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A sweeping account of the 'art public', the collective audience for art.

A profound study of Paul Klee's painting Ad Parnassum, a key work in the painter's oeuvre. In the 1920s, German-Swiss artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) began his long-lasting engagement with polyphonic art--a multi-voiced way of painting analogous to music. A relentless experimenter, Klee began these studies while teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau, developed them further during his tenure at the art academy in Düsseldorf, and brought them to a conclusion after his return to Switzerland in 1933. In this book, distinguished art historian Oskar Bätschmann explores Klee's seminal painting Ad Parnassum (1932). Painted shortly after the artist's departure from the Bauhaus, it symbolizes a new era--one of Klee's own self-discovery. Bätschmann documents how the artist strove for a connection of music to painting in his color hues and in the rhythmic movement of colored dots. Richly illustrated, this book uses Ad Parnassum to place Klee's polyphonic understanding of art in an art-historical context and offers insight into the synesthetic thinking that emerged in the art world during his time.

Der Band versammelt bedeutende Werke des Symbolisten Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918). Neben herausragenden Arbeiten auf Papier steht eine Auswahl der wichtigsten späten Gemälde des Schweizer Künstlers im Zentrum der Publikation. Dabei geht es vor allem um die Rolle, die Serie und Variation in Hodlers Œuvre spielen. Präsentiert werden Figurenbilder, Landschaften, Selbstporträts sowie die ergreifende Serie von Porträts, die Hodler von seiner Geliebten Valentine Godé-Darel während deren langer Krankheit zum Tode anfertigte. Ein dokumentarischer Teil stellt Briefe, Skizzenbücher und Fotografien vor, welche die Beziehung zwischen Hodler und Godé-Darel weiter beleuchten. Der Band bietet Gelegenheit zur Beschäftigung mit grundlegenden Fragen der modernen Kunst: serielle Arbeiten, das Problem der Identität, die Suche nach dem absoluten, essenziellen Kunstwerk oder auch die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Natur. Ausstellungen: Neue Galerie New York 20.9.2012–7.1.2013 Fondation Beyeler, Basel 27.1.–5.5.2013

Giovanni Bellini is portrayed as a crucial figure in Italian Renaissance art, recognized for his significant contributions to Venetian painting. The book explores the evolution of his career, emphasizing key works that solidified his influence during this transformative period in art history. Through the lens of his artistry, it illustrates Bellini's impact on the Renaissance and his esteemed reputation among contemporaries like Jacob Burckhardt and Albrecht Durer.

This is the first comprehensive monograph on Hans Holbein the Younger to have appeared in over 40 years. The authors re-examine every aspect of a remarkable career and cast fresh light on many hitherto vexing questions and misunderstandings.

In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Batschmann presents a series of connected studies that offer new ways of interpreting the work and ideas of this brilliant and complex figure. This superbly illustrated book is a polemical challenge in a field of art-historical research that has often lost its way in insoluble disputes and erudite details