REAKTION BOOKS

(P/B) CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH AND THE SUBJECT OF LANDSCAPE
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. His melancholy landscapes, often peopled by lonely wanderers, represent experiments towards a radically subjective art, one in which, as Friedrich wrote, the painter depicts not 'what he sees before him, but what he sees within him.' Yet in their awesome power to capture the individuality of visible forms Friedrich's pictures also accept and express the irredeemable otherness of Nature. Winner of th...
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(P/B) ERIK SATIE

(P/B) TRAVELS IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
The twentieth-century architect Mies van der Rohe once declared that ‘Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.’ In Travels in the History of Architecture renowned architectural writer Robert Harbison looks closely at such bricks, taking us on a journey through the great themes and movements of architecture, from antiquity to the present day. Using his own experience of the physical fabric of buildings, Harbison interprets the conceptions of the original architects and makers, pointing out carefully crafted detail and...
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(H/B) TRAVELS IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE

(P/B) MARCEL DUCHAMP

(P/B) TINTORETTO

(P/B) JANNIS KOUNELLIS

(H/B) PIZZA - A GLOBAL HISTORY

(H/B) THE ABU GHRAIB EFFECT

(H/B) UTAMARO AND THE SPECTACLE OF BEAUTY

(P/B) CHROBOPHOBIA

(P/B) POLITICAL LANDSCAPE: ART HISTORY OF NATURE

(P/B) PROJECTED CITIES: CINEMA AND URBAN SPACE

(P/B) FRANCIS BACON AND THE LOSS OF SELF

(P/B) HANS HOLBEIN (1861890400)

(CLOTH) SUSPENDED ANIMATION

(H/B) THE AGE OF SINAN

(P/B) MONDRIAN - THE ART OF DESTRUCTION (1861891008)

(P/B) THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM SINCE 1945

(H/B) THE FEMININE IDEAL