Product Description: This volume offers the first overview of one of Switzerland’s best-known artists, Markus Raetz (born 1941), who uses drawing to plan his sculptures, installations and kinetic objects. The book includes pieces chosen from over 15,000 exquisite drawings from the artist’s studio, as well as one animated cartoon...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: Giuseppe Penone's work is characterized by the beauty of its form and materials as well as the existential questions it raises. Associated with the Arte Povera movement and focusing as much on the creative process as on the work itself, the artist identifies himself with the river, the breath, and, more abstractly, movement and life...read more

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