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Art Cinema, London
Bijutsu, Japan
Dis Voir, Paris
Galerie Vevais, Germany
Hand Picked Books, London
Hartmann Books, Germany
JPIC International, Tokyo
Manfredi Edizioni, Italy
Manuscript, Australia
Maretti Editore, Italy
Pictoplasma Publishing, Berlin
Primavera Pers, Netherlands
Rankin, London
Sandstein Verlag, Germany
Schirmer Mosel, Germany
Schlebrugge Editor, Austria
Snoeck, Germany
SP Books, UK

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IS A B E L L A R O S S E L L IN I
L OT H A R S C H IR M E R

l o t h a r s c h i r m e r , b. 1945, is the founder and head of
Schirmer/Mosel Publishers, a German book publishing house
specializing in the connection of contemporary photography
and contemporary art. In charge of Schirmer/Mosel’s programin his 50th year to date, he has also assembled a distinguished
art collection. Its segment of glamour photography, high-end
commercial photography in the ﬁelds of fashion, portraiture,
eroticism, and advertising is for the ﬁrst time presented coherently in this book.

Glamour Collection
Lothar Schirmer
A catalogue for an exhibition
79 iconic photographs 1926 until today
by 45 master photographerswith literary miniatures by 50 contemporary writers

Glamour Collection
Introductions by Isabella Rossellini and Lothar Schirmer
224 pages, 178 color illustrations
ISBN 978-3-8296-0983-8

Glamour, Fashion & Photography at Schirmer/Mosel:

Silver Marilyn
Marilyn Monroe and the Camera
Texts by Jane Russell and Georges Belmont
272 pages, 152 color and duotone plates

applied arts. It is a sub-sector of portrait photography, nude

Text by Marguerite Duras
232 pages, 135 color and duotone plates
Lothar Schirmer (ed.)

Women Seeing Women
Text by Elisabeth Bronfen
248 pages, 159 color and duotone platesPeter LindberghImages of Women II 2005–2014

Attila Csampai

CallasImages of a Legend
Text by Ingeborg Bachmann
272 pages, 169 color and duotone plates

Robert Mapplethorpe
The Black Book
Text by Ntozake Shange
108 pages, 96 duotone plates

Helmut Newton
Portraits
Texts by Klaus Honnef and Carol Squiers
248 pages, 191 color and duotone platesJean-Baptiste Mondino
Three at Last
Sante D’Orazio
Polaroids
Text by Glenn O’Brien
136 pages, 105 color plates

S C H I R M E R / MO S E L
www.schirmer-mosel.com

Cover image:
Joerg Glaescher: Twelve Waves from Hartmann Books.
Layout by Harry Rose

Glamour Collection
Lothar Schirmer

photography, and fashion photography. For a distinguishedcircle of customers and clients it makes enormous creative andtechnical efforts to obtain excellent results, be it for the international stars of ﬁlm and politics, for the genre of erotic photography constantly changing with the zeitgeist, or for the top

performances of fashion designers and couturiers of the time.
This has been the case ever since the invention of photography.

Glamour photography is the highest form of photography as appliedarts. It is a sub-sector of portrait photography, nude photography,
and fashion photography.

Foreword
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Glamour photography works with special craftsmen in addition

to photographers: hair stylists, make-up artists, set designers,
and lighting technicians of all sorts. In that respect it is also a

sub-section of publicity for eccentric personalities and suchproducts. The beauty industry is a client with unlimited material
resources and corresponding aesthetic results, so to speak.

Our anthology presents the most beautiful images I’ve laid eyeson and wanted to secure for both my private collection and thecover design of future Schirmer/Mosel books. The book assembles a total of 79 famous photographs by 45 famous photographers. Writers, art historians, exhibition curators, fashion

Our anthology presents the most beautiful images I’ve laid eyes on
and wanted to secure for both my private collection and the cover
design of future Schirmer/Mosel books. The book assembles a totalof 79 famous photographs by 45 famous photographers. Writers, art
historians, exhibition curators, fashion designers, filmmakers, andjournalists — experts of all kinds — have written knowledgeable andenjoyable literary miniatures to individual images presented in thisbook. Isabella Rossellini, a model herself, film star, fashion icon,
and a friend has written a small, personal essay on my collection
featuring herself and Madonna. My own text explains the motifs andmixture of this collection. Many celebrities, from Andy Warhol andCindy Sherman to Marilyn Monroe, say hello with a wink.
— Lothar Schirmer

designers, ﬁlmmakers, and journalists — experts of all kinds —have written knowledgeable and enjoyable literary miniatures
to individual images presented in this book.

Isabella Rossellini, a model herself, ﬁlm star, fashion icon, and afriend has written a small, personal essay on my collection
featuring herself and Madonna. My own text explains the motifs

and mixture of this collection. Many celebrities, from Andy
Warhol and Cindy Sherman to Marilyn Monroe, say hello witha wink.

S CHI RM E R /MOS E L

304 pages, 243 color plates

Brigitte Lacombe Isabella Rossellini 1989

45 photographers: peter lindbergh| jeanloup sieff | andré kertész| anton corbijn | gisèle freund |jean-baptiste mondino | robertmapplethorpe | david seidner |cindy sherman | nick knight | evearnold | henri cartier-bresson etc.
51 stars: charlotte rampling |madonna | isabella rossellini| hanna schygulla | greta garbo |yves saint laurent | tilda swinton| marilyn monroe | elizabeth ii.
| andy warhol | clint eastwood etc.
50 writers: philippe garner | elke
heidenreich | cees nooteboom |elisabeth bronfen | wim wenders| katja eichinger | françois sage |christian caujolle | edgar reitz |michael krüger | patricia waters etc.
224 pages, 178 color illustrations

Glamour Collection

Yves Saint Laurent
Icons of Fashion Design

Texts by Peter Handke, Werner Spies, and Wim Wenders
312 pages, 161 duotone plates

A catalogue for an exhibition
Lothar Schirmer

Glamour photography is the highest form of photography as— Lothar Schirmer

S C H I R M E R / MO S E L

S C H I R M E R / MO S E L
www.schirmer-mosel.com•

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Loredana Nemes: Gray Tree and
Sky Sea

Kengo Kuma – Erieta Attali
Text by Barry Bergdoll

Text by Alke Hollwedel

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Over four years and seasons, Loredana Nemes has photographed thebeech trees that are characteristic of the landscape above the chalkcliffs of the island of Rügen, made famous in art and history. Whatbegan as a relaxing walk has turned into an impressive, long-term
photographic observation of this “forest seascape.” The pictures she
has produced are of an ancient, archaic landscape that has survived
for many generations and will continue to survive over many more in
the future. They capture the quiet, the beauty, the robustness, andthe fragility of the beeches set against the backdrop of the smooth,
timeless horizon above the sea; and the magic of fog, light, clouds,
snow, and the seasons of the year. At the same time, however, theyalso convey a sense of both ephemerality and hazard, because theforests are at the mercy of climate change.
The beeches on Rügen are part of a UNESCO natural world heritage
site, the “ancient and primeval beech forests in the Carpathians andother European regions.”

Twelve Waves—the simple title points out the number but not thetype of waves Jörg Gläscher introduces in this book. In terms ofphysicality, a wave is an undulation that spreads out periodically, ora disturbance of equilibrium. Gläscher’s “waves” are the antithesis of
this. Made with found, broken pieces of wood, these “standing” waves
are sculptures constructed in the forest. These wooden waves areboth the expression and the result of a long phase of unaccustomed
silence, contemplation, doubt, and uncertainty, which arose during
the lockdown that occurred as the first wave of the novel coronavirus
swept the globe in 2019. For Jörg Gläscher, the forest was a refuge
during this span of time. Out of his experiences and explorationsof nature emerged ideas that led him away from his usual field of
documentary photography and toward the twelves waves in thisbook. He documents his sculptures in photographs that contrast theisolated atmosphere of the forest with dynamic wave formations.

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Joerg Glaescher: Twelve Waves

Text by Markus Runte

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Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and Greek-Israeli photographer
Erieta Attali have been working together for over twenty years. Their
joint work is characterized by a shared aesthetic understandingof architecture, space, and visual perception. In both Kuma’sbuildings and Attali’s photographs, interior and exterior spaces
merge and dissolve into one another. Both are united by the ideathat spatial experience is fleeting, shaped by the rhythm of the day
and the seasons, making built space a medium that expands into
the landscape and encourages people to question their notion of
spatial boundaries. Architectural sketches and quotes by Kuma areembedded in between Attali’s photographs, providing deep insights
into the work created over the past twenty years. With an essay by
Barry Bergdoll, head of the art history department at Columbia
University and former curator of architecture and design at theMuseum of Modern Art, this publication situates the work of Kuma
and Attali at the center of contemporary architectural discourse.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Satijn Panyigay: Void
Text by Satijn Panyigay

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The minimalist work of Dutch-Hungarian photographer Satijn
Panyigay (*1988) challenges the power of solitude. Her firstpublished artist’s book, Void brings together the work of the past
years. Captured mainly across empty museum spaces and depots,
it is a dialogue between emphasized tranquility and rhythmic,architectural abstraction. The photographs are marked byPanyigay’s consistent analog approach and her choice of a subdued
color palette. The radical layout concept for Void by Dutch bookdesigner -SYB- creates an intimate viewing experience by using
multidirectional foldouts arranged in order, from dark to lightimages. It is one of those books that you can only “grasp” if you holdit in your hands and resist digitalization. The young photographer
Satijn Panyigay (born 1988 in Nijmegen, The Netherlands) studied
photography at the Utrecht School of Art, where she continues tolive and work. In the Netherlands she has already had a number ofmuseum exhibitions, but in Germany she is still a discovery.

Out of the Shadows
Women Artists from the 16th tothe 18th Century

Creating Memories
Japanese Photographs
Lisa Bauer-Zhao

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At the end of the 19th century, Japan became a longed-for
destination for many Western travellers. The country, which had
isolated itself for a good 200 years, opened up to trade with theWest in the mid-19th century under military pressure from the
US Navy. As a result, more and more travellers flocked to Japan.
Photographs of typical views of Japan, which were offered for saleby numerous local souvenir shops and photo studios, developed into
popular souvenirs that were distributed all over the world by Western
travellers. Still today, our view of Japan is shaped and influenced
by the delicate shades of the skilfully hand-coloured pictures oflandscapes, temples, city views, genre scenes or people in traditional
work clothes. The Ethnological Collection of the Museum Natur und
Mensch holds around one hundred of these photographs and many
more that are part of a large fanfold. In the catalogue and exhibition,these are now presented to the public for the first time.

Edited by Stephan Koja & Iris Yvonne Wagner

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Rights: UK & Eire onlyThis exhibition sees the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister turn its
attention to women artists long overshadowed by the male Old
Masters of the 16th to 18th century. Proportionally, they are in theminority and unlike their male colleagues they remain far fromhousehold names. Very few talented women had the good fortune togrow up in a working artistic environment, where institutional andsocial barriers could be sidestepped or at least partly overcome. This
catalogue presents women painters and print¬makers of the modern
era, with exhibits selected from the collections of the Gemäldegalerie
Alte Meister and Kupferstich-Kabinett. The five essays explore thework of these extraordinary artists, including Marietta Robusti,
Lavinia Fontana, Diana Scultori, and Angelica Kauffman.

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Time – From Dürer to Bonvicini

Dix and the Present

Texts by Ina Jessen, Julian Bismuth, Gitta Ho, Dirk Luckow, Birgit
Schwarz

Texts by Cathérine Hug, Mónica Bello, Sébastian Vivas

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Time is one of the great mysteries in the history of civilization. Its
definitions are many and can be found in the most diverse disci­plines, from religion to biology and economics, above all, of course,
in physics, and as an well-established theme in art. Surprisingly,
for all Switzerland’s reputation as a watchmaking nation, few art
museums in the country have yet staged an exhibition on the subjectof time that spans multiple eras and disciplines. The sensual journeyof the Kunsthaus Zürich through the history of time therefore
now takes a comprehensive look at paintings, films, installations,performances, and real objects such as clocks from the 1550s to thepresent. Even though the clock as a time-measuring instrument is
the starting point: temporal perspectives such as the biological, thepaleontological, and even of personal sensations, are explored in
depth in this show, curated by Cathérine Hug, with works by, among
others, Giacomo Balla, Black Qantum Futurism, Honoré Daumier,
Jean Dubuffet, William Hogarth, Roni Horn, Sophie Nys, Dieter Roth,Cyril Schäublin, Una Szeemann.

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In the autumn of 2023, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg will present a
major show on Otto Dix and his influence on art up to the presentday. The first point of emphasis of the two-part exhibition, curated
by Ina Jessen, is on Dix’s supposedly apolitical work from the Naziera, illuminating the internal nexus of political censorship, atistic
conformity and oppositional iconography. To date, Otto Dix’s work
during the Nazi era has played a rather subordinate role in the
exhibition and research landscape. In order to do justice to Dix’s
landscapes, portraits, and Christian subjects, the book places thepainter, his work, and his professional career in the artistic andpolitical context of the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, and theperiod shortly after the end of the war. The second area of focus ofboth the exhibition and the catalog centers on the artistic receptionof Otto Dix with regard to subjects, political iconography, style,technique, and genre. Featuring contemporary artists like Monica
Bonvicini, John Currin, Alice Neel, Cindy Sherman and Karar Walker.

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Arch of Hysteria. Between
Madness and Ecstasy

Christa Dichgans: Robert
Text by Angela Stief

Texts by Lena Nievers, Kerstin Stremmel et al

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The “great arc“ or “arc de cercle“ with its ambivalence of loss ofcontrol and domination, is a seductive motif that has a long traditionin the history of art and culture. It can be found in representationsof dance and acrobatics, though it also describes physical or
psychological illnesses: the over­extended (female) body expresses
ecstatic rapture or even a psychotic disorder, yet in dance itstands for virtuoso body control and expressiveness. With “Arch of
Hysteria“, the Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, centers an exhibition
entirely on this powerful visual motif. Works of art from the last
one hundred years and various contexts, are on display, tracing
the variety of expressive possibilities inherent in the pose – to thepoint of transforming it into abstract, yet expressive and therefore
unmistakable forms. The book illuminate the (art) historical rootsof the motif as well as current adaptations. In painting, drawing,
sculpture, photography, and video and performance art. Among theprotagonists are Denis Darzacq, Max Ernst, Gustav Klimt, Alfred
Kubin, Auguste Rodin.

“As I walk through the museum, I can tell which painting is basedon a model and which is not!“ – Caroline von Grone has a keen eye
for situations and an unerring one for portraits. In 1991, she quite
untypically for that time, had turned to painting portraits, either ofmodels she had approached, for instance in subway stations, or laterthen of models who commissioned a portrait from her. It is absolutely
her strength that she “does not invent“ observations. This results ina visual acuity that is a definite pleasure for the viewer. Her paintings
time and again offer an image within the image, such as abstractly
conceived tiled walls, floor tiles, and the interiors of public places
such as telephone booths and ticket machines. Part of Caroline vonGrone’s practice has always been the painting in public, because
otherwise she “would not be able to capture the still-life presence
within the picture if I tried to paint it based on a photograph.“

ART, CONTEMPORARY

ART, MODERN

Caroline von Grone

Edited by Martin Schick

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Christa Dichgans lived in a man’s world, married to Karl Horst
Hödicke and, in 1972, and later to the renowned gallery owner
Rudolf Springer. She was friends with Markus Lüpertz and Penck,
assisted Georg Baselitz during his professorship in the 1980s at the
Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. These German painter princes,
as they later came to be called, who in the course of their careersadvanced to become important artistic individualists and taught
the younger generation of Junge Wilde about figurative expression,
proved to be indispensable dialogue partners for Christa Dichgans.
She described her role thus: “In the sixties, no man felt threatenedby me. They thought I was pretty and spooky; they didn’t really takemy art seriously.” Already in the first half of the 1960s, Christa
Dichgans developed in her early work a pictorial formula that was inno way inferior to those of Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Konrad
Lueg, and Manfred Kuttner, all representatives of the Capitalist
Realism.

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Gregor Schneider: Ernst Franz
Vogelmann-Prize for Sculpture

Henning Strassburger: May 2023
Interview by Dana Žaja with Henning Strassburger

Texts by Marc Gundel, Norman Rosenthal, Rita E. Täuber

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Never being able to escape spaces because they are charged,
both socially and by taboos, because they have a psychologicaleffect in addition to their physical effect, precisely captures Gregor
Schneider’s artistic position. Gregor Schneider, born in Rheydt in
1969, suddenly became known to a broad public in 2001 with “Totes
Haus u r“ after the work was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice
Biennale. He now joins Roman Signer, Franz Erhard Walther, Thomas
Schütte, Richard Deacon, and Ayșe Erkmen as the 2023 recipientof the Ernst Franz Vogelmann-Prize for Sculpture. A lecturer at
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf since 2016, the artist “looks behindthe façade of things and, along the way, redefines the terms of
sculpture and installation“, according to the prize jury. And indeed,his biographically based agenda repeatedly forms the unsettling andalso quite vexing point of departure for his works, which in fact turnthe visitors into active protagonists.

Christopher Muller, who has held a chair in fine art photography
at Folkwang University Essen since 2009, has been one of the mostunusual protagonists of the photography scene in the Rhineland
since the mid/late 1990s. Having been awarded art prizes, forinstance, by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundationin 2004, the artist, who grew up in London, trained at Camberwell
College of Arts & Craft and the Slade School of Fine Art in London,and finally graduated from the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, madehis mark on the scene. He has always had a different approachfrom that of his colleagues. His background is in still life, and it
was precisely within this field that he caused a sensation in the
1990s with his serial-like photographs of objects. His recent seriesof photographic collages, as well as his noticeably expanding useof watercolor techniques, address the relationship between things
just as much as our view of them. The images clearly show that theviewers are involved in a complex web of feelings, likes and dislikes,
which are in turn also determined by their expectations and actions
in everyday life.

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Christopher Muller: easy tools

Text by Peter Friese

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Henning Strassburger has turned to figuration. The publication “The
Innocents“ (2020) already gave an indication of this, but he has now
consistently pursued it. In an interview with Dana Žaja, he remarks“ I achieved “wallpaper status“ last year, and I can say that withsome satisfaction. Mission accomplished. My enthusiasm though
to continue this as a trademark art and a safe cash cow remained
rather moderate. I have colleagues who are better at this and who
run it as a big business. However I wanted to venture out again.
I put everything I had into the final a­ bstract painting for the time
being, and then closed the lid on it for myself. I honestly don’t feellike painting the same picture every day.“ Now he can work away
at a theme, such as swimming pools. As Dana Žaja states, those
new paintings now have a melancholic touch “ Image!“ says theartist, “this could be seen as a lack of complexity, but in fact thisinadequacy is what truly makes it.“

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Le Monde d’Aïcha

Ocular Witness.
Pig Consciousness

Texts by Andreas Baur, Klaus Albrecht Schröder

October 2023
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JOHN RULE Autumn 2023Aïcha has been through a lot. She came to France as an adopted childand grew up there in rather difficult circumstances. Today she lives
in Mallorca and has embarked on the adventure of painting. Filledwith stringency and immediacy, her paintings are undisguised – they
are, as far as the artist’s biography is concerned, characterized by a
deep authenticity that encourages viewers to immerse themselves inthem. After all, the figures in her recent large-format paintings are
life-size and seek dialogue at eye level with us. Aïcha uses painting
to get her story off her chest. In her world of images she returns
to her childhood and youth, arranges the things of every­day life,orchestrates the little stories. And yet, there is always something
threatening, a gloomy mood perceptible in the background. Aïcha
could very well have been a prominent player in Art Brut, but she
paints here and now, so that the powerful pictorial language cannot
be called anything other than sensational.

Texts by Fahim Amir, Jenny Schäfer, Inka Schube

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“Man becomes aware of himself returning the animal’s look”, John
Berger once wrote. What do we actually learn about ourselves
and our relationship to the world around us when we contemplate
our relationship to pigs? Ocular Witness. Pig Consciousness is a
polyphonic, multi-perspectival research project. Sixteen artists
were asked to explore individual aspects of the above question. The
majority of the photographic works, videos and sculptural-installative
works on display were developed especially for this project. With apoetic-artistic idiosyncrasy, the works are dedicated to aspects ofthe economy, everyday consumption, animal welfare, ecology, andthe promises of the future in connection with the industrialization ofagriculture. With works a. o. by Max Baumann, Frank Berger, Felix
Bielmeier, Pierre Bismuth, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Anna
Haifisch, Jochen Lempert, Arne Schmitt, Wenke Seemann, Maria
Sewcz, Heidi Specker, Andrzej Steinbach, Maria Sturm, and YoungHae Chang Heavy Industries.

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Text by Florian Waldvogel

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Josef Zekoff: Paradise

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The facelessness of the protagonists in Zekoff’s paintings is one of
their most distinctive features. From emblematic labyrinths – hedoes also paint ornaments and maps – to drawn stick figures, thein-between space occupied by these paintings encourages selfreflection, which does, however, require courage on the part of theviewer. Or as Florian Waldvogel writes in his introductory text: “Do
the protagonists of his paintings seek an encounter with somethingthat goes beyond the world of objects and fixed quantities? Is it,
as Martin Heidegger writes in What is Metaphysics?, about an
encounter with the nothing within dread? Does the confrontation
with nothing in Zekoff’s paintings refer to our fear in the face of theoriginal meaninglessness of the world, to the fact that it is existencethat ascribes meanings to things? The worldliness of the world,
according to Heidegger, lies in this nothingness, and Zekoff’s figures,
unlike the viewers, do not dread nothingness.

Sabine Kuehnle:
Stories from the North

Sylvie Fleury:
Exhibition History 1991–2023

Text by Britta Schroeder

Texts by Traudi Messini, Konrad Bitterli, Simon Baier, Elisabeth
Bronfen“Axe-age, sword-age, shields are cleft a sunder, wind-age, wolfage, before the world plunges headlong“... The murmuring visionof the Seer in the Nordic song of the “Edda“ is about an enormous,
above all eloquent mythological world. Kuehnle depicts it in a threedimensional installation, guiding us to the ash tree Yggdrasill, which
in Norse mythology represents the entire cosmos. Its crown connects
heaven and earth, its roots reach deep down to a spring, which ishome to three maiden figures: they determine our fate, their names
are: that which has become, that which is becoming, and that whichis to come. Kuehnle allows them to have an impact, so that they
can connect with other impressions, figures, images, and stories
and open up new narratives and spaces. Combining and processing
materials, textures and space in such a way that they have theeffect of a poem: much like a condensed thought, clever, raw, clear,and sometimes hard, therein lies the distinctive quality of Sabine
Kuehnle’s art.

October 2023
9783864424205 | £44.00
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Fashion, glamour, lifestyle – if ever an art museum is transformed
into a fashion show, then Sylvie Fleury definitely is the guest. Foraround twenty-five years, the artist has wittily explored genderclichés and the stereotypes of consumer society. Kunst Museum
Winterthur is presenting “Shoplifters from Venus“, the first­comprehensive solo exhibition of the Geneva artist in Switzerland in
fifteen years, in which she seeks a dialogue with modernism while
revealing its masculine character with great relish. This book ismore than just an exhibition catalog: it follows the development of
the artist’s work on the basis of all her solo exhibi­tions since the1990s. Essays by Simon Baier, Konrad Bitterli, and Elisabeth Bronfen
illuminate selected aspects of her work, which over the years has
lost little of ist contentious poignancy and emancipatory power.

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The installations by Berlin-based artist Sung Tieu (*1987 in Hai
Duong, Vietnam) explore the reciprocal relationship between
bureaucracy and identity. Her research on the recruitment
agreement for Vietnamese contract workers in the former GDR
forms the starting point of her work. Against the background ofher own biography, she began to examine the complex sociopolitical background of this specific migration context. Aspectsof the labor regime, the regulation of housing, and the controlof the private sphere overlap therein. Sung Tieu systematicallytraces these migration-political and economic contexts in her
work with the archives and consolidates her research results inthree-dimensional installations that combine objects, architecturalinterventions, documents, drawings, videos, and sound recordings
to create atmospherically impressive audiovisual narratives. With
regard to formal aesthetics, her works are based on Minimal Art
and Conceptual Art, which does in fact represent a form of criticalanalysis that challenges the conventional belief in the autonomy ofart and its interpretation.

In collaboration with Oleg Vinnichenko
Edited by Alfred Weidinger

September 2023
9783903447042 | £ 23.00
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49 col illustrations
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My Body is a Battlefield offers a comprehensive insight into the workof the Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska, born in Crimea in 1988.
Already in her early works she deals with patriarchal structures
and the absence of female subjectivity in Ukrainian art. With theannexation of Crimea and the ensuing war, questions of identityand belonging and the themes of border and violence become
leitmotifs of her artistic practice. Kulikovska shows her body as asite of conflicting emotions and traumatic memories, as a contested
arena of ideological attributions and warlike aggression; she asserts
herself, drastically and dramatically, against gender and sexual
norming, against violence and subjugation.

ART, CONTEMPORARY

ART, CONTEMPORARY

Texts by Eva Bentcheva, Harriet Zilch

November 2023
9783864424267 | £44.00
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Thomas Kellein

Thomas Kellein

Walter De Maria

Walter De Maria
Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, Land Art

Walter De MariaSCHIRMER/MOSEL

Walter De Maria: Conceptual Art,
Minimal Art, Land Art
A Monograph

The Secession Talks
Exhibitions in Conversation
2011–2022

Thomas Kellein

Edited by Sylvia Liska, Friends of the Secession

The American sculptor Walter De Maria (1935, Albany – 2013, Los
Angeles) is one of the most important representatives of Minimal
and Conceptual Art and is considered a pioneer of Land Art. In
addition to his almost invisible drawings, our monograph focuseson De Maria’s early sculptures in wood and stainless steel and his
groundbreaking large-scale gallery installations, which he began
SCHIRMER/MOSEL
in 1968 with Munich Earth Room and continued until the end of hislife in a variety of public museum exhibitions in Rotterdam, Paris,
Stockholm, New York, Stuttgart, and Zurich. De Maria’s major Land
Art works, the high points of his career, are discussed throughout thebook, from Mile Long Drawing in California (1968), Las Vegas Piecein the Nevada desert (1969) to Lightning Field in New Mexico (1977).
The art historian Thomas Kellein (born 1955) curated the exhibition“5 Continent Sculpture” at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart with Walter De
Maria in 1987/88. Kellein has written an introduction to De Maria’s
complex oeuvre for this overview of his work.

The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions
that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. The artists inthis volume: L. Abu Hamdan, J. Akomfrah, D. Al-Hadid, F. Alÿs, E.
Arceneaux, L. Bacher, N. Baghramian, Y. Bartana, H. Böck, U. v.
Brandenburg, G. Byrne, V. Celmins, O. Chernysheva, Ch. Delat, D.
Claerbout, A Csörgő, A. Da Corte, S. Deininger, L. Deschenes, P.
Doig, H. Dunst, N. Eisenman, D. Gonzalez-Foerster, A. Hamilton,
Bakani Pick-Up, M. Hassabi, E. Hila, A. Huberman, R. Irwin, T. Jaray,
T. Kaiser, B. Khalili, J. L. Koerner, M. Küng, F. Schmatz, P. Lafuente,
D. Ericksen, H. Lloyd, A. Mendizabal, Th. Locher, I. Lombardi, T.
Madani, T. Megerle, J.-L. Moulène, R. Polanszky, L. Ponger, R. H.
Quaytman, E. Ruscha, P. Sharifi / Slavs and Tatars, D. Vō

A Monograph

144 pages, 63 color illustrations
ISBN 978-3-8296-0994-4

The American sculptor Walter De Maria(1935, Albany – 2013, Los Angeles) is one of
the most important representatives of Minimal
and Conceptual Art and is considered a pioneerof Land Art. In addition to his almost invisible
drawings, our monograph focuses on De Maria’s
early sculptures in wood and stainless steel
and his groundbreaking large-scale gallery
installations, which he began in 1968 with
Munich Earth Room and continued until the endof his life in a variety of public museum
exhibitions in Rotterdam, Paris, Stockholm,
New York, Stuttgart, and Zurich. De Maria’s
major Land Art works, the high points of his
career, are discussed throughout the book, fromMile Long Drawing in California (1968), Las Vegas
Piece in the Nevada desert (1969) to Lightning
Field in New Mexico (1977).

Conceptual Art
Minimal Art
Land Art
Thomas Kellein
SCHIRMER/MOSEL

December 2023
9783829609944 | £45.00
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Maria Kulikovska
My Body is a Battlefield

Sung Tieu: One Thousand Times

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The art historian Thomas Kellein (born 1955)
curated the exhibition “5 Continent Sculpture”
at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart with Walter
De Maria in 1987/88. Kellein has written an
introduction to De Maria’s complex oeuvre forthis overview of his work.

www.schirmer-mosel.com

October 2023
9783903172852 | £ 34.00
Hardback | 576 pp | 240 × 165 mm
76 col illustrations
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Various
Traces of colonialism in the palaces in Berlin and Brandenburg areevident. This guidebook presents 24 places, biographies and works ofart with colonial references. Notes on the art and cultural-historicalcontext are complemented by a perspective that focuses on aspectsof colonial history, problems of existing narratives or information
hitherto ignored. When visiting the palaces and parks, this guidebook
enables all those interested in colonial contexts to discover stories
previously untold. But it also invites all other visitors to broaden thethematic context of their tour.

ARCHITECTURE
DECORATIVE DESIGN

ART, CONTEMPORARY

Prussian Palaces. Colonial Histories.
Places, Biographies and Collections

November 2023
9783954987382 | £18.00
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95 col ills
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November 2023
9783954987580 | £44.00
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Rosalba Carriera:
Perfection in Pastel

From China to Meissen
300 Years of Blue Onion Pattern

Edited by Roland Enke &Stephan Koja

Anja Hell & Lutz Miedtank

2023 marks the 350th anniversary of the birth of Rosalba Carriera,
the most famous pastel painter of the 18th century. Dresden
surpasses even Venice, the artist’s hometown, as the place
where visitors can best admire her work. For it was here, in the
Gemälde¬galerie that opened in 1746, that a total of 157 of her
pastels went on display in what was known as the “Cabinet of
Rosalba.” This book traces the history of this unique collection andpresents the 73 pastels remaining in Dresden today – still the world’s
largest collection of her art.
Carriera’s artistic career began with lace-making, for which Venice
was famous. However, she soon turned to miniature painting and,
finally, to painting with pastels. She created allegories, portrayedfriends and artists, but also the European nobility of her time. In
doing so, she created a visual vernacular that gave expression to thesocial type of the lively and self-confident woman – a type she noless embodied. By devoting herself to art and pursuing an enviable
career as an independent artist, she serves as an early role model
for feminist artists.

The Blue Onion Pattern is almost as old as the European invention of
porcelain itself! But what is so special about it? Why has it fascinatedus for three hundred years? The history of the Blue Onion Patternis intertwined with the history of blue-and-white porcelain painting
itself. Anja Hell sheds light on the beginnings of Meissen underglaze
blue painting until the year 1739, and later covers the range from the19th century to the present. She examines the artistic developmentof blue-and-white painting and the associated economic implications
for the Meissen Manufactory. Lutz Miedtank cogently presents theresults of his many years of research on the early period of the Blue
Onion Pattern. Inspired by Chinese export porcelain and underglaze
blue decorated faience, Meissen’s blue painters created their own
Meissen Blue Onion Pattern on hard paste porcelain around 1730.
This English edition is based on the revised 2023 German edition of
Von China nach Meissen. 300 Jahre Zwiebelmuster published in open
access.

November 2023
9783954987221 | £28.00
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GRAPHIC ART

GRAPHIC DESIGNThe Big Screen
Film Posters of All Time

Surprise. The Art of the Monotype

Christina Dembny

November 2023
9783954987771 | £48.00
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Since the advent of cinema, the poster has been the foremost
medium in the visual communication of film. It brings the cinema to
the street, stirs emotions, and condenses the film’s plot into a single,
concise image. The book presents film posters from the 1900s to
the 2020s from the Berlin Art Library’s graphic design collection.
It invites you on a journey through twelve decades of film poster
design—from expressionist lithographs in silent cinema to the worldfamous modern graphics commissioned by film distributors such as
Neue Filmkunst and Atlas in the 1960s to current design between
paper and pixel. What makes a good film poster lies very much in theeye of the beholder—it’s a matter of taste and personal experiences.
26 professionals and celebrities from the fields of acting, directing,cinema, film studies, as well as art and graphic design have eachchosen their favourite poster, which is presented in the exhibitionand catalogue with a personal commentary.

Texts by Dietmar Elger, Friedemann Malsch, Matthias Kunz,
Susanne Pfleger, Heiko Klaas

November 2023
9783864424304 | £55.00
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One key area of the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg’s collection isgraphic art. Many of the works in the collection originated in theprinting workshop at Wolfsburg Castle, thus constituting a uniquefeature of the museum. The monotype is an exciting fusion ofpainting, drawing and graphic art. First used around 1640, theprocess experienced an unprecedented triumphal boom during thenineteenth century; it was the Impressionists, in particular, who
exploited the potential of this technique, oscillating between drawing
and printing, in a masterful manner. The technique encourages the
rapid realization of an image and effectively translates the artistic
handwriting into a printed image. The book presents monotypes
by numerous artists, including works by important representativesof modernism such as John Cage and Edgar Degas, and works bycontemporary artists including Herbert Brandl, Shara Hughes, Mia
Chaplin, Günther Förg, and Gerhard Richter.

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Attila Csampait

SCHIRMER
MO S E L

SC HI RM ER/ MO S EL

December 2023
9783829609975 | £34.00
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165 duotone plates
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CUSINEMUSIC / RELIGION

AT T IL A C S A M PA I

Callas: Images of a Legend
The fascination Maria Callas (1923–1977), her personality, andher voice exert reached cultic dimensions during her lifetime andpersists unabated to the present day. Immortalized in numerous
recordings, her art of singing overwhelms generations of later born
music lovers who haven’t seen her live on stage. And the fairy-talestory of her life, full of glamour and not without tragedy, continues tomove people’s hearts. On the occasion of the singer’s centenary we
present a revised edition of Callas – Images of a Legend. Assembling
photographs of Callas‘ legendary stage performances, portraits,
stills, press and private images, Callas – Images of a Legend is not
an artist’s biography in the traditional sense, but a critical cult bookapproaching a unique phenomenon of operatic and contemporary
history, a study on a peerless musical genius and her handling of
the artistic and non-artistic public. First published in 1993, Callas– Images of a Legend has become both a classic of Callas literature
and a testimony of its time of origin.

Bob Noto

Japanese Tea Culture
The Heart and Form of Chanoyu

Edited by Luigina Tozzato
Photographer, graphic designer and culinary traveler. This is
not a cookbook, but the account/narrative that reveals to a wider
audience the figure of Bob Noto and how, thanks to his talent andrefined palate, he became the pivot on which the world of Italian andEuropean haute cuisine moved from the last decade of the twentiethcentury until his passing in 2017. This is a book for the chef,
gourmet, starred restaurant, food photography and design lovers.
“I experience the dishes of great chefs in a metaphysical sense,and I believe that food should be immortalized in all its beauty
and importance, they are true sculptures, everything else issuperfluous”- Bob Noto

Kumakura Isao

November 2023
9784866582467 | £37.00
Hardcover | 240pp | 188 mm x 128 mm
7 color illustrations, 26 B&W
illustrations
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Why is the tea-room entrance, or nijiriguchi, so narrow? How did
the practice of “passing the bowl,” or mawashinomi, come about?
And what hidden meaning lies behind the ritual purification of hands
and mouth, or chōzu? Chanoyu, the art of preparing tea, developed
against a backdrop of social turmoil in late medieval Japan. Throughthe singular figure of Sen no Rikyū, it found expression as wabi-cha,or wabi tea, the foundation of Japanese tea culture today. Here,scholar and curator Kumakura Isao investigates the unique culturalvalue of tea. He examines its rituals and behaviors, elaborates its
structure, space, and style, and delves into the history of everythingfrom the tea whisk to the tea room itself. Drawing on folklore studies
and performing-arts history, Kumakura develops a new perspective
on Japan’s culture of tea.

November 2023
9788893970785 | £39.00
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CUSINECUSINE

L’Aperitivo Italiano

Hassler, Rome:
A Stairway to Heaven
1893-2023 130th Anniversary

Edited by Sabatino Sorrentino

November 2023
9788893970891 | £30.00
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The aperitif is an Italian novel that taught the world about the dolce
vita; it’s a ritual that is renewed every day at sunset in every cornerof our beautiful country, from small provincial towns to the big cities.
Spritz, Negroni, Bellini, Rossini and many other Italian cocktails haveconquered popular taste since the beginning of the twentieth century.
In recent decades, mixology professionals have made great strides,
leading to hundreds of openings of trendy clubs that place the aperitif
front and center. One of the aims of this book is to recommend finger
food that features the best cured meats in Italy, simple, quick recipes
with a balanced taste that enhance drinks during happy hour andon all occasions involving leisure and entertainment. It’s a useful
publication for enthusiasts and a stimulus for professionals of good
food, where quality is the watchword for continuing to enhance thesymbol of Made in Italy products.

Texts by Giulia Grill, Corrado Ruggeri

November 2023
9788893970723 | £90.00
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The Hassler of Rome. Never was an Hotel in fact so full of historicalcultural significance for those who founded it; and never search of
Hôtellerie more capable to leave indelible memories in those wholive there (even if only for a few days!). An excellent result of the
Wirth family (in its past, present and future generation); productof meditated choices and always shared between Management
and staff; commitment and dedication made over the years (overa century); excellent and starred offers for wellness, refreshment,
gourmet palates; view incomparable and breathtaking. And thenthere are them: the most famous steps of the whole internationalstar system: Trinità dei Monti (the Hotel is in Piazza n.6). Images andsignatures of royalty and VIPs (everyone, really everyone has stayedat the Hassler!) together with family snaps intertwine in this page
with such nonchalance to pleasantly surprise any reader, who willfind definitely interesting to learn about the backstory and settings
than ever before he would have guessed.
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