Art History

Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller is a catalog released in conjunction with his first major monographic exhibition at Lightbox Film Center and ...

Hermann Nitsch produced his first poured paintings around 1960. In this form of action painting, the artist is primarily concerned with the subst...

In 1959 Daniel Spoerri pioneered the first programmatic series of multiplesthree-dimensional objects issued in editionto be broadly distributed. Wi...

The first monograph of a contemporary artist, whose work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be blinded by the conventi...

The Illustrations of the Book of Job were Blake's last masterpiece of printmaking. Commissioned by the painter John Linnell, they were based on wat...

In this publication the sinologist Rupprecht Mayer presents 143 Chinese reverse glass paintings from a private collection in southern Germany. Tr...

The catalogue presents for the first time the rich Tibetan artistic heritage through the collection of Michael and Justyna Buddeberg: carpet man...

Artists, both historical and contemporary, have been captivated by books. From Rembrandts mother studying the Bible, to Edvard Munch asleep next to...

John Grades drawings, sculptures and installations are weathered, marked, worn and disintegrated. Made of reclaimed wood or paper, the works ar...

The drawings of Israeli artist Eran Shakine may look carefree and casual, but their message is serious: Muslims, Christians, and Jews share a histo...

E. McKnight Kauffer (American, 1890-1954) was a pioneering figure who transformed the field of graphic design between the wars. He drew upon the em...

Chunghi Choo (b. 1938 in South Korea) is a world-renowned metalsmith and jewellery artist who is best known for her works that incorporate such tec...

Jun Kaneko, born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942 and based in Omaha, Nebraska, since 1986, is revered for his role in establishing modern ceramic art...

Contemporary art is the object of inflated and widely divergent claims. But what kind of discourse can open it up effectively to critical analysis?...

Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and...

South African sculptor Angus Taylor, born in Johannesburg in 1970 and alumnus of the University of Pretoria, is known mainly for his monumental wor...