Product Description: Nic Hess drawing installations in temporary spaces combine his own work with that of other artists in the shape of a complex, spatially expansive system of lines, surfaces, quotations and pictorial fragments of realistic paintings...read more

Product Description: Minimalism in Germany offers a definitive overview of constructivist and concrete abstraction and the avant-garde in 1960s Germany. With a wealth of color illustrations, this massive and ambitious compendium features approximately 100 works--from serial sculptures to action-oriented works, mostly drawn from the Daimler Art Collection--by around 40 artists...read more

Product Description: Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart, this volume presents car-related art from the Daimler Collection by Josef Albers, John M. Armleder, Sylvie Fleury, Nic Hess, Adolf Hölzel, Robert Longo, Philippe Parreno, Charlotte Posenenske, Anselm Reyle, Michael Sailstorfer, Pietro Sanguineti, Anton Stankowski, Andy Warhol and others...read more

Product Description: Established in 1977, the Daimler Art Collection is one of the most important, internationally renowned corporate collections in Europe, comprising roughly 1,800 works of art with a special focus on twentieth-century abstract art. Discourses in Painting documents recent exhibitions of the collection in Berlin, Vienna and Buenos Aires...read more

Product Description: For more than ten years, the internationally oriented Daimler Art Collection has committed itself to presenting and promoting South African artists. Highly regarded both in South Africa and beyond, its Mercedes-Benz Award has been awarded to authors, musicians, artists, architects, and fashion designers whose works have been prominently displayed in galleries and at biennials worldwide, including Germany’s Documenta exhibition—widely regarded as one of the most important gatherings in contemporary art...read more

Product Description: Jan Henderikse (born 1937) was a cofounder of the Dutch Zero group, and an early protagonist of European assemblage in the early 1960s. In the 1970s he produced films, photoworks and made works using found photographs. Acheiropoieta (literally "not-handmade") lists major works from public and private collections, making the artist's multimedia oeuvre...read more

Product Description: First published in 2006, and soon out of print, Minimalism and After is a now classic presentation of Minimalist and Postminimalist tendencies from the 1960s to the present day. The images in this hefty volume track some of Minimalism's major contributions: the essentially sculptural presence of the picture-object, coolly geometrical structures, works presented so that they relate to the space and the viewer, and a rejection of symbolic or narrative material...read more

Product Description: \"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," Roland Barthes famously said. "I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object...read more

Product Description: \"I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals," Roland Barthes famously said. "I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object...read more

Product Description: This generously illustrated volume places German sculptor Charlotte Posenenske's groundbreaking works from the 1960s firmly within the history of Minimalist sculpture and Conceptual art. A contemporary of Donald Judd, Posenenske is most known for her body of spare, repetitive forms made from industrial materials, corrugated cardboard, pressboard and sheet metal, which she manipulated and bent for public spaces and performative appearances...read more

Product Description: The Daimler Art Collection was founded in 1977 and has since grown to include about 1,800 works by more than 600 artists. The focus of the collection is on Constructivist, Concrete and Minimalist works by artists of the Stuttgart avant-garde, the Bauhaus and today's international Contemporary scene...read more

Product Description: In their youth, Minimalism's elemental forms, serial accumulations and industrial materials argued consistently against abstract art's subjective gestures. Non-relational, non-hierarchical and anti-compositional were the words of the day...read more

Product Description: In recent decades, the border areas between photography and film have emerged as an important field of contemporary photographic art. Well-known practitioners include the American artist Cindy Sherman with her "Film Stills," a series of black-and-white self-portraits evoking film stills from the 1940s and 1950s both in form and content, and Sam Taylor-Wood, whose photographic panoramas-sometimes more than 30 feet long-forge interpersonal dramas from individual pictures, not unlike unrolled scrolls of film...read more

Product Description: In her complex work SOUNDCHECK, Ulrike Flaig presents the viewer with an artist's field of investigation. Her installations feature floodlights, vodka glasses, rifle dummies, nylon stockings, light beams, shadowgraphs, sounds and letters...read more

Product Description: Artwork by Sylvie Fleury. Edited by Renate Wiehager. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)