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Networks, Resources and Economic Action (Kulturanalysen) מאת Clemens Greiner The contributions to this extensive work cover a broad range of topics connected to networks, resources, and economic action. They are based on ethnographic field research in East and Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, North, Middle and South America as well as Europe. They took place as well in rural...

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Text and Picture Reportage of the 16th Century Western Reports about America and the Ottoman Empire (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck-Institutt) מאת Ulrike Ilg Travel reportages from America and the Ottoman Empire are most important to the European culture history of the 16th century. They report about the consequences of the broadening of geographic horizons and how they began to sway the traditional European views and standards. People were forced to har...

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Daum Nancy III מאת Katharina Buettiker The fantastic glasses from the manufacturer Daum Freres are considered - besides the creations from Emile Galle - to be the byword for French Jugendstil and art nouveau. Never before or after this period there was a more outstanding production of glass. The absolutely beautiful glass objects of this...

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Lithuanian Horses מאת Various Lithuanian horses are part of Lithuania?s cultural heritage. Horse lovers, professionals and amateurs, know about the old horse breed ?emaitukas. Though ?emaitukai gave the beginning of three breeds: Trakehner, Lithuanian Heavy Draught Horses and ?emaitukas the heavy-type, they themselves were on th...

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What of Shoes? Van Gogh and Art History מאת Geoffrey Batchen Old and used looking, that's how the most openly discussed shoes in art history look: a pair of black working boots, painted by Vincent van Gogh in Paris in 1886. Philosophers and art historians alike fight to this day about the meaning of art and the nature of being by means of this painting. This ...

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Modern Life. Edward Hopper and His Time מאת Otrud Westheider The loneliness of big city life was Edward Hopper's subject. His works have come to symbolize the melancholy of modern life. The catalogue shows six of Edward Hopper's major works together with around 65 other masterpieces from the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Works by such artists as...

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Matisse People, Masks, Models מאת Various Henri Matisse (1869 ?1954), is considered to be one of the preeminent artists of the early twentieth century. By placing its focus on the artist?s portraits, the show as well as the exhibition catalogue will concentrate on a facet of his oeuvre, which has never yet been the theme of an exhibition. T...

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Skiing in Fine Arts and Design מאת Karin Rase Skiing has incurred promotionally effective liaisons with designers and artists since its beginning, as this books demonstrates with many examples. Selected sports competitions are shown in connection with their advertising materials since the beginning of the 20th century: Posters, book jackets, fl...

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Christian Schad ? Retrospective מאת Anna Auer Christian Schad?s (1894?1982) cool vibrant portraits, with their immaculate surface and the expressive eyes, functioning as 'a mirror to the soul', soon became icons of the twenties. Apart from its focus on these world-famous key works representing the artist?s decisive contribution to the Neue Sach...

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Art in Vilnius מאת Laima Lauckaite At the turn of the 20th century Lithuania was an integral part of Europe, centrally placed between the Russian, German and Austrian empires. Its capital, Vilnius, with 40% of its inhabitants Jewish was influenced by all of the mainstream arts of the neighboring art movements. Out of these various st...

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Guide to the Collection St,del Museum מאת Various The St,del is one of the leading and best known art museums in Germany. It is a must for any visitor to Frankfurt. 700 years of European history from the early 14th century until today are represented in a collection of 2,700 paintings, 600 sculptures and 100,000 prints and drawings by artists rangi...

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The Monochrome Principle מאת Monika Kopplin Following in the steps of >The Colors and Forms of Song and Yuan China<, a pioneering exhibition organized by the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts in Tokyo and covering the full spectrum of lacquerware, ceramics, and metalwork, the present publication, which was made possible by the Museum fur Lackkunst ...

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Henri Le Sidaner. A magical Impressionist מאת Multiple Henri Le Sidaner (1862-1939), an important French artist, has been forgotten for a long time. Unjustly, as he created his own independent and refined style. The impressionists coloring and subtle translucency give his works a fine poesy hidden magic. He influenced with his uncommon style many of the...

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Christian Schad ? Catalogue Raisonn,, Volume I:Paintings (Catalogue Raisonne) מאת Mustertitel Christian Schad (1894?1982) is considered one of the most important representatives of Neue Sachlich?keit (New Objectivity). Sometimes realistic to the point of exaggeration, his famous portraits mirror Society in the ?Golden Twenties? on the edge of political upheaval and social injustice. The radi...

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Talents 14, Young Photography/Art Criticism מאת Multiple With the exhibition series Talents, C/O e.V. is supporting up-and-coming photographers and art critics who are launching their careers. Each solo exhibition is accompanied by a publication in which images and texts enter into a dialogue: the emerging talents introduce themselves and their projects t...

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Never Trust a Loving God מאת Nick Tosches Nick Tosches discovered Thierry Alonso Gravleur's paintings in one of the major Los Angeles art galleries. He was immediately stricken by the strength of Gravleur's expressionist works which almost obsessively explore the human face: Gravleur is capable of rendering a face like no-one since Rembrand...

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Berlin New Architecture A guide to new buildings from 1989 to today מאת Michael Imhof This richly illustrated architecture guide introduces all new buildings that have been built since the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Photographs of each building and square are completed with short background information about the location and its history. The new Berlin architecture does not ...

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Van Gogh Southbound מאת Various Van Gogh became Van Gogh during his stay in Provence in the course of a few seasons: everything has been written about this period! Everything has been shown, including the paintings and the sites from which the painter got his inspiration. But there was room for a book which would aim to take the r...

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The Neues Museum Berlin Conserving, restoring, rebuilding within the World Heritage מאת Mustertitel During World War 2 the Neues Museum was almost completely destroyed. Now, on the Berlin Museum Island with its tremendous diversity of demands for the restoration it has become the classic example for the preservation of historic monuments. It is rebuilt due to the plans of the world renown architec...

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Vladimir Tarasov: between sound and image מאת Various Tarasov attained prominence as a member of the Ganalin Trio an extraordinary free jazz group during the Soviet-era in Russia and Lithuania. He is an energetic resourceful player combined with a fine ear for tonal color. He then began to create arrangements around his powerful music incorporating or ...

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Circa 1808: Restructuring Knowledges (Internationale Schelling-Vorlesung an Der Akademie Der Blidenden Kunste Munchen) מאת Peter Burke The Munich Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1808, therefore Burke, professor emeritus at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, focuses on cultural contexts around 1800. In this work, he describes the growing interest in art, culture, science, history, as well as a growing...

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Rom. Photographic Diary מאת Christoph Brech Christoph Brech (born 1964), after completing his studies at the Akademie der K nste in Munich, made a name for himself with videos and room installations. The starting points for Brech?s works are chance observations of seeming irregularities, which he then captures in striking, timeless images. Wi...

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Berlin: Art and Architecture מאת Michael Imhof This title gives a comprehensive and colorful overview of the history, architecture and the arts from the early middle ages to the present of the old and new German capital. Large-format architectural photographs, historic drawings and plans show the development of this important European metropolis...

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Inlaid Patchwork in Europe from 1500 to the Present מאת Multiple This is the very first publication to document, introduce and discuss around 70 inlaid patchworks created from 1500 to the present day. The objects are held by various museums and private collections in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia...

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Frankfurt מאת Multiple The Architectural Guides from the tried and trusted Reimer Verlag series are readable, clearly set out and in a handy format. For all their brevity, the texts are informative and critical, a considerable achievement. These guides do not only line out the more or less famous ensembles, places, and bu...

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Black=/Black מאת Multiple The color Black has a long tradition in Chinese art and also has a special meaning since a long time as it is in European painting. Black=/Black presents the results of the intercultural art seminar with Chinese and German students at the Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, Germany and shows the works, th...

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Sort of Safe מאת Multiple Photojournalism in Scandinavia is of a high, international standard. Especially Danish photographers have won several prices in World Press Photo and other international competitions during the past ten years. Some of the best up-and-coming photographers participated in a series of Master classes in...

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Museumsinsel Berlin / Museum Island Funf Hauser und ihre Schatze (German Edition) מאת Gaertringen Hans This album gives a short overview of the main works in the five museums of the Berlin Museum Island. The tour starts with the antique collections of Schinkel?s Old Museum and continues to the paintings and sculptures in the Old National Gallery. It follows to the antiques in the Pergamon Museum and ...

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The Great Masters of Albertina מאת Klaus Schroeder This magnificent volume presents around 300 of the most important and valuable drawings from the famous collection of the Albertina. The selection covers works from the early fifteenth century to the present, from priceless sheets by Raphael, Michelangelo, D rer, Rubens, Rembrandt, Watteau and Bouch...

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Grand Prix מאת Giacomo Bretzel Ever since its creation in 1997, the Historical Monaco Grand Prix has firmly established itself as one of the leading events in the world of antique car racing. Designed to celebrate the bygone golden years of car making, this race unlike any other takes place every other year and is organized by th...

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The Rakh Icon: Discovery of its True Identity מאת Gertenlauer Renate The book begins with the discovery of an insignificant icon at a little antique dealer in Tallin, Estonia. During an intensive examination of this 300 year old painting the author found another icon, hidden under the actual icon and a black oil layer, the now famous Rakh Icon. This work describes in...

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Expanding Horizons Hiliard T. Goldfarb

Expanding Horizons מאת Hiliard T. Goldfarb This unique book is the catalogue of a travelling exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It examines American and Canadian landscape painting and photography in an era of great artistic and historical transformation coinciding with the American Civil wa...