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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Warburg: Blitzsymbol und Schlangentanz

Ein nahezu unbekanntes Vermächtnis des Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaftlers Aby Warburg sind bisher die Artefakte, die er auf einer Reise durch den Südwesten der USA 1895/96 sammelte und dem Museum ...

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 ...

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.

Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings

Gerd und Helga Plewigs Sammlung von Rindenmalereien aus Nordaustralien mit Werken vor allem aus den 1950er bis 1970er Jahren gilt gegenwärtig als die beste derartige Sammlung außerhalb Australie ...

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 ...

Shin-hanga: Farbholzschnitt Japans

Dieses Buch versammelt eine einzigartige Auswahl an Blättern, um die japanische Druckgrafik des 20. Jahrhunderts zu erkunden. Während die klassischen Landschaften von Hokusai und Hiroshige und d ...

La Malinche: Traitor, Survivor, Icon

The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of Mexico.

Kimono Style: Edo Traditions to Modern Design

Though often presented as an unchanging, traditional costume in the West, the Japanese kimono dynamically evolved from the Edo period to the modern age. This publication explores the kimono's fasc ...

My Mother Country: Dot Painting der Aborigines

Die Sammlung von Joëlle und Pierre Clément umfaßt sorgsam ausgewählte Arbeiten von indigenen australischen Malerinnen und Malern.

The Language of Beauty in African Art

Displacing Western values in scholarship and museum interpretation over the past century through an exploration of traditional African artworks and aesthetic vocabularies.

In the Name of the Image

For the first time, "In the Name of the Image" attempts to look at the history of both Islamic and Christian cultures, to trace and analyse their use of the image. What was the function of the ima ...

Congoville

One hundred years after the founding of the Colonial College in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibiton that probes silenc ...

Tadjikistan: Au pays def fleuves d'or

Organisé en grandes périodes chronologiques, de la préhistoire à l'arrivée de l'islam, ce catalogue retrace l'histoire du Tadjikistan situé au coeur des réseaux d'échanges depuis la plus h ...

L'arc et le sabre

Des reproductions d'estampes et de photographies du musée Guimet ayant pour sujet les samouraïs japonais. A partir de cette iconographie, sont examinées la diversité et la complexité de leur ...

Arts of Fighting in Asia

Catalogue devoted to the representations of Asian martial arts in ancient and contemporary iconographic works as well as in the cinema. From India to China, via Japan and South-East Asia, the appr ...

Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs

Exploring prize textiles known as tiraz, whose meaning and materiality illuminate the interwoven communities of the medieval Islamic world

La part de l'ombre: Sculptures du Congo

Katalog der Ausstellung über Bandundu, eine Region im Südwesten der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, in der mehrere Völker leben, die Yaka, die Yanzi, die Buma, die Sakata oder auch die Mbala. Di ...