The Arts Books
Peter Lang AG El festival Grito de Mujer como plaza pública de
Book SynopsisEste libro investiga las posibilidades de las mujeres latinoamericanas que participan en el festival dominicano e internacionalmente difundido Grito de Mujer, de confrontarse a través de sus versos con varios desafíos de las sociedades neocoloniales de hoy día. Intenta analizar este tipo de activismo poético, desde la perspectiva de los avances poscoloniales, feministas o sea sociopolíticos y de la crítica literaria. Así, la poesía resulta como lugar de enuncianción múltiple contra cada esfuerzo de subalter-nización racismo, clasismo, (hetero)sexismo, etc. y también como lugar de afirmación del sujeto que escribe. Es decir, se manifiesta como acto político, una poiesis que cuestiona las estructuras hegemónicas, sirviendo asimismo como lugar de encuentro plural (plaza) y diálogo incesante.
£61.11
Peter Lang AG de la Postmemoire A La Memoire
Book SynopsisComposé selon trois axes fédérateurs : Littérature ; Arts scéniques et audiovisuels ; Éducation, et s'encadrant dans les memory studies, ce volume collectif donne à lire des analyses qui se penchent sur les enjeux actuels des oeuvres mémorielles dans leur potentiel pour sortir de l'oubli et diffuser les passés traumatiques des différentes communautés et groupes sociaux, pour favoriser les sentiments d'identités collectives, et dans celui de promouvoir les dialogues de mémoires sans prééminence.Compost segons tres eixos unificadors: Literatura, Arts escèniques i audiovisuals i Educació, aquest volum collectiu s'enquadra en l'àmbit dels memory studies i aborda els reptes actuals de les obres memorials en el seu potencial. Es proposa treure de l'oblit i difondre els passats traumàtics de diferents grups socials per afavorir el sentiment de pertinença a multiples identitats collectives, així com per promouren els diàlegs al voltant de les memòries sense preeminències.
£37.80
Peter Lang AG Espacio arte e identidad. Consideraciones
Book SynopsisEl espacio constituye una línea esencial de investigación en los estudios literarios y artísticos, por cuanto supone una categoría de gran complejidad semántica y simbólica. Este volumen ofrece una reflexión interdisciplinar y actual, que aborda el estudio semiótico del espacio a través de veintitrés trabajos, donde se revisa e interpreta un amplio abanico de obras que van desde la literatura tradicional a la digital o desde el cine a las series televisivas. Las cuatro secciones abordan la construcción del espacio en sus dimensiones real, imaginaria, simbólica e identitaria, dando cuenta de dinámicas interartísticas que crean o reescriben valores culturales y estéticos. Supone también una revisión de los presupuestos de la disciplina, al medir su eficacia en el análisis de las formas artísticas y sus estrategias de representación.
£51.30
Peter Lang AG On the Logic of Drawing History from Symbols
Book SynopsisThe approach to images as cultural documents of collective memory and instruments of social shaping builds a central theoretical component of cultural theories since its establishment as a critical discipline. Prominent thinkers ofcultural studies and art history defined images as symbolic representations and expressions of cultural memories.The anthology covers this broad understanding of images as carriers of archival value, texts, and complex language; it elaborates on the fundamental role of images as a driving force of ideologies and cultural evolution.The book also includes Charles S. Peirce's full manuscript On the Logic of drawing History from Ancient Documents especially from Testimonies, a genuine treatise on applied science as a universal method of incorporating knowledge across disciplines.
£39.60
Peter Lang AG Le Chefdoeuvre inconnu di Balzac alle radici
Book SynopsisL'autrice interpreta il racconto di Balzac Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu come equivalente narrativo di una identità di artista in trasformazione negli anni Trenta dell'Ottocento. Attraverso l'analisi della rivista L'Artiste, dove è pubblicato il racconto, viene messo in luce il processo mediatico cui è sottoposto il mito dell'artista, tra realtà e finzione. Adottando un metodo comparativistico, le polarità presenti nel testo di Balzac la dialettica tra colore e disegno, il rapporto tra artisti del passato e artisti moderni e il ruolo della modella tra idealità ed erotismo sono interpretate in relazione a opere d'arte, illustrazioni e scritti di Denis Diderot, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Louis Boulanger, Eugène Delacroix e Théophile Gautier. Emerge così un profilo di artista intimamente legato all'affermarsi di un nuovo rapporto tra arte e letteratura e a nuove categorie di giudizio estetico che ne confermano la modernità.
£48.60
Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften Las Artes Como Expresion Vital
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Peter Lang AG Controlling Animals Vain Attempts at Immortality
Book SynopsisBased on the analytical framework of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, Controlling Animals makes use of the notion of the heroic ideal to exposedysfunctional attempts at immortality through the interpretation of three works of fiction. In this work, the author demonstrates to readers the flawed pursuit of attempting to avert death through the subjugation of animals. This pursuit is often orchestrated under the guise of the biblical concept of dominion from the Book of Genesis. In short, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the inextricable bond to the natural world and the fragile and tenuous existence in which humans live. The text also underscores the impending need for humans to make meaningful choices that are useful to the world while maintaining respect and deference to their animal co-inhabitants.
£36.90
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Tecnoecologías y temporalidades queer
Book SynopsisEl tiempo es objeto de construcción, configuración y confrontación. Este volumen se adentra en las diversas morfologías temporales, explorando su entrelazamiento con paradigmas ideológicos y configuraciones culturales. En sus páginas se analizan imaginarios temporales para identificar estrategias de resistencia ante las temporalidades hegemónicas, presentando modelos temporales alternativos. A lo largo de los capítulos que lo componen, se transita por una variedad de momentos históricos, perspectivas y metodologías, que ofrecen en su conjunto una representación global que trasciende las narrativas lineales de progreso. Invitamos al lector a un recorrido por temporalidades y discursos no convencionales, gestados desde una reimaginación política del tiempo.
£25.65
Edition Taube Dream State Code of Conduct Middle Income Level
Book SynopsisVisit the year 2136 for a minimum of 43 minutes. Dream State Code Of Conduct generates and orients your Biotic Tag, a form of embodied ID marker allowing you to visit the Altamira Cave Complex (ACC) in the year 2136. The ACC was the first site equipped with a dimensional translator, the device allowing it to speak, following the Climate Asset Wars. Irena Haiduk currently lives and works in the year 2136. She is available through a transmitter tethered to her biotic tag. This ticket is for middle income level passengers. How to transact:Yugoexport defines lower, middle, and upper income levels as:1. Lower Income Level: people living from paycheck to paycheck, with a limited amount of disposable income. Most people. 2. Middle Income Level: people with homes, decent jobs, benefits, who can afford long vacations and/or people with a moderate amount of disposable income. 3. Upper Income Level: high income earners and/or people with a vast amount of disposable income. Rich people. Kindly ask the passenger which income level they belong to. Do not ask for a number. They should self-identify. If a passenger decides to purchase a ticket, the seller can fill out the form on the back, and the passenger can write their name and sign on the front to validate the ticket.
£11.40
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Karien in Portulanen Und Portulankarten: Vo Nder
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£111.15
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Romische Historische Mitteilungen 60/2018
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£121.60
CENTRAL BOOKS Mythos Bechtesgardener Land Von Menschen
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£22.50
Niggli Verlag Guidelines and Standards for the Visual Design:
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£51.75
Niggli Verlag Olympic Games: The Design
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£131.25
Kerber Verlag Imi Knoebel
Book SynopsisImi Knoebel is one of the most important European representatives of non-representational art, and he has devoted a lifetime to developing it. Around 1966, his first work was influenced by Kasimir Malewitsch's paintings and by Joseph Beuys, who taught him. Layering, sequencing, and stacking became his trademark techniques once he discovered masonite and its potential for creating large three-dimensional work. However, Knoebel also adopted a constrasting approach by producing extremely pared-down images which have no material form, to represent the immaterial. The catalogue of the exhibition provides a concentrated review of his early years; a newly-created complex of his works provides an insight into the essence of his multi-form work. Text in English and German. SELLING POINTS: . Imi Knoebel is one of the most important European representatives of non-representational art . This catalogue provides a concentrated review of his early years
£24.00
Kerber Verlag Berlin-Wedding: The Photo Book
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£32.30
Kerber Verlag Milli Bau: Silk Road. 1956-1974
Book SynopsisIn 1956, the journalist and photographer Milli Bau set out in a VW-bus to explore the countries along the Silk Road. She spent a longer period of time at some locations, but only passed through others. She later lived in Tehran and worked as a correspondent. Her Rolleiflex and her journal accompanied her on her extraordinary journey, to lands of which some can hardly still be visited today. In her photographs, it is possible to see nearly 20 years of cultural and contemporary history. The publication is a document of contemporary history by a travelling journalist who left Germany in the 1950s and found herself in the world. Milli Bau is an outstanding example of the life of a woman who should not be forgotten. Text in English and German.
£30.40
Kerber Verlag The Opéra: Magazine for Classic & Contemporary
Book SynopsisThe magazine for classic and contemporary nude photography returns with a vibrant compilation of the most beautiful works from the field of the most intimate form of portrait photography. In selecting the works, it was important to the editor Matthias Straub to curate a bridge between the traditional approach to the human body and new, unusual perspectives. In the current edition, there are therefore both abstract works and also very classical nude studies. The familiar structuring of the magazine into the five acts of the opera, according to Gustav Freytag, guides viewers through the photos selected as a content-related leitmotiv.
£28.80
Kerber Verlag Mario Marino: The Magic of the Moment
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£52.50
Kerber Verlag Constructing the World: Art and the Economy 1919
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£41.25
Kerber Verlag Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Utopian Projects
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£28.50
Kerber Verlag The Opera Volume VII: Magazine for Classic &
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£28.50
Kerber Verlag Bauhaus and America
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£45.00
Kerber Verlag The Art of Being a World Culture Museum: Futures
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£34.40
Kerber Verlag Dale Grant: Fading Beauty
Book SynopsisDale Grant's Fading Beauty is a collection of photographs capturing the distinctive features displayed by flowers during their life cycle. Flowers all begin life looking rather similar but it is at the moment when they begin to wither and after some time die, that their true individual beauty can be witnessed as the vivid colours of their petals eventually become transparent and muted in tone. Dale Grant sees his images of flowers as portraits and in this direction he sets out to explore life's uniqueness and constant change.
£26.40
Kerber Verlag John Peter Askew: We. Photographs from Russia
Book SynopsisJohn Peter Askew (*1960, UK) is an artist who works with the camera to create dense, poetic images of domestic life, and of the historical forces that shape who we are. Since 1996 he has photographed the Russian city of Perm, the easternmost city in Europe, as part of a project investigating the state of modern Europe. While We is an extended epic portrait across generations of a single family, the Chulakovs, these photographs transcend their particular circumstances. Askew pays attention to our 'best selves', asking us to imagine the possibility of a better, more playful world, and pointing towards who we might yet become.
£34.20
Kerber Verlag Kelly Richardson: Pillars of Dawn
Book SynopsisCanadian artist Kelly Richardson (*1972) belongs to a new generation of artists working with digital technologies to create hyperreal, symbolically highly charged landscapes. Her series of digitally-born works Pillars of Dawn imagines a desert landscape in which environmental conditions have crystallised the terrain. The series presents a scenario in which we might have to look beyond our current planet for refuge and survival, and they raise myriad questions about how we arrived as such a moment of environmental crisis.
£28.50
Kerber Verlag Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau: The Collections
Book SynopsisThe Bauhaus was one of the most important schools of art, design, and architecture, whose visionary designs continue to be regarded as icons of modernity today. This book provides an in-depth presentation of the second-largest Bauhaus collection in the world. It includes objects from all the phases and fields at the renowned institution, including student works by Marianne Brandt, Josef Albers, or Marcel Breuer, as well as works by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, or Gunta Stölzl. Objects and materials found in the Bauhaus buildings in Dessau - the Bauhaus Building, the Masters' Houses, the Employment Office, and the Dessau-Törten estate - are presented as well. The book also provides an introduction to the history and development of the school.
£42.00
Kerber Verlag Creatures Made to Measure: Animals and
Book Synopsis'Real' animals are increasingly disappearing. Today, animals are 'optimised' almost entirely based on the ideas of people: they are created in the laboratory, bred as organ donors, and their flesh is grown in petri dishes. How are common perceptions of animals changing as a result? The designers and artists in the publication go on a search for the 'right degree' in designing such creatures. They delve through the possibilities of the human-animal relationship and design scenarios for a different future. Artists: Martin Avila, BLESS, Melanie Bonajo, The Center for Genomic Gastronomy, Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell, Center for PostNatural History, Marcus Coates, Thalia de Jong, Aleksandra Domanovic, Konstantin Grcic, Christine Herdin/Katharina Wahl, Max Kosoric/Sanne Pawelzyk, Silvia Knüppel, Dietrich Luft, Christien Meindertsma, Next Nature Network, Ana Rajcevic, Veronica Ranner, Peter Schäfer, Johanna Schmeer, Susana Soares, Sputniko, ThreeASFOUR, Thomas Thwaites, Marije Vogelzang, Pinar Yoldas. Text in English and Dutch.
£15.30
Kerber Verlag Richard Deacon: About Time
Book SynopsisFor more than four decades, the sculptural oeuvre of the internationally renowned artist Richard Deacon (*1949) has masterfully circled around elementary questions of sculpture and how it is perceived. In doing so, the British artist is drawn to extreme solutions. Putting sculpture in relation to viewers by means of language is also an important element. Whether in wood, steel, aluminum, ceramic, or synthetic materials, the tremendous variety of the forms developed astonishes to the same degree as their handcrafted or industrial execution. In 2017, Richard Deacon was awarded the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture for his life's work.Text in English and German.
£33.00
Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Alfredo Jaar
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£36.10
Walther Koenig Deprived of Rights and Property: The Art Dealer
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£33.20
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Valie Export: Archive Matters. To read and to
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£38.40
Lugemik Flow of Patterns. Works of Jaanus Samma
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£30.40
Hatje Cantz Ernst Wilhelm Nay (German Edition):
Book SynopsisThe three-volume catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by E. W. Nay (1902–1968) will provide art historians, art dealers, and every art lover with a long-awaited chance to survey Nay’s oeuvre and gain an understanding of his art.With more than six thousand watercolors, gouaches, and drawings, Nay’s works on paper far outnumber his oil paintings. He was an indefatigable artist who persistently put down on paper his ideas about form and color. The sheaves embody a “journal” of his work and allow the reader to draw conclusions about his work methods. While they document the processes behind his artistic activities and research, these works are at the same time autonomous creations. They impressively elucidate the artist’s ambition and development.
£135.00
Hatje Cantz E. W. Nay (German Edition): Werkverzeichnis der
Book SynopsisThe three-volume catalogue raisonné of the works on paper by E. W. Nay (1902–1968) will provide art historians, art dealers, and every art lover a long-awaited chance to survey Nay’s oeuvre and gain an understanding of his art.With more than six thousand watercolors, gouaches, and drawings, Nay’s works on paper far outnumber his oil paintings. He was an indefatigable artist who persistently put down his ideas of form and color on paper. The sheets embody - so to speak - his work journal and allow the reader to draw conclusions about his methods of artistic approach. Whereas on one hand they document the processes behind his artistic research and activities, the works on paper at the same time are autonomous creations. They impressively elucidate the artist’s ambition and development.
£135.00
Hatje Cantz Maria Sibylla Merian (German Edition): Künstlerin
Book SynopsisAt the young age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian had already begun her systematic entomological research with a study of the silk worm, a description of which opens her second book, entitled Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandlung ...(The Caterpillar's Wondrous Metamorphosi...). Motivated by reports on the flora and fauna of Surinam published by missionaries of the pietistic Labadist church, which she joined in 1685, she undertook a perilous journey to the tropics. Following her return home, she had her insect studies - life-sized drawings of insects on parchment - engraved in copper, adding descriptions of each species and its habitat. Four editions of these large-format engravings were published between 1719 and 1771. The epochal accomplishment of the painter, engraver and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian is to be found in the artistic perfection of her presentation of the results of meticulous entomological research, decades before the appearance of Linné's Systema Naturae in 1735.Following the seminal studies by Elisabeth Rücker, this publication is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Maria Sibylla Merian. It focuses not only on her artistic and scientific achievements but on her role as a publisher and entrepreneur as well. New material on the life and work of this extraordinary artist is provided in the form of unpublished letters and 40 previously unpublished water-colors from her St. Petersburg sketchbook.
£21.84
Hatje Cantz Personalities
Book SynopsisIn Personalities, people open doors into their very personal immediate surroundings: their homes and spaces of creative work. As different as they are, what connects them is something very special: the USM modular furniture system.We set out on a journey into their lifeworlds and let them tell the stories behind the pieces of furniture—each one as individual as their owners. While the stories constitute the heart of Personalities, well-known specialist authors supplement the subject of “personality” with a psychological and sociological perspective.We take a trip into personality psychology, cast a glance in the direction of popular culture, and ultimately take a look at personality in the field of tension between having and being, between material culture and lifestyle.The diversity of those portrayed is reflected in the variety of the accompanying essays, which call attention to the facets around the concept of personality in an entertaining and unexpected way.
£43.13
Hatje Cantz Watercolours by Finn Juhl
Book SynopsisIn the rank of great Danish designers, Finn Juhl (1912–1989) is mentioned in the same breath with Hans J. Wegner and Arne Jacobsen. He became particularly well known for his sculptural, seemingly organic tables, chairs, and sofas. However, the complex interior designs he developed in the forties and fifties were also enormously successful. These include the Danish Embassy in Washington, D. C., or the conference room of the United Nations Trusteeship Council in New York. Only the most adept would be aware of the fact that Finn Juhl was also a talented watercolor painter. For the first time, this publication allows readers to take a unique look at the designer’s working method. More than 125 subtle works on paper communicate the ingenuity of their creator: Finn Juhl’s furniture classics, living concepts, and interior designs can finally be experienced in all their complexity, as one can trace their development from the beginning onwards.
£33.25
Hatje Cantz Aaron Curry
Book SynopsisTune Yer Head presents new and recent work by Texas born, LA-based artist Aaron Curry. Known primarily for his colossal biomorphic metal sculptures and more recently for his neon, cosmic paintings, Aaron Curry's work features a unique synthesis of the modernist canon and contemporary cultural touchstones. Influenced by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia and Basil Wolverton, Curry creates an explosive mashup of color, texture and scale. The exhibition at The Bass and the accompanying catalogue survey the diversity of his practice in terms of materiality and form, highlighting the interplay between painting, sculpture and collage.EXHIBITIONOctober 13, 2018 – April 21, 2019The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
£35.00
Hatje Cantz Nathalie Djurberg und Hans Berg (German Edition):
Book SynopsisFor many artists, overcoming the two-dimensional canvas is a central point of reference. The exhibition Tutto and its accompanying catalogue provide insight into various artistic approaches that combine the concepts of opening up, expanding, or overcoming the traditional panel painting. Here, the artists on display range from Carla Accardis, an artist who experiments with canvas, to Enrico Castellanis and Agostino Bonalumis, all the way to Piero Manzoni and his experiments with materials. Other focal points are the relationship between image and text and the visual poetry in experimental works on paper, as well as conceptual photography.
£36.00
Hatje Cantz Four Corridors Design Initiative for RPAs Fourth
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Hatje Cantz Brigitte Lustenberger: An Apparition of Memory
Book SynopsisThe beauty and tenderness of withering and decay In this gorgeous book, Brigitte Lustenberger explores the passing of time, memory and the fragility of life. She transforms flowers dried on glass used for photographic slides into delicate photographs. Celebrating the beauty of decay, Lustenberger leads us into a fascinating world of withered flowers. Her images reveal the incredible details of nature’s ingenious constructions. The artist manages to combine both the fleetingness of a drawing made with light and the preservation of a photograph. Four essays by renowned curators provide insight into the artist’s process-oriented working method, the interweaving of analogue and digital technology in her practice, and contextualize An Apparition of Memory within Western and Japanese photographic and art history.
£54.40
Hatje Cantz Christina Glanz: “I would always go back to the
Book SynopsisPortrait of a World in Utter Transformation Coal workers at the very moment they receive their notice; the last shift before they have to dismantle their own plant; self-confident glances into the camera from the so-called “coal women” to the No-Future generation of the 2000s. From 1982 to 2006, photographer Christina Glanz closely documented the often dramatic transformation processes in the East German lignite region of Niederlausitz. As the Lauchhammer coal and briquette factories have almost completely disappeared today, Christina Glanz’s series of photographs, some of which have never been published before, provide an insight into the historical transformation of a region and its identity. Complemented by an introduction from Katalin Krasznahorkai, an essay by Sonia Voss and transcripts from Christina Glanz’s conversations with coal women after the German reunification, this publication revisits a story of empowerment, confidence and resistance against all the odds from a time of transition to a new world.
£37.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag Simone Fattal Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisSIMONE FATTAL (*1942, Damascus) was born in Syria and raised in Lebanon. She studied philosophy at the École des Lettres in Beirut and at the Sorbonne in Paris, before returning to Beirut and starting to paint in 1969. Fleeing the Civil War in 1980, she settled in California. Fattal currently lives in Paris, and she has had recent exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, Bergen Konsthall, MoMA PS1, New York and the Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech.
£40.50
Hatje Cantz The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
Book SynopsisA Symposium on Consciousness Across Species Emerging from a series of public events at London's Serpentine Gallery, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is an edited collection that brings together interventions across arts, the humanities and science that have been convened over the past five years. They investigate the idea of mind across species and beings, inquiring upon animal, plant and fungal intelligence, consciousness and affects, machine sentience and interspecies communication. Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, the publication includes new material by over fifty experts, including Marisol de la Cadena, Ted Chiang, Peter Gabriel, Amy Hollywood, Tim Ingold, Karrabing Film Collective, Kapwani Kiwanga, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Merlin Sheldrake, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and many more.
£33.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag Kahnweiler Rupf Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisIncludes texts by Michael Baumgartner, Susanne Friedli, Peter Kropmanns, Luise Mahler, Konrad Tobler, Nina Zimmer, Stefan Zweifel.
£43.50
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Paul Klee - Landschaften: Eine Kleine Reise Ins
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