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The past decade of both economic crises in Europe and North America as well as an extraordinary museum boom in many Asian countries has led to new questions and concepts for future museum buildings. This book investigates this paradigm change by presenting 20 recent and future museum projects on all continents.

How should you portray a collective? Roland Fischer shows us in his latest large-format photo project. 1,000 students from Tel Aviv University agreed to take part and to be photographed by him. The result is a multi-faceted collective portrait of young students in Israel and at the same time a series of fascinating individual portraits.

Between 1847 and 1935 the Maya on the Yucatan peninsula rebelled against their oppression and were eventually defeated by Mexican troops. The Canadian photographer Serge Barbeau has visited the descendants of those Maya rebels. This volume reproduces in oversize format his expressive portraits documenting their desire for independence.

With his artistic works, the sculptor Winfried Baumann (* 1956) evokes questions of social responsibility and the perception of contemporary social forms. His subjects are highly topical both as regards content with respect to social and urban-planning visions, and also formally as they cross the borders between fine art and applied design.

This publication reflects the Cuban love of sport, from youth work in the back yards of Havana to the preparations for the Olympic Games.

Taking the female body for her muse, Janaina Tschape explores themes of the body and landscape, sex, death, renewal and transformation in paintings, drawings, photographs and video installations. This book deals with her work.

The Kunstmuseum Bern owns one of the most important art collections in Switzerland. The Kunstmuseum Bern houses prestigious works of Swiss and international art from the late thirteenth century onwards. In this title, over 170 masterpieces of the collection are assembled and includes an art-historical analyses along with colour illustrations.

Apocalypse, the city, war, religion, the portrait, exile and existential trauma - Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) is regarded as one of the outstanding artists of German Expressionism. With the accuracy of a seismograph he recorded in his pictorial and literary works the shocks which reverberated through his time.

Andrea Bischof is one of Austria's most important contemporary artists and has made a name for herself through the subtleness of the coloration and exceptional harmony of her compositions. She achieves this through weeks of patiently juxtaposing dazzling tones that. The alluring interplay between surface and depth literally makes the pictures begin to breathe and pulsate.

With her sculptures Gabriela von Habsburg goes new ways in the politicisation of aesthetics, uniting her work as ambassador, politician and creative artist. This volume brings together her oeuvre: the sculptures, some of them made of metal or stone in different formats and some of them immovable, introduce the artist's works in the public space.

Tearing, cutting, shredding in order to reassemble the elements and create something new: strip by strip the Austrian artist Monika Fioreschy applies lengths of torn paper to her canvases, thereby creating large-format abstract works filled with a harmonious formal language and offering an unexpected wealth of detail when observed more closely.

The works of Vladimir G Shukhov have been a topic of academic discourse in the West since the 1990s. Shukhov is now regarded as a pioneer of lightweight construction and as one of the leading proponents of Russian industrial design. This book deals with this topic.

In 1970 in Munich Gerhard Richter met Brigid Berlin alias Brigid Polk, Andy Warhol's legendary muse and enfant terrible of New York's high society. This meeting gave rise to Richter's important "Brigid Polk" series, based on Polaroid self-portraits by the eccentric artist: a dialogue between America and Europe, photography and painting, artist and muse.

Pravoslav Sovak (1926) is one of the most important graphic artists of our time. With his drawing skills and delight in technical experimentation he focuses his critical attention on society and institutions. This volume traces Sovak's multi-layered oeuvre since 1994.

What is the place of painted pictures? What is their relevance? And what is their reality? Thomas Huber is an internationally acknowledged painter whose cool picture constructions, mostly devoid of humans, circle around these questions. This volume presents the works by the artist, who was born in Zurich and now lives in Berlin.

The work of the prize winning Peruvian American light artist Grimanesa Amoros is characterised by organic forms and an instinctive approach. She presented her latest works, "OCUPANTE" and "GOLDEN SECRET ROOM", In the Ludwig Museum Koblenz. With an overview of her work, this volume reproduces her works in large format illustrations.

Max Mannheimer (1920) survived the Holocaust as a Jew in a concentration camp. His moving life history has been published in several books in different languages. However, few people are aware of his paintings, which were created under his Hebrew name "ben jakov". This volume assembles a selection of 70 of his works.

An outstanding volume documenting the history of art books that set standards

The publication shows for the first time an overview of conversation portraits by Christine Ljubanovic which have been created over the past forty years.

History is fiction and personal identity nothing more than historical illusion: Eleanora Antinova is the renowned US contemporary artist Eleanor Antin - Eleanor Antin is Eleanora Antinova, a black American ballerina. Shifting the boundaries between art and life this book publishes the exciting memoirs of Antinova found by Eleanor Antin.

Blurred landscapes, falling trees and the lofty peaks of the Pyrenees - the extraordinary aesthetics of Ori Gersht's work seduce the viewer. But beneath the beautiful first appearances lie the sites of historical events - in this way the artist makes visible what is no longer plain to see.

Born in Munich, Sepp Werkmeister has over the course of the last decades made a name for himself as one of Germany's leading jazz photographers. He created insightful black-and-white portraits of all of the greats, from Louis Armstrong to Oscar Peterson and Miles Davis in Munich, New York. This book deals with his life and work.

Roland Fischer's "Facades" are spectacular photographic pictures: a visual grammar of architectural structures, an alphabet of abstract forms full of art-historical references. Roland Fischer (b. 1958), whose work is exhibited worldwide in important museums, lives and works in Munich and Beijing.

State-of-the-art Singapore is constantly transforming and rejuvenating her building stock. The book documents and analyses these transformations of the efficiently organized global city over the past two centuries at multiple spatial scales.

Featuring texts by art historians, authors, psychoanalysts and fellow artists, this book presents delicately coloured and black-and-white drawings and boldly colourful oil paintings as well as Schultze's important reliefs and sculptures.

Colours are only reflected light, assembled in our brains, which is also known as "grey matter". Tom Jacobi spent two years photographing archaic landscapes throughout the world. He discovered mystic places that had been created by nature over the millennia and that are nonetheless timeless. When photographed in the twilight world they unfold their immortal power.