The Deutsche Bank honors the Japanese Koki Tanaka as Artist of the Year 2015. Tanaka follows Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Yto Barrada (France/Morocco), Roman Ondák (Slovakia), Imran Qureshi (Pakistan), and
This book encapsulates a journey throughout the life of twelve buildings, from construction to inhabitation, by architect Wiel Arets, as experienced by artist Bas Princen. The acclaimed architect Wiel
The Deutsche Bank honors the Japanese Koki Tanaka as Artist of the Year 2015. Tanaka follows Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Yto Barrada (France/Morocco), Roman Ondák (Slovakia), Imran Qureshi (Pakistan), and
Jochen Plogsties is renowned for his “retranslations” of well-known works of art, from theMona Lisa to Picasso’s Seated Harlequin to works by Rembrandt, Ingres, and Vermeer, as well as the iconic Beat
Florence Henri''s work occupied a central place in the world of avant-garde photography in the late 1920s and this survey pays homage to the artist''s essential contribution. Accompanying an exhibitio
The use of light and illumination in architecture and design is currently evolving and making an increasingly significant impact in various creative disciplines. Today, architects use light installati
ENCERRADOS is a voyage lasting ten years, through seventy-four prisons across Latin America; a journey born from the desire to recount a continent through a prisoner''s world. Valerio Bispuri''s pictu
His early monochrome “white pictures”; his “reflectors,” polished, haptic, kinetic works made from silvery sheet metal and mounted on the wall; or his light-sound machines called “optophones”―these ar
This new edition of BUILDING BERLIN showcases the most interesting 70 new buildings in and out of the German capital by architects working in Berlin. Each project is presented on the basis of informat
The revolutionary art and design of the early twentieth century produced textiles, particularly carpets, of extraordinary vitality. First the flourishing Art Deco movement spread bold patterns across
The essence of Italian style through fashion and costume in the 20th century in a handsome volume that captures the evolution of Italian fashion’s biggest brands. The fashion archive of Enrico Quinto
The illustrations are a sophisticated mix of beautiful birds and fabrics with interestingly strange, almost sinister, human characters. There''s a lot in this fable for readers to think about and disc
A delightful story about a mouse who is rather too pleased with his own cleverness ...but a bit of realising his own foolishness teaches him what he needs to learn in order to become wise and happy. A
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji is the first book that offers a comprehensive look into the world of one of the most prominent Iraqi artists working today.The publication covers over thirty years of his practice
Experimental Photography is the first manual ever to break down into a step-by-step format the experimental techniques that photographers use to subvert or expand conventional camera technology, heral
For two years British photographer Anna Fox documented holidayculture at the iconic Butlin’s resort in the seaside town of BognorRegis, West Sussex. This new book, Resort 2, is the second part of theR
The MINI is an icon among automobile enthusiasts. The innovative compact car cruised to cult status in the Swinging Sixties, and its unconventional appearance, as well as its quality and affordability
Pieter Hugo (born 1976) has garnered critical acclaim for his series of portraits and landscapes, each of which explores a facet of his native South Africa and neighboring African countries, including
A deadpan celebration of the unique commercial aesthetic that flourished under the crumbling totalitarian Communist regimes of twentieth-century Europe
Since the 1990s, acclaimed Norwegian and London-based artist AK Dolven has produced a substantial body of work that explores the relationship between individuals and the perception of their environmen
The Swiss photographer Joel Tettamanti, born 1977 in Cameroon is a restless traveller. Assignments for international magazines and global company groups take him to known and unknown places all over t
Besides making buildings for living and working, Adolf Krischanitz also specializes in buildings for art and culture. Most recently, for instance, are his 21 Haus in Vienna and the Temporary Kunsthall
Monika Sosnowska’s (*1972 in Ryki, Poland) monumental work, Tower (2014), was inspired by designs of the iconic modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The artist begins with a steel section and
The meticulous photographic practice of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (*1948 in Tokyo) is like that of a painter’s. Inspired both by Marcel Duchamp’s obsession with the mechanics of space and the m
Through the selection of twelve hotel, restaurant and custom home projects located across five different countries, as well as one provocative architectural installation that was commissioned by the S
Tim Parchikov has developed a conceptual approach out of his travel experiences, capturing the world with an uneasy and curious eye, rendering it at the same time hyper-real and yet pictorial. TheSusp
One day a large egg is left in a forest. It hatches out a chick who needs care and love. But his mother isn''t there! So a wonderfully unlikely assortment of foster parents take over the job of trying
Little Black Fish may be small, but he has big questions about the world and the determination to find answers to them. Despite his mother’s and the other fish warning him of the perils of leaving t
In Walking the Sea, Anton Ginzburg (* 1974 in St. Petersburg) charts a twenty-six-thousand-square-mile area between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan known as the Aral Sea, an environmental ruin of the Sovie
“In the end Barkow Leibinger are bricoleurs as much as they are engineers. . . . There is always an element of inspired performance in bricolage. And as the greatest philosophers in German aesthetics
In his last large-scale project, curator and museum director Jan Hoet (1936–2014), who became famous for his polemical edition of Documenta IX in 1992, devoted himself to the phenomenon of the sea―fas
Towards the end of the 19th century, the English art journalist Netta Peacock travelled to Russia where she met Elena Polenova, the artist and younger sister of the famous artist Vasily Polenov. As on
The imposing Angel of the North in Gateshead is doubtless Antony Gormley’s most well known sculpture in public space. His art project One & Other, for which the artist invited 2,400 people to stand on
In terms of craftsmanship and technique, the sculptural oeuvre of Gianpietro Carlesso (*1961 in Bolzano) follows in the steps of Old Master sculpture. With respect to content and form, however, the ar
