Bøger udgivet af Hirmer Verlag

On 26 August 1959 a revolutionary small car rolled off the assembly line, and almost overnight became a cult. Sir Alec Issigonis' Mini was both innovative and unconventional - making it the perfect embodiment of the Swinging Sixties. This book tells the story of the brand's success from the first classic Mini to today's modern, concept cars.

The painter Jochen Plogsties, was a master student of Neo Rauch, and he was awarded the Leipziger Volkszeitung art prize in 2011. This volume provides an overview of his paintings.

For ten whole months, from September 1814 to June 1815, the imperial residential city of Vienna was the centre of Europe. The city became the political, cultural and social nucleus of Europe. With historical photographs, paintings and documents, this title shows the impact that this meeting on the European continent and especially on Vienna.

The most recent installation by the internationally acclaimed artist Alicja Kwade (b. 1979), who comes from Katowice, explores the French physicist Leon Foucault's (1819-1868) proof that the world rotates and develops the experiment further. The present volume illustrates the playful exploration of space and time using recent pictures from the Schirn rotunda.

Over the course of the past years, painting has undergone a spectacular renaissance in the arts capital of New York at the hands of a generation of artists who will no longer be told how art should and should not be made. Eleven positions reveal the current importance and variety of a genre many believed had no future.