To accompany a landmark exhibition of the art of J.M.W. Turner, this book presents Turner as a pioneer painter of contemporary life, finding new ways to picture the momentous events and dizzying changes of modernisation.

Between industrial progress and artistic research, the Guatelli Collection of oil cans traces the developments of advertising graphics between the 19th and 20th centuries.Text in English and Italian.

Hundreds of cemeteries and memorials from the First and Second World Wars are featured-locations throughout Europe with particular emphasis on sites in England, France, Belgium, and Germany.

The essays delve in to the landscape and architectural history of these hallowed spaces, which were designed by architects such as Charles Henry Holden, Edward Luytens, John Russell Pope, and Robert Tischler, among others.

This beautifully illustrated volume explores the histories and present-day states ...

Deze publicatie is de eerste grote monografie gewijd aan de Belgische kunstenaar Fabrice Samyn (geb. 1981). Ze is ingedeeld in diverse groepen analogieën (vorm, teken, thema) en verkent een oeuvre dat als een boom is gestructureerd rond het vraagstuk van de identiteit. In Samyns werk, dat zich graag in een ruimte vol verscheidenheid en dualiteit ophoudt, ontdekken we in de eerste plaats de tegenstellingen tussen icoon en idool, licht en schaduw, aanwezigheid en duur, mannelijk en vrouwelijk,...

A Certain Amount of Clarity, dat dezelfde titel draagt als zijn gelauwerde film uit 2014, is de eerste monografie gewijd aan de kunst van Emmanuel Van der Auwera, wiens oeuvre onze beleving van het digitale leven beschrijft op het snijpunt van documentaire, reconstructie en fictie. Zijn werk belicht de impact van opkomende technologieën op onze perceptie en op onze dialoog met anderen, het ontwikkelt platforms voor gemarginaliseerde actoren en doet een beroep op technici en wetenschappers om...

In 1912-1913, James Ensor produced a series of 32 drawings in coloured pencil titled Scènes de la vie du Christ [Scenes from the life of Christ]. Each drawing on paper measures about 15 by 21 cm. The series depicts different episodes from the lives of Jesus and the Virgin Mary. In it, Ensor managed to combine the sublime and the grotesque in an unsurpassed manner. Some compositions are quite conventional, others typically 'Ensorian', and some even humorous. Among the works in the series is a...

With his posters, illustrations, television animations and his many exhibitions the world over, Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005) marked the global imaginary during the last third of the 20th century. He was a humanist who left behind him a figurative and poetic body of that, anchored in traditional techniques, were quite atypical in the artistic landscape of his era.

Sculpture knocked like a challenge that Folon threw himself into headlong in the second part of his career. Throughout the 1990s, ...