Absalon

 

The Israeli artist Absalon (1964-1993) was fascinated by spaces, which he reworked in systematic and successive ways with questions around essential human activities and basic geometric forms being his points of departure.

Abstract America: New Painting - Saatchi Gallery

 

The twentieth anniversary of the Saatchi Gallery was celebrated in 2005 with 'The Triumph of Painting', a landmark exhibition. This book accompanying the exhibition, makes the disparate currents of the painting coherent. It is devoted to the new American abstract painters, few of whom appeared in the original 'Triumph of Painting' book.

Abstract Expressionism

 

Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the years immediately following the Second World War and quickly became one of the most powerful and influential movements in the history of modern art.

Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art

Selections from the Collection

More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the paintings and sculptures of artists as different from one another...

Action Abstraction

Pollock, De Koonig, And America Art, 1940-1976

The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day.

Action Painting Jackson Pollock

 

In-depth survey of one of the most important art movements of the twentieth century and its founder, Jackson Pollock. (Dit boek is niet beschikbaar in het Nederlands)

Actions: What You Can Do With the City

 

This publication will explore how the design of contemporary cities can be described and informed by four key human actions: gardening, recycling, playing, walking.

Ad Reinhardt: Last Paintings

 

The paintings of the American artist, Ad Reinhardt were from the start defined by their clear geometrical forms. ­Reinhardt, who before his training as a painter had received a degree in art history, rejected any kind of fusion between art and life or any mystification of painting.

Adel Abdessemed

The Power to Act

Refusing to be limited to a single ideology or medium, Adel Abdessemed works across drawing, video, photography, performance, sculpture, and installation. This publication highlights the range of his practice, which is sometimes reduced to a simple scribble on a piece of paper...

Adriaen Coorte

De stillevens van Adriaen Coorte

Deze uitgave is verschenen naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling 'Ode aan Coorte' in Den Haag. Omdat er de laatste jaren diverse schilderijen zijn teruggevonden, is in deze publicatie een volledige beschrijving van zijn oeuvre opgenomen, de eerste die sinds 1977 verschijnt.