Fitting Paul Klee's extraordinary oeuvre into book form is certainly a complex endeavor--Klee's diverse body of work is always opening itself up to new interpretations, and has escaped classification under the aegis of any particular style, group, or movement. This monograph achieves this feat by offering Klee in all his uniqueness, never attempting to subject the artist and his work to one interpretation. Here we see Klee's organically developed and open-ended art, which sought inspiration everywhere and in turn inspired so many in all areas of the arts. Fairytale lyricism and grotesque satire, tender jesting and very real horror, profound mysticism and sober romanticism all coexist in Klee's images. These works radiate a variety and creative energy that is rarely seen in such profusion. Paul Klee: Life and Work presents a comprehensive selection of paintings and other images, documented in nearly 500 color and black-and-white images, alongside essays that explore the artist's life and offer surprising insights into his work.

Paul Klee: His Life and Work

Arts & Photography

Lanchner, Carolyn

Temkin, Ann

Olgiati, Valerio

Werckmeister, O.K.

Köb, Edelbert

Joanelly, Tibor

History & Criticism

Hatje Cantz Publishers

This catalogue presents Wolfgang's Laib's exhibition on all four floors of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, and features photos of his delicate sculptures made from beeswax, marble, milk, rice, and pollen, as well as of the artist creating these meditative pieces.

Wolfgang Laib

von Samsonow, Elisabeth

Sagmeister, Rudolf

Laib, Wolfgang

Photography & Video

Verlag De Buchhandlung Walter

Gerwald Rockenschaub (English and German Edition)

Jörg Heiser

Roger Buergel

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

This series of images from contemporary photographers including Sugimoto and Gursky, and painters including Rothko, Martin, Mondrian and Friedrich, juxtaposes horizontal landscapes with horizontally structured abstract works. Its concentrated selection reveals formal analogies and similarities of both content and effect: the horizontal reads as a synonym for calm, concentration, and transcendental experience.

The Perception of the Horizontal

Martin, Agnes

Rosenblum, Robert

Weiermair, Peter

Hapkemeyer, Andreas

Kirschl, Wilfried

Schmeid, Wieland

Speck, Rainer

Individual Artists

Walther König, Köln

This first monograph on Bulgarian artist Plamen Dejanoff, who became known internationally for his 1990s collaborations with Swetlana Heger, includes a range of work--including his most recent construction-project-as-artwork: a complex of buildings including a museum, bookshop and studio in his hometown--produced together with a host of collaborating architects, designers and artists.

Plamen Dejanoff

BOURRIAUD, NICOLAS

Mircan, Mihnea

Majaca, Antonia

JRP|Ringier

From a party that never happened (the Cityrama II tour of Cologne planned by Wolf Vostell and Stefan Wewerka for March 2, 1962, which almost all the Nouveau Realisme artists were invited to), to a party that did (the group's festive anniversary celebration and dissolution in 1970), this comprehensive study tracks an influential movement closely. Includes detailed chronology.

Nouveau Réalisme

Koddenberg, Matthias

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

In this volume the Viennese Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig collaborates with the National Museum of China to present an overview of contemporary art in China. The survey opens with an assessment of the Cynical Realism movement, that defiant brand of (mostly) painting which developed in the more liberal cultural climate after the death of Mao Zedong. In the visual vocabulary of Cynical Realism, human figures are often grotesquely exaggerated by the clarity of their rendering, facial expressions are subtly or explicitly contorted and crowds amass in oppressive agglomerations. But as the moniker would suggest, this is not Expressionism-a certain matter-of-factness pervades the work of this movement, whose best-known exponents may be Fang Lijun, Yue Minjun and Zhang Xiaogang. Examining younger artists such as Liu Xiaodong, Shen Ling, Chen Wenling, Cui Xiuwen and Jiu Jianhua, China Facing Reality locates a generation which has turned to digital photography, video, film and computer animation to articulate related concerns of alienation and surfeit. Works by artists such as Miao Xiaochun, Song Tao, Song Dong and Yang Zhenzhong grapple with the city as an unstable backdrop whose daily flux produces escapist worlds in which the archaic and the ultramodern permeate one another.

China: Facing Reality

Fuchs, Rainer

D'ian, Fan

Brewinska, Maria

Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg

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