Georg Baselitz is without a doubt one of the most important contemporary German artists. Particularly his upside-down motifs have made his work unmistakable since he first started standing them on their head in 1969. However, Baselitz cannot be solely reduced down to the level of this recognition value. This exhibition catalogue demonstrates in over 100 illustrations of central key works from all phases of his artistic career how multifaceted his work developed over the past 40 years. Aside from the versatility of his motifs, it becomes clear in the process that Baselitz's oeuvre is characterized by great craftsmanship and a compactness of expression. Starting with his early works from the 1960s reflecting upon the post-war period past the fracture pictures and the turning of the motif upside-down up to and including his dealings with his own early works in the Remix group, the book traces the development of one of the most fascinating oeuvre of our time based on paintings and sculptures, providing a lively lesson about these genres. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Georg Baselitz: 1960 ndash; 2008. A Retrospective at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, February ndash; June 2009. English and German text.

This exhibition is the most comprehensive survey to date of the Korean-American artist's vital, visionary and varied career.

A giant of twentieth-century art, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) stands beside Picasso and Matisse as an artist who has defined the way our century is perceived, and alongside them as one of the few modern artists who have created sculpture, paintings and drawings with equal mastery. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. The two hundred and forty-one works in the exhibition include many of Giacometti's greatest and best-known pieces, as well as rarely-seen Surrealist sculptures and previously unrecorded works. All are reproduced - eighty as full page colour plates. The fully illustrated essays, written by some of the world's leading Giacometti scholars, bring together remarkable new research and make this book an invaluable introduction to the artist's life and work.

Photo and media artist Jürgen Klauke (*1943) is known for his critical examination of socially standardized gender identities and patterns of behavior. His most recent work describes the paranoid perception as well as the paranoid structure of today's world. He is the first to so strikingly transpose the symptoms of this situation into an aesthetic. Klauke's photographs reflect the fundamental conditions of a fearful existence in scenes that range from the austerely minimalist to the excessive and occasionally surreal. He employs everyday materials as tools to create his scenes, succeeding in shaping a concentrated view of the absurdity of life. This publication documents groups of works the artist produced in past years, such as Ästhetische Paranoia (Aesthetic Paranoia) and Wackelkontakt (Loose Connection), as well as the Schlachtfelder (Battlefields) series, published here for the first time.

Trad. française: Cuno Amiet: de Pont-Aven à "Die Brücke"--Enth. auch: S. 33-45: Cuno Amiet und Ferdinand Hodler - Begegnung zweier Maler / Geneviève Sandoz.