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Contemporary Art
Forthcoming Books
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newEd. Francesca Du Brock
How to Survive
Living with Care in the Climate CrisisEssays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds of love, responsibility, and reciprocity, encouraging consideration of ... -
newEd. Camila Maissune et al.
Artists from the vast African diaspora challenging the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa
Black Ancient FuturesThe visual and textual proposals presented in this book challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present, and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental ... -
newEd. Grant Arnold
Of & About Posters
The Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive (1965-2021)Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Grant Arnold, who has worked with the Lawrence Weiner Poster Archive since the mid-1990s, and short commissioned texts from artists, scholars, and curators who worked closely with Weiner ... -
newEd. Julie Decker
Distant Early Warning Systems
From the Cold War to the CosmosArt, climate change and geopolitics at a time of rapid social and technological change. The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations ... -
newEd. Alexandra Schwartz
Saya Woolfalk
The Empathic UniverseSaya Woolfalk: The Empathic Universe is the first full-scale monograph on this internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist. Woolfalk’s immersive installations are as visually stunning as they are intellectually engaging, winning ardent ... -
newEd. Nancy Princenthal et al.
Anonymous Was A Woman
The First 25 YearsAnonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years celebrates the transformative impact of women artists on contemporary art since the founding of the titular grant. In addition to new essays, the book offers a biographical description with selected ... -
newEd. Bundeskunsthalle Bonn et al.
Save Land.
United for LandLand is a crucial basis for life on our planet and must be preserved. This richly illustrated publication, which brings together works of art and science, raises awareness of the ecological restoration ofland. With contributions from authors from ... -
newEd. Alistair Hudson et al.
Mack Reflected
expanding the ZERO codeA particular quality of Heinz Mack’s art is its relevance regarding questions of our time. By means of works from all creative periods the book examines Mack’s relationship to technology, science and nature and offers exciting ... -
newEd. Galerie Belvedere et al.
Hans Haacke is a legend of political conceptual art – and at the same time, his work is highly topical and of great relevance today. As a founding figure of artistic institutional critique, Haacke redefined the relationship between art and ... -
newEd. Astrid Ihle et al.
We Will Go Right Up to the Sun
Female Pioneers of Geometric AbstractionGeometric abstraction as a worldview: artists like Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Sonia Delaunay played an essential part in the development of non- representational art. The volume presents an overview of the evolution of geometric abstract art and in ... -
newThomas Schuttenhelm
Haplomatics
An Animated Techno-Fantasy by James Sellars and David HockneyHaplomatics is an animated techno-fantasy that combines original text and music by the American composer James Sellars with home-made prints by the British artist David Hockney. Their collaboration has not previously been detailed, and the unique ... -
newEmireth Herrera Valdes et al.
Zigi Ben-Haim
A Journey of DiscoveryZigi Ben-Haim is a painter and sculptor who works with aluminium, wire mesh, burlap, newsprint and unconventional materials. His constant reinvention gives his work a dynamic and powerful vibration that sparks curiosity in its viewers and never ... -
newEd. Barbara Horvath et al.
Anne Duk Hee Jordan
The End Is Where We Start FromThe artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan (*1978) was born in Korea and grew up in Germany. She argues in a sensuous and humorous manner that we as humans should see ourselves as a part of the ecosystem. Jordan’s multimedia, immersive installations ... -
newEd. Eva Karcher et al.
ECCENTRIC
Aesthetics of FreedomCourageous, free, humorous, touching, and disturbing: these works by fifty international artists show how eccentric means more than neurotic or decadent. Eccentricity resists all kinds of ideology, and indeed it can be an engine of social freedom ... -
newNick Mafi
Calatrava
ArtSantiago Calatrava is primarily known for his spectacular architectural feats that span the globe. Yet he has never limited himself to architecture alone; rather, he sees himself as an artist. With his painting, sketching, drawing, sculpture, ... -
newEd. Elsy Lahner et al.
Robert Longo’s work captures moments of tension in nature, politics and history at their emotional climax. Presented at a monumental scale, the size and virtuoso technique of his photorealistic charcoal drawings enhance his powerful imagery. -
newEd. Association for Art in Public et al.
Brixy
The Description of the WorldEnergy, optimism, the joy of life: Dietmar Brixy creates works that burst out into the world with luminous colour and dynamism. Paintings with titles such as Happy or Journey invite us to join Brixy on a visual adventure of glorious colour and ... -
newEd. Kunstmuseum Basel et al.
Paula Rego
Power GamesThe female protagonists of the Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego either come from real life or derive from the world’s great legends, fairy tales and myths. As complicated heroines of our time they have endured illegal abortions or fight ... -
newEd. Antonia Hoerschelmann et al.
Erwin Wurm
English EditionWith his Fat Cars and Tiny Houses, his sculptures of cucumbers, and sausages, Erwin Wurm (b. 1954) shines a critical spotlight on consumer society’s manipulative mechanisms and their effects. On the occasion of Wurm’s 70th birthday this ... -
newPaul Rotterdam
Paul Rotterdam
Nachtbogen - Nightbow and Other EventsPainter, illustrator and graphic artist Paul Rotterdam (b. 1939) is the Austrian member of the New York School, a group of artists whose radical approaches pushed pure abstraction to its very limits. In the late 1960s, Rotterdam moved to the United ... -
newEd. Dancing Foxes Press et al.
In the Company of Artists
A History of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture"In the Company of Artists" is the first major study of Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the influential summer art school founded by artists for artists amidst the tumult of World War II. Skowhegans philosophy and impact, ... -
newEd. Maria Schneider
Julia Avramidis
LayersThe pictures of Julia Avramidis are never conclusively explicable; there is no simple solution to her riddles and secrets. Despite the abstraction of the representational, the collages – seemingly thrown together in haste – permit us to ... -
newEd. Susan Hendricks et al.
Barkley L. Hendricks
Piles of Inspiration EverywherePiles of Inspiration Everywhere explores the physical space where renowned artist Barkley Hendricks worked and lived. A collaboration between photographer David Katzenstein and Susan Hendricks, this book invites readers into the space Barkely and ... -
newEd. Ralf Beil et al.
This lavishly illustrated volume approaches the vast continent of Africa from a variety of viewpoints; beyond prejudice and stereotypes, via cultural history and contemporary art: by means of permanent changes of perspective and a diversity of ... -
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newEd. Rehema C. Barber
Delve into a collection a century in the making with "Legendary Selections from the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts", a handbook highlighting the museum’s collection of legendary artworks from the United States and around the world, ... -
newEd. Tulga Beyerle et al.
Hello Image
The Staging of ThingsHow are design products presented? How do designers, photographers, graphic artists, and companies work together? This publication visualises the creative collaboration of various actors from these fields, highlighting classics of design, ... -
newDoris von Drathen
Janaina Tschäpe
Painting with the WindFrom egg tempera to chalk and oil paint, Janaina Tschäpe has mastered a style of painting that combines Nordic depth with supple, airborne line dancing. The author Doris von Drathen, an art historian specializing in Aby Warburg’s ... -
newMartin Kiefer et al.
Amnon David Ar
Light YearsAnyone who has seen Amnon David Ar’s luminous, colourful works will not forget them. His highly aesthetic paintings show subjects that are often humorous and that create a tension field between fantasy and reality. This volume shows all the ...