Product Description: Demonstrating that the self-portrait has lost none of its relevance to contemporary art trends, this volume assesses the genre in the second half of the twentieth century. It includes examples by Bas Jan Ader, Joseph Beuys, General Idea, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding and Andy Warhol...read more

Product Description: Since the mid-1960s, Franz West (born 1947) has been finding new ways to balance his art on the line between beauty and ugliness. At the age of 14, West--living in bombed-out, post-Nazi Vienna--attended an event organized by the Viennese Actionists, at which Hermann Nitsch smashed a lamb cadaver against the wall of a basement room in a tenement building: "it was incredibly shocking and really depressing," West said...read more

Product Description: German artist Kitty Kraus (born 1976) applies a Minimalist formal vocabulary to humble, elegiac materials that suggest an active engagement with alchemical transformations. Utilizing household glass, light bulbs, cloth and ice, Krauss explores a trajectory of dissolution in contemporary materials, finding a melancholic beauty in the literal and symbolic failure of form...read more

Product Description: This exhibition catalog documents a broad-based, thematic overview ofthe Sammlung Rheingold's contemporary art collection in a uniquesetting: Schloss Dyck, a Baroque villa near Dusseldorf, is considered byconnoisseurs of exquisite landscape architecture and gardens to be averitable paradise...read more

Product Description: In the 25 years since she has been active as an artist, Isa Genzken has created a wide-ranging, multi-faceted body of work. From her inhospitable, ruin-like concrete sculptures to the uncannily fragile and wondrously beautiful New Buildings for Berlin (seen at Documenta11), she has acknowledged modernism as both model and loss...read more

Product Description: Documents the collection of the Grasslin family in Germany. This collection of often controversial art centers on contemporary art with social or political overtones, and includes works by artists such as Martin Kippenberger, Gunther Forg, Albert Oehlen, Fischli & Weiss, Mark Dion, and others...read more