Was Beethoven een asperger?

'De uitgewerkte informatie over Beethovens vermeende aspergersyndroom is helder, verklaart een hoop en zet zelfs zijn genialiteit in een ander daglicht.' AALTJE en JAAP VAN ZWEDEN'Beethovens ogenschij...

Illegale Kriege

Autonomous architecture in Flanders

The influence and position of the 'Generation 74' in Flemish and international architecture. Five well-known architects who studied together in Ghent, Marie-José Van Hee, Christian Kieckens, Marc Dubo...

In Montmartre

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the vibrant figures who invented modernist art in bohemian Paris at the dawn of the twentieth century When the young Pablo Picasso first arrived...

Lieven Gevaert Series 29 - A Gust of Photo-Philia

The first transnational history of photography’s accommodation in the art museumPhotography was long regarded as a “middlebrow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium it became...

I (Heart) Art: The Work We Love from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A charming, chunky book filled with more than 150 works we love from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book is divided into different themes for readers to explore, including people, animals, transp...

Richard Serra

Published on the occasion of “Richard Serra: Drawings 2015–2017; Rambles, Composites, Rotterdam Verticals, Rotterdam Horizontals, Rifts” at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, this catalogue i...

Florence and its Painters

Painting re-invented itself during the 15th century in Florence. Artists experimented in an innovative manner with pictorial subjects, forms and techniques and thus arrived at an unprece dented div...

Origami for Busy People: 27 Original On-The-Go Projects

Make quick and easy origami projects with this origami book with tear-out folding paper. Origami for Busy People is the first origami book for people who love to fold paper for fun and relaxation b...

Flora Magnifica

This sumptuous book is not a reference work, nor it is simply a collection of beautiful flowers. It is the product of a longstanding collaboration between renowned flower artist Makoto and botanical p...

Every Person in New York

Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell, admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the...

The Killer Detail: Defining Moments in Fashion

The killer detail: a singular feature that catches the eye, encapsulates an attitude, or refines a style, distinguishing the wearer from the crowd. A ribbon on a hat, a belt knotted around a trench co...

Beyond Line: The Art of Korean Writing

Offering an extraordinary window into Korean culture, this magnificent volume brings a multidisciplinary approach to the history of Korean writing-from the earliest texts from the Three Kingdoms perio...

Color and Light

Inspired by the work of Realist painters such as Gustave Courbet and Francois Bonvin, Henri-Edmond Cross's earliest paintings were compositions in dark, somber colors. Following his involvement with t...

Matthew Barney

Conceived and articulated as a site-specific opera, River of Fundament takes its inspiration from Norman Mailer's novel Ancient Evenings, which chronicles the protagonist's soul's journey through deat...

Letters to a Very Young Painter

Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Very Young Painter , written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infa...

The Spirit of the Bauhaus

'Architects, sculptors, painters, we all must return to the crafts!' declared the architect Walter Gropius in his Bauhaus manifesto. Founded as an art school in 1919 and forced to close in 1933 by the...

Thomas Schütte

Since the 1980s Thomas Schutte has created a highly individual, eni gmatic and disturbingly diverse oeuvre beyond the realms of all trends and fashions. This year the internationally renowned arti...

Tate Introductions

A society of young artists and writers, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in London in 1848. They were known for controversially rebelling against the classical academic painting conventions...

A Comfortable Fit

Boek Comfortable Fit, geschreven door Quentin Blake, uitgegeven door Thames & Hudson, Kunst algemeen