Essays from a Lifetime in the Arts

Arts & Photography

Linde, Ulf

History & Criticism

Walther Konig Verlag

Kunsthalle Krems and Museum Folkwang are presenting the painterly work of Helen Frankenthaler the great abstract expressionist and outstanding artist of the 20th century. Frankenthaler lived and worked in the epicenter of the New York School and created her groundbreaking abstract soak-stain pictures in the early 1950s, in succession of Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings. It is considered a bridgehead between Action Painting and Color Field painting. The focus of the publication are the painterly constellations on the medias canvas and paper. Over 70 works on paper - from the late 1940s to the early 2000s - are juxtaposed with an exclusive selection of paintings from the individual phases of Frankenthaler's artistic oeuvre. Frankenthaler's work is barely represented in European museums and collections and has seldom been shown extensively in German-speaking countries. The majority of the works depicted in the catalogue come from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York, supplemented by private collections and institutions.

Helen Frankenthaler: Painterly Constellations (English and German Edition)

Gabriel, Mary

Dreishpoon, Douglas

Engel, Nadine

Gorschlter, Peter

Individual Artists

A cultural, aesthetic and biological history of wool, from ancient extraction methods to contemporary textile design 
In this volume, the Milan-based multidisciplinary design studio Formafantasma investigates the history, ecology and global dynamics of the extraction and production of wool. A wide range of artworks, agricultural and cultural objects, photographs, videos and other materials demonstrate how wool is more than simply a raw material for the design and textile industries. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, Oltre Terra, which reimagines the display mode of the diorama. Rather than representing a static scene from nature, here it becomes an installation containing six life-size reproductions of different sheep breeds, a carpet made from discarded wool fibers, as well as documents, films, by-products of manufacturing processes and various types of organic matter. All these elements are presented side by side to counteract persisting categorizations that separate human from animal and product from biological matter.

Formafantasma: Oltre Terra; The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Koenig Koln/Cologne

Trimarchi, Andrea

Decorative Arts & Design

The series is dedicated to contemporary artists who, in addition to their visual oeuvre, have produced texts that take an independent approach to the concerns of their times and presents, above all, approaches that have proved influential and continue to inform current debates. VALIE EXPORT is regarded as one of the most important international pioneers of conceptual media art, performance, and experimental film. In the late 1960s, her often provocative installations, films, and actions caused an uproar. From the outset, VALIE EXPORT has written not only detailed concepts for her projects but also theoretical essays, poems, notes, and lectures. A large number of her published texts have been made accessible here in one book, along with a selection of printed interviews and unpublished notes and lectures created between 1967 and 2020.

Valie Export: In Her Own Words

Slavs & Tatars: Azbuka Strikes Back: An Anti-Colonial ABCs

2g #92: Np2f

Architecture

Karel Martens: 2024 Notebook

Yair Oelbaum: Asleep in Dirt

Pablo Bronstein: Cuisine

BRONSTEIN PABLO

Richard Tuttle: Interviews: 1970-2022

See the best price to sell, buy or rent books by the Walther Konig Verlag publisher. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Walther Konig Verlag