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Is it painting or sculpture? This outstanding exhibition catalog deepens our understanding of a genre-bending medium over nearly two centuries. No other artistic form transcends our vision quite like the relief; its ambiguity has drawn some of the world’s greatest artists to explore its possibilities. The book delves into modern art's reliefs, offering readers the chance to explore this unique genre. Beginning in 1800, it traces the relief's fluid aesthetic and highlights the significance of innovation and adaptation until the 1960s. Opening with neoclassical works reminiscent of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the authors examine sculptors who challenged their medium's boundaries, such as Jules Dalou, Auguste Rodin, and Medardo Rosso, alongside painter-sculptors like Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Pablo Picasso. Readers will discover how Dadaists like Kurt Schwitters, Hans Arp, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp transformed collage and assemblage techniques with found materials, while artists like Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, and Lee Bontecou reintroduced monumental, large-scale works. Filled with high-quality reproductions and photographs, the book celebrates the evolution of a creative expression that began as a dialogue between genres and has become an artistic medium in its own right.

This volume reintroduces the fascinating work of German-Swedish painter, Lotte Laserstein, who was known for her groundbreaking portraiture in the 1920s and 30s. After being one of the first women to graduate from Berlin Art Academy in 1927, Lotte Laserstein began making a name for herself in Weimar era Berlin's thriving art scene. She was a remarkable portraitist, capturing everyday citizens of Berlin from motorcyclists to girls playing tennis, to women applying makeup. This volume features fifty works by Laserstein that show her artistic development during the 1920s and 1930s. She was known for spurning the usual depiction of women and instead portrayed the "New Woman" who embraced fashion and personal freedom. Unfortunately, her career came to an abrupt halt in 1937 when she was forced to flee Nazi Germany for Sweden. She continued to paint in exile, but her work never regained the same intensity or sensitivity as her Berlin portraits and she fell out of the public eye. Laserstein's pieces have recently been rediscovered and this volume aims to bring this long-forgotten artist's works, from the key period in her career, back into the spotlight.

Anton Hennings Kunst kennt scheinbar keine Grenzen zwischen Gattungen und Stilen. Lustvoll schöpft der Künstler (*1964 in Berlin) aus den Wertemustern vergangener Epochen und revitalisiert diese in anspielungsreicher Vermengung. Bei seinem subversiven Marsch durch die Kunstgeschichte verbindet er eine abstrakte, ornamentale Formensprache immer wieder mit figürlichen Motiven, setzt Avantgarde und Design, Trash und Salonkunst in ein dialektisches Verhältnis. Die Publikation stellt das Schaffen Anton Hennings von 1990 bis in die jüngste Gegenwart in bislang einmaliger Bandbreite vor. Ausgewählte Arbeiten – Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Skulpturen, Objekte und Sitzmöbel – gewähren Einblicke in den überbordend opulenten Bilderkosmos des Künstlers, beginnend mit den frühen Fotoübermalungen und Schwarz-Weiß-Bildern, in denen Henning den Realismus der Fotografie mit gezielten malerischen Eingriffen spielerisch konterkariert, über die Jazzbilder in der Ästhetik psychedelischer Kunst der späten 1960er-Jahre bis hin zu den ornamental arabesken Interieurs und Pin-ups. Ausstellungen: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, und Kunsthalle Mannheim 16.5.–16.8.2009