The Arts Books
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Uncannily Real: Italian Painting of the 1920s
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£35.91
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Die Brücke 1905-1914
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£38.25
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Franz Marc: Die Sammlung
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£35.91
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Ich Bin Ich: Paula Modersohn-Becker. Die
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£26.91
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Point of No Return: Wende Und Umbruch in Der
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£40.50
Hirmer Verlag Liz Collins
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume positions Liz Collins as a singular figure who not only synthesizes fine art, craft, and fashion and textile design, but also fiercely advocates for Queer and feminist politics. This book complements the first major survey of the artist's work in an American museum. This book celebrates Liz Collins, the Queer feminist artist known for her radical deployment of fiber, her activism around labor and gender politics, and her exploration of the borderlands between art, design, and craft. It assembles work from the late 1990s to now, presenting needlework, drawings, performance documentation, and large-scale sculpture. Contributors survey her life and career, address her unique relationship to craft and labor, and celebrate dynamic resonances in her work.
£29.96
Hirmer Verlag Native Studio Art Since the 1920s
Book SynopsisAdvancing multi-vocal knowledge on critical yet overlooked movements, this collection catalogue from the Saint Louis Art Museum explores the field of Native modern studio art and expands narratives of Indigenous art more broadly. This catalogue introduces a new collection of Native Modern art. Across 100 works in a range of media, the William P. Healey Collection at the Saint Louis Art Museum includes 63 artists with a focus on the Western United States. The book's comprehensive breadth conveys major narratives and key figures of 20th-century Native American art. Advancing multi-vocal knowledge on critical yet overlooked movements, this catalogue introduces the field of Native modern art and expands narratives of Indigenous art more broadly.
£38.25
Hirmer Verlag Leonardo Durer
Book SynopsisDürer's Praying Hands are one of the world's most popular artworks. Few artists have changed the art world more profoundly than Leonardo and Dürer. They bring their subjects to life with breath-taking virtuosity, creating masterpieces of incredible intimacy. Mythology, religious faith and history, images of everyday life and travel scenes were core themes of the 15th century and stand at the centre of the art displayed in the drawings of Leonardo and Dürer. The images reveal their charm in the interplay of chiaroscuro effects on coloured paper. The works of both masters are shown alongside sheets by their contemporaries like Albrecht Altdorfer and Raphael. How could this art form assert its independence and what made it so popular and successful? The lavish publication examines these fascinating questions and illustrates the wide-ranging expressive possibilities that the technique offers.
£36.00
Hirmer Verlag The True Size of Africa
Book SynopsisOpening up the cosmos of an entire continent New perspectives on Africa This lavishly illustrated volume approaches the vast continent of Africa from a variety of viewpoints; beyond prejudice and stereotypes, via cultural history and contemporary art: by means of permanent changes of perspective and a diversity of artistic voices. The history of humankind meets the colonial past and the omnipresence of aspects of Africa in many regions of the world. On the one hand, surprising views of Africa are focused on from Europe. And on the other, works and installations by Africans or protagonists from the diaspora present ideas, impulses and identities which all signify Africa. The texts illustrate the broad time frame from the first humans to Pan-Africanism and Afro-Futurism, as well as present literary and philosophical narratives.
£42.50
Hirmer Verlag Human Marks
Book SynopsisHeavily illustrated, this publication features 30 artists who worked during the pivotal period between 1948 and 1978, and practiced in a range of media from painting and sculpture to printmaking, drawing and architecture. Featuring an introductory essay by exhibition curator Pantea Haghighi that surveys the range of artistic and political influences on the emergence of Iranian modernisms, and a selection of focused essays by scholars and curators Fereshteh Daftari, Davood Madadpoor and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 194878 is a timely addition to the scholarship on both alternate modernisms and the history of Iranian art. Human Marks: Tattooing in Contemporary Art explores convergences between tattoo culture and global contemporary art. Presenting a range of media by sixteen artists who also tattoo, this richly illustrated book unpacks how the ethics, strategies, and concerns of tattooing shape the artists' studio practices in experimental and revelatory ways. Through an introductory essay, artist profiles, and additional texts and interviews, Human Marks presents the full creative spectrum of artists who maintain both tattoo and studio practices to ask what the world of fine art can learn from today's tattoo community. With a range of surprising mediafrom paintings made with human blood to wearable works in silicone and even perfumerythemes of ritual, ethics, and identity tie together the materially dynamic, unexpected, and challenging artwork featured in Human Marks. Artist Profiles: Kaur Alia Ahmed, Oz Bardos, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Evan Paul English, Gesiye, Don Ed Hardy, Ciara Havishya, Dr. Lakra, Duke Riley, Miller Robinson, Tamara Santibañez, Lyric Shen, Jayna Won. Additional contributions by: Kaur Alia Ahmed, Makoto Chi, Nassim Dayoub, Don Ed Hardy, Tamara Santibañez, Fiona Smith, and Stevie Soares, Marcia Tucker, and V. Vale
£36.00
Hirmer Verlag From Odesa to Berlin
Book SynopsisImportant 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 alongside texts in English, German, and Ukrainian a symbol of solidarity with Ukraine and its cultural institutions. At the heart of this publication are seventy-six works from the painting collection of the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art masterpieces of European art that span the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Presented in an art historical dialogue with exquisite works from Berlin's Gemäldegalerie, this unique collection encompasses Biblical and mythological stories from Italy and the Netherlands, portraits, still lifes, genre scenes, images of the Madonna, and landscapes by artists such as Francesco Granacci, Bernardo Strozzi, Cornelis de Heem, Frans Hals, and Andreas Achenbach.
£28.00
Hirmer Verlag Black Ancient Futures
Book SynopsisArtists from the vast African diaspora challenging the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa The visual and textual proposals presented in this book challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental reality. These are broad proposals that do not aim to illustrate a current or movement, but embrace the creation of fantasies, science-fiction narratives, and discourses where criticism, satire and irony are evident. This book brings together a significant group of voices from the vast African diaspora that offers dense visual and philosophical thought rich in references to African history, mysticism, mythology, ecology and fictions. Through visual and textual proposals, these voices challenge the dominant aesthetic representations of Africa through languages that propose and reimagine a past, a present and a future for the black artistic experience in a transcontinental reality.
£28.80
Hirmer Verlag Poetry of Light
Book SynopsisAlongside artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, Richard Pousette-Dart (19161992) was one of the most important pioneers of Abstract Expressionism. Sixty outstanding works from all creative phases allow us to immerse ourselves in the colourful and multifaceted oeuvre of this remarkable artist. The American avant-garde movement of Abstract Expressionism radically changed the course of modern painting. Like many of his fellow artists, Pousette-Dart was intensely preoccupied with themes such as myth, spirituality, and the archaic. His light-flooded works often evoke ideas of transcendental force through motifs reminiscent of the firmament or the charged energy of celestial bodies. This opulent volume impressively presents Pousette-Dart's art as a poetry of light.
£33.75
Hirmer Verlag Marta AstfalckVietz
Book SynopsisExperimenting with light and shadow, multiple exposures, surrealist imagery, and role-play this is the artistic terrain of Marta Astfalck-Vietz (19011994). Her spellbinding photography from the 1920s stages bodies, interweaves pictorial planes, and exhibits dreamlike realities created through her own unique methods. Groundbreaking, innovative, fantasticalphotos by an extraordinary artist of the Berlin avant-garde
£33.75
Hirmer Verlag Indigenous Identities
Book SynopsisIndigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always marks the largest curatorial endeavor in artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith's curatorial career and emphasizes her pivotal role in bringing forth a living Native Art history. Indigenous Identities, featuring over 100 works, is accompanied by a full-color catalog of the same title that is fully Indigenous-led.
£33.75
Hirmer Verlag Mack Face to Face
Book SynopsisMuch 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 sitting in conversation with this fascinating and renowned figure. A world-class artist is at once simple and very complex. On the one hand, a human being, like all of us, on the other, permeated by a web of motifs and ideas that one can scarcely guess at. Based on numerous conversations since 2020, the present volume explores this charged duality in Heinz Mack. We follow the artist closely through his eventful life, from the years of the Second World War to the present day. Like a second voice, original quotes placed in the margin accompany the narrative and lend this unusual biography its unique charm.
£33.75
Hirmer Verlag From Dawn Till Dusk
Book SynopsisIt is always with us: our shadow. But when it comes to art, what role does this constant companion play? Richly illustrated and vividly narrated, this publication reveals the wide range of approaches and levels of meaning that shadow has in contemporary painting and photography, and in video art and installations. How did shadow arrive in art? A visual journey at play with light and darkness
£33.75
Hirmer Verlag Queer Modernity
Book SynopsisDesire, eroticism, playing with gender these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to the creative process, but rather as foundational. By approaching the art through a perspective of queer aesthetics, the aim is to discover the visual worlds of hitherto little-known figures of international modernism, from Eastern and Western Europe and from North and South America. Dazzling, erotic, groundbreaking An alternative history of modernism
£33.75
Hirmer David Katzenstein
Book SynopsisNew York-based photographer David Katzenstein travels the world on his lifelong artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. Using subject, light and composition to create visual dynamism, he invites viewers to be in the moment with him. Katzenstein is the managing editor of the Barkley L. Hendricks Photography Archive. To date, he has published three monographs: Ritual (2022), Distant Journeys (2024), and Brownie (2025).
£33.75
Hirmer Verlag Network Paris
Book SynopsisA journey to the art capital of the 1930s: Paris. The avant-garde group abstraction-création and its fifty or so members were an inspiration to the art world with their clear lines and kaleidoscopic experiments with form. Leading figures of abstraction joined together to support artistic freedom and oppose the rise of fascism, before modernism shifted its gravitational centre to New York. Liberal, progressive and visionary: a network for abstract art!
£26.40
Hirmer Verlag Senga Nengudi
Book SynopsisRadically expanding our understanding of Senga Nengudi's art, this book publishes never-before-seen drawings, prints, photographs, performance scores and poetry, spanning five decades of her practice. At the intersection of sculpture, photography and performance the African American avant-garde art of Senga Nengudi
£29.96
Hirmer Verlag Damien Hirst
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£28.00
Hirmer Verlag Stephan Maria Lang
Book SynopsisInfluenced by organic architecture, Stephan Maria Lang designs and builds beautiful ensembles of house and garden. Generous living spaces, which become even more fascinating over the years, are shaped through an interplay between architectural elegance and design of the natural environment. Premium uncoated art stock paper. Finally a renowned architect who designs spectacular houses with gardens
£29.96
Hirmer Verlag You Will Not Be Forgotten
Book SynopsisThe second volume from the Art of the Lost Generation Museum continues to explore artists who were excluded, persecuted, censored or driven into obscurity under the Nazi regime. As one of the era's few remaining contemporary witnesses, Heinz R. Böhme has assembled this collection to preserve the legacy for future generations. Hidden stories and new artistic discoveries from the Nazi era
£40.50
Hirmer Gothic Modern
Book SynopsisRalph Gleis was director of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin and curator of numerous exhibitions on the art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Since 2025 he is General Director of the Albertina in Vienna.
£40.50
Hirmer Verlag Ana Kostova
Book SynopsisHer love: playing with colour and form. Her approach: large-format image grounds cut with a milling machine that Ana Kostova (b. 1995) sands and paints by hand. Unique in technique, unique in effect precise, brightly coloured, richly varied. At times more of a painting, at other times a sculpture, or even a kind of screen standing in the room. These impressive cutouts are not easily forgotten. The finest handwork - Colourful abstraction between painting and sculpture
£22.46
Hirmer Body of Power
Book SynopsisStephan Koja was the Director of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister and the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and since 2023 is the Director of LIECHTENSTEIN. The Princely Collections, VaduzVienna.
£40.50
Gebruder Mann Verlag Der Mensch: Unterricht Am Bauhaus
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£41.65
Gebruder Mann Verlag Vergluhte Traume: Werke Junger Kunstler - Opfer
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£25.00
Gebruder Mann Verlag Tim Eitel. Das Investigative Bild:
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£50.15
Gebruder Mann Verlag Designpatente Der Moderne 1840-1970
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£76.00
Gebruder Mann Verlag Ein Anderer Zeitgeist: Positionen Figurlicher
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£37.05
Gebruder Mann Verlag Das Braune Haus Der Kunst: Hitler Und Der
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£41.65
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Malweiber Von Paris: Deutsche Kunstlerinnen
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£22.41
Gebruder Mann Verlag Mit Einem Mann Mocht Ich Nicht Tauschen: Ein
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£37.19
Gebruder Mann Verlag Der Traum Vom Museum: Die Kunstkammer Im Berliner
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£46.55
Gebruder Mann Verlag Der Tschechoslowakische Werkbund Und Der Werkbund
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£46.55
Gebruder Mann Verlag Kunst ALS Waffe - Der Einsatzstab Reichsleiter
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£44.10
Gebruder Mann Verlag Paul Klees Geheime Symbolik
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£44.10
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Buhne Im Bauhaus
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£64.60
Gebruder Mann Verlag Von Material Zu Architektur
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£64.60
Gebruder Mann Verlag Padagogisches Skizzenbuch
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£41.65
Prestel Vivan Sundaram: Disjunctures
Book SynopsisVivan Sundaram’s eclecticism is a distinctive feature of his work and is the focus of this monograph. A pioneer of installation art in India, Sundaram started off as a painter in the late 1960s but his desire to break free of the limits imposed by the pictorial frame only came to fruition in the early 1990s, when Sundaram began making works that no longer hinged on the specificity of a medium. This change in artistic direction coincided with his interest in exploring the materiality of a range of substances, whether artisanal or industrial. Sundaram’s choice of materials has had a thematic resonance in the different bodies of work that he has made over the last twenty-five years. His practice keenly registers the civic dimension and political import of art. History, memory, and archive are the overarching concerns of his work. These themes define and structure this important publication and offer an open-ended framework for exploring the oeuvre of a highly original artist.
£40.50
Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Verlag Imagining Byzantium: Perceptions, Patterns,
Book SynopsisByzantium the other. Byzantium the pompous. Byzantium the eternal. The mere existence of this empire spurred the minds of people of all ranks during its existence and well after its ultimate demise in 1453. Neglecting its great political and cultural influence, Enlighteners divested Byzantium of its historic reality and created a model to be applied in completely different constructs. With the rise of nationalism in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th century, the reception of Byzantium gained new facets and dimensions. In this volume some light will be shed on the different ways in which »Byzantium« was used in constructing new national narratives, and how its legacy endured in ecclesiastical historiography.
£40.82
Schott Music Ltd Jazz Harmony Think Listen Play A Practical
Book SynopsisHow do we bridge the gap between theory and the music we love? This book aims to establish as close a relationship as possible between theory, the ear and our instrument. ''Jazz Theory - Think Listen Play'' is a comprehensive approach to improvisation, translating knowledge into sound, developing out musical imagination and finding our ''inner voice'', which then guides us on our instrument. It will be a rewarding journey for any aspiring musician, music teacher and Jazz player.Always remember - there is no truth in theory, only in music. Enjoy!Free audio tracks may be downloaded from www.schott-music.com/online-material [1]. (For voucher code, please refer to Audio Track List in book.) Additional free resources for further study are available at schott-music.com/shop/326750Links:------[1] http://www.schott-music.com/online-material
£30.39
Schott Musik International GmbH & Co KG Notenbuch Fur Nannerl
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£14.21
Schwabe Rudolf Steiners Faust-Rezeption: Interpretationen
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£81.70
Schwabe Petra. Wunder in Der Wuste, Textband: Auf Den
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£43.20
