Non-Fiction Books

For Stefan Hanke (*1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest...

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of poor strata of the population has meanwhile become a professional "do tank" ...

Difficult to categorize and branded as "naive"-art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri...

Unlike almost any other architect, Diebedo Francis Kere (*1965 in Burkina Faso) stands for the association of constructive, social, and cultural as...

"The world's appearance would be shaken if we succeeded in perceiving the spaces in between things as things." These words from the philosopher Mau...

"From early images of socks drying on a radiator to more recent fields of glossy color created in the darkroom, all Tillmans' work asks this questi...

From wildlife topographies to the ecosystem services of marine and alpine fauna, 2010-2020. Nicole Schuck's filigree drawings stem from in-depth re...

Alexander Calder is one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century. This lavishly illustrated book focuses on Calder's works o...

The Elusive Modernist revisits the history of the Modern movement through the legacy of one of its protagonists, Gabriel Guevrekian (c. 1900-1970)....

Erieta Attali (*1966, Tel Aviv) has devoted two decades to exploring the relationship between architecture and the landscape at the edges of the wo...

The Swiss artist Christoph Hansli (*1963) gained international recognition a few years ago for his epic work, Mortadella (2006-08), a series of 332...

As long as already five thousand years ago, the allure of the sea inspired humans to recreate its essence in miniature, artistic forms, as public b...

Ashley Hans Scheirl overcomes the limitations of media as easily as she deals with gender and cultural norms. Born Angela Scheirl, the artist achie...

Armin Mueller-Stahl, the internationally famous German actor, has long been known as a gifted poet and painter as well. With this sequel to Der wie...

Peter Saul has consistently challenged art, history, and politics with his radical, unrefined style. Positioned outside of the can-on of contempora...

Sean Scully's abstract paintings are world-famous. In them he moves far beyond a purely formal confrontation with color, form, plane, and...

A century after the founding of the Bauhaus-probably the most popular and yet controversial art school in Weimar-its name has become a byword, as w...

The work of Angela Bulloch (*1966, Rainy River, Canada, currently based in Berlin) spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns ...

Christoforos Savva's oeuvre was unparalleled in the incipient Cypriot art scene of the 1960s, appropriating and reinventing themes and styles, whil...

Summer in Siberia? What does that feel like? Is Siberia perhaps a new travel destination we didn't know about? How is climate change making itself ...

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. Du...

About the Author Moritz Woelk is an art historian and director of the Museum Schnütgen in Cologne, Germany. Product Description Marks the 850th ...

Review "While there is an abundance of scholarship focused on the Vienna Secession, there is far less written about the Hagenbund, the other major...

Our cities are atrophying: What was once an open system inhabitable by all and that was about freedom and self-determination is becoming a zone in ...

In 2011 a sensational find came to light in Andy Warhol's estate: an extensive collection of drawings that provides impressive evidence of Warhol's...

The publication presents Joan Miro's (1893- 1983) mural art in the context of his life's work. Miro's ideas for large-scale mural art can be traced...

Rapunzel, the famous fairy - tale character of the Brothers Grimm, comes from the world of magic. She is the girl, lover, woman and mother who e...

On the occasion of the state museum's fortieth anniversary the publication presents central works from the nationally and internationally renowned ...

This publication doc uments Ursula von Rydingsvard's exhibition at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, which features a large new le...

When over 1,000 artworks by outstanding artists of the modern era appeared on the scene in 2012, the find was celebrated as a sensation, though the...

Painting re-invented itself during the 15th century in Florence. Artists experimented in an innovative manner with pictorial subjects, forms and ...

What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encounter...

The Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos (*1971) is famous internation-ally for her three- dimensional works, in which she explores the boundaries b...

At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic...

The Japanese artist Koho Mori-Newton is a master when it comes to handling silk, which he places in an exciting dialogue with architecture. In this...

Five hundred years ago, the landing of Hernan Cortes in Mexico marked the end of the Aztec Empire. This volume presents the wealth of this culture ...

Emigration, being lost in a strange world, the search for a new identityand longing for things and people that have been lost form the central topi...

The iF product design award was introduced in 1954 and is annually conferred by iF Industrie Forum Design of Hanover, Germany. Each year the iF awa...

Since the start of the Romantic era, painting has been regarded as the leading artistic discipline in Germany. To this day, the nation of "Painter ...

In the late nineties Bryan Adams became curious about making photographic self-portraits for his album covers, and so chose to pick up the camera h...

Product Description Ctrl-X. A topography of e-waste explores the irresponsible handling of limited resources, one of the most pressing problems of...

Product Description In the winter of 2011 Nobel-Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk took 8,500 color photographs from his balcony with its ...

Product Description A key figure in French design, and the man behind the first high-speed trainThis volume compiles a selection of illustrator, g...

Product Description Félix González-Torres, one of the most influential artists of his generation, lived and worked resolutely according to his own...

Discover the hidden treasures of literature with this used book, a gem that has stood the test of time! Perfect for avid readers and collectors ali...

Product Description The most important book on Richard Hamilton’s life and work Richard Hamilton (1922 – 2011) was an English painter and col...

Product Description Is it skin, the surface of the moon, aerial photographs of forests or barren earth? Is it the night sky or the galaxies above ...

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