Cindy Sherman, an iconic figure in art history since the 1980s, already questioned the boundary between authentic self-portraiture and staged self-enactment in her first major series, Untitled Film Stills (1977–1980).

In her films, photographs, and sound works, Tacita Dean uses silence, time, and entropy to explore particular human sensibilities.

German photographer Thomas Demand (b. 1964) is one of the most highly acclaimed artists of his generation.

The publication explores labour, industry, and social change through photography.

Industrial photography is presented here as a field in transition:

Industrial photography appears here as a broad visual field in which labour, technology, architecture, production, and social organization become visible.

Featuring an interview with curator Massimiliano Gioni and an essay by novelist Andrew Winer, this beautifully illustrated catalog documents virtuosic new work by British artist Glenn Brown.

Renaissance art and architecture are presented here through images, diagrams, and interactive paper elements.

The book examines 18th-century Mexican painting as a distinct and highly productive artistic field.

Buenos Aires is seen through façades, shopfronts, signs, interiors, and fragments of everyday urban life.

Arnulf Rainer’s work is defined by overpainting, erasure, intensification, and physical intervention.

Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age.

What makes a person an artist? How do works of art come into being, and

Leiko Ikemura, an artist originally from Japan, has lived in Europe for nearly thirty years. Her artistic practice is shaped by her engagement with these two cultural spheres.

Photography is approached here as a form of social observation, political attention, and critical image-making.

Am 14. Oktober 1959 erschien die erste Ausgabe des Schweizer Boulevardblatts BLICK.

Joseph Beuys used the poster as an important medium for communication, distribution, and public visibility.

The Düsseldorf School marks one of the most influential developments in late twentieth-century photography.

Food production is examined here as an industrial, cultural, and political field.

"This “history” came about because my friends, Sarah Dudley and Ulie Kuhle, litho printers in Berlin, were given about 100 litho stones from a former Socialist art academy in what was the D.D.R.