"Gardens are refuges, ideal and protected places, almost always enclosed, often artificial, occasionally wild. An artist's view of a garden, his own garden, will show it to be a special place, a locus amoenus, as well as a source for smaller pleasures--single plants to be depicted with botanical precision in all of their beauty. The spectrum of work gathered here ranges from medieval gardens of Eden, depicted by Albrecht Durer and his co ..."
"No other subject inspired Henri Matisse with such passion throughout his career as the female figure in interior settings. This is the most comprehensive publication to cover the topic of women in the work of the great regenerator of European painting, and in so doing, it covers the full spectrum of Matisse's creative evolution, from the small, somber, early pictures to the masterly compositions of his Fauvist phase, the intimate pictor ..."
"The book explores the historical connections between the notions of architectural interior, subjective space, human interiority, and represented space including virtual space. The contributions examine models of understanding of "interiority" as these were developed in relation to the notions of space and spatial experience. The scope of investigations is the broadly understood modern period, from the 18th century to the present."
"This title contains a text by Georg Imdahl and Beate Sontgen. Using a latent reality on the border between dream and consciousness, two singular artistic personalities confront the game of reality and fiction. Berlinde de Bruyckere, with fur wax and epoxy resin, generates creature-like forms of pedestal-type furniture elements that evoke security and warmth just as much as vulnerability and fear. Martin Honert bans memories and childhoo ..."