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Cultural History
Forthcoming Books
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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. Anna Hanreich et al.
True Colors
Color in Photography from 1849 to 1955The desire for color photos has prevailed over the world of photography from the very beginning. What were the early techniques? And when did color become accessible to everyone? This volume traces the exciting path from the medium’s ... -
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 ... -
newTorsten Blume et al.
Xanti Schawinsky
Play, Life, IllusionPlay Life Illusion – the retrospective in book form refers to the title of a performance which Xanti Schawinsky developed in 1936 with students at Black Mountain College. The Swiss artist who worked at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau ... -
newEd. Bernd Pappe et al.
The Romantic Era was a particularly splendid epoch in miniature portraiture. A host of artists created portraits of great sensitivity and remarkable technical perfection. 142 masterpieces from the famous Tansey Collection illustrate the golden age ... -
newChristoph Wagner
Johannes Itten
Catalogue raisonné Vol.III. Documents and Sources on the Biography. Graphic Work, Sculpture, Tapestries, Furniture. 1888-1967The 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 ... -
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 ... -
newEd. François Burkhardt et al.
Experimental, radical, and postmodern: Studio Alchimia, founded in Milan in 1976, achieved worldwide fame by breaking with traditional design concepts. The Italian movement liberated design from the constraints of function and rationalism. Their ...