmanship and industrial production in a ...

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Ed. Gonzalo Casals et al.

Queer Holdings
A Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection

Founded in the context of social movements of the late 1960s, The Leslie-Lohman Museum is dedicated to preserving art that speaks to the LGBTQ experience and fostering the artists who create it. Queer Holdings aims to reclaim scholarship from a ...

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Ed. Elsy Lahner et al.

Nitsch
Spaces of Color

Hermann Nitsch produced his first “poured” paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the artist is primarily concerned with the substance of the paint, which he investigates from one Painting Action to the next. This ...

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Ed. Ralph Gleis

Gustave Caillebotte
Painter and Patron of Impressionism

The painting Paris Street, Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) is an icon of Impressionism.This volume presents the work in the context of Caillebotte’s innovative artistic work, introducing him as a driving force in the ...

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Ed. Frank Vorpahl

Georg Forster
The South Seas at Wörlitz

At the age of seventeen Georg Forster embark ed on a voyage around the world with the famous Captain James Cook. Shortly after his return in 1775 the explorer met the open-minded Prince Franz of Dessau and his consort Louise in London.They returned ...

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Meike Hoffmann et al.

Escape into Art?
The Brücke Painters in the Nazi Period

Based on the extensive stocks of the Brücke-Museum, the publication discusses in detail the everyday reality of the artists under the National Socialists. The measures carried out against the former “Brücke” members as a ...

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Ed. Ute Ackermann et al.

Bauhaus Museum Weimar
The Bauhaus Comes from Weimar

The Bauhaus originated in Weimar and returns to a new building there in the spring of 2019. In the newly built Bauhaus Museum Weimar the treasures of the world’s oldest Bauhaus collection will be shown as an ensemble. This volume does not ...

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Ed. Anke Blümm et al.

Haus am Horn
Bauhaus Architecture in Weimar

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Ed. Thomas Föhl et al.

Neues Museum Weimar
Van de Velde, Nietzsche and Modernism around 1900

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Ed. Antonia Hoerschelmann et al.

Maria Lassnig
Ways of Being

This volume gathers together paintings, drawings, films, and sculptures by Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) from a creative career that spanned some seventy years. It explains how she thought of herself in relation to the art scene of her time. This ...

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Ed. Bettina Zorn

The Elegance of Hosokawa
Tradition of a Samurai Family

Members of the Daimyō Hosokawa family served the shogun from the Muromachi Period (1333–1568) as samurai. But the Hosokawa achieved fame not only for their success as warriors. As patrons of the arts and artists across the centuries, they ...

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Florian Strob

Bauhaus Dessau
Architecture

“Art and technology: a new unit” – It was with this slogan that the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925/26. The seven years in Dessau were most productive for the designers and architects at the Bauhaus. This illustrated volume ...

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Ed. Christian Briend et al.

The Cubist Cosmos
From Picasso to Léger

This volume unfolds the development of Cubism between 1907 and 1917. It conveys the moment’s enormous stylistic range and its revolutionary potential for the art that would follow during the twentieth century. It also presents as part of the ...

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Ulrich Luckhardt

Lyonel Feininger
Great Masters in Art

Elegant sailing ships, expansive seascapes, crystal-clear expansive views of architecture – with his unique pictorial language and range of subjects Lyonel Feininger became one of the most important artists of Classic Modernism, whose works ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten
Great Masters in Art

When the State Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1918, the Swiss artist and art theorist Johannes Itten (1888–1967) was one of the first teachers to be appointed by Walter Gropius. With his preliminary course Itten had a considerable effect on the ...

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Ed. Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung, Wiesbaden

Dazzled by Color
Abstract Painting. The Reinhard Ernst Collection

The broad spectrum of abstract-expressive art during the post-war period in Europe, Japan, and the United States is reflected in the Wiesbaden collection of Reinhard Ernst. For the first time a selection of 160 outstanding works from the collection ...

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Brigitte Salmen

Marianne von Werefkin
Great Masters in Art

She was not only a talented artist but also a shrewd free thinker and hostess: at the beginning of the twentieth century famous artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Alfred Kubin, Adolf Erbslöh, Erma Bossi, Franz Marc and ...

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