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Before museums, wealthy collectors displayed eclectic assortments of artworks and natural objects in Wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosities. Daniel Spoerri's Historia Rerum Rariorum is inspired by this precedent, and unites works from the past two decades with recent pieces.

German artist Sabine Mohr (born 1956) creates installations, objects and works for public spaces and the theater on the theme of metamorphosis. Alchemical Explorations is Mohr's first monograph, presenting a cross-section of her work alongside texts by art historians.

Over the last 60 years, German sculptor Emil Cimiotti (born 1927) has produced a substantial oeuvre that varies from landscape to figurative, rough to detailed, representational to abstract. Structures presents a retrospective take on Cimiotti's sculptures and drawings, including his most recent works.

Painter, printmaker and ceramicist Bernd Kerkin (born 1951) paints a range of subjects, from travel impressions to works based on symbols from various cultures and even appropriations of other artists. This volume is a 30-year survey of his work.

Fiction Landscape compiles Hungarian artist Szilard Huszank's (born 1980) paintings of the past three years, including the series Landscape Collages and Imaginary Landscapes. Huszank's landscapes portray a natural world rich in hidden scenes and layers of imagery.

New York-based sculptor Anne Chu (born 1959) draws on the motif of the putti--angelic cherubs beloved of Italian Renaissance painting--to instigate a dialogue between Western and Asian cultures. Her putti are polychromatic, battered creatures, often suspended midair on poles.

Founded in 1947, and employing more than 50 hairdressers, the Astor Place barber shop in New York is a veritable time capsule. Nicolaus Schmidt's loving portrait of this lively hub is accompanied by an essay by celebrity hairdresser Udo Walz.

Although perhaps best known for his sculptural work with wood, Berlin-based artist Hans Scheib (born 1949) has also produced an impressive oeuvre of bronze pieces, many of which are the artist's personal interpretations of myths. This opulent catalogue surveys these works.

German artist Gerwald Rockenschaub (born 1952) creates large works from synthetic industrial materials that utilize Pop aesthetics and reflect contemporary fashion and lifestyle. This catalogue presents Rockenschaub's Color Foils, which appear as both purely abstract constructions and familiar images or objects.

This first monograph on Norwegian artist Kristina Braein (born 1955) covers her works from 1998 to the present. Her sensitive and meticulously constructed installations make use of everyday materials such as scotch tape and carpet.

As visual symbols increasingly populate electronic communication, this volume looks at the influence of Otto Neurath's Isotypes on contemporary art, in works by Anthony Burrill, Bernhard Cella, Ilse Chlan, Erdal Duman, Hazem El Mestikawy, Harun Farocki and many others.

The geometric, brightly chromatic abstract paintings of Elisabeth Sonneck (born 1962) often extend beyond their canvases to absorb entire rooms. This volume documents the works created for her exhibition at the Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst in Otterndorf, Germany.

Time Out From the Brain presents a cross-section of Austrian artist Ronald Kodritsch's (born 1970) work from 1994 to 2012. His abstract as well as more figurative paintings make use of irony, subversive humor and kitsch imagery to comment on current events and society.

Grisha Bruskin's new sculpture project H-Hour examines the idea of 'the enemy' in broad terms: the hostile state, class enemies, "the other" as enemy and even time and death as enemies. The sinister plaster sculptures, abundantly illustrated in this volume, embody a myriad of familiar tensions.

Together, Karl Karner (born 1974) and Linda Samaraweerová (born 1977) span the visual and performing arts, developing choreographic works out of sculpture, video and dance. This publication illuminates their collaborations on the theme of metamorphosis.

Berlin-based artist Bernd Trasberger (born 1974) deals with the transformation of urban space through his sculptural works, installations and collages, utilizing recycled and reappropriated architectural fragments. Modern Times provides the first overview of the artist's works from 2000 to 2012.

Argentinan artist Mario Asef (born 1971) creates videos, photographs, collages and installations that address social discourse. The artist's new video work Crossfade, presented here, addresses the two-way migration between South America and Europe through personal and poetic imagery of his homeland.

Berlin-based artist Claus Brunsmann's (born 1966) painting oscillates between figurative and abstract, somewhat in the fashion of Willem de Kooning. Distorted Memories of Nature presents works from 2001 to 2012, offering a full panorama of Brunsmann's oeuvre to date.

Using found images and objects, the photographic cycles and installations of Munich-based photographer Ulrich Gebert (born 1976) foreground the culturally determined character of our relationship to nature, highlighting the history of botany and ecology. This volume was published for a 2012 exhibition at Basis, Frankfurt.

Armin Weinbrenner's (born 1965) most recent works, presented in this publication, show the German painter pursuing the power of bright color and the possibilities of surface--notched and chapped in his wooden relief panels; glossy and smooth as glass in the verre églomisé; color-saturated and multilayered in his woodcuts.

The epic, harrowing paintings of French-Jewish artist Emmanuel Bornstein (born 1986) use recent European history--the Holocaust in particular--as a backdrop for carnivalesque scenes of controlled chaos. Bornstein's "world stage" of history is surveyed in this first English-language monograph.

Anja Buchheister (born 1978) uses photographs, line drawings and cutting-out and folding techniques to explore the realm between two-dimensionality and three-dimensionality. Playful and surreal, her works provoke optical confusion. This volume surveys her work of the past two decades.

German painter Frank Rödel (born 1954) has a longstanding fascination with the Antarctic, which he photographed during an expedition made by the Alfred Wegener Institute and later reprised in his own paintings. Terra Incognita contains photographs and paintings of vast Antarctic land- and seascapes.

In 1982, Horst Janssen (born 1929) published a pamphlet titled Horst Janssen as Braggart X: A Quixotry, a polemic attacking his contemporaries via drawings, collages and writings. This catalogue juxtaposes his works with those of Hans Baldung Grien, Allen Jones, Friedrich Meckseper and Konrad Klapheck.

Since the mid-1980s, Helmut Middendorf (born 1953) has created collages, sketchbooks and paintings that satirize the enormity of contemporary media waste, from magazines and newspapers to digital downloads. This publication documents a selection of work made between 1994 and 2012.

Phenomena in Space documents the small-format watercolors of German painter Anke Röhrscheid (born 1965), whose semi-abstract images of gray, spectral, tendril-like forms suspended against black backgrounds connote both dreamy, erotic intimacy and powerful existential isolation.

Anja Engelke restages a 1973 photograph by Stephen ShoreAlmost 50 years after Stephen Shore's iconic 1973 photograph Room 125, Westbank Motel, Idaho Falls, Idaho, July 18, 1973 was taken, German artist Anja Engelke (born 1983) restaged the scene in her own home. This monograph presents Engelke's photographic performative project.

A multimedia image-sound homage to Francis H. Burnett's beloved taleIn Mentagramm IV, on Alexander Wiener, the artist designs his own image-sound world in homage to the story The Secret Garden by Francis H. Burnett. In the process, piano compositions, the fantastic KD-L47 art machine and the sounds of newly invented instruments play an important role.

Austrian painter Robert Muntean (born 1982) depicts his quietly haunting figures--mostly young persons--against generally abstract backgrounds, emphasizing slight gestures of crouching, hunching, bending over or raising a hand. Echoes focuses on Muntean's paintings from the past two years.