Product Description: Drawing is experiencing a remarkable contemporary resurgence, with a revival of interest among collectors and curators, as well as among young artists who have discovered exciting new possibilities for the medium. A showcase of new directions in drawing, Drawing Now includes forty works by artists from around the world whose work defines this continually changing medium, including Silvia Bächli, Michaël Borremans, Toba Khedoori, Paul Noble, Robin Rhode, David Shrigley, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, and Jorinde Voigt, among others...read more

Product Description: Lee Miller (1907-77) began her artistic career in 1929 as a Surrealist photographer in Paris. She produced images, often in collaboration with Man Ray, in which she isolated motifs by means of tight framing and experimental techniques, and in doing so rendered visible a paradoxical reality...read more

Product Description: The catalogue presents 150 masterpieces of nineteenth-century Austrian watercolors, treasures from the important collection amassed for Archduke Johann (1782-1859). The compositions present enticing views of the Alpine regions, with a focus on Styria as well as Salzburg and Tirol...read more

Product Description: The Albertina in Vienna houses one of the world’s most famous collections of art. This extensive, sumptuously illustrated volume presents the museum’s masterpieces acquired from the founders of the collection, Albert, Duke of Saxe-Teschen, and his consort, the Grand Duchess Marie Christine...read more

Product Description: American painter, sculptor and printmaker Eric Fischl (born 1948) is internationally known for his unusual nude paintings, featuring couples and families, which explore tensions between sexuality and power. Many of his works specifically address coming-of-age moments, blossoming sexual awareness and voyeurism--the paintings "Bad Boy" (1981) and "Birthday Boy" (1983) both depict young boys looking at older women in provocative poses on a bed...read more

Product Description: The innovative technique of clair-obscur woodcuts revolutionized printing in the sixteenth century. From this point onwards the composition was no longer limited to purely black lines, but executed in a wide variety of colors. The artistic development of this new technique is traced through masterworks by Cranach, Burgkmair, Beccafumi and Hendrick Goltzius...read more

Product Description: The Albertina museum in Vienna owns one of the world’s most important collections of Dutch drawings from the period 1430–1650. Their unrivaled collection offers a scope and quality that makes it the one of the few museums in a position to present Dutch drawing in all of its thematic, technical and stylistic diversity...read more

Product Description: The popular Austrian artist Erwin Wurm (born 1954) established himself years ago on the international art scene with his One Minute Sculptures--photographs of people, often contorted, in staged, absurdist situations--and his comical sculptures that distort familiar objects, such as the “Fat Car...read more

Product Description: Alex Katz's clear planes of color and simplicity of line are famously well suited to printmaking. For Katz himself, the medium also holds the appeal of distributing his work in greater quantity. His embrace of printmaking was consolidated in the mid-1960s, and led to a voracious exploration of print technologies, including the latest state-of-the-art reproduction processes...read more

Product Description: Michelangelo's drawings endowed human physique with an expressive musculature that remains to be rivaled in its feeling for corporeal articulation. His drawings of male nudes in particular, fraught as they are with tempestuous longing, project both tension and pliancy, and a compelling sense of health in the exertions and torque of bodies; he was also readily able to bring contrary qualities of grace and swiftness to depictions of women and cherubim...read more

Product Description: This publication examines the central motifs in the art of Markus Lüpertz (born 1941). Through approximately 100 works on paper, it provides special insight into the creative process of this acclaimed painter, printmaker and sculptor, giving particular consideration to his rarely seen monumental works on cardboard and his sculptural treatment of the classical subject of Daphne...read more

Product Description: In 2007, the Albertina in Vienna, Austria announced the acquisition of the Batliner collection, one of the most important collections of modern art in the world. Comprising more than 500 pieces, the Batliner collection includes a wide range of pieces covering virtually aspect of modern painting, including French impressionism, German expressionism, Fauvism, the Russian avantgarde, and surrealism...read more

Product Description: In 1776, the Genoese art expert Giacomo Conte Durazzo presented Duke Albert and his wife Marie-Christine with the modest seed of the Albertina's collection, almost 1000 pieces of art. Albert went on to acquire drawings by Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, to trade other works away for a D rer portfolio, and eventually to will his estate so that the collection would stay in Austria, where it has continued to grow...read more

Product Description: Gottlieb Biedermeier, a teasing middle-class papa best known for his appearances in a Munich satirical weekly, came to fame in the 1840s. A "god-loving everyman," he represented the typical German citizen, more interested in a comfortable home and a convivial family than political activism...read more

Product Description: Providing a comprehensive overview of Egon Schiele's development from his earliest days at the Vienna Academy to his untimely death in 1918, this exhibition catalogue from the Albertina Museum in Vienna shows the extraordinary multi-faceted oeuvre of the Austrian Expressionist...read more

Product Description: Examines the erotic work of the Expressionist artist within the perspective of history's shifting views concerning beauty, aesthetics and decency.

Product Description: Kokoschka's unique contribution to the history of twentieth century art is becoming ever more apparent. This monograph contains a broad selection of Kokoschka's finest paintings, in all genres and from all periods of the artist's remarkably long and productive career, including his lesser known but no less significant later works...read more