Painting

Future Ruins explores the cutting-edge vision of Chris Dorland in his debut monograph, the definitive introduction to the acclaimed artist’s dystopian digital aesthetic: a fusion of digital media and painting, exploring themes of technological decay and post-capitalist aesthetics.

Since the late 1960s, Anselm Kiefer has made art that explores the profound depths of human history. For his first American retrospective in twenty years, he takes the river as a metaphor for the flux of life and passage of time. Breathtaking new landscapes join iconic works to celebrate the achievements of his nearly sixty-year career.    

Around eighty works from all Max Beckmann’s creative phases reveal him as an idiosyncratic interpreter of the world. Drawing was existential for him as an artist: with pencil, chalk, pen and pastel he collected motifs, searched for new formal solutions and pictorial inventions, developed multi-layered compositions and shaped his worldview. In the cosmos of his drawings we get to know Beckmann anew.  

An extraordinary artistic response to the work of Otto Dix. In his series Hundert (Hundred), Ruprecht von Kaufmann explores the themes and aesthetic language of the German modernist master through more than thirty paintings, most of them at a large scale and employing a wide range of approaches. Richly illustrated with detailed reproductions and installation views, and accompanied by accessible, incisive texts, the book invites readers on an ...

Book art at its finest! This volume presents a distinguished French Gothic prayer book in a lavish and playful light. The breviary’s illuminated texts are marvellously executed: cheerful and whimsical motifs with tiny figures and bustling creatures enliven the manuscript pages, shown here as part of a dedicated monograph. Large reproductions and numerous details celebrate the imaginative decorative art that makes leafing through the book a delight.

Three hundred works from twenty-one countries form a European panorama of the many facets of realism in art that were ubiquitous in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. They tell of poverty and misery, economic upheaval, artistic flourishing and progress, urban culture, nightlife, emancipation and diversity.  

Viewing mannerism in the 21st century: The publication presents highlights from the print collection of Georg Baselitz, one of today’s most celebrated artists, and a selection from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest’s collection. Exploring artists’ collecting old master prints in the past and today, the book does contain well known and previously unpublished mannerist works.  

More artist’s book than monograph, this volume traces the exciting interplay between Iman Issa’s (b. 1979) objects, photos , text and video. Is an artwork at the mercy of the viewer’s interpretation, and does its meaning change accordingly? Can art in turn shape perception, or even change memory itself?

Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes explores how the complex cultural tensions of the nation’s period between 1948 and 1978 led to artistic innovation. As Iran modernised, modernism became distinctly Iranian. Iranian artists created a unique form of modernism that addressed the tension between commitments to innovate and an engagement with traditional Iranian ideas and cultural forms.
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