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山丘上的鞦韆，靜靜看著海，也陪伴著主角度過童年、友情、初戀與告別。歲月更迭，朋友離去、四季變換，鞦韆也逐漸老去。《The Swing》透過柔和拼貼與詩意文字，描繪時間如何悄悄改變一切，也讓回憶變得珍貴。這是一本屬於所有年齡的繪本，輕聲訴說著：那些最深刻的時光，會一直留在心裡，不曾遠離。A poetic book about the passage of time. A swing on a hill overlooking the water is at the center of this lovely meditation on childhood, growing older, friendship and loss. “The swing has always been in this place—ever since I can remember,” declares the narrator. “Here we stood together, looking out to sea, waiting for something to change.. . for something new, something exciting.But every day was the same.” But as seasons change and years pass, things do change. Friends come and go, lovers meet and kiss, spring turns to autumn, and the swing set grows creaky with age. All of these changes are gorgeously communicated by Teckentrup’s signature collage paintings that employ soft, radiant colors and simple yet powerful compositions.With its equally compelling text, readers of every age will experience time as a gentle but inescapable force, bring

Now available in a beautiful new compact edition, this book presents a meditative, arresting and dazzling collection of 240 black-and-white images of Japan, made over almost 30 years by the internationally renowned photographer Michael Kenna. A rocky coast along the Sea of Japan; an immense plain of rice fields in the snow; Mount Fuji towering over misty wooded hills; silent temples devoid of people but brimming with Buddhist deities; a Torii gate mysteriously emerging from moving clouds and water--these are a few images from this remarkable collection of photographs by Michael Kenna, whose black-and-white work is highly renowned. Forms of Japan, brilliantly designed by Yvonne Meyer-Lohr, is organized into chapters simply titled, "Sea," "Land," "Trees," "Spirit," and "Sky." The quietly evocative photographs, often paired with classic haiku poems of Basho, Buson, Issa and others, provide a contemplative portrait of a country better-known for its energy and industry. Gorgeously reproduce

From raucous stormy seas to a welcomingly vivid rainbow, weather’s most exciting moments come to brilliant life in this fantastic new pop-up book.In her hugely successful books Creatures of the Deep and What’s in the Egg, as well as her enormously popular series of greeting cards for the Museum of Modern Art, Maike Biederstaedt has established herself as one of the preeminent paper artists working today. Now Biederstaedt takes book engineering to new heights as she immerses readers in five electrifying weather scenarios. As each spread unfolds, a meticulously designed landscape emerges–a freighter balances like a nutshell between high waves in the sea; a tornado takes terrifying aim at a truck trying to outrun it; a rain-spewing storm cloud towers like a skyscraper over a farm house. Nature’s delicate beauty emerges in the intricate shapes of a snowflake and in the luminous arc of a rainbow. Each page features an informative description of its weather event and the book closes with sob

The book Art Forms in Nature is a collection of prints, made by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, of an enormous variety of flora and fauna from the sea-including microscopic Radiolaria, starfish and jelly

"A nun working on a piece of embroidery, a face obscured by flowers--theseare only some of the motifs the German-Bulgarian artistOda Jaune (b. Sofia, 1979; lives and works in Paris) presents

Public preposition is the title of a series of works in public settings MischaKuball (b. Dusseldorf, 1959; lives and works in Dusseldorf) has realized since2009. Since the 1970s, artists have explored

Starting in the early 2000s, Valentin Hirsch (b. Eschwege, 1978; lives andworks in Berlin) worked dot for dot to construct his monstrously graceful inkdrawings and etchings, a technique he compared to

Hamburg-based artists Heike Mutter (b. Munich, 1969) and Ulrich Genth(b. Tubingen, 1971) have realized joint projects in public settings. Tiger &Turtle--Magic Mountain in Duisburg looks like a

Hollywood and Silicon Valley, palms, sea, blue skies; California is "a landof milk and honey"--with Villa Aurora right in the middle. In the 1940s, theformer exile residence of Marta

The work of Chen Fei (b. Shanxi, China, 1983; lives and works in Beijing)is part of a new trend in contemporary Chinese art that represents a clearthematic as well as aesthetic departure from the avan

The Cultural Impact of the Atomic Bomb. The Work of Matthew Day Jackson (b. Panorama City 1974, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) opens up a dialogue between various aspects of the history of Wes

Xu Zhen (b. 1977, lives and works in Shanghai) came to prominence at the 49. Biennale di Venezia with Rainbow, 1998, a visceral video performance of his back being slapped, turning red, with hand mark

An Investigation on Hans Arp and Franz West. Hans Arp (b. Strasbourg, 1886; d. Basel, 1966) is a familiar figure of classical modernism and was a key contributor to the development of Dada and Surreal

"Painting, to me, was and still is a nightmare and a dream at once, because there is no other medium that is so occupied and fraught with its grand tradition and history." Florian Meisenberg (b. Berli

The Austrian artist Melli Ink (b. Innsbruck, 1972; lives and works in Zurich and Berlin) creates vitreous worlds that blend beauty and cruelty, dread and fragility in a seductive fusion. The works are

The Austrian artist Elfie Semotan (b. 1941; lives and works in New York and Vienna) also works as a photographer, creating portraits of models, artists, landscapes, and studios that have earned her in

No paint or other substance a painter might use is visible on the surfaces of the pictures Sara Sizer (b. Dallas, Texas, 1967; lives and works in Berlin) creates. They do not derive their form from an

Andreas Muhe (b. Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1979; lives and works in Berlin), one of the most renowned German photographers, has come home: he is back in Germany's heart, in the collective memory of a nation th

The artist Margit Jaschke (b. Halle/Saale, 1962; lives and works in Halle) describes herself as a wanderer between the worlds of different arts. Defying the conventional bounds of installation, painti

The works of Adriana Czernin (b. Sofia, Bulgaria, 1969; lives and works in Vienna and Rettenegg) are complex experimental arrangements that intertwine the perception of forms with a reflection on the

Mathias Poledna (b. Vienna, 2965; lives and works in Los Angeles) is developing a new project for the Austrian pavilion at the 55. Biennale di Venezia in 2013. The publication presents and contextuali

"Klara Hobza (b. Plzen, 1975; lives in Berlin) creates long-term art projects that often test the limits of possibility. Yet the German-Czech artist always tackles the apparent lack of a solu

Timo Nasseri (b. Berlin 1972 to a German mother and Iranian father; lives and works in Berlin) launched his career in the arts as a photographer. In recent years, however, he has systematically built

Mysterious and Paradoxical Photographic Works. It is an old question: what does a photograph actually show? Christiane Feser (b. Wurzburg, 1977; lives and works in Frankfurt am Main) has quite literal

Over roughly twenty-five years, Monica Bonvicini (b. Venice, 1965; lives in Berlin) has created a vast collection of drawings, including sketches, designs, and concepts for the sculptures, installatio

The pictures of Eberhard Havekost (b. Dresden 1967; lives and works in Berlin) are the results of a persistent analysis of the outward appearance of our world. The city constitutes a central environme

"From Plastic Masses to Energetic Plastic Art. Florian Baudrexel (b. Munich 1968; lives and works in Berlin) is one of a generation of young artists who grapple with the sculptural genre. His sculptur

Everyday objects are integral components of the works of Michael Sailstorfer (b. Velden/Vils 1979; lives and works in Berlin), but so are smells, noise, movement, and time, which blend to form a poeti

"""The intimate desires to be collective"": the creative experience of an humanist.This monograph is not a compilation of the best work of Benjamin Cano, b

A collection of remarkable paintings created mostly without paint. Since the mid-1990s, Sergej Jensen (b. in Copenhagen in 1971) has been offering one of the most remarkable responses to the question

Previously unpublished new projects are thematically integrated into the evolution of Baur's oeuvre. The book thus reveals a conceptual and design constant, or even fascination, in the work of Ruedi B

A prolific social critic, Paul McCarthy is best known for his work in performance, installation, film, and sculpture. His works reference American cultural archetypes such as Disneyland, B movies, soa

Michael Dannenmann (b. Stuttgart 1959; lives and works in Dusseldorf) is one of the most important representatives of portrait photography on the international stage. In fractions of a second, he mana

People of all ages are fascinated by Mona Lisa's beguiling smile, Van Gogh's hypnotic night sky, and Frida Kahlo's depiction of herself with a monkey. These paints and ten others are featured in the b