Andy Warhol is recognized today as the most important exponent of the Pop Art movement. He overturned the traditional understanding of art and placed in its stead a concept that retracts the individuality of the artist. This title depicts the criticism of consumerism inherent within his work.
An introduction to the style of art which explores the everyday imagery which is part of contemporary consumer culture. Leading pop artists include Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
Gardens and Spaces Grten und Rume. The painter Bernd Lieven makes use of the apparent capability of photography to produce a reliable illustration of reality. His current works, published for the first time in this catalogue, present a view into the garden-spaces that we think we know and recognise through their bleakness and state of neglect. Lieven does not take any spectacular examples of ...
Martin Munkacsi (1896-1963) was the star photographer of his time. He photographed scores of famous actors, freed fashion photography from the confines of the studio, and set the static medium of photography in motion. This work brings Munkacsi's images together to combine pictures from his artistic phases.
Includes pictures, in color and black-and-white, that show Germany in a fever of reconstruction. This title portrays a country caught between the opposite poles of technological modernism and cultural restoration, between affluence and penury, between German Gemutlichkeit and the constant threat of the Cold War.