Vincent van Gogh’s career lasted just a decade, but in this short time he created more than two thousand paintings, including some of the most famous and influential works of Western art. He was also
Active in Germany in the years leading up to World War I, the Blue Rider was a collective of artists, cofounded by Wassily Kandinsky,?that was?a key influence on Expressionism. This volume offers a hi
Over a thirty-year career, Austrian-American photographer Elfie Semotan has assembled a kaleidoscopic collection of portraits and studio stills from her encounters with other artists, from Georg Basel
Expressionism powerfully heralded the onset of the twenties. Today, the buildings that remain demonstrate great creativity with form and skillful use of light, color, and material, highlighting vertic
When Marc Chagall, Kasimir Malevich, and the other artists of the Russian Avant-Garde created art in opposition to the sanctioned style of Socialist Realism, they set off an artistic revolution that r
Colours are only reflected light, assembled in our brains, which is also known as "grey matter". The author spent two years photographing archaic landscapes throughout the world. In this title, the ph
Maria Beykirch’s drawings and paintings are imbued with multiple layers of meaning. Words and digits lie concealed within intricate compositions, gradually conjuring in the eyes and minds of viewers a
Georg Baselitz spent the formative years of his painting career in West Germany, where an early impetus behind his work was the question of the country’s still-troubled national identity and the disco
Gabriela von Habsburg has created a diverse body of sculptural works, which can be seen throughout Europe and the United States, including a 1990 sculpture at the National Academy of Science in Washin
Cutting and shredding paper and other media, Austrian contemporary artist Monika Fioreschy reconstitutes these materials as large-scale collages, reassembling them strip-by-strip so that the end resul
Eva and Adele are living works of art, as anyone who has encountered them on the streets of their home city of Berlin can attest. The radical artistic couple claims to have come here in a time machine
We tend not think about the waste created by our modern consumer society: millions of tons of garbage, slag, and tanks filled with waste oil left over after the refining process. But for more than thi
Richard Gerstl (1883–1908) painted for just four years, but the work he produced in that short period is widely seen as well ahead of his time, including Self Portrait Against a Blue Background and Th
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Mayan people of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula began a series of revolts against the Hispanic population in political and economic control, and, although the Maya finall
This attractively designed publication documents the work of Hirmer Verlag during the past 65 years. Since 1948 a total of over 1,100 titles have appeared under this brand name. True to the motto “Art
Boxing is a de facto national sport of Cuba, rivaling baseball as the country’s best-loved pastime and with an equally rich history. In the backyards and beaten alleyways of Havana, boys emulate homet
Ludwig Meidner (1884–1966) was an important, but little known, figure in the German expressionist movement. His early Apocalyptic Landscapes are today seen as some of the purest examples of expression
Cities, like people, possess character. From the shared experiences of the people who live in a city emerges a collective portrait, yet the portrait remains ever-changing, a re?ection of the shifting
Sex, death, and the female body’s capacity for renewal and transformation are among the themes that emerge from the paintings, drawings, and photographs of German-born contemporary artist Janaina Tsch
Photographic portraiture has long been one of the principal expressions of popular art in Africa, but, from the nineteenth-century to independence, the thematic scope was largely limited to the sitter
