Product Description: The Elbe monotypes were made by Gerhard Richter in 1957, just one year after he had graduated from art college in Dresden. Abstract, somewhat melancholic and comparatively small in scale, these 31 works were placed in the safekeeping of a friend when Richter fled the GDR in 1961, and have never previously been published...read more

Product Description: This first volume dedicated entirely to the drawings of Mario Merz, one of the best-known and most influential artists of the Italian Arte Povera movement of the 1960s and 70s, contains reproductions of 300 drawings made from 1954 until the time of the artist's death in 2003--many of which have never been published before...read more

Product Description: Pia Fries combines a gluttonous love of thick paint with an energetic pleasure in driving it across the picture plane, so that one paint cluster leads or smears into another. More recently she has begun to deploy collage elements, heightening this 'pinball' method of composition in which paint dialogues with print...read more

Product Description: Pia Fries (born in 1955 in Beromunster, Switzerland) studied under Gerhard Richter at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf, where she developed her signature style. It is defined by her use of paint as material--rather than letting composition and coloration be the central determinants of the way her canvasses look, she uses textural patterns and crisscrosses to construct and reconstruct them...read more

Product Description: Published on the occasion of the artistis recent one-person exhibition at New Yorkis Marian Goodman Gallery, this up-to-the-minute volume presents new, large-scale works by Gerhard Richter, most of which have never before been published...read more

Product Description: When John Chamberlain began his career in the late 1950s, his starting point was Abstract Expressionist painting. As has since been remarked, his twisted, laquered, partially painted, metal sculptures eventually created a new, three-dimensional Abstract Expressionism...read more

Product Description: If Richard Artschwager's laconic, concisely handcrafted works deny excessive verbalization (How much can you say about a black oval without worrying that the oval is laughing at you?), the artist's use of the written word to express his sculptural and pictorial ideas comes as a pleasant surprise...read more

Product Description: Equally inspired by photographs, magazines, ads, comics and his own personal studies and drawings, Thomas Scheibitz's colorful paintings of landscapes, buildings and shop windows feature few, if any, people. Part of a group of young German artists who are coming to grips with objective representation, Scheibitz's own personal language is presented here in 20 new paintings, three sculptures and multiple works on paper...read more

Product Description: A central figure of the new wave of German photography that first arrived in the 1970s, Thomas Struth has continued to impact the world of photography with his large-scale museum interiors, portraits, and architectural photography...read more

Product Description: Edited by Dieter Schwarz. Essay by Birgit Pelzer.