Product Description: Drawing from contemporary art as well as the work of old masters, Truth attempts to confront art's relationship with truth and the acquisition of knowledge. Artists featured include Christian Achenbach, Martin Assig, Marlene Dumas, Julius Hofmann, Anna Kott, Clemens Krauss, James Lloyd and Daniel Richter...read more

Product Description: For many years now, Jakob Straub (born 1975) has been taking photographs of the interiors of domes in churches and secular buildings in Rome using a medium-format analogue camera. This publication presents 36 sacred rotundas, symbols of perfection and impermanence, on a 50-foot-long accordion fold...read more

Product Description: Living and working in Berlin, Chinese artist Ling Jian (born 1963) paints surreal and sometimes deliberately vulgar large-scale portraits, incorporating images of uniforms, weapons and even bunny ears into his hyper-realistic yet fantastic compositions...read more

Product Description: Struck by Pictures reproduces works by 115 German artists, including Christian Achenbach, Tilo Baumgärtel, Heiner Binding, Norbert Bisky, Martin Eder, Paule Hammer, Leiko Ikemura, Jonathan Meese, Justine Otto and Uwe & Gert Tobias, that were presented to the collector Thomas Rusche on his fiftieth birthday...read more

Product Description: Philipp Fürhofer (born 1982) is a man of the stage: the artist designs scenarios in light boxes that he hangs on the wall like paintings or combines into sculptural groups. Inside acrylic shells he layers painted, translucent substrates and objets trouvés that give rise to mysterious portraits or landscapes...read more

Product Description: Since the fall of the Wall, Berlin has become a mecca for exceptional artists who have innovative approaches. Today, both up-and-coming and established artists have made Berlin their place of residence. Who are these creative artists who are working in Berlin as painters, illustrators, sculptors, concept artists, and photographers, and are giving the city the distinction of being the centre of the art world? Christoph Tannert is the exhibition organiser for the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, a well-known international cultural centre in Berlin, and a man who knows the Berlin art scene well...read more

Product Description: The works of Titus Schade (b. Leipzig, 1984; lives and works in Leipzig) examine the nature of the picture and the pictorial space. In sceneries that suggest stage settings, Schade, who graduated from Neo Rauch's master class, unfolds places that seem to be both models and theatrical situations, imagining a wide specturum of very different architectures and props that invite the beholder looking at his canvases to explore a private universe...read more

Product Description: Pop music fans know him as the guitarist and keyboardist of the chart-topping 1980s band a-ha, but Magne Furuholmen (born 1962) has been working as a visual artist for decades, in painting, ceramics, printmaking, film and installation...read more

Product Description: The epic, harrowing paintings of French–Jewish artist Emmanuel Bornstein (born 1986) use recent European history--the Holocaust in particular--as a backdrop for carnivalesque scenes of controlled chaos. Bornstein’s “world stage” of history is surveyed in this first English-language monograph...read more

Product Description: Miriam Vlaming's large-scale paintings project a threadbare figuration under erasure, ever about to succumb to abstraction. Her method of combining fragments from well-known and more remote cultural spheres produces scenes of broken promises that exude disillusionment, abandonment and melancholy...read more

Product Description: Chinese painter Xu Shun uses found photographic materials and images derived from the popular Chinese press in his hushed, almost monochromatic paintings. This volume collects work from 2007 and 2008.

Product Description: Born in Haifa, Israel, and Graz, Austria, respectively, the Vienna- and London-based artistic collaborators Adi Rosenblum and Markus Muntean are known for their captioned paintings of disaffected youth culture. This volume features work from 2008.

Product Description: Co-founder of the artists' group "Beijing East Village", Chinese performance artists Zhang Huan caused a real stir in the 1990s with his disturbing interventionist actions, videos, and installations. Often using his own body, his presentation of themes specific to China, such as doctrinaire family planning, over-population, and mass migration from the country into cities soon attracted the ire of the state guardians of culture...read more

Product Description: Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, unified Germany’s new capital city has experienced an extraordinary renaissance and a triumphant return to the ranks of Europe’s tastemaking cities. “New Berlin” has not only attracted contemporary artists formerly based in the regions of Cologne, Hamburg, and Dusseldorf, but many internationally renowned artists as well...read more

Product Description: Over the last two years, Lili Almog has made extensive visits to nuns in three different Carmelite monasteries—one in Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, where the order was founded and assumed its name in the year 1200; the first Carmelite monastery in the United States, in Port Tobacco, MD; and one located at the birthplace of Jesus, Bethlehem, Palestine...read more

Product Description: Mark Fairnington's paintings of insects are highly detailed, with specimens taken from existing collections and from his own travels in South America. This illustrated text looks at the history of collecting and classifying insects, with examples from the 18th and 19th century alongside Fairnington's contemporary studies...read more