In mid-nineteenth-century Turin, legend has it that, among the forms of discourtesy reserved by the people for the executioner, bakers would hand him the bread upside down as a form of contempt and evil eye

Shortly before the first lockdown, the Austrian conceptual artist and poet Kurt Ryslavy began a new series of paintings titled Werktagsmaler (“Weekday Painter”).

Tribal Art: Oceania – Asia presents a survey of ritual, ceremonial, and sculptural works from Oceania and selected regions of Asia.

When Oswald Wiener and his wife Ingrid moved to Canada in 1984, it was not only an act of intellectual inquiry but also a deliberate decision by the writer to leave art behind.

„Better Read Than Dead“ was the title Seth Siegelaub had chosen for an anthology of his own writing―one of the projects for which he never found the time, busy as he was running his global one-man operation.

Die Publikation erschließt den bedeutenden Bestand niederländischer Zeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts im Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

Marking the company's ninetieth anniversary, this lushly illustrated volume showcases Damiani's tradition of creative and beautifully crafted jewelry-the best of Italian style.

Founded by artists Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner in 1998, Fischerspooner began as a philosophical provocation that sought to explore the expressive potential located in the gap between popular entertainment and art.

Master American photographer Adger Cowans's predominantly black-and-white photography is collected in this monograph of original images taken over the past forty years.

Bestiarium presents a cycle of works in which Francesco Clemente revisits the historical genre of the bestiary—traditionally a compendium of animals charged with symbolic meaning—and translates it into a contemporary painterly language.

One hundred years ago, Edward Sheriff Curtis began a thirty-year odyssey to photograph and document the lives and traditions of the Native peoples of North America.

This book assesses the paintings of Tal R (b. 1967), an Israeli-born Danish artist whose enigmatic work offers intersections of personal experience and

James Caseberes' photographic works depict architectural motifs such as monotonous housing estates, flooded corridors of luxurious villas, bare interiors of prisons, Moorish and Muslim architecture, the underground canal system of Bologna, and the Jewish ghetto in Venice.

Originally trained as a photographer and graphic designer, Michaël Borremans (born in 1963 in Geraardsbergen) has made a name for himself internationally with his dark drawings and enigmatic paintings.

Vienna's Ringstrasse: a world-famous synonym for 19th-century urban design and architecture, whose values remain valid to this day. But hardly anyone would associate the term Ringstrasse with technology.

The publication examines strategies for engaging critically with historical memory in the context of contemporary art,

The first publication of the Barnes Foundation’s important and extensive African art collection. The Barnes Foundation is renowned for

Konrad Klapheck (*1935) gehört zu den bedeutendsten Künstlerpersönlichkeiten in Düsseldorf. Seit Anfang der 1960er Jahre ist

There are no smoking cowboys swinging their lassoes or bare-breasted blondes on heavy motorcycles in this droll collection of highly expressive

Giulia Casartelli created a series of 111 watercolour postcards, each sent to a different selected recipient.

Since the early 1990s, the work of Pedro Cabrita Reis (born 1956 in Lisbon) has revolved around themes of the house, habitation, architecture, and territory.

In Soft Zeros, Mimi Ọnụọha examines the unreliability of archives and the instability of knowledge, exploring how absence and silence – shaped by algorithmic bias,

Generation AK: The Afghanistan Wars 1993–2012 is a retrospective selection of images of the country where Dupont has covered everything from civil war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom and the ongoing war on terrorism.

This edition of Nikolai Gogols classic short story The Overcoat presents the 1842 text together with newly commissioned artwork by Sarah Dobai.

In the 1920s, in Northern Italy, the brothers Camillo, Cezaro and Alfonso Bialetti produced in their workshops aluminum household equipment. Renato Bialetti, son of Alfonso,

Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813–1875) was a pioneer of English photography in the 19th century. His work is both

Die Wahrheit der Photographie brings together, for the first time in German translation, Oscar Gustave Rejlander’s scattered and often hard-to-find writings on photography.

“… was here” was published for Huo Rf’s solo show, curated by Merve Elveren, that took place on September, 2018.

The autochrome process, developed in 1904 by Auguste and Louis Lumière, represents the first industrially produced method of colour photography.

The book accompanies the solo exhibition, conceived by the Generali Foundation Collection

Die beiden Bände Divenire und Werden versammeln insgesamt 137 künstlerische Positionen – von der Renaissance bis in die Gegenwart – und eröffnen vielfältige Perspektiven auf Prozesse künstlerischer Entwicklung.

Freshers is the first project of Sigune Hamann’s residency working with perception and attention in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University in collaboration with neuroscientist Prof Kia Nobre and her students.

„Prime Suspect“ ist die erste internationale Überblicksschau der schottischen Künstlerin Lucy McKenzie (*1977), die im Museum Brandhorst eine Auswahl bedeutender Werke aus allen wichtigen Werkgruppen von 1997 bis heute präsentiert.

Celebrates the revival of weaving with works by influential and contemporary weavers from around the world - An inspiring book for lovers of textiles, interiors and design.

The Complete Papers is the definitive monograph on Thomas Demand, offering an unparalleled overview of his artistic journey spanning nearly three decades.

St Francis of Assisi was the saint who humanised sainthood. He was a man with an ordinary body and ordinary desires.

The Dailies collects snapshots of a world unmistakably our own yet equally strange. Made through Thomas Demand’s renowned practice of constructing, photographing,

This landmark survey explores the flourishing art of book illumination in Italy during the Renaissance—a time of deep cultural transformation.

Renowned for his sculptural approach to furniture and his groundbreaking use of materials and techniques, Paul Evans (1931–1987) occupies a singular position in postwar American design history.

Olaf Breuning: Ugly is a monograph published by Hatje Cantz in 2002, offering a vibrant insight into the playful and provocative work of Swiss artist Olaf Breuning.

'The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art', written in 1971,

Papperlapapp, sagt das Monster, die jetzige Situation erfordert Entscheidungen­­.

Fiddle-dee-dee, says the monster, the present situation calls for decisions.

Solar System & Rest Rooms is a collection of texts and interviews by conceptual artist Mel Bochner, documenting his writing practice over several decades.

This carefully designed and produced monograph on the anglo-american artist seeks to lay bare the imaginary that underlies his work, from Landscape for Fire (1972) to the presentation of his latest piece Coming About (2016).

Dialect by Felipe Romero Beltra?n is a photographic series that follows a group of immigrants who have recently crossed the strait (the maritime border between Morocco and Spain) to avoid border controls.

Concurrent with the exhibition Yuki Okumura, a publication features a conversation among the artist, Aaron Amar Bhamra, and Monika Georgieva, an essay by James Gatt, and numerous illustrations.

GIRL ON CANVAS is an artbook project by Pola Dwurnik about painting and its reception. It explores an aspect of her paintings that is completely beyond the artist's control, the life of her works in the minds of viewers willing to actively engage with them. Over thirty different contributors have written about their intellectual and

Materials Lab sits between sculpture, installation, documentation and research. Material Lab is a landscape’ of materials such as silk threads, books, book segments, exhibition catalogues, models, text fragments, magazine pages, inkjet prints, notes, drawings, marble, steel, bricks, dirt, dust and fragments of artworks drawn from

Disler is regarded as one of the founders of the Neue Wilde movement, making him (along with Miriam Cahn and Klaudia Schifferle) one of the

The artist’s works are mounted on panels, sitting on large pieces of veneered furniture placed around the edges of the rooms.

The richly illustrated book Without and within: essays on territory and the interior contains a series of essays that trace a thread of ideas,

Visual artist Diana Scherer (1971, DE) is one of the pioneers in bio tech art. Scherer lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she studied fine art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her work comprises botany, installations, textile and biotechnology.

Simone Fattal’s exhibition metaphorS is accompanied by a small publication with an interview with Cecilia Alemani, who showed Fattal’s works in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022. A series of black-and-white photographs captures the mood of a spontaneous work meeting with the artist, opening up an intimate space.

A Faggot is a Unit by Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and writer Padraig Robinson, brings together two original screenplays for yet-realized video works by Robinson along with a collection of research material presented as a retrograde calendar. The screenplays, / Imagine Prompt: Catfish Monogamy and The Jealousy of Sagittarius A*, both deal with

The mandragora plant is one of the best recorded gynaecological herbal substances. It is also the only plant in the European context historically depicted as a half-human-half-plant-creature. The mandragora was, is and continues to be haunted by stories.

Linda Carreiro and Lan “Florence” Yee refute the notion that what cannot be apprehended is worthless. Their glossary may be read as a manifesto encouraging us to pay more attention to the blurs and vagueness of our environments and thoughts, and to our societies’ invisibilities – prompting us to open our creative minds and welcome uncertainties and the unknown with generosity.

K. A. Wolf, herausgegeben im Auftrag der Karl Anton Wolf - Stiftung. Opappband, mit zahlreichen Werkabbildungen, sehr guter Zustand.

The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century.