Taking Shape - Prijzen

Tailored For Freedom

Seen as an expression of individuality and personality, fashion around 1900 became a synonym for the physical and social emancipation of women and progressed to become an object of artistic interes...

Now! Painting in Germany Today

Since the start of the Romantic era, painting has been regarded as the leading artistic discipline in Germany. To this day, the nation of Painter Princes continues to promote the development of the...

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...

Paintings on Stone

Paintings on Stone: Science and the Sacred 1530-1800 examines a fascinating tradition long overlooked by art historians-stone surfaces used to create stunning portraits, mythological scenes, and sacre...

Primitive Art in Civilized Places

What is so primitive about primitive art? And how do we dare to use our standards to judge it? Drawing on an intriguing mixture of sources--including fashion ads and films, her own anthropological r...

Animals

Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions. Contemporary art has become a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relat...

Oriental Carpet Design

How can one tell a Persian carpet from a Romanian copy? Where did today's oriental carpet designs originate? How do the weavers' ethnic origins influence the artistic value of tribal rugs? These...

Brancusi & Duchamp

Tom Jacobi

Die Farbe Weiß ist aus der Menschheitsgeschichte, aus Religionsrichtungen, Weltanschauungen und der Natur nicht wegzudenken: »Gott sprach: Es werde Licht«, so die Bibel. Bei den alten Ägyptern war Wei...

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 88) is one of the great European painters of the eighteenth century. In Germany he is primarily known for his portraits. This volume is the first to present the English art...

BMW M (Bilingual edition)

BMW M achieved spectacular victories on all the world's famous racing circuits. The brand also stands for a wide range of innovative high-performance limousines, many of which have achieved cult statu...

To Be Seen (Bilingual edition)

The contributions that have been assembled in this volume present the story of queer lives - from the first emancipation movements around the turn of the (last) century via attempts at self-empowermen...