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Original Price: $49.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Renée Price This expansive book commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the Neue Galerie New York and includes highlights of the museum’s collection. The Neue Galerie New York opened in November 2001, when it showcased its collection of Austrian and German art from 1890 to 1940. The museum’s Austrian holdings encompass major paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Gerstl. Decorative arts made by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops, 1903–32) are another strength of the collection. The German holdings emphasize the Expressionist movement, with canvases by members of the Brücke, including Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Artists affiliated with the Blue Rider, such as Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August Macke, Franz Marc, and Gabriele Münter, figure prominently. The New Objectivity movement is represented with works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Christian Schad. The Bauhaus is another key area, with designs by Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld. Hardcover248 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20169.5 x 1.1 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9783791355818Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS George Grosz (1893-1959), Panorama (Down with Liebknecht), 1919 Exhibition poster for Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933. 20 x 30 inches

Berlin Metropolis: 1918-1933 Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $18 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Poster for the exhibition, Madame d'Ora (February 20 -June 8, 2020).Elsie Altmann-Loos, 1922Dora Kallmus, 1881-1963Photoarchiv Setzer-Tschiedel16 x 20 inches

Madame d'Ora Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Poster for Wiener Werkstätte Fashions, ca. 1919 Exhibition poster for "Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte" 16 x 20 inches

Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstätte Poster

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938), Berlin Street Scene, 1913-14 Poster for the exhibition, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (2019-2020). 16 x 24 inches

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $50 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Tobias G. Natter This unique and utterly fascinating appreciation of Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre reveals some of his most famous works in their original settings and offers valuable historic insight into his artistic vision. Interior design was supremely important to Gustav Klimt, and many of his paintings were created for specific settings or spaces. This aspect of Klimt’s practice comes beautifully to life in this book that illustrates how some of the artist’s most beloved canvases appeared in situ—in private dining rooms and salons, galleries, museums, and public exhibition spaces. Works such as the portraits of Emilie Flöge and Hermine Gallia, the shocking Nuda Veritas, and landscapes A Morning by the Pond and The Tall Poplar I are presented in double-page spreads. Full-color reproductions of paintings by Klimt are juxtaposed with black-and-white vintage photographs of the original interiors with the featured paintings overlaid in color. Thoughtful and personal texts by Klimt scholar Tobias Natter accompany each spread, providing invaluable contextual insight about how these pictures were conceived as part of the interior design of their respective rooms and spaces, and the passionate collectors who first owned these pictures. Meticulously produced and packaged, this book provides a refreshing perspective on Klimt’s oeuvre and artistic vision. Hardcover140 pagesPrestel, 20239.5 x 1 x 11.5 inchesISBN 9783791379784Gustav Klimt, Art History

Gustav Klimt: Interiors

Original Price: $15.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Martha Hirsch (Dreaming Woman), 1909 Exhibition poster for "Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin, 1909-1914" 24 x 36 inches

Oskar Kokoschka Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $25.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Egon Schiele (1890-1918), Autumn Sun, 1914 Exhibition poster for "Van Gogh and Expressionism" 24 x 23.25 inches

Egon Schiele: Wilted Sunflowers [Van Gogh Exhibition Poster II]

Original Price: $18 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Poster for the exhibition, Madame d'Ora (February 20 -June 8, 2020). Actress Grete Jacobson in a house dress from the Wiener Werkstätte, 1917Dora Kallmus, 1881-1963 ullstein bild collection — Madame d‘Ora© 2020 NEUE GALERIE NEW YORK© 2020 ULLSTEIN BILD COLLECTION16 x 24 inches

Madame d'Ora Exhibition Poster-Grete Jacobson

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Exhibition poster for "Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914"August Macke (1887-1914), Four Girls, 1912-14 18 x 24 inches

August Macke Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edvard Munch (1863-1944), The Scream, 1895 Exhibition poster for "Munch and Expressionism" 17.5 x 30 inches

Munch and Expressionism Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Exhibition poster for "Franz Marc and August Macke: 1909-1914" Franz Marc (1880-1916), Horse and Donkey, 1912 18 x 24 inches

Franz Marc Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $86 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Wassily KandinskyEffect of Color, by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), is reprinted from Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art, Painting: Effects of Color, Chapter 5 from On the Spiritual in Art and Painting in Particular, Kenneth C. Lindsay and Peter Vergo, eds. Published by Da Capo Press, Inc., A member of the Perseus Books Group copyright 1994 (Originally published: Boston, Mass: G.K. Hall & Co. copyright 1982; Les Ecrits de Kandinsky copyright 1970 byEditions Denoel, Paris).Limited Edition of 350 numbered copiesSigned by the publisher, Luke Ives Pontifell.Set in Perpetua and printed letterpress.Hardcover33 pagesText in English and GermanThornwillow Press10 x 8 x .25 InchesThornwillow PressArt History, Theory

Effect of Color [English/German]

Original Price: $25.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Max Beckmann (1884-1950), Self-Portrait with Horn, 1938 24 x 36 inches

Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait with Horn Poster

Original Price: $50.00UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Tobias G. Natter Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) is considered one of the leading figures of the Expressionist movement. This catalogue provides an in-depth analysis of the sitters for his earliest portraits, painted in Vienna and Berlin on the eve of World War I, including Alma Mahler, Adolf Loos, and Peter Altenberg. In addition to the oil portraits, the catalogue includes a rare selection of the artist’s drawings, as well as examples of Kokoschka’s work for the Wiener Werkstätte, such as designs for postcards, fans and an illustrated book. Special attention is devoted to the architect Adolf Loos, who had a guiding role in the artistic development of the young Kokoschka. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Also available in German. Hardcover256 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkDumont Buchverlag, 20029.2 x 1 x 11 inches ISBN 9781931794046Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Expressionism, Drawing, Painting, Portraiture

Oskar Kokoschka: Early Portraits from Vienna and Berlin 1909-1914

Original Price: $25.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Georg Scholz (1890-1945), Industrial Farmers, 1920 Exhibition poster for Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870-1940. 22 x 36 inches

Comic Grotesque Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Alexei Jawlensky (1864-1941), Byzantine Woman (Bright Lips), 1913 Exhibition poster for "Alexei Jawlensky" 16 x 24 inches

Alexei Jawlensky Poster

Original Price: $10.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Alfred Kubin (1877-1959), "Self-Observation," 1901-02 Exhibition poster for "Alfred Kubin: Drawings, 1897-1909" 16 x 19.5 inches

Alfred Kubin Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944), Study in Tonal Values III, 1908 Exhibition poster for Heinrich Kühn and his American Circle. 18 x 24 inches

Heinrich Kühn Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $50.00UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Bei Tobias G. NatterDie Neue Galerie New York und die Hamburger Kunsthalle widmen den frühen Bildnissen von Oskar Kokoschka eine erste große Gesamtschau und konzentrieren sich damit auf das zentrale Werksegment der Jahre 1909 bis 1914, mit dem der Maler seinen Ruhm begründete und zur Leitfigur des Expressionismus wurde. Das Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung, herausgegeben von Tobias Natter, verbindet die Wiedergabe der frühen Bildnisse mit einfühlsamen Werkinterpretationen und Hinweisen auf die porträtierten Personen, unter denen sich zum weitaus überwiegenden Teil Freunde, Förderer und Gleichgesinnte des Malers befinden. Die Essays zeichnen ein plastisches Zeitkolorit der Metropolen Wien und Berlin unter den Vorzeichen eines tiefgreifenden Umbruchs. In Wien von dem Architekten Adolf Loos und später in Berlin von dem Herausgeber der Zeitschrift "Der Sturm", Herwald Walden, ermutigt und tatkräftig unterstützt, konnte sich Kokoschka von den malerischen Konventionen der Porträtaufträge befreien und seine eigenen expressiven Bildmittel einsetzen. Nachdenklichkeit, eindringliche Gestik der Hände und psychische Spannungen verdrängen alle posenhafte Eleganz gesellschaftlicher Repräsentation. Rascher Farbauftrag und nervöse Ritzungen greifen den Porträtierten unter die Oberfläche ihrer Haut, um ihre Physiognomien für den Blick auf innere Vorgänge durchlässig zu machen. In Kokoschkas frühen Bildnissen spiegelt sich daher nicht nur die Seele der Personen, sie sind auch Reflexe auf die abgrundtiefe Krise dieser Zeit vor dem ersten Weltkrieg. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Also available in English.Hardcover256 pagesText in GermanDuMont Verlag, 20029.2 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9781931794053Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Expressionism, Portraiture

Oskar Kokoschka: Das Moderne Bildnis 1909 bis 1914

Original Price: $14.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Austrian painter Rudolf Wacker (1893-1939) studied art in both Austria and Germany. He is particularly noted for his expertise in the genre of still-life painting and created works that are uncanny in their degree of verisimilitude. In the 1930s, Wacker lived in Bregenz, a city in the western part of Austria, where he was fond of frequenting the local flea market. There he acquired some of the props he used in his paintings. Wacker opposed the National Socialist movement and did not approve of the annexation of Austria by the Nazis. He was interrogated by the Gestapo in 1938 and died the following year as a result of the injuries that he sustained. Images included:Damaged Head, 1934Aquarium, 1938Autumn Bouquet with Butterfly, 1938Two Heads, 1932 Notecard Box Set:16 cards and envelopes4 each of 4 images4 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches

Rudolf Wacker Notecard Set

Original Price: $14.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS German artists Franz Marc (1880-1916) and August Macke (1887-1914) met in January 1910, when they were twenty-nine and twenty-three years old, respectively. At that time, they had already traveled to France, were familiar with French art, and admired the work of artist Paul Cezanne. Marc and Macke enjoyed a close artistic and personal friendship that had a profound impact on their work during the five years that they knew each other. They often visited each other's studios, engaged in an extensive correspondence, responded to each other's paintings, and exhibited their work side by side on numerous occasions. Both Marc and Macke died in combat during World War I. Notecard Box Set:18 cards and envelopesBox includes removable band3 each of 6 images4 ¾ x 6 ⅞ inches

Franz Marc and August Macke Notecard Set

Original Price: $15.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), A Strong Man, 1771-83 Exhibition poster for Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism. 18 x 24 inches

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $18.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Self-Portrait, 1889 Exhibition poster for Van Gogh and Expressionism. 16 x 24.5 inches

Van Gogh Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $16.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Art Spiegelman “The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust.”—The Wall Street Journal “In part two of Maus, Art Spiegelman finishes his masterpiece . . . You can’t help witnessing—even feeling—the act of private pain being transformed into lasting truth.”—The Boston Globe “One of the most powerful and original memoirs to come along in recent years . . . An epic story told in tiny pictures.”—The New York Times A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history’s most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.Paperback144 pagesPantheon, 19926.5 x 0.39 x 9.12 inchesISBN 9780679729778Graphic Novel, Biography

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale, And Here My Troubles Began

Original Price: $65 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Christoph Thun-Hohenstein and Rainald FranzOtto Prutscher (1880-1949) was an architect and a designer in all applied arts media, as well as an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the important arts and crafts movements, from the Secession to the Wiener Werkstätte and the Werkbund. The MAK - Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna—possesses a comprehensive graphic bequest and many significant objects from Prutscher's design oeuvre. Selected examples of Prutscher's creative work document his long-lasting influential role as a designer and artistic adviser for decorative art companies from Johann Loetz to Thonet. The publication conducts an audit of Prutscher's work as a pacemaker of Viennese modernism—over twenty years since the last show in Vienna and seventy years on from his death. Paperback160 pagesText in English and German Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 20198.4 x 0.7 x 10.2 inchesISBN 9783897905696Artist Monograph, Architecture, Design

Otto Prutscher: Universal Designer of Viennese Modernism

Original Price: $200 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERSBy Rainer Willmann and Julia Voss “…as energetic and colorful as Haeckel’s life. It’s scientific eye candy that feels as fresh as Haeckel’s groundbreaking biological art must have seemed more than a century ago.”―The Washington Post“…a glorious book… his influence on art and the natural sciences remains profound, and his stunning artworks continue to stand the test of time.”―American Scientist“This is a bible for those who love pattern.”―The Times Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosopher, and doctor, who spent his life researching flora and fauna from the highest mountaintops to deepest ocean. A vociferous supporter and developer of Darwin’s theories of evolution, he denounced religious dogma, abandoned an early career in medicine, authored philosophical treatises, gained a doctorate in zoology, and coined scientific terms which have passed into common usage, including ecology, phylum, and stem cell. Haeckel’s colossal legacy has fascinated, confounded, and polarized generations. But what was at the heart of his extraordinary life’s work? Rather like his intellectual forebear, Alexander von Humboldt, Haeckel was motivated not only to discover but also to explain. To do this, he created hundreds of detailed drawings, watercolors, and sketches of his findings which he published in successive volumes during the 20th century, including several marine organism collections and the majestic Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), which could serve as the cornerstone of Haeckel’s entire life project. Like a meticulous visual encyclopedia of living things, Haeckel’s work was as remarkable for its graphic precision and meticulous shading as for its understanding of organic evolution and cellular development. From bats to the box jellyfish, lizards to lichen, and spider legs to sea anemones, he emphasized the essential symmetries and order of nature, and found biological beauty in even the most unlikely of creatures. The prints not only furthered the study of natural history but also influenced generations of 20th-century artists and architects, from the emerging proponents of Art Nouveau to architects such as Hendrik Petrus Berlage, whose Amsterdam Commodities Exchange was inspired by Haeckel’s illustrations. In this book, we celebrate the scientific, artistic, and environmental importance of Haeckel’s work, with a collection of prints from several of his most important tomes on marine biology, including Die Radiolarien, Monographie der Medusen, Die Kalkschwämme: eine Monographie, and Kunstformen der Natur. At a time when biodiversity is increasingly threatened by human activities, the book is at once a visual masterwork, an underwater exploration, and a vivid reminder of the precious variety of life. Hardcover704 pagesText in English, French and GermanTaschen, 201713.5 x 3.2 x 16.5 inchesISBN 9783836526463Artist Monograph, Illustration, Nature, Marine

The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel

Original Price: $18 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Max Beckmann (1884-1950)Carnival, 1920 Poster for the exhibition Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925. 16 x 20 inches

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years Exhibition Poster

Original Price: $45.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Signed copies from translator Ross Benjamin are available. This book was featured as part of our Literatur Café series. By Franz Kafka Translated by Ross Benjamin “Essential . . . The new volume, in a sensitive and briskly idiomatic translation by Ross Benjamin, offers revelation upon revelation. It’s an invaluable addition to Kafka’s oeuvre.”—The New York Times “Franz Kafka’s inner life has always been a bit of a mystery. The expurgated diaries in their original German and English versions hinted at his complicated, often confused relationship to sex, politics, illness, and being Jewish. This readable new translation of the complete German version of the diary transforms the silent Kafka of a century ago into a Kafka not only of his times but of ours.”—Sander Gilman, author of Franz Kafka, The Jewish PatientAn essential new translation of the author’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers.Dating from 1909 to 1923, the handwritten diaries contain various kinds of writing: accounts of daily events, reflections, observations, literary sketches, drafts of letters, accounts of dreams, as well as finished stories. This volume makes available for the first time in English a comprehensive reconstruction of the diary entries and provides substantial new content, including details, names, literary works, and passages of a sexual nature that were omitted from previous publications. By faithfully reproducing the diaries’ distinctive—and often surprisingly unpolished—writing in Kafka’s notebooks, translator Ross Benjamin brings to light not only the author’s use of the diaries for literary experimentation and private self-expression, but also their value as a work of art in themselves.Hardcover704 pagesSchocken, 20236.2 x 9.25 inchesISBN 9780805243550Literature, Kafka

The Diaries of Franz Kafka

Original Price: $16.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Art Spielgelman PULITZER PRIZE WINNER One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read”The first installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust.”—The Wall Street Journal “The first masterpiece in comic book history.”—The New YorkerA brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author’s father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history’s most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma. Paperback160 pagesPantheon, 19866.56 x 0.41 x 9.13 inchesISBN 9780394747231Graphic Novel, Biography

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History

Original Price: $70 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Matthias Frehner and Daniel Spanke Kunstmuseum Bern, the oldest museum in Switzerland, turns its gaze toward its own acquisition history in this lavish book that features artistic masterpieces considered worthless by the Nazis, and the stories of how they came to Switzerland. As a result of the Nazi regime’s scorn for modern art, virtually all non-traditional art between 1933 and 1945 was banned in Germany on the grounds that it was un-German, Jewish, or Communist in nature. Those identified as “degenerate” artists were dismissed from teaching positions and forbidden to exhibit or to sell their works. This book sheds light on the historical significance and provenance of nearly 525 works by modernist greats, such as Picasso, Chagall, and Kandinsky, which were acquired by the Kunstmuseum Bern through a combination of auctions and private donations. The book traces the fates of artists who suffered under the Nazi regime and who had connections to Switzerland, including Kirchner, Klee and Dix, and contrasts the cultural policies of the Third Reich with those of Switzerland in the same period. Finally, it details the dramatic events and unprecedented efforts that went into preserving invaluable works of art. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover376 pagesPrestel, 20169.2 x 1.4 x 11.2 inchesISBN 9783791355368Art History, Museum Studies

Modern Masters: "Degenerate" Art at the Kunstmuseum Bern

Original Price: $19.99 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Susie Hodge New edition of Gustav Klimt in the popular Masterpieces of Art series.Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Secession movement at the turn of the 20th century, Vienna's own Art Nouveau. His extravagant work, was an obsessive manifestation of the dazzling intellectual society of his time and he painted very large canvases combining oils with gold foil. This beautiful new book brings together a wide selection of Klimt’s magnificent work.Hardcover128 pagesFlame Tree Illustrated, 20238 x 0.8 x 9.13 inchesISBN 9781804177068Artist Monograph, Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt: Masterpieces of Art

Original Price: $35 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERSBy Reiner Stach The eagerly anticipated final volume of the award-winning, definitive biography of Franz Kafka.How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883–1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his professional and literary career in 1910, taking the reader up to just before the breakthrough that resulted in his first masterpieces, including "The Metamorphosis." Brimming with vivid and often startling details, Stach’s narrative invites readers deep inside this neglected period of Kafka’s life. The book’s richly atmospheric portrait of his German Jewish merchant family and his education, psychological development, and sexual maturation draws on numerous sources, some still unpublished, including family letters, schoolmates’ memoirs, and early diaries of his close friend Max Brod.The biography also provides a colorful panorama of Kafka’s wider world, especially the convoluted politics and culture of Prague. Before World War I, Kafka lived in a society at the threshold of modernity but torn by conflict, and Stach provides poignant details of how the adolescent Kafka witnessed violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism and nationalism. The reader also learns how he developed a passionate interest in new technologies, particularly movies and airplanes, and why another interest―his predilection for the back-to-nature movement―stemmed from his “nervous” surroundings rather than personal eccentricity.The crowning volume to a masterly biography, this is an unmatched account of how a boy who grew up in an old Central European monarchy became a writer who helped create modern literature.Hardcover584 pagesPrinceton University Press, 20166.3 x 1.7 x 9.4 inchesISBN 9780691151984 Biography, Czech Writer

Kafka: The Early Years [Hardcover]

Original Price: $20.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By John Fuegi "[An] enormous, fascinating biography."—The New Yorker "One of the most important critical studies of the century."—New York MagazineThe result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists—and the people upon whom he built his reputation. A noted Brecht scholar, John Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and directing the plays created in his workshop, but ultimately lacking in literary stamina, for which he depended on his lovers. A landmark study about the life and times of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century theater, Brecht and Co. will forever change our understanding of Brecht and his oeuvre. Paperback752 pagesGrove Press, 20026.02 x 1.65 x 9.03 inchesISBN 9780802139108Biography

Brecht & Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama

Original Price: $33.90 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Art Spiegelman "The paperback boxed set of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in its original two-volume format, re-released to include a sixteen-page booklet designed by the artist. Acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust"—Wall Street Journal"Maus is considered "the first masterpiece in comic book history" —The New Yorker A brutally moving work of art—widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written—Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma. Box Set (Two Paperback Volumes)6.8 x 9.4 x 1 inchesPantheon Books, 1991ISBN 9780679748403Graphic Novel, Biography

Maus I & II Paperback Box Set

Original Price: $30.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Philippe Sands“Gripping . . . fascinating and important, told in vivid detail . . . fiercely inquiring . . . suspenseful . . . extraordinary.” —The New York Times Book Review“Hypnotic, shocking, and unputdownable.” —John le Carré, internationally renowned, bestselling author“A burningly necessary book. Sands makes a gently unsparing dissection of deception, love, delusion, and ineradicable evil. Elegant, painstaking, passionate, and quietly enraging.” —A.L. KennedyBaron Otto von Wächter, Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the British, by Simon Wiesenthal, on the run for three years, from 1945 to 1948 . . .Philippe Sands pieces together, in riveting detail, Wächter’s extraordinary, shocking story. Given full access to the Wächter family archives–journals, diaries, tapes, and more–and with the assistance of the Wächters’ son Horst, who believes his father to have been a “good man,” Sands writes of Wächter’s rise through the Nazi high command, his “blissful” marriage and family life as their world was brought to ruin, and his four-year flight to escape justice–to the Tirol, to Rome, and the Vatican; given a new identity, on his way to a new life via “the Ratline” to Perón’s Argentina, the escape route taken by Eichmann, Mengele, and thousands of other Nazis. Wächter’s escape was cut short by his mysterious, shocking death in Rome, in the midst of the burgeoning Cold War (was he being recruited in postwar Italy by the Americans and the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps or by the Soviet NKVD or by both; or was he poisoned by one side or the other, as his son believes–or by both?) . . .An extraordinary discovery, told up-close through access to a trove of family correspondence between Wächter and his wife–part historical detective story, part love story, part family memoir, part Cold War espionage thriller.Hardcover448 pages | 83 Illustrations and 4 mapsAlfred A. Knopf Publisher, 20216.5 x 9.5 inchesISBN 9780525520962History, Biography, Politics

The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive [Hardcover]

Original Price: $60 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Roman Zieglgansberger, Annegret Hoberg, Alexander Klar, and Matthias Muhling Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin occupy a prominent place in art history as a pioneering artist couple of the avant-garde movement. Early in her career in Russia, Werefkin attracted a great deal of attention for her Realist-inspired portraiture. Jawlensky met Werefkin in 1891 in Ilya Repin's Saint Petersburg studio and in 1896 they moved together to Munich where Werefkin gave up painting for almost ten years in order to nurture Jawlensky's talent. In 1906, the two artists travelled to France where Werefkin began to paint again, this time in her signature Expressionist style. Jawlensky, equally inspired by the trip and his contact with the "Fauves", began to paint in a more Abstract style and with more expressive color. In 1909, they became founding members of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, and then, in 1911, of the Blue Rider group alongside artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Gabriele Münter. During World War I, Jawlensky and Werefkin moved to Switzerland where their relationship ended. This is the first book to focus on the two artists' partnership through all the various ups and downs of the many years of their relationship. Through explorations of both Jawlensky and Werefkin's oeuvres, this book shows how the two made vital contributions to modernism in the 20th century, both individually and as a couple. Hardcover320 pagesPrestel, 20209.6 x 1.3 x 11.7 inchesISBN 9783791359328Artist Monograph, Fauvism, Abstract, Expressionism, Avant-Garde

Soulmates: Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin

Original Price: $65 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Katherine M. Kuenzli“Katherine Kuenzli offers an original portrait of van de Velde—his personality, ideals, and work—through exemplary research and superb illustrations.”—Harry Mallgrave, Illinois Institute of Technology“Kuenzli fills a major gap ambitiously and successfully, and she convincingly shows how existing narratives need to be revised as a result.”—Frederic J. Schwartz, University College LondonThe painter, designer, and architect Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) played a crucial role in expanding modernist aesthetics beyond Paris and beyond painting. Opposing growing nationalism around 1900, he sought to make painting the basis of an aesthetic that transcended boundaries between the arts and between nations through his work in Belgium, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.Van de Velde’s designs for homes, museums, and theaters received international recognition. The artist, often associated with the Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, developed a style of abstraction that he taught in his School of Applied Arts in Weimar, the immediate precursor of and model for the Bauhaus. As a leading member of the German Werkbund, he helped shaped the fields of modern architecture and design. This long-awaited book, the first major work on van de Velde in English, firmly positions him as one of the twentieth century’s most influential artists and an essential voice within the modern movement.Hardcover240 pagesYale University Press, 20198.5 x 0.8 x 11 inchesISBN 9780300226669Architecture, Modernism, Art Nouveau

Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism

Original Price: $24.95UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Frances Cannon Foreword by Esther Leslie An illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's ideas; a graphic translation; an encyclopedia of fragments. Walter Benjamin was a man of letters, an art critic, an essayist, a translator, a philosopher, a collector, and an urban flâneur. In his writings, he ambles, samples, and explores. With Walter Benjamin Reimagined, Frances Cannon offers a visual and literary response to Benjamin's work. With detailed and dreamlike pen-and-ink drawings and hand-lettered text, Cannon gives readers an illuminated tour of Walter Benjamin's thoughts—a graphic translation, an encyclopedia of fragments. Cannon has not created a guide to Benjamin's greatest ideas—this is not an illustrated Walter Benjamin cheat sheet—but rather a beautifully rendered work of graphic literature. Cannon doesn't plod through thickets of minutiae; she strolls—a flâneuse herself—using Benjamin's words and her own drawings to construct a creative topography of Benjamin's writing. Phrases from “Unpacking My Library,” for example, are accompanied by images of flying papers, stray books, stacked books—books “not yet touched by the mild boredom of order”—and a bearded mage. Cannon takes the reader through different periods of Benjamin's writing: “Artifacts of Youth,” nostalgic musings on his childhood; “Fragments of a Critical Eye,” early writings, political observations, and cultural criticism; “Athenaeum of Imagination,” meditations on philosophy and psychology; “A Stroll through the Arcades,” Benjamin's unfinished magnum opus; and “A Collection of Dreams and Stories,” experimental and fantastical writings. With drawings and text, Cannon offers a phantasmagorical tribute to Benjamin's wandering eye. Hardcover184 pagesMIT Press, May 20197 x 9 x 0.7 inchesISBN 9780262039963Graphic Novel, Philosophy, Urban Studies, Poetry

Walter Benjamin Reimagined: A Graphic Translation of Poetry, Prose, Aphorisms, and Dreams

Original Price: $89.99UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Liane Lefaivre "Vienna has been in the vanguard of architecture for the past three centuries. This survey covers all the key figures to explain how this small city has maintained its fascinating radical traditions and an architecture of surprising social equity."—Book of the Year 2017, Financial Times Summer Reads Roundup Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin de siècle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Since 1900, Vienna has produced many great architects and their work includes some of the finest masterpieces of the twentieth century such as Otto Wagner’s Stadtbahn stations, his Postsparkasse and his Majolica House, Adolf Loos’s American Bar and Goldman & Salastch, the Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffmann’s Palais Stoclet, not to mention Ludwig Wittgenstein’s House for his sister. Beginning with Wagner’s polemical manifesto, Moderne Architektur, it stresses the importance of the fraught and highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna for most of the twentieth century and ultimately produced much of what is modern in every field of culture and science. It shows how leading cultural figures such as Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Klimt and Twain encouraged a ‘rebellious’ architecture, which continued in later eras with the Wiener Gruppe, amongst others. The book also places architectural history within the context of the political economy that has shaped Vienna and highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s. Today, 60% of Vienna’s population lives in the most successful social housing in the world, which has proved to be an important factor in stimulating the highly successful economy of the country as a whole. Hardcover336 pagesLund Humphries, 20177.8 x 1.3 x 10 inchesISBN 9781848222052Modernism, Architecture, Vienna

Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture Since Otto Wagner

Original Price: $45.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Roman Zieglgänsberger and Evelyn Bergner “The Museum Weisbaden’s monograph introduces an underknown artist and underscores the vibrancy of the interwar avant-garde. . . .Recommended.”—CHOICEPainter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer, and sculptor, Werner Graeff (1901–78) was a key figure in the Bauhaus and the Constructivism movements. Alongside reproductions of his major works, including pictograms, multiples, drawings, and other graphic works, this book presents the story of Graeff’s life—including, for the first time, the moving autobiography he wrote at the urging of his friend Mies van der Rohe, The Obstacle Race of the Twentieth Century. Through an analysis of Graeff’s work with the Bauhaus and the De Stijl group of Dutch artists, as well as the Ring Neue Werbegestalter founded by Kurt Schwitters, we see his prominent place in the vibrant life and culture of the German art world of the period.Hardcover288 pagesHirmer Publishers, 20177.5 x 1.3 x 9.8 inchesISBN 9783777427973Bauhaus, Graphic Design, Monograph

Werner Graeff: Recollection of a Bauhaus Artist

Original Price: $50.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Timothy O. Benson and Éva Forgács The avant-garde movements of Central Europe were an integral part of modernism’s evolution as it reached its peak throughout the continent during the 1920s. Written documents—manifestoes, artists’ statements, and reviews—were the lifeblood of these movements and, during the periods when political events conspired to isolate them, one of their few means of communication and exchange. Much of this crucial evidence has become lost to us, and the artistic avant-gardes of Central Europe have been a blind spot of modernist studies. Until their narratives have been recovered, the story of modernism will remain incomplete. In this book an international team of scholars has selected an essential compendium of documents that take an important step toward regaining this lost perspective. Between Worlds contains primary documents of the avant-gardes in Austria, the Czech lands, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia from 1910 to 1930. The manifestoes and magazines of Western European radical art circles are well known to Western scholars, but few have researched the pages of magazines such as Zenit, Integral, Punct, 75 HP, Tank, and Ma. We know about Italian Futurism but not about Polish Futurism. Few Westerners are aware that French surrealist magazines drew much of their inspiration from Czech publications. The hundreds of documents in the book, almost all of them translated into English for the first time, bring back into circulation landmark texts by the major writers, editors, artists, magazines, and movements of Central Europe. With this publication they are restored to their rightful place in the pantheon of modernism. Between Worlds is distributed for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock. Hardcover736 pages | 32 illustrationsMIT Press, 20026.6 x 2 x 9.9 inchesISBN 9780262025300Avant-garde, Modernism

Between Worlds: A Sourcebook of Central European Avant-Gardes, 1910-1930

Original Price: $15.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Rudolf H. Bock This is the autobiographical story of a medical doctor, an ophthalmologist who, when the Nazis took over Austria in 1938, was interrupted in his last semester of Medical School in Vienna—four exams short of his M.D.—and forced to flee the country. As the title suggests, the beleaguered author's generally positive attitude toward life, as well as many extraordinary and illuminating incidents, allow him to look back 'gratefully' on his life during that extended period of struggle. His key insight is: there are far more kind and helpful people in the world—Orient as well as Occident—than you may imagine! Paperback125 pagesAriadne Press, 20025.5 x 0.2 x 8.2 inchesISBN 9781572411104Biography, Austrian History

Gratefully Looking Back: A Doctor's Special Journey

Original Price: $60 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Please note that this book is shelf-worn. Edited by Valerio Terraroli Contributions by Gabriella Belli, Carlo Bertelli, Germano Celant, Ester Coen This monumental art reference series will offer a complete and up-to-date survey of the major movements and art phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium in an original interdisciplinary analysis of artistic culture. It provides an extraordinary repertory of images and a vast source of information, enriched fact-finding windows and technical information compiled by experts. This first volume in the series highlights the artistic situation at the beginning of the last century and explores the different artistic choices taken in the search for modernity and of art as a total experience. Volume 1 examines avant-garde movements in the years between 1900 and 1901—the Fauves, the Cubists and others—both as complex syntheses of nineteenth century artistic culture and as alternatives to the traditional language of figurative art. The period examined starts with emblematic moments such as the Great Exhibition in Paris, which opened a century of technological marvels, and closes with the end of the initial phase of the Dada movement and the foundation of the Bauhaus school. Hardcover456 pages | 379 color illustrationsSkira Publishing, 20068.6 x 1.5 x 11.3 inchesISBN 9788876246043Avant-garde

Art of the Twentieth Century; 1900-1919 The Avant-garde Movements

Original Price: $28.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Ralph Freedom"Lively and detailed."—Michael Hofmann, New York Times Book Review"What Freedman's book does, and more thoroughly than any of the other biographies, is to retell Rilke's story meticulously and with a welcome attention to the circumambient social and political circumstances."—Michael André Bernstein, New Republic"An extraordinary accomplishment—a scrupulous, attentive, and beautifully written account of the life and work of one of this century's greatest, yet most elusive poets."—Mark StrandIn this outstanding biography, Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career by combining detailed accounts of salient episodes from the poet's restless life with an intimate reading of the verse and prose that refract them. Paperback640 pages | 65 halftonesNorthwestern University Press, 19986 x 2 x 9 inchesISBN 9780810115439 Biography

Life of a Poet: A Biography of Rainer Maria Rilke

Original Price: $29.95 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited with text by Friedemann MalschText by Zelfira Tregulova and Irina Vakar In 2015, Irina Vakar, senior research scientist at Tretyakov Gallery, reexamined Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square (1915) through X-ray imaging and pigment samples. Reconsidering Malevich’s complete oeuvre, this book builds upon her work, particularly considering the connection between Black Square and Malevich’s theater experiments. Paperback64 PagesWalther König, 20199.1 x 0.4 x 10.4 inchesISBN 9783960984375Artist Monograph

Kazimir Malevich: The Black Square

Original Price: $60 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Alston PurvisThis vibrant book tells the history of the Modernist design movement and how it completely revolutionized graphic design.Graphic Design as an artistic genre wasn't universally accepted until the early 20th century. This striking book focuses on the pivotal years of 1919-1933 to show how fifty artists redefined the field and helped create modern graphic design. Art historian and graphic artist Alston Purvis provides a concise and engaging overview of the dawn of modern graphic design and the artistic possibilities that were laid bare in a seismically shifting Europe. He explores how a variety of burgeoning and established movements contributed to the innovations of graphic design such as the German Dadaists, the Bauhaus School, and the European avant-garde artists. He looks at how groundbreaking trends in typography, the rise of consumerism, and a new focus on schools of graphic design combined to create a new language of design that is still in use today. Featuring the designs of 50 pioneering artists, such as Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and El Lissitzky, this book shows how their work in color, typography, and composition broke conventions and set new standards in a seminal period of graphic design.Hardcover400 pagesPrestel, 20199.5 x 1 x 12 inchesISBN 9783791384856 Graphic Design, Movements

The Enduring Legacy of Weimar Graphic Design and New Typography 1919-1933

Original Price: $60.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERSBy Julia FriedrichThis monograph on the work of abstract painter and sculptor Otto Freundlich looks at the entirety of the artist’s career. A German painter and sculptor of Jewish origin, Otto Freundlich was widely known in the art circles of his day. He was on close terms with the leading artists of Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Orphism, Dada, Suprematism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, Constructivism, the Cologne Progressives, and ultimately with the abstractionists. While his work was influenced by artists of these movements, Freundlich created a unique body of work in his paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and stained glass. This stunningly illustrated book follows the arc of Otto Freundlich’s life and work, and explores the development of his artistic and philosophical ideas. This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Otto Freundlich Cosmic Communism Museum Ludwig, Cologne Febrary 18-May 14, 2017, Kunstmuseum Basel June 10-Sepember 10, 2017.Hardcover352 pages; include color and duotone imagesPrestel, 2017 8.75 x 11.25 inchesISBN 9783791356402Artist Monograph, Abstract Art

Otto Freundlich: Cosmic Communism

Original Price: $90.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Lidia Gluchowska and Vojtech LahodaAn examination of the cultural and artistic consequences of post-WWI nationalism in Europe.World War I was a seismic event in Europe whose most concrete ramifications were the sweeping changes made to maps of the continent after 1918. A number of new, independent states were established in the wake of the Armistice, and these tectonic developments found varied expression in the arts, transforming the image of the continent both cartographically and artistically. This new edited collection focuses primarily on how modernism and the avant-garde responded to these geographic changes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, and Scandinavia. The contributors explore the clashes between the national, the transnational, and the cosmopolitan as they played out in diverse artistic genres. In many countries across Europe, the struggle for national independence—which in many cases began in the nineteenth century and culminated only after World War I—had important cultural and artistic consequences, which are only beginning to be understood. This book—co-published with Artefactum—provides a crucial new lens to rethink the methodological tools used to understand the complexity and the multiplicity of avant-garde forms in twentieth-century Europe, encouraging scholars to reconstruct global cultural history without tired nationalistic approaches.Paperback321 pages, 151 color platesKarolinum Press, 20226.5 x 9.25 inchesISBN 9788024651217History, Art Criticism

Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Avant-Garde and Modernism: The Impact of World War I

Original Price: $40.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS By Erik Schmitt American Bauhaus creates a space for the history of Black Mountain College, which provided a new creative home for many World War II refugees in Europe from 1933 to 1957 and allowed the Bauhaus to live on in the United States. A unique place of freedom and creativity that became home to some of the most important artists of the 20th century! In 1992, the Partner and Creative Director at studio1500 Erik Schmitt attended the reunion of Black Mountain College in San Francisco. The school is credited with shaping some of the greatest artists in American history: Willem de Kooning, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline, and Robert Rauschenberg among them. Schmitt was invited because his two aunts and their family friend Ruth Asawa attended BMC. He took extensive notes that day and took photographs at the cocktail party after the event at Ruth Asawa’s home. Those quotes and photographs are the foundation of the book American Bauhaus. Each quote has a page devoted to it. The quote is presented in its entirety along with the time it was uttered. A fragment of the quote is also reproduced at a large scale bleeding off the edge of the page and traveling onto the following spread. In essence, it is an evocation of the interplay of the conversation that took place on that day. The name of the book, American Bauhaus was inspired by a quote Erik Schmitt recorded on the day of the reunion by Peter Oberlander who remembered Joseph Albers saying “Black Mountain is a minimal version of the Bauhaus…Go there.” Paperback112 pagesSlanted Publishers, 20227.01 x 10.04 x 0.39 inchesISBN 9783948440381 Black Mountain College, American Art

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