Böcker utgivna av Kerber Verlag

Dale Grant captures the distinctive features displayed by flowers during their life cycle. His images of flowers are portraits exploring life's uniqueness and constant change.

Today, animals are 'optimised', almost entirely based on human ideas. The designers and artists in this publication evaluate human-animal relations and design scenarios for a different future. Text in English and Dutch.

Since 1996, John Peter Askew (*1960) has photographed the Russian city of Perm, Europe's easternmost city: an epic portrait of three generations of a single family.

The book presents an unfamiliar side of Sean Scully: a series of large-scale figurative paintings, material from his private archive, and essays on his new painterly freedom.

Canadian artist Kelly Richardson (*1972) creates hyperreal landscapes. Her digitally-born works envision a scenario in which we might have to look beyond our current planet for refuge and survival.

The art of art on paper! The World on Paper shows how works on paper give rise to connections with installation, performance, sculpture, or film. Text in English and German.

From the Weimar Republic, to the United States, to the Soviet Union: Between 1919 and 1939, the visual arts of these three great powers suddenly developed along similar lines. In its exhibition Constructing the World, the Kunsthalle Mannheim presents the diverse facets of critical realism and New Objectivity for the first time in an international comparison. In it, both the artistic traces and the temporary stabilization between the World Wars are made perceptible as well as the renewed chaos that was triggered by the global economic crisis in 1929. The richly illustrated, scholarly exhibition catalogue documents this fascinating time and visualizes the explosive influence of the economy on the art of this era.Artists: Alexander Deineka, Otto Dix, Carl Grossberg, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gustavs Klucis, Alice Lex-Nerlinger, Reginald Marsh, Yury Pimenov, Serafima Vasil'evna Riangina, Alexander Rodtschenko, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Charles Sheeler, Karl Völckers, Grant Wood et al.

The magazine for classic and contemporary nude photography returns with a vibrant compilation of the most beautiful works from the field of the most intimate form of portrait photography.

In 1963 Mel Ramos, one of the first artists to embrace Pop Art, developed a preference for a tantalising, seductive visual language. In typical Pop Art colours, beauty queens and nude Hollywood stars are combined with commodities to populate his paintings. In accordance with advertising aesthetics, he placed female bodies in erotic, occasionally vulgar poses on top of consumer goods, thus taking his theme from advertising''s enduring slogan, ''sex sells''. This catalogue is a homage to Mel Ramos, in celebration of his 80th birthday. Text in English and German.