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NEW: Just arrived!

From Basquiat to Hopper, from Christo to Gaudí, from Eisner to Goldsworthy, The Story of Color in Art, Fanzines, 21st-Century Art Book: all new books!

 

 

Holiday with...

The sea, the beach, the sun, a lemonade in the park, a relaxing afternoon in the garden or on the balcony, a visit to a lake ... and a book: the perfect holiday. But holiday literature is not necessarily fiction. That's why we compiled a selection of art books:

From catalogue to biography or textbook, small, compact, witty entertaining... and some at very reduced prices.

 

 

Incredible! Our bargain of the week: The New Yorker Cartoons

The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons is a slip-cased, two-volume, A to Z collection of cartoons by the magazine’s artists from 1924 to the present.

Bob Mankoff – for two decades the cartoon editor of the New Yorker – has organized nearly 3,000 cartoons into more than 300 categories of recurring New Yorker themes and visual tropes, including cartoons on banana peels, meeting St. Peter, being…

 

 

Just unpacked! New arrivals

From Corbijn to Shore, from Meyerowitz to Seliger, from Jil Sander to Anita Rée, from Klee to Pieter Hugo and much more.

 

 

Insights into the world of the rich at a bargain price; Greenfield – Generation Wealth

Documentary photographer Lauren Greenfields “Generation Wealth“ is an extraordinary visual history of our growing obsession with wealth.

We visit the homes and observe the rituals of the international elite – from Bel-Air to Monaco, Russia to China. We gain intimate access into the lives of those that rose to extraordinary wealth. And we encounter the A-list celebrities we follow on reality…

 

 

WHAT'S NEW? From Calatrava to Winehouse

This week's new arrivals cover a broad spectrum: The complete works of the famous architect Santiago Calatrava, Madonna Nudes by Schreiber, Rankin's popular celebrity portraits, Sneaker Freaker, Winehouse, Claxton and Naude's Sightings of the Sacred.

 

 

Book of the week: Annie Leibovitz – Portraits

“I'm more interested in being good than being famous.”

The legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz has captured the defining moments and people of our time. She is best known for her intimate and iconic portraits of celebrities like John Lennon, Demi Moore, Barack Obama, the Queen, Hillary Clinton, David Hockney, Zaha Hadid.

This large-format book shows her portraits from the years 2005 to 2016…

 

 

Focus on: Katrien De Blauwer

Described as a “photographer without a camera”, Katrien De Blauwer blends photographic material from old international magazines and newspapers to create new images.

She is one of today’s most distinguished photomontage artists.

We'd like to present three of her lovely book projects: Why I hate cars, I Close My Eyes, Then I Drift Away and cheveux longs... cheveux courts.

 

 

Just unpacked! New arrivals

This week we've received some wonderful new titles: August Sander, Hellen van Meene and Katrien De Blauwer, Lindbergh and Newton, Klimt, Basquiat and Schiele, Kander, Avedon, Evans, Mapplethorpe and Haring.

 

 

Furniture and Interior Design 

We've gathered some titles on furniture and interior design.

So if you'd like to rearrange your furniture and need some inspiration – voilà: Vignelli, Putman, Le Corbusier, Mid-Century Modern Complete, Total Design, Art of Things...

 

 

The Jimmy Nelson Collector's Edition at a super low price for a short time only!

Very special and exclusive offer just for you: the two collector's editions with hand-signed and numbered print for 550 € each (instead of 2000 €). The normal edition is available for 68 € and the signed book for 85 €. A real bargain!

 

 

NEW: Just arrived!

Really great art books and current exhibition catalogues: The impressive catalogue raisonné of Dürer's paintings, the exhibition catalogue on the two artistic giants Caravaggio and Bernini, an insight into the magnificent work of Sophie Calle, Monet's wonderful landscapes, Dieter Rams' theses for good design, Kiki Smith, Samuel Fosso, Arthur Elgort, Ed Clark, van Gogh, Titian, Warhol and some titles…

 

 

Book of the week: Lois Hechenblaikner – Ischgl

A few weeks ago, the Austrian ski resort Ischgl has achieved tragic international fame for becoming a corona hotspot.

The fact that the virus has spread among tourists is hardly surprising when you look at the photos in Lois Hechenblaikner's book “Ischgl“. His camera mercilessly captures the après-ski excesses: groups of men wearing costumes or t-shirts with questionable sayings, totally drunk…

 

 

Titles from Hartmann Books

Founded in 2016, Hartmann Books concentrates on producing high quality photo books which are characterized by a balanced interplay of subject, form, content and design. The small publishing house publishes only 10-12 titles a year, but already presents an impressive portfolio.

 

 

The Poster – Between Art, Advertisement and Politics

Jules Chéret lead the way for this art form and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec perfected it: At the end of the 19th century the poster was not merely a means of advertisement or political campaigns. Sketched by artists, posters became a favourable artwork to collect, poster-societies were installed and poster-exhibitions presented the diversity of designs. The Affichomanie reached its climax.

After the turn…

 

 

New in stock: Just arrived!

Look! We've received this wonderfully varied and exciting mixture of titles: From Sante D'Orazio and Cézanne via Ingrid Bergman and Wenders to Ed van der Elsken and Albrecht Dürer.

 

 

All naked: Nudes in art and photography

Time and again, she appears in various states of undress: Venus, the goddess – whether she was painted by Botticelli and Cabanel or Cranach, Titian and Velázquez. And Eve, the seductress - she's also naked. Goya's Maja, Manet's Olympia, Klimt's Judith - they refer to Venus and Eve, the prototypes of the nude.

Albrecht Dürer depicted himself naked, Mapplethorpe's self-portrait is more explicit.…

 

 

This week's bargain: Mark Seliger – Photographs

The ultimate celebration of one of the most in-demand portrait photographers.

During the course of his time at the Rolling Stone magazine, Mark Seliger photographed more than 125 covers. He has captured some of the most iconic images of the most famous and influential faces of our time, including Kurt Cobain, Nelson Mandela, Leonardo DiCaprio, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Emma Stone, Angelina Jolie,…

 

 

Wanderlust: Around the world with 25 books

A journey from the Antarctic to the Acropolis, from Italy to Algeria, from Mexico to New York, travelling on glaciers, in deserts, on lonely roads to big cities.

 

 

Photobooks from the North: Tunbjörk, Engström, Tronvoll und Co.

We glance northwards: to the Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic photography scene; to the Swedish master photographer Strömholm, to Engström who is well known for his carefully designed photobooks, to Nelli Palomäki, an important representative of the Helsinki School, to Torbjørn Rødland, who composes impressive photobooks, conjuring a world of ambiguous scenes.

We hope you will…

 

 

Landscapes - from idyllic to uncomfortable

Monet's Impressionist landscapes, Turner's ports, Le Gray's seascapes, Cuisset's campagnes françaises, Becker's broken line, sunsets, sunrises, forests, mountains, beaches – beautiful, delicate, eerie, melancholic, flooded with light and shadow. All this can be found in our selection of titles:

 

 

Limited, signed and special editions

Real treasures! Photobooks as limited editions, signed, with prints... From Tom Hunter to Alec Soth.

 

 

The American Dream?

Current events in the USA reflect the great inequality that exists in American society. No other country is similarly diverse, is met with both yearning and skepticism, is an epitome of stereotype: the myth of the American Dream, the Wild West, both liberal and prudish, caught between possibilities and boundaries.

All of this is reflected in the photographer’s pictures as well as many more facets…

 

 

Blaue Reiter & De Stijl

The circle around Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, August Macke, Alexej Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin as well as the group around Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian and Georges Vantongerloo are among the most influential art movements of modernism.

The highlights of our selection are the exhibition catalogues "Vasily Kandinsky – From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus" and “Van Doesburg…

 

 

Focus on: Joseph Beuys

“The only revolutionary force is the power of human creativity.“ (Joseph Beuys)

Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) became one of the most charismatic creative personalities of the 20th century. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism and social philosophy and culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture.

 

 

Focus on: Marcel Duchamp

“I was interested in ideas—not merely in visual products.” (Marcel Duchamp)

A 100 years ago Marcel Duchamp elevated a urinal into a work of art. And in doing so, he sparked a discussion about what art is.

 

 

Give my Regards to Elizabeth: Peter Bialobrzeski's Photographs from the UK

This book is a record of Peter Bialobrzeski’s time in England in the early 1990’s. The publication is his diploma work, made in two handbound, then still completely analogue made dummy books. Now, 27 years later the book is published as an almost facsimile version of the original layout.

In his photos, he captured the class ridden society: “When I left Germany, I left a booming economy in a…

 

 

Focus on: Peter Bialobrzeski

A few years ago, Peter Bialobrzeski visited us in Cologne and signed his photo book "Tigri di Luce", which has won several awards and is now out of print and expensive.

It is worth taking a look at our currently available titles by Bialobrzeski.

 

 

The art of the film: Influential films and movie stars

To paraphrase The Godfather: We're going to make you an offer you can't refuse ;-)

From Antonioni to Hichtcock, from Romy Schneider to Grace Kelly, from Charlie Chaplin to James Dean, from Doug Aitken to Bruce Conner...

 

 

Modern Masters: Van Gogh, Dalí, Klimt, Picasso, Dix, Klee...

“This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.“ (Salvador Dalí)

 

 

Focus on: Street Photography

Doisneau's „Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville" is one of the most famous photographs in the world. In these days when the coronavirus has changed the way we live, the physical closeness shown here seems almost surreal - cafés and streets full of people, no face covering and no social distance. Certainly today's street photographers will also produce iconic images of these strange times: What they will…

 

 

Spectacular! Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas

From 1925 until his death in 1929 Aby Warburg worked on his Mnemosyne Atlas, a volume of plates that has taken on mythical status in the study of modern art and visual studies. With this project, Warburg created a visual reference system that was far ahead of its time. Pinning black and white photographic reproductions on black-strung boards, Warburg created constellations that made cross-epochal inferences…

 

 

Focus on: Photojournalism

From Robert Capa's and Gerda Taro's photographs of the Spanish Civil War to Chim, Cartier-Bresson, Rodger and the international photographic cooperative Magnum Photos.

 

 

Focus on: Roni Horn

In her drawings, photographs, installations and books, American Artist Roni Horn has been exploring the nature of water and its universal qualities for over 30 years:

“Water… reassures you, affirms you, shows you who you are, ... sighs, sucks, laughs, splishes, splashes, slashes, washes, murmurs, gushes, bubbles, babbles, shimmers, shines, gleams.“

Roni Horn's Dictionary of Water, for example,…

 

 

Focus on: Guy Bourdin

Controversal, provocative, surrealist, pioneering - Guy Bourdin is one of the world's most influential fashion photographers. He was constantly breaking and stretching the boundaries by creating shocking, sensual, and sometimes unsettling images.

 

 

Focus on: David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt has documented the far-reaching effects of Apartheid in South African society. His pictures recorded those moments, scenes of everyday life and seemingly unprepossessing things that tend to be the most revelatory.


These four titles are now available as a set for 70 €: On the Mines | Particulars | Boksburg | Structures de Domination et de Démocratie

 

 

The Divine: Raphael

2020 marks the 500th anniversary of Raphael's death.

Crowned the “Prince of Painters” by Giorgio Vasari, Raphael (1483–1520) stands as one of the most popular artists of the Italian Renaissance.

Around 1515, Raphael designed a set of tapestries for Leo X, the first Medici pope. Now lost, these spectacular, grand-scale textiles are reconstructed in “Raphael’s Tapestries“ and set among…

 

 

New books
Mapplethorpe + Munch
€50.00 €25.00  
Helen Levitt – A Way of Seeing
€38.00  
Nicholas Nixon
€45.00 €22.50  
Jeff Mermelstein – #nyc
€20.00  
Raymond Meeks – Ciprian Honey Cathedral
€50.00  
Wendy Ewald – Portraits and Dreams
€35.00  
Rick McCloskey – Van Nuys BLVD 1972
€54.00  
Perry Kretz – Perryworld
War Photographer
€54.00  
Lili Tanner – Wild Thing
€39.90  
René Groebli – The Makin of the Eye of Love
€75.00  
Katrin Matschenz & René Groebli – Lichtspuren
€28.00  
René Groebli – Die Muschel
Hidden Places by René Groebli
€98.00  
René Groebli – The Eye of Love
€120.00  
Markus Raetz – Die Bücher
1972 - 1976
€70.00  
Bernard Plossu – En Depliant les Montagnes
€75.00  
JH Engström – Day by Day (+ print)
€75.00  
Ron Jude – 12 Hz (sign.)
€65.00  
Ron Jude – 12 Hz
€60.00  
Yukari Chikura – Zaido
Steidl Book Award Asia
€85.00  
Peter Beard – End of the Game
€75.00  

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