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Joan Jonas

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Tom Jacobi

Into the Light

Between Heaven and Earth, Between Light and Darkness

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Nina Schleif

Andy Warhol. Drag & Draw

The Unknown Fifties

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Ed. Donna Gustafson et al.

Subjective Objective

A Century of Social Photography

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Ed. Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek

Havana

Short Shadows

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Ed. Lisa Fischman

Christiane Baumgartner

Another Country

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Ed. Nicholas Bell et al.

John Grade
Reclaimed

John Grade’s drawings, sculptures and installations are weathered, marked, worn and disintegrated. Made of reclaimed wood or paper, the works are buried for termites to devour, sunk into a bay to collect barnacles, or hung in forest ...

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Maria Schneider

Alfred Haberpointner

Alfred Haberpointner (*1966 in Salzburg) is a sculptor of international repute. He became famous with his wooden sculptures, and he has subsequently expanded his work to include the used of materials like steel, lead and paper. This volume ...

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Ed. Stephan Koja et al.

Shadows of Time
Giambologna, Michelangelo and the Medici Chapel

Giambologna (1529–1606) is regarded as the most important European sculptor between Michelangelo and Bernini. How did he achieve this status? This volume investigates this question and examines above all Giambologna’s study of ...

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Ed. Nationalmuseum Oslo

Harald Sohlberg
Infinite Landscapes

Majestic and magical landscapes, the soft beauty of fields of flowers, the raw cold of winter: the works of Harald Sohlberg combine a Romantic perception of nature with a contemporary pictorial language akin to Symbolism. This volume ...

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Ed. Nationalmuseum Oslo

Harald Sohlberg
Uendelige Landskap

Majestic and magical landscapes, the soft beauty of fields of flowers, the raw cold of winter: the works of Harald Sohlberg combine a Romantic perception of nature with a contemporary pictorial language akin to Symbolism. This volume ...

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Ed. Dieter Buchhart et al.

Claude Monet
A Floating World

More than any other artist, Claude Monet represents Impressionist painting. This volume illustrates Monet’s career from Realism via Impressionism to a form of painting in which the colours and light gradually become detached from ...

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Ed. Lisa Fischman

Christiane Baumgartner
Another Country

Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country complements the artist’s first major museum exhibition in the U.S. and offers an in-depth introduction to the artist’s work at mid-career. Baumgartner is best known for monumental ...

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Peter van Ham

Alchi
Treasure of the Himalayas

The world-famous Buddhist monastery of Alchi lies at 3,500 metres in Ladakh (Northwest India) and is the best-preserved temple complex in the Himalayas. Inside it houses thousands of rare and incomparable paintings and sculptures dating back to ...

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Ed. Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek

Havana
Short Shadows

Havana triggers a wealth of images and projections in our mind’s eye. Beyond the clichés, the photographer Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek focuses her gaze on everyday life in Havana. Her photographs show life in the streets and the ...

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Ed. Nicole Fritz et al.

Almost Alive
Hyperrealistic Sculpture in Art

From the 1960s and 1970s onwards, different sculptors became involved with a mode of realism based on the physically lifelike appearance of the human body. By deploying traditional techniques of modelling, casting and painting ...

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Ed. Udo Kittelmann

Hello World
Revising a Collection

What could the primarily Western collection of the Nationalgalerie look like today if a global understanding of art had informed its development? Looking at artworks from non-European centres of Modernism and their activities, untold stories and ...

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Tom Jacobi

Into the Light
Between Heaven and Earth, Between Light and Darkness

Since earliest times the colour white has exerted a powerful fascination on Man for its purity, glistening brightness, magic and symbolism. Fascinated by the power of the colour white, Tom Jacobi travelled seven continents and ...

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Ed. Dorlis Blume et al.

Europe and the Sea

The history and culture of Europe has been decisively shaped by the exploration and use of the seas surrounding Europe. This catalogue book reflects the significance of the sea as a space of rule and trade for Europeans, as bridge and border, as ...

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Rupprecht Mayer

Bolihua
Chinese Reverse Glass Painting from The Mei-Lin Collection

In this publication the sinologist Rupprecht Mayer presents 143 Chinese reverse glass paintings from a private collection in southern Germany. Traditional motifs of happiness, scenes from plays and novels, landscapes, China’s entrance into ...

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Ed. Karl Borromäus Murr

Phoenix
Fashion Worlds of Stephan Hann

The inimitable fashions of Stephan Hann are produced from everyday materials like pages of telephone directories, Tetra-Pak cartons and plastic carrier bags. These materials are transformed by the artist’s hand into clothes which fascinate us ...

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Nina Schleif

Andy Warhol. Drag & Draw
The Unknown Fifties

This book highlights two series of little known drawings from the 1950's, drawings where Andy Warhol first explored the controversial and for him deeply personal subject of drag. His oeuvre during the first decade of his career, before he ...

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Ed. Dr. David Zemanek

African Art Of the Mack Collection

Like many great artists, Heinz Mack also found inspiration in African art. His artistic expeditions into the African desert and his encounters with the special light, the people and the architecture have continued to influence his art to this day. ...

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Ed. Assadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani

The World of the Fatimids

This survey in 14 essays of Fatimid art between the 10th and 12th centuries showcases the pottery, rock crystal, metalwork, textile, architectural, wood, and calligraphic creations of one of the most artistically inventive periods in Islamic ...

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Ed. Henriette Huldisch

Before Projection
Video Sculpture 1974 - 1995

Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974–1995 shines a spotlight on a body of work in the history of video art that has been largely overlooked since its inception. The exhibition explores connections between our current moment and ...

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Ed. Maria Santangelo

A Princely Pursuit
The Malcolm D. Gutter Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain

"A Princely Pursuit" highlights more than seventy pieces from the Meissen porcelain collection of Malcolm D. Gutter. Promised to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the collection’s roughly 170 works focus on exemplary early ...

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Wolfgang Jean Stock

Rudolf Schwarz
Church Architecture

The German architect Rudolf Schwarz (1897–1961) numbers among the leading masters of church architecture in the 20th century. Inspired by the Catholic Youth Movement, he has designed over 40 religious buildings since 1924. His oeuvre includes ...

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Ed. Nicole Gnesa et al.

Uta Reinhardt
Surface

Uta Reinhardt’s pictorial creations invite a wide range of interpretations. Human and animal chimeras encounter each other as in an alliance and create their own unique world. The scenic compositions seduce us with their lively colours and ...

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Corinna Thierolf

Willem de Kooning

In 1926 22 year-old Dutch artist Willem de Kooning (1904–1997) travelled to the USA on a British freighter – without papers and hidden in the machine room. The young art student eked out a living by painting houses, signs and ...

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Ursula von Rydingsvard
The Contour of Feeling

This publication documents Ursula von Rydingsvard’s exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, which features a large new leather work produced with the museum’s studio. The survey — guest curated by Mark ...

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Ed. HL Museumsverwaltung

Museum Liaunig
An Austrian Collector’s Museum

Fully integrated into the nature of the Corinthian countryside, the Museum Liaunig is at once restrained and spectacular. An outstanding example of contemporary museum architecture, it creates spaces for the Liaunig collections whose focus is on ...

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Ed. Sarah Lees

Innovative Impressions
Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro

"Innovative Impressions" explores an under-examined aspect of three Impressionists’ careers: their groundbreaking prints and the new techniques they developed through collaboration and experimentation. In 1879, Mary Cassatt, Edgar ...

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Ed. Andreas Braun

BMW i
Visionary Mobility

Electro-mobility is the number one topic when it comes to our mobility in the future. What does the vision of BMW, Germany’s main pioneer in the field, look like? For the first time providing extensive insight into BMW’s workshop of ...

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Stefan Kutzenberger et al.

Koloman Moser

Admired by contemporaries as an artistic “jack-of-all-trades”, Koloman Moser (1868–1918) is regarded today as one of the most important representatives of the Viennese Secession of around 1900. As a graphic artist and designer ...

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Ed. Alexander Klee et al.

Beyond Klimt
New Horizons in Central Europe

1918 marked the end of a golden era: it was the year that Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser, and Otto Wagner died. Artistic activity, however, had already freed itself of their influence. Hardly affected by the political disruptions taking ...

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Ed. Jürgen B. Tesch

Gerhard Berger
Between Worlds

In decades of artistic production Gerhard Berger (born in 1933) has arrived at a unique, characteristic visual language. His representation of humans, oscillating between figurative and abstract painting, is rooted in the great myths of humankind ...

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Wolfgang Meisenheimer

Marcel Chassot
Architecture and Photography — Amazement as Visual Culture

Assembling buildings designed by modern star architects from Tadao Andō to Peter Zumthor, this photography book is a total-work-of-art: its felicitous interplay of brilliant architectural photography, exquisite book design, and texts approaching ...

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Diethard Leopold

Rudolf Leopold
Connoisseur | Collector | Museum Founder

In the historical period of new beginnings starting in the 1950s, the collector Rudolf Leopold (1925‒2010), with pioneer-like foresight and a keen sense of art, was able to do someting few others of his ilk succeeded in doing: build up a ...

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Ed. Hall Art Foundation

Landscapes After Ruskin
Redefining the Sublime

John Ruskin was an influential English art critic and social thinker of the Victorian era, who famously argued that the principal concern of the artist is “truth to nature.” For Ruskin, this truth entailed more than merely adept ...

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Ed. Niels Lehmann et al.

Fragments of Metropolis Berlin
Expressionist Heritage in Berlin

Fresh from their success with "Modernism London Style", hailed by The Financial Times on 29.6.13 as 'this gorgeous photographic survey', photographer Niels Lehmann and editor Christoph Rauhut present their latest exciting ...

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Ed. Iris Belle et al.

Singapore´s Building Stock
Approaches to a multi-scale documentation and analysis of transformations

Singapore is rejuvenating and transforming her building stock constantly and in comparatively short cycles. The book analyses these transformations of the global city and shows documents, plans and sources dating from the past two centuries.

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Ed. Hannelore Fischer

Käthe Kollwitz
A survey of her work 1867 - 1945

“I want to have an effect during this age in which people are so perplexed and in need of help.” This sentence, a diary entry from 1922, is the creed of a great artist. It is as topical today as it was then. Käthe ...

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Ed. Manuela Beer et al.

Museum Schnütgen
The Guide to the Collection

The new guide to the collection of the Museum Schnütgen offers a compact, chronological overview of the internationally famous, high-quality and multi-faceted collection of the museum. The volume presents some 250 works from the various ...

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Ulrich Luckhardt

Lyonel Feininger

Elegant sailing ships, expansive seascapes, crystal-clear spread-out 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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Ed. Thomas Zuhr

All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer Publishers

This attractively designed publication documents the work of Hirmer Verlag during the past 65 years. Since 1948 a total of over 1,100 titles have appeared under this brand name. True to the motto “Art books that set standards,” the ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten

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. Bernd Ebert et al.

Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows ...

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Alexandra Palmer

Christian Dior
History and Modernity, 1947-1957

Arguably the most famous fashion designer of the 20th century, Christian Dior’s feminine fashions were desired, worn, and emulated by women around the world. This new publication by ROM Press explores the brilliance behind Dior’s ...

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Ed. Gaëlle Morel

True to the Eyes
The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection

This catalogue presents more than 200 photographs from the eclectic and exceptional collection of Howard and Carole Tanenbaum. Spanning the history of the medium, this richly illustrated book reveals a deeply personal and socially aware approach to ...

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Ed. Patricia Frick et al.

Lacquer Friends of the World

Monika Kopplin is leaving and going into retirement after almost thirty years as the Director of the Museum for Lacquer Art. She has contributed in no small measure to the international reputation of the institution. To mark the occasion, the ...

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Riccardo Naldi

Magnificence of Marble
Bartolomé Ordóñez and Diego de Silóe

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. During the period between 1513 and 1518, Bartolomé Ordóñez and Diego de ...

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Eran Shakine

Eran Shakine
Graffiti Girl

The Israeli artist Eran Shakine is known for his cryptic, minimal drawings. His primary motif is the Graffiti Girl, which he has repeatedly painted, drawn, sprayed, and shaped for over a decade now. The publication exposes for the first ...

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Ed. Sara Reisman

The Supper Club
By Elia Alba

Elia Alba’s The Supper Club photographic portrait series depicts U.S.-based artists of colour. Alongside the portraits are excerpts from dinner conversations addressing issues that relate to race and visual culture on themes ...

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Ibrahim Mohamed Jaidah

Qatari Style
Unexpected Interiors

Qatari Style investigates the architectural identity of Qatar, which celebrates the warmth and hospitality of the Middle East. The selected interiors are pioneering examples of how new and foreign influences can be absorbed harmoniously into the ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten
Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1907-1938

The 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 ...

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Ed. Karin Althaus et al.

World Receivers
Georgiana Houghton - Hilma af Klint - Emma Kunz

Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814–1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz (1892–1963) in Switzerland ...

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Ed. Niels Lehmann et al.

Fragments of Metropolis - East | Osten
The Expressionist Heritage in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia

The Architecture of Expressionism is the upheaval of architecture in the roaring twenties – with regionally different emphases, schools and protagonists. The series’ third volume documents all surviving buildings in Poland, the Czech ...

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Ed. Philipp Demandt et al.

King of the Animals
Wilhelm Kuhnert and the Image of Africa

Wilhelm Kuhnert was a pioneer. He was one of the first European artists to travel to the largely unexplored savannahs and jungles of the German colonies in North and East Africa. Under hazardous conditions he documented at close quarters the ...

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Ed. Hermann Mayer et al.

James Loeb
Sammler und Mäzen in München, Murnau und weltweit / Collector and Patron in Munich, Murnau and Beyond

James Loeb (1867–1933), the son of a German-Jewish banker in New York, followed his artistic and art historical inclinations and used his tremendous financial wealth for the purpose of cultural and social philanthropism. This publication ...

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Ed. Kerstin Jesse et al.

Egon Schiele
Pathways to a Collection

2018 marks the centenary of Egon Schiele’s death. To coincide with this occasion the publication will present the painting collection of the Belvedere Vienna including highlights such as Eduard Kosmack, House Wall, Death and Girl, ...

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Ed. Andreas Schumacher

Florence and its Painters
From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci

Painting re-invented itself during the 15th century in Florence. Artists experimented in an innovative manner with pictorial subjects, forms and techniques and thus arrived at an unprecedented diversity of means of artistic expression. ...

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Ed. Robert Ferry et al.

Energy Overlays
Land Art Generator Initiative

Energy Overlays provides a glimpse into our post-carbon future where energy infrastructure is seamlessly woven into the fabric of our cities as works of public art. Fifty designs use a variety of renewable energy technologies to arrive at ...

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Yigal Gawze

Form and Light
From Bauhaus to Tel Aviv

"Yigal Gawze’s photographs capture the abstraction, the simplicity and the optimism of early modernism in Tel Aviv. He distils the essence of the Bauhaus to bring it alive in a modern city and concentrates on the subtle effects ...

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Ed. Pieter Bisboer et al.

Frans Hals
A Familiy Reunion

Frans Hals (1582/83–1666) is one of the foremost portrait painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This exhibition is the first devoted to his family group portraiture. The show and the catalogue unite all of his four family portraits ...

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Ed. Ina Ewers-Schultz et al.

Tailored For Freedom
The Artistic Dress in 1900 in Fashion, Art, and Society

Seen as an expression of individuality and personality, fashion around 1900 became a synonym for the physical and social emancipation of women and progressed to become an object of artistic interest. The clothes designs of famous artists like ...

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Ed. Kathrin Beßen et al.

Cao Fei

The artist Cao Fei (* 1978) lives in Beijing. In her work she makes use of the latest digital media. Her projects lie on the threshold between reality and fiction and reflect the societal and urban situation in China. The videos, photographs, ...

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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. Dieter Castenow et al.

Cars - Driven by Design
Sports Cars from the 1950s to 1970s

The sports cars of the 1950s to the 1970s are fast, beautiful, eccentric and innovative. In recent decades these automobiles not only became coveted collector’s items; they also enjoy cult status. In an exciting journey through time ...

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Ed. Roland Enke et al.

“The most beautiful pastel ever seen”
The Chocolate Girl by Jean-Étienne Liotard in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie

The Chocolate Girl is one of the most famous works by the Swiss artist Jean-Étienne Liotard. This richly illustrated volume leads the reader through the age in which it was created during the French-inspired Rococo and into the Vienna of ...

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Ed. Heinz Kress et al.

Japan in miniature
A Gift of Inrō, Ojime und Netsuke

The private collection of 80 inrō, ojime and netsuke presented here was donated to the Museum for Lacquer Art in 2017. The wealth of objects reproduces plants and animals with symbolic significance, literary subjects, historical scenes and famous ...

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Ed. Jon Knowles et al.

LIBRE DHC / ART

DHC/ART LIBRE tells the story of a contemporary art foundation unlike any other. Situated in the cosmopolitan city of Montreal, DHC/ART – as well as this publication – is dedicated to bringing impactful experiences with contemporary art ...

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Ed. Jon Knowles et al.

LIBRE DHC / ART

DHC/ART LIBRE tells the story of a contemporary art foundation unlike any other. Situated in the cosmopolitan city of Montreal, DHC/ART – as well as this publication – is dedicated to bringing impactful experiences with contemporary art ...

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Built up towards the Light
John Pawson´s Redesign of the Moritzkirche in Augsburg

The interior of the Church of St Moritz in Augsburg is characterised by “arches that seem to have been carved of light”. The building is almost 1,000 years old and its redesign in 2013 by the architect John Pawson has won a number of awards. ...

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Ed. Deutsche Bundesbank et al.

Germany's Gold

How did Germany’s gold reserves arise and which role has gold played as a currency across the centuries? What significance did gold reserves have then and what is its role today? In this book the gold reserves of the Bundesbank are vividly ...

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Wolfgang Jean Stock

Hans Döllgast
Creative Reconstruction

The Bavarian architect Hans Döllgast (1891–1974) was accepted into the international canon of modern architecture quite late, but then remained a part of it all the longer. His most important achievements after 1945 were the ...

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Ed. Oliver Kase

Paul Klee
Construction of Mystery

This opulent volume on Paul Klee celebrates one of the most important and productive artists of the twentieth century, whose work is as topical today as it ever was: growing out of the inner conflict of modern man, Klee’s imaginative works ...

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