A cutting-edge illustrated survey of 75 contemporary tattoo artists from around the world who are pushing the boundaries of their art form

Somewhere within the iconic images, carefully-made personae, star-studded milieu, million-dollar price tags and famous quotes lies the real Andy Warhol. But who was he? Robert Shore unfolds the multi-dimensional Warhol, dissecting his existence as undisputed art-world hotshot, recreating the amazing circle that surrounded him, and tracing his path to stardom back through his early career and his awkward and unusual youth. After Warhol, nothing would be the same – he changed art forever. Fin...

This publication presents some seventy masterworks on paper by leading Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.

This book is the latest iteration of the Ghost Part collaboration between the two artists, begun in 2016. Ghost Party revolves around a cast of "ghosts" who have affected both their practices, from Lygia Clark to Pier Paolo Pasolini. Conversations highlight key artistic and political questions addressed in the works, notably questions around the voice, divergent strands of modernisms and ecological urgencies.

Text: Fabian Flückiger, Ailton Krenak, Latifa Laâbissi, Olivier Marboeuf, Laila Me...

Collects the best works from the Ceil Pulitzer Collection of African Art, put together over more than 30 years.

In C.STONE, the artist and authors deliver a kaleidoscopic image of tentative alternative understandings of social and individual phenomena. Art plays its role of catalyst and provocateur of complex human and creative processes. The place in which the book is set is the problematic border area of Mexico and Texas, USA, the goal of the publication is a state-of-the-art scanning of the attracting and repelling forces that appear between intellectual and sensual antipodes. The book's leitmotif i...

In this book, the author argues that atheism should deepen its roots. Atheism should not only present itself as a cognitive matter, the denial of the existence of god(s), and as a moral matter, the confirmation of freedom from religious rules, but should develop a sentimental-emotional dimension. Atheism should cultivate a cluster of basic human emotions: the experience of reality as both a creative and destructive process that remains fascinating, miraculous, and mysterious, notwithstanding ...

Firstly I remember the way Lucassen used to look at things, his eyes so indescribably still and attentive. The eyes of a painter looking at things in order to make them still. Painters look with intense patience so that they will not disregard even the smallest of things. They look that way at a painting for a long time while it is being made – until the work is finished. It is finished when the painter no longer knows how to continue.

But still he goes on looking and peering to see what th...

Crowned the “Prince of Painters” by Giorgio Vasari, Raphael (1483–1520) was one of the most popular artists of the Italian Renaissance. Famous for his serene and harmonious series of Madonnas and his work at the Vatican Palace, he was an extremely influential painter, both during and after his own lifetime. Raphael in Detail shows his masterpieces in unprecedented, large-format details. The art historian and specialist of the Italian Renaissance, Stefano Zuffi, takes the reader on a voy...