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Louise Bourgeois by Ulf Kuster
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $15.75The recently deceased French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was one of the most important artists of the last century. Her fleshy blobs, skeletal spiders and the aggressive fragility... -
World Press Photo Yearbook 2023 by World Press Photo Foundation
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $17.39Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has set the standard in visual journalism. The 2023 Yearbook showcases the most striking press photographs and compelling reports from 2022, carefully... -
Caspar David Friedrich: A-Z by Barbara Hess 9783775755672
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $13.37ON THE CONTEMPLATION OF NATURE One of his generation’s most popular artists, German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich is known for his allegorical landscapes that convey a deep sense of... -
Niklas Maak: The Server Manifesto - Architecture for the age of data-driven democracy by 9783775750707
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.67If data is the greatest collective treasure of a digital society, basic material for business and politics: Why are the places where it is stored still so invisible? Niklas Maak, architectural critic... -
On Architecture and the Greenfield: Vol. 02 by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes 9783775758208
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.42Urbanisation reconsidered in the face of ongoing climate emergenciesIn the face of the ongoing climate emergency, can humanity keep chipping at its food sheds via urbanization? This is the... -
Daniel Freeman: Midnight on Main Daniel Freeman 9783775748179
RRP: $58.96Booksplease Price: $41.43Night time has always captivated those who see the world differently. When everything has come to rest, lights go out, phones have gone silent and doors have been locked, the nocturnal quiet is... -
Women in Trees by Johanna Adorjan 9783775758345
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.42Humorous and beautiful"I don't understand how you can walk past a tree without being happy," says Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his novel The Idiot. Perhaps this thought may explain the motif of women in... -
Fred Herzog: Black and White by Andy Sylvester
RRP: $45.56Booksplease Price: $31.96The city Fred Herzog documented over more than half a century has vanished-an early kind of urban flaneur, Herzog wandered the streets of Vancouver, creating an archive that encapsulates the essence... -
Niki de Saint Phalle: The Grotto Krempel Ulrich 9783775758659
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77The spectacular legacy of the popular artist. A refreshingly colorful gift book for admirers of the unique art of Niki de Saint Phalle.The Herrenhauser Garten in Hanover belongs among the most... -
Lucas Cranach: A-Z Teresa Praauer 9783775751803
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.67Lucas Cranach the Elder created around 500 works during his lifetime. With his portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchton and as court painter to Frederick the Wise, he became one of the most... -
Fred Herzog by David Campany
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $39.80Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of colour in the fifties and sixties, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. The Canadian photographer... -
Spatializing Justice: Building Blocks by Eddy Cruz
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77Spatializing Justice calls for architects and urban designers to do more than design buildings and physical systems. Architects should take a position against inequality and practice accordingly... -
Cat Trees by Nadine Barth
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.92A close look transforms even the most ordinary things into fascinating objects full of idiosyncracies and magic. With charming tongue-in-cheek, the photographer Pascale Weber shows this through a... -
Learning Deutsch (Multilingual edition) by Mazen Kerbaj 9783775756389
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.36Learning the true essentials of the german language—From “Besserwisser” to “Schnapsidee” After experimental musician and visual artist Mazen Kerbaj moved with his family from Beirut to Berlin, he... -
Niki de Saint Phalle: A-Z Katharina Sykora 9783775754378
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.42The Many Facets of Niki de Saint Phalle Niki de Saint Phalle loved pseudo-orders, which she used to arbitrarily assemble terms and pictograms on a sheet of paper. Under the heading "I Love," for... -
Edvard Munch: A - Z Ulf Küster 9783775759434
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.42Following key terms from A-Z, these books illuminate little-known aspects and shed new light on familiar motifs and themes. This time about the artist Edvard Munch Edvard Munch is one of the most... -
Nadim Samman: Poetics of Encryption. Art and the Technocene by Nadim Samman
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $20.10An Encounter Between Art and the Technosphere Proprietary algorithms, secret data troves, and inscrutable systems rule the day. How is this registered in art? In Poetics of Encryption Nadim Samman... -
Monobloc Hauke Wendler 9783775751919
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.36What began as a spontaneous enthusiasm for a photo turned out to be a long-lasting fascination with one of the world's best-selling products: the Monobloc, as it is known in specialist circles. It's... -
Lina Bo Bardi 100: Brazil's Alternative Path to Modernism Renato Anelli 9783775738538
RRP: $77.72Booksplease Price: $54.87Celebrating the one-hundredth birthday of Brazil's most important female architect and designer. The Italo-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) forged a unique path with her bold designs... -
Still Life: Timeless Beauty Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 9783775751148
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $23.69They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and... -
Frank Kunert: Wunderland by Thilo von Debschitz 9783775735834
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.42Something strange is going on in the photographs by Frank Kunert (*1963 in Frankfurt am Main): the table set for two has been so cleverly built around a corner that neither of the diners has to see... -
Edward Hopper: A Fresh Look at Landscape Ulf Kuster 9783775746540
RRP: $77.72Booksplease Price: $54.32Edward Hopper's world-famous paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life. With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper continues... -
Paris Calligrammes: (English, German & French edition): Landscape of memory. Ulrike Ottinger Aleida Assmann 9783775746373
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.30In Paris Calligrammes the filmmaker, photographer and collector of worlds Ulrike Ottinger links historical archival material with her own art and film works to create a sociogram of the era in which... -
Look up Aya, And You Can Reach For The Stars Silke Hein 9783775751001
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $22.45This enchanting volume by an artist couple who are also parents tells a very touching rite of passage story. Jeppe Hein and his wife Silke have teamed up to create a very special kind of picture book... -
Stefan Draschan: Double Take (Bilingual edition) by Stefan Draschan 9783775755436
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.67After the success of Coincidences at Museums, Austrian photographer Stefan Draschan has continued to work on his various photographic series-and time and time again he has succeeded in finding... -
The Best of Frank Kunert Frank Kunert 9783775759274
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $23.14The absurdity of everyday life Frank Kunert is one of the most distinguished German photographers. In lengthy processes, he builds precise miniature worlds, which he presents to us as deceptively... -
On Architecture and Work: The Political Economy of Space Vol. 3 Charlotte Malterre-Barthes 9783775760652
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $18.57From the office to the construction site - what is the value of work? Why is architecture so remote from labor struggles, with poorly negotiated labor contracts and barely any self-management models?... -
steirischer herbst '22 A War in the Distance (Reader): Ukraine and the Return of History 9783775754972
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $22.45The full-fledged Russian invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call. There is no way to ignore the deep seismic waves it has spread beyond the region and throughout the world; its impact will be... -
Anni and Josef Albers: Lake Verea by Karren Stein 9783775748889
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $22.45They were not only two of the outstanding artists of the Bauhaus, but also a well-known couple. Their many famous works and the artists they influenced as teachers and role models bear witness to... -
Horror Patriae: The Return of Toxic Nationhood: steirischer herbst '24 (Reader) by Boris Buden 9783775760614
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $22.45Horror Patriae, the 2024 edition of steirischer herbst, tackled nostalgic and imaginary constructions of nationhood, juxtaposing them with neglected and silenced stories of strange encounters,... -
Paul Cezanne: A-Z James H. Rubin 9783775749138
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.67The incomparable play of light and color in Paul Cezanne's work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went his own way, and his paintings initially... -
Late Gothic: Threshold to Modernity by Staatliche Museen Berlin
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $23.42Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and... -
Hundertwasser: For Future by Pierre Restany 9783775746984
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59The paintings and architecture by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser are nothing less than revolutionary with respect to nature and individual creativity. His work is not about silent conformity,... -
Bettina Lockemann: Thinking the Photobook. A Practical Guide by Bettina Lockemann 9783775752718
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $22.45The photobook visually and materially contextualizes arrangements of photographs and brings them into a sensually tangible form. The book format, the materiality of the paper, and the type of... -
Clémentine Deliss: The Metabolic Museum 9783775747806
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.42On the Pulse of the Museum as Institution of the FutureFor quite some time now, ethnographic museums in Europe have been compelled to legitimate themselves. Their exhibition-making has become a topic... -
András Szánto. The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues by Daniel Birnbaum
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05As museums worldwide shuttered in 2020 because of the novel coronavirus, New York-based cultural strategist Andras Szanto conducted a series of interviews with an international group of museum... -
Rosa Barba: On the Anarchic Organization of Cinematic Spaces - Evoking Spaces beyond Cinema by Rosa Barba
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $20.77The work of the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba is distinguished by her conceptual exploration of film. In this publication she devises a progressive vision for the cinema of the future... -
Ruth Orkin: A Photo Spirit Nadine Barth 9783775750950
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $37.44Ruth Orkin is a legend of street photography - her atmospheric pictures taken in cities such as Florence, New York and London still shape the image of these metropolises today. But Orkin's specialty... -
Armin Mueller-Stahl: Rockets to the Moon by Armin Müller-Sathl
RRP: $37.52Booksplease Price: $13.07Armin Mueller-Stahl, the internationally famous German actor, has long been known as a gifted poet and painter as well. With this sequel to Der wien Vogel fliegen kann and The Blue Cow, we now have... -
Museums from the Inside. 60 years of CIMAM by Saskia Bos
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.05On the occasion of its 60-year anniversary, CIMAM, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, its directors, and curators publish Museums from the Inside. From Suzanne...