Product Description: Subjective History

Product Description: One’s own home is usually considered to be an inviolable, reassuring place. Expressions such as “there’s no place like home” reveal the positive thoughts and the sense of well-being associated with one’s dwelling. But what happens when an external threat is transferred into the subject’s interior? In the present catalog, which features photography, installation, sculpture, and video art, 21 artists who work on a global scale take a stand on this unsettling subject, including Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, and Hans Op de Beeck...read more

Product Description: Inspired by natural examples of erosion and destruction, German artist Felix Schramm (born 1970) introduces industrial materials into pre-existing spaces and manipulates them to appear as organic forms. Intersection contains images of Schramm’s ‘ruined’ installations and sculptures...read more

Product Description: For over 30 years, German painter Albert Oehlen (born 1954) has been building a body of work distinguished by its skeptical questioning of painting as a medium. Instead of turning his back on painting, though, the artist has chosen to engage with this skepticism within the medium itself...read more

Product Description: Founded in 1990, Luwa AG's rarely exhibited photography collection is one of the world's most comprehensive gatherings of conceptual photography. It contains major works by artists such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sigmar Polke, Imi Knoebel, Martin Kippenberger, Thomas Ruff, Andreas Gursky, Fischli/Weiss, Roman Signer, Richard Prince, Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Stan Douglas and Gabriel Orozco...read more

Product Description: Educated as an architect, the Swiss photographer Georg Aerni naturally gravitated toward subjects of architecture, urban space, and the design of landscapes in his art. An extraordinary care and attention to craft is inherent in all of his body of work, which includes architectural photography taken in Paris, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and most recently Mumbai, as well as a recent series on mankind’s interventions in nature...read more

Product Description: The work of Cornelius Volker (born in 1965), a Dusseldorf based contemporary painter, is celebrated in a mid-career retrospective by a museum exhibition that opens in February 2011 at the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and travels on to three other venues in Goslar, Wuppertal, and Ludwigshafen...read more

Product Description: The Luminous West unites 33 artists from two generations to define the artistic landscape of Germany's Rhineland and North Rhine-Westphalia regions. Among them are Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Tony Cragg, Isa Genzken, Andreas Gursky, Imi Knoebel, Albert Oehlen, Blinky Palermo, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel and others...read more

Product Description: Combining painting and photography, German artist Marc Lüders (born 1963) creates complex scenes that challenge viewers' expectations of reality and illusion. Through a painstaking process, the artist transposes painted figures and objects onto photographs of existing landscapes--interventions that are often imperceptible at first glance...read more

Product Description: The paintings of Karin Kneffel (born 1957) are seductively illusionistic, reveling in the beauty of surface. Her resplendent interiors seem uncanny, her monumental still lifes surreal, her use of perspective ominously distorted, with reflections that develop a life of their own...read more

Product Description: The life and career of William N. Copley (1919-1996) spans an exciting (if little-known) period in American art. As a gallerist, Copley established a powerful presence for Surrealism on the West Coast, exhibiting René Magritte, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Joseph Cornell and Man Ray, before deciding, in 1947, to become a painter himself...read more

Product Description: Dutch artist Mark Manders, born in 1968, has been devising sculptural installations since the late 1980s and exhibiting them as a fragmented self-portrait in the form of imaginary rooms. A veteran of solo exhibitions at such respected American venues as The Drawing Center in New York, the Berkeley Art Museum and The Art Institute of Chicago, he has established himself as one of the most distinctive and independent artists on today's international sculpture scene...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive overview of current contemporary German art surveys the latest developments in a country not only reunified, east and west, but one with Europe. In recent years, more and more foreign artists have chosen to live and work in Germany...read more

Product Description: Using stock photography archives, the Internet, model-making brochures and his own photographs, drawings and watercolors, this 47-year-old German painter creates bright, ironic works that are very much about camouflage, deception, and, above all, painting.

Product Description: These exceptionally intense portraits, which sometimes take several hours to expose, are not character studies, nor do they seek to "portray" in the conventional sense of the word. The photographer and his subjects enter into a dialogue which, as Stephan Berg has observed, culminates in a picture "in which not only the photographer himself and the person photographed, but also the time they have spent together are superimposed...read more

Product Description: One of the most interesting artistic personalities of his generation, Oliver Boberg has, since the late 80s, been making small models of urban settings, which he then photographs in such a way that their model quality almost totally disappears...read more

Product Description: Since the end of the 1980s, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has been developing an extraordinarily complex work, combining the question of representation and representability--inherent in any kind of painting--with a radical charge of pictorial motives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)