About the Author\nSimon Baur is a scholar of art history, writer, and critic based in Basel. He has written, edited, and contributed to numerous books, including catalogs of major Meret Oppenheim exhibitions in Switzerland and abroad.\nBronwen Saunders is a Swiss-based freelance translator with a special focus on books and exhibition projects in the fields of art and culture.\nNine essays that explore key elements of Oppenheim’s art and shed new light on defining aspects of her life and career.\nSwiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) is far more than just the creator of the iconic fur teacup. In the course of her career, she produced a complex, wide-ranging, and enigmatic body of work that has no parallel in modern art. Like an x-ray beam, this book scans Oppenheim’s artistic oeuvre, bringing its variety, playfulness, and poetry to the fore. Instead of simply answering the riddles posed by these intriguing works, it maps out the paths that will lead us to still more clues. 
Simon Baur is a leading expert in the life and art of Meret Oppenheim. The nine new essays featured in this volume are at once scholarly and easy to read. In them, Baur shares the many fascinating insights and interpretations that he has gleaned from his decades-long engagement with Oppenheim’s work. The result is an anthology that combines both biographical and thematic aspects and takes us on an exciting journey into the poetic cosmos of a truly great female artist.

Meret Oppenheim Enigmas: A Journey Through Her Life and Work

Arts & Photography

Baur, Simon

Individual Artists

Scheidegger and Spiess

Much more than "just" the fur cup: this lavishly illustrated monograph presents the multifaceted work and colorful life of the great artist and Surrealist muse, Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985). Once enmeshed in scandal, known as a mysterious model and a mythical personality, she emerged among the most far-sighted artists of her epoch. Her oeuvre, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, drawings and design objects, constitutes an important contribution to twentieth-century art. Alongside the legendary Breakfast in Fur, from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and important pieces from Vienna, Paris and Stockholm, Retrospective: An Enormously Tiny Bit of a Lot includes many never-before seen works from private collections. While Oppenheim's works forbid formal classification, major themes can be distinguished: borders and connections between nature and culture; man and woman; day and night; and, as befits a Surrealist, dream and reality. Here, art historical writing and detailed analyses shed light on gender-specific issues in Oppenheim's work, along with broader concerns and major artistic advances. In addition, previously unpublished fragments of Oppenheim's own writing recollect many of her companions and artistic colleagues, and an illustrated biography completes the picture.

Meret Oppenheim: Retrospective: An Enormously Tiny Bit of a Lot

Frehner, Matthias

Bhattacharya-Stettler, Therese

History & Criticism

Hatje Cantz

About the Author\nSimon Baur is an art historian, lives in Basel, and is a freelance publicist and curator. Corinne Diserens studied art and film history at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She was curator at IVAM Valencia from 1989-1993, director of the Musée de Marseille from 1996-1999, of the Musée des Beaus-Arts de Nantes from 2001-2005, and of the Museion Bolzano from 2005-2008. She has published countless essays on advanced artistic positions, including Carl Andre, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse, Santu Mofokeng, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gabriel Orozco, Paola Yacoub. The editor Eva Schmidt is art historian and a curator, since 2004 she was director of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, and retired in 2019. She has curated numerous monographic exhibitions amongst others to Lucian Freud, Sigmar Polke, Bridget Riley, Antoni Tapies, Niele Toroni, and others. She revealed her special interests in thematic shows like "Dear Aby Warburg, what can be done with the images?" or 2018 with "Remembering Landscape." Eva Schmidt is a member of the Board of the Association of Friends of Rémy Zaugg and is the editor of this affable volume on Rémy Zaugg. Herzog & de Meuron, established in Basel in 1978, is a partnership led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron together with Senior Partners and an international team of over 500 collaborators across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. Their practice has designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design. Many projects are highly recognized public facilities, such as museums, stadiums, and hospitals, and they have completed distinguished private projects including offices, laboratories and apartment buildings. Christoph Oswald, born in 1961, lives and works in Zurich, where he studied art history and politics and initially wrote for a number of European art magazines before working for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Weltwoche, and Tages-Anzeiger. He has held various teaching positions and professorships, most recently realizing close to 400 projects for art in public spaces for the city of Zurich from 2009 to 2020. Mathilde de Croix, born 1990, lives and works in Paris. She holds a research and a professional master’s degree from the University of Paris Sorbonne in Contemporary Art. Since 2017, she has worked as a curator at the Monnaie de Paris. She co-curated the exhibitions “A pied d’œuvre(s)” (2017) on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou, Subodh Gupta (2018) and Thomas Schütte (2019), she also worked with Michel Gauthier in the preparation of the sixth edition of the festival “Air de Jeu” at the Centre Pompidou. Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) dealt with questions of perception in his conceptual work. He did not see it as limited to seeing, but as a human function of the reciprocal relationship to the world. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, works in public space, art on building projects, and architectural designs. Among the artists of his generation, he is considered one of the role models for the transmedial approaches of today's young generations of artists. His collaboration with the architects Herzog & de Meuron, with whom he realized around 15 projects in the years before his death.\nRémy Zaugg (1943–2005) was an internationally renowned artist who lived and worked in Basel and Mulhouse. He saw himself as a painter, yet he would not limit himself solely to the production of images. Rather, from his painterly practice he generated general assumptions for a processual conception of the work that enabled him to view spatial, architectural, and urban contexts in new, unfamiliar ways. Accordingly, the perceiving human being as a member of society was always at the center of his considerations—all his aesthetic assumptions led to the emancipatory idea of the "becoming" subject. In addition to his extensive painterly and writ

Rémy Zaugg: The Particular Place

Mack, Gerhard

Loock, Ulrich

Herzog, Jacques

Diserens, Corinne

Zaugg, Rémy

de Meuron, Pierre

Kurzmeyer, Roman

Schmidt, Eva

Doswald, Christoph

de Croix, Mathilde

Snoeck Publishing Company

Iconic as a photographic subject and influential as a creator of iconic objects, Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) was both artist and muse, and was uniquely liberated in both roles. In celebration of the centennial of her birth, Mirrors of the Mind looks at Oppenheim’s singular position as maker and subject of art through numerous sculptures, prints, paintings and photographs. From the iconic "Object in Fur" to lesser-known pieces, Oppenheim’s consistently poetical and humorous work continues to find resonance in contemporary art through its candor and economy of means. This substantial, handsomely designed monograph shows the artist to have been an inspirational figure in her own era--for artists such as Man Ray, Picasso and Max Ernst--as well as an important feminist artist.

Meret Oppenheim: Mirrors of the Mind

Gardner, Belinda

Walda, Christian

Kerber

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