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Alexander Raymond's paintings are densely atmospheric (and very much indoor) scenarios which sometimes stray into the overtly eerie--a cheerfully colored cushion floating in space, mid-air explosions of color, odd goings-on with fur hats--an effect heightened by theatrical lighting and unnaturally radiant colors. Some works may depict more conventional window views or still lifes, but the total effect remains one of disquiet.

German painter Jochen Stenschke, born in 1959, presents recent large-scale abstractions in this generous first monograph. His language is immediately legible and will appeal to fans of Amy Sillman, Carroll Dunham, Jonathan Lasker and David Reed.

German painter Paul Schwer uses unconventional materials that allow color, space, light and movement to play integral roles. This volume collects three-dimensional paintings on heated and formed Plexiglas and other illuminated site-specific installations.

German artist Cony Theis, born in 1958, worked for many years as a courtroom artist, aspects of which are clearly visible in her current work, which tends to focus on biography and identity. Watercolors on skin, digital collages on tables or airplane windows, wall drawings and sculptures made of pigment are some of the works gathered here.

Norbert Tadeusz, who lives in Italy and Düsseldorf, embraced traditional painting early on: "I paint what leaps out at me (...) a landscape, a nude, a living animal, or a still life." This catalogue presents 13 paintings by the artist now in the Chemnitz art collection.

Up-and-coming Swiss painter Giacomo Santiago Rogado (born 1979) arranges austere but dynamic interactions between geometric shapes that develop great spatial depth and quickly engage the viewer in his rigorous demarcations. "It's a matter of delaying the first glance as long as possible," Rogado avers--"delaying the first glance so long that it is more than just a glance, it becomes a contemplation, a conception or even a state."

German artist Gabi Blum's (born 1979) first publication Wanted presents her participatory installations in which she herself performs. Her hypnotic, carefully curated "rooms," which visitors can peek at through windows in the walls, allude to images from pop culture and art history.

This is the first monograph on German painter Wieland Payer (born 1981), whose precise landscape depictions are rendered surreal by the inclusion of abstract geometric components. This volume features the artist's pastels and charcoal drawings from the last three years.

The most recent paintings of Cesare Lucchini (who has been working since the 1960s) bear testimony to Willem de Kooning's adage that "you can't paint the figure and you can't not paint the figure" intimations of heads and bodies loom out from energetically applied color masses, and recede back, in a careful balance of forms.

One of New Zealand's most important artists, Judy Millar (born 1957) revives gestural abstraction with an energy on a par with, perhaps even surpassing, Pollock, Twombly and Kline. In Millar's painting, the complete gesture is visible, brash in its vitality. This is the first comprehensive monograph on Millar, who represented New Zealand at the 2009 Venice Biennale.

In chaotic bursts of variously colored plastics, Sebastian Kuhn's sculptures (which often proliferate into the category of installation) update the constructions of Tatlin for our times, incorporating musical and scientific references into their unruly, bundled forms. This catalogue is beautifully produced with a suedette cover and an assortment of paper stocks within.

One of Anna Klüssendorf's (born 1979) central topics is the banality and vulnerability of human existence. In her paintings, gathered in her first monograph, nothing is conclusively formulated, everything seems to be provisional, a mixture of the adopted and the truly experienced.

The East Side Gallery is a section of the Berlin Wall that was painted by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990--an artistic comment on the political changes of the post-Wall years. Marc Lüders' amazing trompe l'oeil paintings on photographs insert figures in front of sections of this historic collaborative artwork.

The first monograph on Berlin-based painter Regina Niekes (born 1979), The Figurative Element compiles the artist's works alongside her research and sketchbooks. Often based on paintings from art history or inspired by modern figurative painting, Nieke's pieces are abstracted, Bacon-esque snapshots of human figures.

Erik Bulatov (born 1933) is one of the most influential artists in the former Soviet Union. This lavish, partially handcrafted book is published on the occasion of the painter's first solo exhibition in Berlin, and is dedicated to his three most recent series of works. French critic Damien Sausset discusses Bulatov's most recent drawings and paintings, as well as earlier works from the 1970s.

Inspired by Picasso's collection of etchings Suite Vollard, from the 1930s, Suite Voilà is a series of ink drawings by German artist Ulrich Hakel (born 1973). Hakel's alluring line compositions address themes such as the artist in the studio and the myth of the Minotaur.

On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, K.H. Hödicke--a pioneer of German New Figuration in the 1970s--here presents large-format charcoal drawings from 1975 to 1982. Filled with erotic, urban energy, these drawings capture the style that was so influential to the 80s generation of Berlin artists.

Flowerpots and crosses, french fries and diamonds... In his large-format, super-gestural canvases, German painter Dieter Krieg (1937-2005)--one of the most prominent members of the New Figuration movement--did not differentiate between the significant things in life and the everyday ones. This is the first retrospective monograph on Krieg's oeuvre.

Born in Korea and currently living between Germany and Italy, S'nim Oh is known for clean, bright photographic and filmic works that question representations of the self in a culture marked by migration, fragmentation and hybrid lifestyle. This volume collects works from 2002 through 2007.

Disegno explores the ongoing relevance of drawing. Participating artists include Ines Beyer, Marc Brandenburg, Friederike Feldmann, William Forsythe, Olaf Holzapfel, Jürgen Krause, Korpys/Löffler, Frank Nitsche, Rei Naito, Brian O'Doherty, Mario Pfeiffer, Santiago Sierra, Gert and Uwe Tobias and Rikuo Ueda.

A star at the recent Art Cologne fair, Austrian installation artist Lorenz Estermann (born 1968) constructs delicate little maquettes of buildings--booths, kiosks, platforms, houses--that merge painting/drawing with sculpture and architecture, and works on paper (also architecturally themed) that incorporate photography with drawing and painting.

All over the world, Tatsuo Miyajima plants shoots from a Chinese persimmon tree that survived the Nagasaki atomic bomb. He also makes illuminated "number works" that incorporate LED technology and paints numbers on human bodies. This volume collects works from the 1990s through today.

With a Degas-like enthusiasm for distended gesture, Rainer Fetting (born 1949) produces bronze sculptures of men in various states of everyday posture. The title (Return of the Giants) is taken from a new series of 30 figures (the "giants" in question are the painters Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, politicians and nude men).

The reliefs, paintings, interventions and photographs of German artist Birgit Brandis (born 1976) are colorful and expansive, full of enigmatic references and motifs. It Was the Blue--part catalogue, part artist's book--provides a representative overview of her career.

Artists including Mark Dion, Jochen Lempert and Helen Mirra use the Hildesheim Museum's geological collection to employ scientific methodology for their own fictional documentations as amateur scientists.

In her most recent works, painter Alex Tennigkeit investigates the codes of today's hip-hop culture. In her large-format canvases, decorative wall pieces, objects and small-format gouaches, she produces installations that illustrate and exaggerate the world of popular culture. She uses visual and textual citations from popular film, music, fashion and advertising, making use of the most superficial elements of the media world. We find naked bodies, smiling beauties, fast cars and other symbols of modern pop culture: Tennigkeit uses sampling to overstate and expose these in her art.

Hamburg-based artist Henrik Eiben's (born 1975) multimedia oeuvre ranges from subtle works on paper to large aluminum sculptures, integrating such diverse materials as paper, glass, fabric and metal. This publication provides a wide-ranging presentation of Eiben's work for the first time.

Taking the absurd as the point of rupture between art, society and observation, this 1,152-page volume features Beuys, Duchamp, Kippenberger, Magritte, Meese, Nauman, Oppenheim, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Schwitters, Trockel, Franz West and others.

Polish painter Zuzanna Skiba's (born 1968) first publication, Magnetic Fields, focuses on the last ten years of her hyper-detailed cartographic abstractions, accompanied by poems from Paris-based writer Jochen Winter.

For more than two months in 2006, Berlin-based artist Nicole Schuck hiked across Iceland, carrying just a rucksack and a tent. This volume collects the drawings, films and performances that resulted from her hikes, all of which helped her to process her experiences of the island.