This project is the culmination of my six-month writing fellowship with the ARAK Collection. I worked on it from May to October 2023. With my expe...

Text in English and German. The architect and photographer Rolf Reiner Maria Borchard, who is professor of design principles at the Muthesius-Hochs...

"Gartel has so superbly captured...the essence of erotic desire. In an age of sex being turned into merely a forbidden behavior and a troublesome m...

This exquisite collection of photographs and interviews focuses on four of Kyoto's most beautiful geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha). First, the ...

Based on the assumption that gender roles have become increasingly complex and differentiated in recent decades, the volume's articles analyze the ...

Forty years after the release of their first single, Genesis are back. Phil Collins, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford have reunited for their first t...

The concepts of genre and ritual are central for the overall occupation with the relationship between the History of the Arts and the History of Ch...

This book contains six articles by prominent Russian philosophers, geologists, geographers, historians, and artists that explore the Russian view o...

Ornament, as practiced by architects, artists, and designers for a hundred years, presents itself as a system of order and grid, and not merely as ...

A sterling new study of the exquisite designs of Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866-1935) and company. Nearly one thousand photographs illustrat...

This reprint of jewelry and hollowware catalog pages from Georg Jensen brings eagerly sought information together in one volume. Hard to find, the ...

Germany has long been thought of as the Mecca of wood-carving. The wood-carving tradition goes back hundreds of years, and the carving schools cont...

George Baxter (1804-1867) was a pioneer in advancing the art of colour printing. A perfectionist, Baxter not only engraved but also examined the pr...

George Rickey's importance to the art world is belied by the lack of literature about one of the world's most accomplished kinetic sculptors. Ricke...

This richly illustrated three-volume set is a treasure for connoisseurs of European culture and history. It is accompanied by audio recordings of 2...

The author of this book, Anzor Erkomaishvili, is one of the most well known, recognized individuals in Georgia: a singer and choirmaster; a compose...

At various intervals between 1931 and 1945, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) completed seventeen drawings and paintings of katsina tithu ("kachina doll...

This richly illustrated book presents a study of Georgian easel painting (2nd half of the 19th century -- 1st quarter of the 20th century) in conne...

Text in English and German. Despite their usually very large volumes, works by Eckhard Gerber's Dortmund practice are structurally light and transp...

Paris in the summer of 1937. A giant funeral procession wends its way from the city center eastward toward the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, accompanied ...

Text in English & German. In the years after 1933 several hundred architects were forced to emigrate from Germany by the National Socialist dic...

"The greatest influences of German architecture on America are bipolar: Folk Architecture and Modern Academic Architecture. In between are the lowe...