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The legacy of Nazi Germany's architectural relics Between 1933 and 1936, dozens of Thingstätte, or amphitheaters, were erected as propagandistic open-air theaters and meeting places by the Nazi regime. While many of these amphitheaters are barely known today, they can still be found throughout Germany, Poland and Russia. Here, scholars and artists assess the relevance of these architectural specimens for the future.
World Cultures and Ethnographic Museums are the museums of our time in Europe. They are in the spotlight in a changing society, confronted with public discourse about the legacies of colonialism and the challenges to live together in a society shaped by migration and globalization.The Art of Being a World Culture Museum sketches the variety and practices of these museums by giving a lively insight into the exhibition ambiances, working conditions and practices, the collections and the museum architecture.'We want a variety of stories, we want new questions, and we want questions that are provocative and make people think [...] Collections have values and purposes today that supersede the rea...
"For more than 20 years, Andr� Butzer (b. 1973), has been one of the most outstanding and internationally influential painters in Germany.Starting with an expressive figuration between cartoon and high culture in his early work, bit by bit he annihilated all superficial motival representation. Since 2010, he converges onto an absolute and non-objective, albeit existential understanding of painting.For the first time, this book gives a coherent survey of Andr� Butzer's oeuvre and shows the insistent consequence from its beginning in 1994 until today's so-called N-Paintings by which he questions the elementary relation between painting and our existence."
A career survey on Swedish artist Lena Mattsson's multimedia social critique Including film stills, photographs and documentary materials, this is the first overview of Swedish multimedia artist Lena Mattsson (born 1966), whose work draws on the history of art and cinema.
With the municipal buildings of "Red Vienna," the utopia of enabling weaker individuals in society to also have a good life was realized. Originally erected in the 1920s to provide affordable living space for the working class as well as urban infrastructure, communal ownership of housing also makes it possible today to integrate people who would otherwise have limited opportunities in neoliberal society. The relevance of municipal ownership to the current situation consists as well of the possibility to exert an attenuating influence on real estate speculation and rising rents. With her camera, Gisela Erlacher (*1956) follows the parcours through the archways of superblocks such as the Sandleiten-Hof, Goethe-Hof, and Karl-Marx-Hof. She portrays residents and visitors in all their diversity and gives them space to present themselves beyond stereotyped depictions.
The work of photographer Tom Hegen (b. 1991) deals with human interventions in natural habitats.His photographs document the strong impact human beings' have on our environment and show how we have altered our landscape through our actions.Including many impressive aerial photos, this photo book invites viewers to discover their environment from a new perspective, to comprehend the scale of human interventions on our earth's surface, and, ultimately, to assume responsibility.English and German text.
Classic and contemporary interpretations of the human body Emerging designer Christina Rollny has given Volume X of The Opéraan experimental and refreshingly youthful look. The issue is divided into "classic" and "contemporary" sections: the classic section presents black-and-white photography, while the contemporary section presents color photography. Photographers include: Evelyn Bencicova, Markus Burke, Emanuele Centi, Jay Davies, Louise A. Depaume, Samantha Evans, Anna Försterling, Mia Macfarlane and Julien Crouigneau aka French Cowboy, Rebecca Harris, Katja Heinemann, Horst Herget, Kenny Lemes, Dorian Ulises Lopez Macias, Shinichi Maruyama, Sara Mautone, Mariam Medvedeva, Henny de la Motte, Justyna Nerang, Okobe, Hanna Pallot, Remi Rebillard, Red Rubber Road, Thomas Rusch, Ryuta Sakurai, Tobias Slater Hunt, Maxim Vakhovskiy, Eline Vis, Sean Patrick Watters, Roger Weiss, Dimitros Yeros and Lina Zangers.
Sounds transposed into forms through plant pigment Swedish artist Christine Ödlund's (born 1963) practice is rooted in natural science, music and philosophy and spans painting, sculpture, video and music. Her first monograph presents recent works on paper in which she uses plant pigments to create soft colors and botanical motifs.
Key works and writings from six decades of pioneering image-text works in celebration of Eros For six decades, Dorothy Iannone (born 1933) has developed an iconography that is at once epic and intensely personal. Often her works bear a close resemblance to graphic novels: hand-lettered texts and images work together to tell the story, bluntly and with humor in both verbal and visual details. Liberated sexuality and romantic relations are central themes. Iannone's erotic scenes stem from historical representations of ecstatic unions across times, cultures and religions, with references to antiquity, Greek vases, Egyptian art, Roman and Pompeian murals, the Kama Sutra and Tantra, Icelandic sagas, Christianity, Buddhism, world literature and film history. Serving as muses, the artist's lovers appear in her narratives: several works feature the artist Dieter Roth, who was Iannone's partner from 1967 to 1974. This richly illustrated catalog presents some of the artist's most important work, alongside an introduction by Italian art historian Barbara Casavechia, the artist's own writing and an illustrated biography.
Artwork by Luigi Ontani, Paul Schrader, Louise Bourgeois, Chris Burden, Francesco Clemente, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fiona Tan. Photographs by Catherine Opie, David Wojnarowicz. Text by Wolfgang Tillmans.