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Hardcover | 24.77 x 3.05 x 30.78 cm | 248 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791379401 This lavishly illustrated volume looks at the myriad ways in which the burgeoning art of photography dialogued with Impressionist painting. In the 19th century, numerous photographers chose the...

Philip Jodidio Hardcover | 22.56 x 3.18 x 28.42 cm | 280 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791359960 For centuries the garden has served as a central element in Muslim culture. The new or restored gardens created by AKTC, seen in this fascinating book, show...

Hardcover | 21.29 x 2.24 x 26.04 cm | 200 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791379296 Few artists are able to work successfully on both large and small scales, but throughout his career Calder brilliantly moved from the miniature to the monumental and back...

Patricia C. Phillips Softcover | 23.01 x 2.24 x 31.75 cm | 192 pp Prestel | 2017 | 9783791357096 "Held by cloth's hand, we are swaddled at birth, covered in sleep, and wound in death," muses artist Ann Hamilton. Rather than documenting the experience...

Julia Garimorth Hardcover | 24.61 x 2.92 x 29.54 cm | 280 pp Prestel | 2023 | 9783791379975 This career-spanning exhibition catalog reveals the enormous artistic achievements - both individual and shared - of two of the greatest pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Featuring more than...

Francesco Matteuzzi & Marco Maraggi Hardcover | 17.7 x 1.6 x 24.4 cm | 128 pp Prestel | 2022 | 9783791388816 Banksy is arguably the most well-known street artist of all time. But we don’t actually know who he is. This is just one of many...

Hardcover | 25 x 3 x 31 cm | 264 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791368795 Featuring major works from Caravaggio and his circle and the Italian Baroque period, this lavishly illustrated book looks at Rome as the centre of European culture in the...

Julia Stelzner Softcover | 16.66 x 1.85 x 24.13 cm | 192 pp Prestel | 2014 | 9783791348858 Written by a style insider, this book explores every aspect of Berlin's love affair with clothing. In an engaging series of brightly illustrated chapters it explains what...

Nicole Fritz & Natascha Burger  Hardcover | 22.56 x 2.95 x 30.23 cm | 304 pp Prestel | 2018 | 9783791358338 This mesmerising collection of photography, drawing, and sculpture showcases the work of Birgit Jürgenssen (1949 - 2003), one of Austria's leading avant-garde artists, strong feminist...

John Hill Hardcover | 24.43 x 3.18 x 30.78 cm | 304 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791387123 Author John Hill is the founder of the hugely influential architecture blog A Daily Dose of Architecture, which shifted course to focus entirely on architecture books of...

Hardcover | 18.5 x 6 x 14.5 cm | 720 pp Prestel | 2013 | 9783791345222 Designer, writer, and engineer Cecil Balmond invites readers into his creative process as he documents his most innovative projects in art, architecture, and bridge design. Hailed by friend and frequent...

Maja Wismer Softcover | 22.3 x 1.2 x 29.2 cm | 160 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791359748 Charmion von Wiegand (1896-1983) was an American journalist, art critic, and painter. Although largely unknown today, she won international acclaim beginning in the1950s for paintings and collages...

Hardcover | 24.13 x 2.01 x 30.18 cm | 168 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791378411  The Berlin painter Christopher Lehmpfuhl (b. 1972) has been occupied with the urban transformation at Berlin's Schlossplatz for over a decade. His 126 portraits of this historic Mitte...

Christopher Finch Hardcover | 18.5 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791336770  For decades Chick Close's (1940-2021) larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture...

Boris Friedewald Hardcover | 14.61 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm | 144 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791382555 This original and utterly captivating celebration of Salvador Dali's life and career traces the countless, often outrageous, ways the artist employed his moustache to brilliant effect. Whether...

Peter Cachola Schmal  Softcover | 22.23 x 1.91 x 27.94 cm | 200 pp Prestel | 2008 | 9783791340470 Since 1980, DAM, or German Architecture Museum, has been publishing its prestigious yearbook on German architecture. This volume features twenty projects by German architects, three...

Hardcover |  24.77 x 1.91 x 33.5 cm | 224 pp Prestel | 2016 |  9783791355283 A lavishly illustrated book on the acclaimed visual artist, videographer, and filmmaker Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, whose exceptionally diverse body of work explores her haunting visions of the past, present...

Hans Engels Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.44 x 28.58 cm | 208 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791385358 The buildings constructed in East Germany after the Second World War are often dismissed as drab, Soviet-style, prefabricated blocks of cement. But the architecture of the German...

Sergio Rossi & Giovanni Scarduelli Hardcover | 17.7 x 1.6 x 24.4 cm | 128 pp Prestel | 2021 | 9783791387352 This graphic novel delves into the life of the acclaimed artist Edward Hopper, whose iconic works depict quintessentially American scenes and experiences. While many of Hopper's...

Hardcover | 23.65 x 1.6 x 27.64 cm | 128 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791355450 Text in English and German Viennese artist Erwin Wurm is known for his quirky and compelling art that occupies a special place in contemporary art. Since the late 1980s...