Böcker utgivna av Hirmer Verlag

From medieval altarpieces to media installations, from Albrecht Durer to Andy Warhol, from Ansbach to Wurzburg: lavishly illustrated and in the words of the people who look after them, this volume tells of famous masterpieces, reveals hidden treasures and invites you to embark upon a journey through the past history and present day of the Pinakotheken in Bavaria.

The Museum Wiesbaden is one of three important Hessian state museums and holds world-class collections in the fields of art and naturalhistory. This book provides an introduction to the museum's art collections, which span the period from the Middle ages to contemporary art with an emphasis on the art of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

What is the mutual relationship between TV and art? The publication introduces artistic strategies used to explore TV and its specific contents and narrative forms in video, film, painting, sculpture and performance. It also focuses on the analysis, paraphrasing and parody of TV formats and their pictorial nature, amongst other things.

John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde. Baldessari intertwines media and materials and thereby combines entirely distinct groups of artistic subjects. This book deals with his life and work.

Inspired by seventeenth-century painting, the author transposes artistic traditions to the present day, toys with the viewer's perceptions and sometimes even blurs the boundaries between the painter and the model.

The Museum of Lacquer Art has what is probably the most important collection of Russian lacquer wares outside Russia. The works of art date to the period between the early nineteenth century and the 1950s, providing an extensive overview of the development of this flourishing art and craft.

In the 1990s the landscape architect Peter Latz and his team designed and executed a park that transcended all fashions and trends. This volume provides insights into twelve years of planning and realisation through photographs, sketches, plans and explanations, and reveals to the reader a fascinating world in the footsteps of industry.

The Swiss Braglia Collection is a treasure trove of German Expressionism. This exquisitely produced publication featuring full-page illustrations and unique views of the works of art by important experts on Expressionism will be appreciated for its pictorial reproductions, charming essays and as a catalogue of the collection.

The exhibition Late Harvest is organized by the Nevada Museum of Art in consultation with the National Museum of Wildlife Art. This publication seeks to simultaneously confirm through historically significant wildlife paintings and subvert through contemporary art and photography viewers preconceptions of the place of animals in culture.

Focuses on the human body and its attributes. Fragmented and joined together again with thread to form something new, the author creates a cosmos that is both fascinating and radical.

Shows an album of photos taken in May & June 1913, when the author drove from London to Vienna via Paris, Mont Cenis Pass, Brescia, Riva del Garda, Dolomites, & Loibl Pass.

Reproduces sketches of flowers by Eva and Adele.

Features photographic pictures of architectural structures and historical references. This book features a vocabulary of global architecture and an inventory of city landmarks.

For gardeners, Roaring Water Bay in West Cork in Ireland is a paradise: the Gulf Stream, long hours of sunshine and the prevailing micro-climate permit unique plants, even palm trees, to grow there. In this title, five photographers show the growth and development of the garden from their own personal point of view.

The year 2012 is forever associated with protest from Occupy Wall Street protesters in America to the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt, and popular unrest in the face of austerity measures in Greece and Spain. This book covers these events in segments, accompanied by a flood of images, making them difficult for viewers to assess.

The work of painter Francesco Clemente has always drawn on many esoteric traditions. He finds inspiration in a variety of visual languages, ranging from the Tantric diagrams of India to the 'Candomble' ceremonial implements of Brazil. This book deals with his life and work.

On 26 August 1959 a revolutionary small car rolled off the assembly line, and almost overnight became a cult. Sir Alec Issigonis' Mini was both innovative and unconventional - making it the perfect embodiment of the Swinging Sixties. This book tells the story of the brand's success from the first classic Mini to today's modern, concept cars.

The painter Jochen Plogsties, was a master student of Neo Rauch, and he was awarded the Leipziger Volkszeitung art prize in 2011. This volume provides an overview of his paintings.

For ten whole months, from September 1814 to June 1815, the imperial residential city of Vienna was the centre of Europe. The city became the political, cultural and social nucleus of Europe. With historical photographs, paintings and documents, this title shows the impact that this meeting on the European continent and especially on Vienna.

The most recent installation by the internationally acclaimed artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979), who comes from Katowice, explores the French physicist Leon Foucault's (1819-1868) proof that the world rotates and develops the experiment further. The present volume illustrates the playful exploration of space and time using recent pictures from the Schirn rotunda.