Buchhandlung Walther König

Stückwerk: Geflickte Krüge, Patchwork, Kraftfiguren

Die Sammlungen ethnographischer Museen enthalten massenhaft Stücke, die Zeugnisse für Praktiken des Teilens und Verbindens sind, so auch die des Museums der Kulturen Basel. Es handelt sich um Fr ...

Deutschland, deine Kolonien

Deutschland war eine Kolonialmacht. Nicht nur in Afrika, sondern auch in China und Ozeanien. Doch in der öffentlichen Debatte wird unsere koloniale Vergangenheit heute kaum diskutiert. Dieses Buc ...

Fragments: Pots, Patchworks, Power Figures

The collections of ethnographic museums contain numerous fragments that bear witness to practices of sharing and connecting. They include fragments from history, remnants of destruction, and once ...

Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World

The first major US exhibition and catalogue to investigate the relationship between Persia and ancient Greece and Rome. "Persia: Ancient Iran and the Clasical World" explores the far-reaching exch ...

Water, Wind, Breath: Southwest Native Art

The Barnes Foundation's historic Pueblo and Navajo collections are explored alongside works by contemporary Native American artists.

Les enfants de l'ère Meiji

Réunissant plus de 150 estampes représentant des enfants s'amusant ou étudiant et d'autres qui leur sont destinées (estampes pédagogiques, estampes-jouets ou illustrations de récits), ce cat ...

Art contemporain du Bénin

Présenté par le président de la République du Bénin, Patrice Talon, cet ouvrage est second volet du catalogue d'une exposition historique au palais présidentiel à Cotonou.

Trésors royaux du Bénin

Japan Arts and Life: Montgomery Collection

An inner journey into the beauty of simplicity through the masterpieces of one of the largest and best-known collections of Japanese art outside Japan Among the many ways one can approach a distan ...

Power and Prestige: The Art of Clubs in Oceania

"Power and Prestige" is the first book dedicated to the arts of clubs in Oceania. "Clubs" are presented not only as weapons, but as remarkable sculptures that played multiples roles in the societi ...

20th Century Indian Art

A landmark volume presenting the history of Indian art across the subcontinent and South Asia from the late 19th century to the present day.

Les cerisiers en fleur

Un panorama sous forme de leporello de la représentation des cerisiers dans l'art japonais à travers une sélection de plus d'une soixantaine d'estampes. Avec un livret présentant l'histoire de ...

Warburg: Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance

An almost unknown legacy of the art historian and cultural scientist Aby Warburg are the artefacts he collected on a journey through the southwest of the USA in 1895/96 and donated to the Museum f ...

Courtney-Clarke: The Art of African Women

Courtney-Clarke's three-volume photographic research into the creative spirit and harsh lives of women in modern-day Africa, originally published between 1979 and 1994, with a fourth volume of com ...

Black Phoenix

Facsimile compilation of the late-'70s journal on diasporic and colonial histories that paved the way for the British Black Arts Movement.

Fragments of Epic Memory

New ways of understanding Caribbean visual culture, from historical photographs following emancipation to contemporary transnational perspectives, on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Art ...

Archive of the World

Including textiles, paintings and decorative arts, "Archive of the World" offers a lucid altenative to traditional interpretations of art from the so-called New World.

The Portable Universe

The publication recaptures some of the knowledge of Indigenous American cultures and presents new historical findings, drawing heavily on contemporary Indigenous understandings to evoke a worldvie ...

Kyosai's Animal Circus

Known for his independent spirit, Kawanabe Kyosai (1831-1889) is among Japan s most important master painters. Witty, energetic and imaginative, his art continues to influence numerous artistic st ...