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Tamara Kostianovsky: Rapacious Beauty Gonzalo Casals 9783777439174
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $44.69Latinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky began using her discarded clothes as artistic material shortly after immigrating to the United States, addressing cultural and physical displacement, assimilation... -
Winfried Baumann: Cathedrals for Garbage: Kathedralen fur den Mull by Institute of Modern Art Nuremberg
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $47.12With his artistic works, the sculptor Winfried Baumann (* 1956) evokes questions of social responsibility and the perception of contemporary social forms. His subjects are highly topical both as... -
From the Land of the Snow Lion: Tibetan Treasures from the 15th to 20th Century Michael Buddeberg 9783777426266
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $68.94The catalogue presents for the first time the rich Tibetan artistic heritage through the collection of Michael and Justyna Buddeberg: carpet manufacture, craftwork in metal and the manufacture of... -
Maria Theresa and the Arts S. Rollig 9783777429236
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $56.99The 300th birthday of Empress Maria Theresia provides an opportunity to examine her outstanding interest in the fine arts. At the invitation of the reforming monarch a large number of painters,... -
Beyond Klimt: New Horizons in Central Europe Stella Rollig 9783777430591
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $61.281918 marked the end of a golden era: it was the year that Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser, and Otto Wagner died. Artistic activity, however, had already freed itself of their influence... -
Energy Overlays: Land Art Generator Initiative Robert Ferry 9783777430683
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $56.03Energy Overlays provides a glimpse into our post - carbon future where energy infrastructure is seamlessly woven into the fabric of our cities as works of public art. Fifty designs use a variety of... -
The Whole World a Bauhaus Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen 9783777434179
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $30.93This publication, accompanying the worldwide exhibition series, takes the quotation of the former Bauhaus student and subsequent university teacher Fritz Kuhr as a starting point for reflections on... -
Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959-1965 Meredith Malone 9783777434292
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $66.26In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiples three-dimensional objects issued in edition to be broadly distributed. With a radical emphasis on multiplication and... -
Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery 9783777434520
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $71.19Shuvinai Ashoona (born 1961) is a third-generation Inuit artist based in Kinngait, Nunavut, Canada. Best known for her highly personal and imaginative iconography, Shuvinai's imagery ranges from... -
Exodus: Graphic Novel Ester Shakine 9783777435534
RRP: $31.40Booksplease Price: $22.01EXODUS tells the true story of a Jewish girl from Hungary. After her parents were abducted by the Nazis, she and other orphaned children were forced to shift for themselves amid thetotal destruction... -
Nicholas Pollack: Meadow by Nicholas Pollack
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $47.38The photographs in Nicholas Pollack's new book Meadow were made between 2015-2020 in and around Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S. Inspired by the landscape of the New Jersey Meadowlands, Meadow is a body of... -
Aenne Biermann Franz Roh 9783777432427
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $30.30Aenne Biermann is regarded as one of the important avant-garde photographers of the twentieth century. Together with Bauhaus artists like Lucia Moholy and Florence Henri she was represented in the... -
Franz Hauer: Self-Made Man and Art Collector by State Gallery of Lower Austria
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $47.12This book is dedicated to legendary art collector Franz Hauer. The son of a mailman from Lower Austria, he became one of the key figures of his time. Franz Hauer started out penniless, but became an... -
Kairouan: Or How Paul Klee Became a Painter Wilhelm Hunstein 9783777435572
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $36.92The impressions which Paul Klee collected on his journey to Tunisia in 1914, and especially to the city of Kairouan, were of fundamental significance: "Colour and I are one. I am a painter." A few... -
Networks of Construction by Ekaterina Nozhova
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $61.28The works of Vladimir G. Shukhov have been a topic of academic discourse in the West since the 1990s. Shukhov is now regarded as a pioneer of lightweight construction and as one of the leading... -
Harald Sohlberg: Uendelige Landskap (Norwegian language) Nationalmuseet for Konst Oslo 9783777430874
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $56.03I 2019 er det 150-arsjubileum for Harald Sohlbergs fodsel. Utstillingen i Nasjonalgalleriet hosten 2018 og i London og Wiesbaden i 2019 vil danne en flott opptakt til aktiviteter og fornyet interesse... -
Kurt Schwitters: Merzkunst by Isabel Schulz
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.05Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most influential protagonists of the avant-garde, both as an artist and an author. With his utopia of the "total Merz vision of the world" he aimed at the... -
Thomas Cole's Studio: Memory and Inspiration Franklin Kelly 9783777436364
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $44.69Thomas Cole's influence after his death, through both the finished and unfinished paintings that remained in his self-designed studio, was truly profound. This book brings new understanding to Cole's... -
Markus Heinsdorff: static + dynamic (second edition) by Manfred Baur
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $64.58The book presents the installation artist Markus Heinsdorff's continuing study of the topics of space, the forces of nature and upcycling by means of over 40 works. The overview is completed by text... -
Rudolph Leopold: Connoisseur - Collector - Museum Founder Diethard Leopold 9783777428673
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $42.71In the historical period of new beginnings starting in the 1950s, the collector Rudolf Leopold (1925- 2010), with pioneer - like foresight and a keen sense of art, was able to do someting few... -
Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country by Lisa Fischman
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $39.96Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country complements the artist's first major M useum exhibition in the U.S. and offers an in - depth introduction to the artist's work at mid - career. Baumgartner... -
King of the Animals: Wilhelm Kuhnert and the Image of Africa Philipp Demandt 9783777431291
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $58.67Wilhelm Kuhnert was a pioneer. He was one of the first European artists to travel to the largely unexplored savannahs and jungles of the German colonies in North and East Africa. Under hazardous... -
Elina Brotherus (Bilingual edition): Why Not? Ingo Clauss 9783777436845
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $46.41Elina Brotherus (* 1972 in Helsink) works in photography and moving image. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human... -
Silent Rebels: Symbolism in Poland around 1900 Roger Diederen 9783777438566
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $63.97A discovery: Polish Symbolism between decadence and a new beginning The turn of the century was a golden age for Polish art. The publication shows about 130 masterpieces of painting from this era... -
Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration Amy Torbert 9783777437545
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $44.90Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration coincides with the Missouri state bicentennial. The catalogue brings together the region's paintings, sculptures, works on paper, furniture, ceramics,... -
Hans Purrmann Christoph Wagner 9783777436791
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14The painter Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) ranks among the most important colourists of twentieth- entury art. Drawing on Henri Matisse and the expressionists, he developed a distinct and acclaimed... -
Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities by Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $63.69Shahzia Sikanderis one of the most influential artists working today. This lively volume presents her powerful early work (1987 to 2003) from South Asian, West Asian, and Western perspectives,... -
ReVision Victoria I. Lyall 9783777434346
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $57.29ReVision: A New Look at Art in the Americas considers what makes the Americas the Americas. With essays by leading scholars of Latin American art history, the publication explores the ways in which... -
The Art Collections by Alexander Klar
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $48.09The Museum Wiesbaden is one of three important Hessian state museums and holds world-class collections in the fields of art and naturalhistory. this volume provides the first-ever lavishly... -
Rubens's Great Landscape with a Tempest by Gerlinde Gruber
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $45.32The Great Landscape with a Tempest in Vienna is one of Peter Paul Rubens's largest and most dramatic landscapes. Starting from the far-reaching discoveries during the latest restoration, the volume... -
Terrible Beauty: Elephant - Human- Ivory Nicholas J. Conard 9783777433639
RRP: $62.90Booksplease Price: $44.69The elephant is a much-admired animal, but it is also endangered. The ivory from its tusks has been in great demand across the centuries and throughout all cultures. What sort of material is it? How... -
Eran Shakine: A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew Knocking on Heaven's Door Jurgen B Tesch 9783777427133
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.50The drawings of Israeli artist Eran Shakine may look carefree and casual, but their message is serious: Muslims, Christians, and Jews share a history. They are linked through Abraham's sons Ishmael,... -
Burhan Dogancay Klaus Albrecht Schroeder 9783777428871
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $48.01The wall was his passion. If we look at urban walls with the eyes of Burhan Dogancay, a completely different world opens up: half - ripped posters on rough brickwork, covered in graffiti,... -
Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance, and Protest Museum Folkwang, Essen 9783777437897
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $67.94Dance is communication. From contemporary collaborations or the first happenings of the Japanese Butoh dancers and the pioneers of Modern dance, Global Groove explores the cultural history of contact... -
Marcus Jansen: Aftermath Cordula Gielen 9783777428475
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $56.99He is considered the innovator and pioneer of a new urban Expressionism in painting. The nearly 50 - year - old New Yorker Marcus Jansen, now living in Fort Myers, already commands high prices in... -
Natela Iankoshvili: An Artist's Life between Coersion and Freedom Galerie Kornfeld 9783777435138
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $47.38Natela Iankoshvili is regarded as the most important woman artist in Georgia during the 20th century. Born in Tiflis in 1918, she spent her entire life in Georgia. The career of the prize-winning... -
Florine Stettheimer Karin Althaus 9783777436326
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $18.14"I was thrilled", was Andy Warhol's enthusiastic reaction to the pictures of Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Many of the elements of her work inspired his Pop Art. During Stettheimer's life her... -
In) Formation: On the philosophy and art of Alice Teichert Dagmar Taube 9783777428826
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $50.65Alice Teichert's paintings are known for their holographic depth and unique lunimosity, for their visual poetry and mutifacetted proximity to music. With lines, shapes and colour, she unfolds new... -
Russian Lacquer: The Collection of the Museum fur Lackkunst Monika Kopplin 9783777424293
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $67.94Monika Kopplin highlights the extraordinary variety of decorative techniques as well as the many stylistic features. The history and art history of Russia are reflected in the small format of the... -
An Artist's Life: By Eleanora Antinova Eleanor Antin 9783777425382
RRP: $41.90Booksplease Price: $30.93History is fiction and personal identity nothing more than historical illusion: Eleanora Antinova is the renowned US contemporary artist Eleanor Antin - Eleanor Antin is Eleanora Antinova, a black...