The Soft Chair. The Cloud Lamp. The Stack of Drawers. These are among the award-winning icons of Swiss furniture design created by Susi and Ueli Berger, whose credo has long been that “only a ne
One of seven children from a poor Swiss farming family, Adolf Dietrich (1877–1957) supplemented arduous farm work and jobs as a woodcutter and railway worker with a robust artistic practice. Although
When we think of pop art, we think of the vanguard American pop artists: Andy Warhol and his iconic Campbell’s Soup Cans, the Ben-Day dotted comic strip style of Roy Lichtenstein, and the collag
The Swiss artist Manon has been a pioneer of female body and performance art since the 1970s. From the beginning of her career, her work addressed the construction of sexual, gender, and identity ster
During the 1970s and ’80s, independent community media and various youth movements across Europe inspired and abetted each other. Young activists across the continent discovered the videotape as a med
Swiss artist, architect, and theorist Max Bill (1908–94) was an important proponent of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in twentieth-century European applied arts and design. Train
An entirely new and richly illustrated redefinition of Switzerland's graphic design landscape with a multiple and inclusive approach, sheding new light also at networks, practices and media that have
This book brings together three exceptional German visionaries of early modernism: the novelist, poet, and inventor Paul Scheerbart, architect Bruno Taut, and architect and artist Paul Goesch. All thr
Anne Hoffmann, born in Copenhagen, runs her own graphic design studio in Zurich and works mainly in the fields of art and culture, collaborating with international artists and museums. Over three deca
New monograph on distinguished Swiss artist Martin Disler (1949-1996), putting his later paintings, drawings and sculptures in context with the art of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and exploring aspects of Di
A new monograph on Swiss artist, architect and designer Max Bill (1908 1994), offering a fresh look at his remarkable achievements in all fields of his creative activity and at his international netwo
Vaclav Pozarek was born in 1940 in the former Czechoslovakia and emigrated amid the uprisings of 1968, where he undertook an artistic education at Hamburg’s University of Fine Arts and London’s St. Ma
At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las V
Since 1997, artist Claude Sandoz has split his time between his native Switzerland and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Each time he returns from the Antilles, he brings back copious sketches and dr
The work of Austrian-born, Swiss-based artist Othmar Eder is marked by a multitude of materials, media, and formats. However, the passage of time and his personal experiences traveling from place to p
Swiss artist Elisa “El” Frauenfelder is known for her paintings and drawings that depict bare landscapes, as well as towns, houses, and interiors. From Helsinki to the plains of South Dakota to the Sw
Where does the wind go when it is not blowing? With The Wind Tunnel Model, artist and scientist Florian Dombois proposes new forms of interaction between art and science. Key to this project is Domboi
Built in 1913 for a local politician and beautifully situated on the shore of Lake Zurich, the Jacobs House is today home to the Jacobs Foundation and the Johann Jacobs Museum. Inspired by the Jacobs
In late nineteenth-century France, more than a century after the introduction of color in printmaking, color became a major factor in the market success of lithography and other printmaking techniques
As a boy, photographer and filmmaker Jürg Hassler passed the studio of sculptor Hans Josephsohn each day on his way to school. Captivated by watching the artist work, Hassler began working as Josephso
Graphic art has long been one of the principal expressions of popular art in Mexico. Visually striking, with bold lines and intricate details, Mexican graphic art is intensely evocative of the time an
Sonja Sekula (1918–63) was born and educated in Lucerne, Switzerland, but emigrated to the United States with her parents in 1936. In 1941, she began studying art at the Arts Students League in New Yo
Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012) was an internationally collected Swiss sculptor, his plaster and bronze castings speaking to the question of the conditions of life as a human being. Over the course of six
Presents the art and activity as a healer of Swiss-born Emma Kunz (1892 1963) in dialogue with the work and positions of contemporary artists such as Agnieszka Brzezanska, Joachim Koester, Goshka Macu
In the summer 2015, famous performance artist Marina Abramovic and psychanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramovic’s house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they took a ps
