An entertaining and gorgeously illustrated homage to Nino Cerruti (1930-2022), the great Italian fashion designer whose deconstructed jackets and supple fabrics revolutionised menswear in the 1960s.

Ricardo Brey (°1955, Havana) is one of the most important artists of our time. His artistic roots lie in the 1970s and 1980s as an active member of the group Volumen I, a landmark in Cuban art history. After extensive travel, Brey receives an invitation from Jan Hoet to participate in Documenta IX in Kassel. Brey moves to Ghent in 1990, where he still lives and works. In 1998 he received a Guggenheim fellowship for installation art and sculpture and the Flemish Visual Arts Prize. Brey has he...

The world today faces overwhelming ecological and social problems and the concern for material existence on earth is more pressing than ever. Making Matters spells out various roles that visual artists and designers play facing these issues. Collective action is necessary and inevitable.

Collective action often changes the artist’s identity and working habits: from individuality and autonomy to collectivity and collaboration, both locally and globally. These developments have given rise to ...

A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism

In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his original vision. Although close to starvation when he invented impressionism on the banks of the Seine in the 1860s-70s, in the following decades he emerged as the powerful leader of the new pain...

Petrus De Man geniet als schilder en tekenaar faam voor de creatie van een bijzonder poëtisch universum met rauwe, geconstrueerde en vaak erg kleurige accenten. Kind-mannetjes, gevangenen van hun lot maar tevens bezeten van een drang naar vrijheid, zoeken een plaats binnen de beslotenheid van muren en betoverde tuinen, tussen melancholie en schalksheid, in een wereld gecreëerd op hun maat. Aarzelend tussen existentiële bokkensprongen en een soms versteende stilte, evolueert die wereld same...

The art world is a multi-billion-dollar industry which captures world headlines on a regular basis, for both good and bad reasons. This book deals with one of the most-discussed areas of controversy: high-profile objects that have experts arguing about their veracity. Some may have been looted, others may be fakes, some may be heavily restored or misattributed. Often, in these cases, analytical science is called on to settle a dispute. The authors of this book have decades of experience in th...

Historiographical accounts of the American artist Donald Judd, and of Minimal art in general, have focused primarily on the debates surrounding the emergence of his work in the United States, and New York in particular, from the mid to late 1960s. Little is known about Judd’s early exposure in Europe in between the artist’s inclusion in a group show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965, up until his first solo show in Europe at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherland...

A mind-blowing genre crossing deep purple velvet adventure (formerly known as "BOOK")

Het betreft een multimedia project bestaande uit visual arts, micro stories & music, met een ontstaansgeschiedenis op het Instagram platform.

Na een korte maar opmerkelijke (vooral voor zijn bazen) carrière in de journalistiek, schreef Reinout Zeeger alias Wolf Hexen (geboortenaam Xavier Van Eeckhoutte) zijn eerste boek "Ons Bloemenparadijs" dat meteen een cultklassieker werd, nu moeilijk te vinden, mogeli...

Awe-inspiring reference work on the Flemish and Dutch art of drawing from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, with masterly drawings from the collection of the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR)

The Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels houses the largest collection of drawings in the country. Among its highlights are works by leading artists of the Low Countries, including Pieter Bruegel I, Joris Hoefnagel, Hendrick Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacques Jordaens.

As the ...