20th Century

This comprehensive publication dedicated to Carl Grossberg (1894–1940) accompanies a retrospective exhibition of his work at two German museums. His industrial structures, vats and machines are testimony to the rapid technological progress at the beginning of the twentieth century. Portrayed on a monumental scale, they are produced with sober precision, clear forms and luminous colours – and almost always without people. The eerie emptiness is both modern and impressive.

A pyrotechnic display of illusionistic painting – with 95 masterworks by more than thirty artists to celebrate sixty years of international photorealism. Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Ron Kleemann, Karin Kneffel, Gerhard Richter and others transform trivial everyday motifs into brilliant hyper-realistic pictorial worlds using specialised painting techniques.  

Happy Birthday, Paula Modersohn-Becker! This volume celebrates 150 years since the birth of the fascinating artist, who remains of the most important figures of the German avant-garde. Examining her artistic development in depth and presenting works from all phases of her career, this book places particular focus on her early work, which has hitherto received little attention or recognition.

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.    

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Exploring artists’ collecting old master prints in the past and today, the book does contain well known and previously unpublished mannerist works.  

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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