This superbly illustrated book examines the different levels and purposes of German photography from 1870 to 1970: art, photojournalism, propaganda, advertising, and architectural and fashion photography. Setting the historical background before which the use and abuse of photography takes place, the authors examine the extent that photography was influenced by the German nationalist movement, the changes it underwent during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II, its links to the avant garde movements, and its development through the world wars and the Cold War.

German Photography 1870-1970: Power of a Medium

HONNEF, KLAUS

History

Dumont Buchverlag

Egon Schiele, the Austrian painter, draftsman, and printmaker, was one of the major figures of Austrian Expressionism. This beautiful book discusses and reproduces 150 of Schiele`s paintings, watercolors, gouaches, and drawings from the Leopold collection, which can now be seen in the new Schiele Museum in Austria.

Egon Schiele: The Leopold Collection, Vienna

Arts & Photography

Leopold, Rudolf

Dabrowski, Magdalena

Individual Artists

In his examination of 250 years of art history, the author explores the reciprocal relations between the production of art and its exhibition before the public. He investigates the history of the modern artist, whose connections with the exhibition of art in institutional settings--beginning in the 18th century--profoundly changed the definition of art and the artist's view of himself. 120 illustrations .

The Artist in the Modern World: The Conflict Between Market and Self-Expression

Bätschmann, Oskar

History & Criticism

This survey of German art between 1945 and 1990 compares how art mirrored the different political circumstances in the two German states during the period. The book looks at how German artists responded to the Nazi dictatorship, the Holocaust, the world war, and other political developments, and shows that the dividing line between East and West was less strict than has been imagined. 200 color and 100 b&amp;w illustrations .

German Art from Beckmann to Richter: Images of a Divided Country

In an exhibition shown from 20 January to 27 May 1996, the Kunsthalle Tubingen presented a thoughtfully prepared selection of many of Renoir's most important paintings from his more than five decades of creative life. The first comprehensive, scholarly retrospective ever devoted to the artist in Germany and presented only in Tubingen, the exhibition offered a view of a significant cross-section of the painter's complete oeuvre. Each of the works exhibited is illustrated in this volume in a full-page plate. Paintings representing the full spectrum of Renoir's themes and including some of the most noteworthy works in major international collections and museums in such cities as Washington, D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Madrid, London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Zurich, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Berlin - all were provided on loan for the exhibition - provide enlightening insights into the work of this artistic genius.

Renoir: Oil Paintings, 1860-1917

Adriani, Mr. Gotz

In 1924 Galka Scheyer brought the work of four fellow avant-garde artists-The Blue Four- from Germany to America. This beautiful book discusses Scheyer`s promotion of modern art in the United States, documents her friendships with the four artists, and reproduces hundreds of their works.

The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Klee in the New World

Biographies & Memoirs

Viennese artist Gustav Klimt expressed his dedication to the theme of "woman" throughout his life--in his early historical paintings, in allegorical depictions and erotic drawings, and in classic large female portraits. This gorgeously illustrated book offers for the first time a survey of Klimt's approach to the female form and sets his work in the context of fundamental social changes at the turn of the century. Distributed for Dumont, Cologne

Klimt's Women

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

At EXPO 2000, Germany's first World Exposition, a diverse group of some twenty artists is participating in an innovative outdoor art project entitled In Between. Their works appear not together as a single exhibition, but in scattered locations throughout the extensive grounds of EXPO 2000. The participating artists engage with questions surrounding the role of art in public spaces, the means by which art can assert itself in the midst of distraction, and even the future of art and the art of the future. Each artist grappled with these issues, and the intriguing answers fill the pages of this inviting volume.

In Between: The Art Project of Expo 2000

König, Kasper

Dickhoff, Wilfried

Thirteen years after his death, Andy Warhol’s art is more dominant and omnipresent than ever before. In particular, his serial worksthe Campbell’s Soup Can, Jackie, Marilyn, Mao, and othershave been reproduced everywhere and have profoundly influenced our perception and thinking about mass culture. This striking book is a highly original survey of Warhol’s entire creative output.The book begins with an overview of Warhol’s work by Ernst Beyeler and Georg Frei that ranges over the Campbell’s Soup Can pictures, Warhol’s first attempt at using a succession of images based on the same motif in various paintings; the early silk screen prints (portraits of such teenage idols as Elvis Presley, Warren Beatty, and Natalie Wood); the Disaster pictures, which reveal the dark side of American consumer positivism; and the later works, including the Last Supper in which Warhol celebrates his own immortality. Peter Gidal then discusses two of Warhol’s single works, the monumental Saturday’s Disaster and the thirty-minute film Blow Job. And Edward Sanders examines some of Warhol’s images in the context of his life and times. Together the text and copious illustrations are a magnificent testimony to Warhol’s contributions to the world of art.

Andy Warhol: Series and Singles

Gidal, Peter

Sanders, Edward

Beyeler, Ernst

Frei, Georg

This book is an in-depth study of this major theme in 20th century art history. It begins with the innovative pictorial conception of Philipp Otto Runge, whose early 19th century paintings featured the last genuine form in the history of ornament, the arabesque. The arabesque had an influence via Symbolism (Maurice Denis, Paul Gauguin) and Art Nouveau (Henry van de Velde, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann) on painting's move towards abstraction (Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Adolf Hoelzel), which resulted on the one hand in a non-figurative, geometric structure of lines (Mondrian), and on the other, in the swirls of Matisse and Jackson Pollock. Side by side with the "royal way" of Cubism, arabesque abstraction therefore opens up a second doorway to the world of non-figurative art. Significant influences also result from the modern artists' preoccupation with the ornamentation found in distant cultures, such as Matisse with the Orient and Oceania, Ad Reinhardt with Asian culture, and American painting with pre-Columbian ornament (Josef Albers, Barnett Newman). Referring also to Minimalism, new media, digital technology, the Renaissance and the Rococo, the book celebrates the impact of ornament on abstract art, as well as showcasing a remarkable array of masterpieces.

Ornament and Abstraction

Brüderlin, Markus

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