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The Art Book

by Adam Butler, Susan Stirling, Claire Van Cleave

Winner of the Illustrated Book of the Year award in 1994, The Art Book has become a publishing phenomenon and a well-known event in the art book world. Reduced in size, making it light and highly portable, this new mini edition presents the same easy-to-use alphabetical guide to 500 of the world's greatest painters and sculptors. 500 color illustrations.

Parkett: Number 32 (Parkett)

by Sherrie Levine, Imi Knoebel

Artwork by Sherrie Levine, Imi Knoebel.

Henning Bohl: Kunstverein Braunschweig E. V. Kunstverein Fur Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen Dusseldorf

Henning Bohl: Kunstverein Braunschweig E. V. Kunstverein Fur Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen Dusseldorf

by Thomas Bayrle, Henning Bohl

Bohl's poetic images captivate through their lightness, bright colors and distinct forms. His installations, paintings, drawings and murals are influenced by figures like Anni Albers and Erika Mann, who have inspired his fascination for Modern architecture, Cubism and the exploration of the arts and crafts.

Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper

by Margit Rowell

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively around 1963 in Düsseldorf. His earliest expressive idiom was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar politics, and classic artistic conventions. Few of Polke's works demonstrate more... (more)

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Imi Knoebel: Imi Gegen Groben Schmutz

by Karola Grasslin, Imi Knoebel

Between 1966 and 1969, Imi Knoebel worked on a series of black-and-white paintings with lines, now seen to mark the beginnings of his development as artist. The so-called Linienbilder , 90 panels in all, explore the various ways of structuring the picture surface in both single and composite works, taking Malevich's Black Square as a muse. Also included are documentation of related sculptures and installations. (more)

As Painting: Division and Displacement

As Painting , which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Wexner Center for the Arts, offers thought- provoking new perspectives on the evolution of painting in the United States and Europe since the mid-1960s. It illuminates the flexible boundaries of what can be seen or interpreted "as painting" and that medium's interrelationships with sculpture, photography, and installation, highlighting points of... (more)

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