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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. 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. 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. 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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Bernd Pappe et al.

Miniatures from the Time of Napoleon in the Tansey Collection

The publication focuses on 150 portrait miniatures from the age of Napoleon I. They provide us with an astonishingly direct view of people who lived in this turbulent, war-torn period. The works are presented in detail in image and text. Essays by ...

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Ed. Christoph Wagner

Cinemas
From Babylon Berlin to La Rampa Havana

Lost places of cinema—the photographer Margarete Freudenstadt has dedicated herself to cinema and strikingly captured contemporary history with her camera. Cinemas confronts her melancholic pictures of movie theaters in the former East ...

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Ed. Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss

Terribly Beautiful. Elephant - Man - Ivory

The elephant is a much-admired animal, but it is also endangered. The ivory from its tusks has been in great demand across the centuries and throughout all cultures. What sort of material is it? How has it been used in the past and the present? And ...

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Ed. Medill Higgins Harvey et al.

Modern Gothic
The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-1882

Kimbel and Cabus were among the most progressive design reformers of their time. This is the first publication to explore the timeless American immigrant success story of the trailblazing New York City design team who captured national attention ...

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Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.

Jacobus Vrel
Looking for Clues of an Enigmatic Painter

His pictures look curious, his figures introverted and his street scenes strangely stage-like. Jacobus Vrel records everyday life in Holland during the 17th century, and creates quirky worlds at the same time. This volume presents the fascinating ...

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Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen et al.

Tell me about <s>yesterday</s> tomorrow
About the Future of the Past

Historical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today’s world. The interdisciplinary authorship of this volume focuses on the connection between past and future. A bold and unusual publication whose approaches and ...

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Ed. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden et al.

Dreams of Freedom
Romanticism in Russia and Germany

Caspar David Friedrich and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov are the most important artists of the Romantic era in their native countries of Germany and Russia. At the centre of this opulent book are night scenes and moonlit landscapes, views of Dresden ...

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Christoph Wagner

Johannes Itten
Catalogue Raisonné Vol.II. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings. 1939-1967

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. Bridget R. Cooks et al.

The Black Index

The artists featured in "The Black Index" – Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell and Lava Thomas – build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to ...

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Ed. Walter Moser

Faces - The Power of the Human Visage
Helmar Lerski and Portrait Photography between the Wars

Starting with Helmar Lerski’s outstanding photo series "Metamorphosis through Light" from 1935/36, the magnificent volume "Faces – The Power of the Human Visage" presents portraits from the era of the Weimar Republic. ...

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Ed. Thomas Zuhr

All the Beauty at Hand
A Brief History of Hirmer Publishers

Founded in 1948, Hirmer Publishers soon established a name for art books produced to the highest standards. Over the past decade they have become equally well-known in English-speaking countries, with a reputation as one of the most prestigious ...

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Ed. Dario Gamboni et al.

The Aesthetics of Marble
From Late Antiquity to the Present

This magnificent book sheds new light on the celebration and uses of marble in art and literature and on the iconic potential of the stone. With 240 color illustrations, it showcases the marble cladding of architecture, the carving of marble and ...

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Karin Althaus et al.

Florine Stettheimer
The Great Masters of Art

“I was thrilled”, was Andy Warhol’s enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871–1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer’s life her sensuous and ironic ...

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Ed. Mona Jalhami et al.

The Art of Orientation
An Exploration of the Mosque Through Objects

"The Art of Orientation" explores the mosque through 125 artefacts from across the Islamic world. It employs an original and contemporary approach by incorporating essays by leading Arab and international authors, which provide a fresh ...

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Ed. Judith W. Mann

Painting on Stone

Science and the Sacred 1530–1800

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 scholars, the catalogue reveals the significance of these paintings, their complex meanings, and their technical virtuosity.

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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 their incisiveness, fill a window area of some 350 square metres with colours and immerse the interior of the church in light.

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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 Barcelona in 1929 and the Haus Tugendhat in Brno, completed one year later, became incunabula of Modernism.

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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 and paper, which are presented together in this volume for book lovers.

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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 of Thun and Lake Thun.

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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, barbers and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications for self and society today.

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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 this challenge. We can say this much: it was not a job that could be accomplished in one shot. The Shooting presents a photographer’s attempt to zero in on a legend.

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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 Josef Albers, Sonia Delaunay, Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Pablo Picasso, Charles Sheeler and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

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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 assessment of early archaeological finds extends the origins of qin instruments back to the Bronze Age and leads to a new approach.

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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 under the National Socialist regime.

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Cultural History

Ed. Judith W. Mann

Ed. Annegret Laabs

Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Glenn Esterly et al.

Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Yang Yuanzheng

Ed. Heinz R. Böhme

Ed. Gerry Beegan et al.

Bernd Pappe et al.

Ed. Christoph Wagner

Ed. Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss

Ed. Medill Higgins Harvey et al.

Ed. Quentin Buvelot et al.

Ed. Nicolaus Schafhausen et al.

Ed. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden et al.

Christoph Wagner

Ed. Bridget R. Cooks et al.

Ed. Walter Moser

Ed. Thomas Zuhr

Ed. Dario Gamboni et al.

Karin Althaus et al.

Ed. Mona Jalhami et al.

Ed. Judith W. Mann

Ed. Annegret Laabs

Ed. Klaus Kinold

Ed. Contempo Rotterdam et al.

Ed. Helen Hirsch et al.

Ed. Tameka Ellington et al.

Glenn Esterly et al.

Ed. Katia Baudin et al.

Yang Yuanzheng

Ed. Heinz R. Böhme