A rich and evocative visual celebration of Christmas, from its religious beginnings to global festive cultural touchstones

Profusely illustrated, Reza Abdoh is a major monograph on one of the most influential theater artists of the latter-20th century. The book contains new essays on Abdoh's works in theater, film, and video, published and unpublished interviews with the director, conversations with his friends and colleagues, scripts of Abdoh's plays, and contemporary reviews.

Kunst und Architektur der islamischen Welt prägten die Entwicklung der westlichen Moderne entscheidend. Rund 170 Werke von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis heute veranschaulichen diesen spannenden Kulturaustausch. Faszinierende Objekte aus bildender und angewandter Kunst spiegeln die Vielfalt dieses lebendigen Transfers.Im 19. Jahrhundert setzt in Europa neben dem Orientalismus eine regelrechte »Islamophilie« ein. Bedeutende Sammlungen islamischer Künste entstehen. Mit der aufkommenden ...

A celebration of Japanese printmaking, birds and their habitats, and the pleasures of nature, this magnificent boxed set features more than sixty impeccably reproduced images from masters of the form.

This large-format, lavishly illustrated book offers a comprehensive survey of the fin-de- sie cle and modernist painting of Scandinavia.

With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auctions, and packed museums, Impressionism remains a close contender for the world’s favorite period of painting. This comprehensive book covers the movement’s key innovations and pioneering artists, including oft-neglected practitioners such as Berthe Morisot, Lucien Pissarro, and Gustave Caillebotte.

Richard Serra began making prints as early as 1972. For the past five decades he has consistently pursued the myriad possibilities of printmaking and created a graphic oeuvre as concentrated as it is rich and diverse. Even if the relationship between Serra's prints and his sculptural works cannot be denied-the exploration of form, establishing and testing the tension between positive and negative space, the dialogue between two- and three-dimensionality-the prints are an autonomous form of ex...

Het werk van de taalkundige en visueel begaafde kunstenaar Marten toonder behelst veel meer dan de wereld van Rommeldam, Bommelstein en zijn bewoners. Een halve eeuw geleden stonden Toonders politieke prenten in het brandpunt van de belangstelling en hij maakte ook tekenfilms en strips. Bijna niemand is bekend met de tekeningen die hij maakte in zijn zeldzame vrije uren, zonder opdracht.

De kunst van Toonder is een persoonlijke keuze van marten Toonder uit de tekeningen, prenten en strips di...