Contemporary Art
Forthcoming Books
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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, ... -
newMartin Kiefer et al.
Anyone 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 ... -
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.
The 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 ... -
newEd. Roger Diederen et al.
Miguel Chevalier
Digital by NatureMiguel Chevalier (b. 1959) is one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art. For his multifaceted work he uses the latest technologies, including the newest developments in artificial intelligence (AI), while always keeping up a dialogue with art ... -
newEd. Susanne Gaensheimer et al.
QUEER MODERNISM
1900–1950Desire, eroticism, playing with gender – these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to the creative process, but rather as foundational. By approaching the art through a perspective of queer ... -
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. Sara Hume et al.
A Meeting of Cultures
Fashioning North AfricaA Meeting of Cultures is a pathbreaking work focused specifically on contemporary fashion designers and influencers in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. Lavishly illustrated, it broadens the scope of scholarship on the fashion industry, ... -
newEd. Carrie Cushman
Human Marks
Tattooing in Contemporary ArtHuman Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by sixteen artists who also tattoo, this richly illustrated book unpacks how the ethics, strategies, ... -
newDoris von Drathen
From 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 ... -
newEd. Julie Joyce et al.
A visually rich examination of how contemporary art, design, and culture have responded to Big Data and its outsized role in modern life. Inspired by the growing field of data visualization, Seeing the Unseeable focuses on the myriad issues and ... -
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 ... -
newEd. Matilde Guidelli-Guidi et al.
Senga Nengudi
Populated AirRadically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi’s art, this book publishes never-before-seen drawings, prints, photographs, performance scores, and poetry, spaninng five decades of her practice. -
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. Rose Dergan et al.
Linda Lighton: Love and War
A Fifty Year Survey, 1975-2025For fifty years, American artist Linda Lighton has created a powerful body of subversive ceramic sculptures that explore desire in all its complex forms. This monographic catalogue marks the first substantial survey of her pioneering work, which ... -
newJaune Quick-to-See Smith
Indigenous Identities
Here, Now & AlwaysIndigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always marks the largest editorial endeavor in the late artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s career and emphasizes her pivotal role in bringing forth a living Native Art history. Indigenous-led, the ... -
newRobert Fleck
Mack - Face to Face
An Artist's LifeMuch has been written about Heinz Mack, but this book truly stands out. Recounting his life through the pen of Robert Fleck, the artist himself gives us deep insights into the motivations and goals of his artistic work – almost as if we were ... -
newEd. Ralph Gleis et al.
A tiger shark in formaldehyde. A diamond-encrusted skull. Damien Hirst is one of the most important contemporary artists and a legend in the Young British Artist movement of the 1990s. He planned his iconic paintings, sculptures, and installations ... -
