Painting
Forthcoming Books
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newJourdan Uwe
Leon Kelly
Beyond SurrealismThe American artist Leon Kelly (1901–1982) is known for his surrealist work. However, his career, which spanned fifty years, was also influenced by cubism, abstraction and social realism. With handsome full-page reproductions, this volume ... -
newAya Soika et al.
Max Pechstein
Vision and WorkThe Expressionist and “Brücke” artist Max Pechstein was a pioneering representative of modernism in Germany. His intensely colourful depictions of people and nature are regarded as foundational to Expressionism and were a defining ... -
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 ... -
newDouglas Dreishpoon et al.
Helen Frankenthaler
Move and MakeHelen Frankenthaler’s (1928–2011) radical approach to paint and material makes images pulsate with color. During the postwar period in the United States, she was a leading figure in abstract art. This volume brings together nearly fifty ... -
newMartin Tschechne
Wolfgang Balk
The Colour of LandscapeThe most beautiful stage sets are created by nature: Light, clouds and landscape combine to make dramatic shadow plays and nuanced colour palettes. Wolfgang Balk captures this beauty in his highly aesthetic abstract landscape paintings. They guide ... -
newEd. Ralph Gleis et al.
LEONARDO / DÜRER
Renaissance Master Drawings on Colored Ground"Dürer’s Praying Hands" is one of the world’s most popular artworks. Few artists have changed the art world more profoundly than Leonardo and Dürer. Both bring their subjects to life with breathtaking virtuosity, ... -
newEd. Lisa Felicitas Mattheis
Leiko Ikemura
Floating SpheresThe Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura (b. 1951) has created an internationally recognized and unmistakable body of work. In her artistic universe, there is an interweaving of plant and animal figures, landscapes and the human face. This richly ... -
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newEd. Dagmar Hirschfelder et al.
From Odesa to Berlin
European Painting from the 16th to 19th CenturyImportant masterpieces of European painting from the Ukrainian city of Odesa have been preserved from the threat of damage during the ongoing war. In this magnificently produced volume, the collection shines forth in superlative reproductions ... -
newEd. Re’al Christian et al.
This comprehensive account of the six-year history of Acts of Art, a gallery founded by and for Black artists in Greenwich Village in 1969, includes a complete exhibition record, biographies of the gallery’s key artists, and entries on ... -
newEd. Katrin Arrieta et al.
T. Lux Feininger
Modern RomanticismThe remarkable work of T. Lux Feininger (1910–2011) extends from aquatic worlds to the cosmos of animal and plant life to geometric abstraction. This lavishly illustrated volume provides a multifaceted new approach to the artist. Paintings ... -
newEd. Jochen Sander
Rembrandt's Amsterdam
Golden Times?During the 17th century, Amsterdam became one of the leading economic centres in Europe. The city and its population grew rapidly, trade and art flourished. The influential bourgeoisie shaped the fortunes of the city and confidently celebrated ... -
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. 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 ... -
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. 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. Katharina Beisiegel et al.
Rediscovered & Reunited
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Frames and PaintingsErnst Ludwig Kirchner regarded the picture and its frame as a unit. Contrary to Kirchner’s intention that they belong together, over the years some paintings were separated from their original frames. In the present publication they are ... -
newEd. Jan Nicolaisen et al.
Impulse Rembrandt
Teacher. Strategist. BestsellerMore than any other artist, the painter Rembrandt developed a charisma through the outstanding quality and originality of his works and through the organisation of his workshop. His pupils and successors continued his style as the Rembrandt ... -
newMichael Duncan
San Francisco the Golden Age 1930-1960
Making a SceneSan Francisco: The Golden Age details the extraordinary development of the Bay Area art scene between 1930 to 1960. During that time, a great museum director, an enlightened patron, and a brilliant art school came together to create an ... -
newAdrian Sudhalter
Carl Grossberg
New Forms in the World of TechnologyCarl Grossberg’s (1894–1940) painting career was bracketed by the two world wars. He drew his subject matter from “the enormous wealth of new forms in the world of technology,” recognizing both its potential and dangers. The ... -
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. Ian Blair et al.
World Without End
The George Washington Carver ProjectWorld Without End examines the ongoing impact of the groundbreaking African American scientist and artist George Washington Carver. The book reframes Carver’s contributions to science, art, and activism alongside the work of contemporary ... -
newEd. Pantea Haghighi
Modern Iran and the Avant-gardes
1948 – 1978Modern 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. 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. Charles Duncan et al.
Alongside artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) was one of the most important pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. More than 130 outstanding works from all creative phases allow us to immerse ... -
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 ... -
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newEd. Lisa Hörstmann et al.
Irma Stern
A Modern Artist between Berlin and Cape TownIn the art of Irma Stern, motifs from her South African homeland meet the expressionism of the Brücke artists. In the interwar period she was celebrated in Berlin for her “exotic” paintings, and later became a prominent artist in ... -
newEd. Anja Richter et al.
European Realities
European Realism Movements of the 1920s and 1930sThree 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 ...