One of the world's most revered visual artists, Gerhard Richter embraces many concepts in his work and continually thwarts categorisation. In this expansive and authoritative overview, Armin Zweite leads readers through every phase of Richter's celebrated career including his early artistic education in East Germany and his later prolific output in West Germany: the black and white photo paintings, the brilliantly conceived colour charts and lush, inscrutable grey paintings, installations with glass and mirrors, his landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, and his monumental abstract paintings, which broke records at auction. Also included are selections from Richter's larger-scale thematic works, such as Atlas, his ongoing collection of photographs and newspaper clippings, and October 18, 1977, a series of paintings commemorating the lives and deaths of members of a German left-wing terrorist group. The beautiful plates sections feature exquisite reproductions of more than 250 of his most famous works, including Ten Large Colour-charts (1966), Annunciation after Titian (1973), Faust (1980), Skull with Candle (1983), Funeral (1988), Strip (2012), and Double Gray (2014). Throughout, Zweite's clear-eyed commentary offers an expert appraisal of the breadth of Richter's oeuvre. This six-decade monograph of Richter's work is a visually stunning and articulate appreciation by one of the world's foremost experts on the artist and his life.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form; he portrayed the ordeal of the vulnerable, defencelessly exposed body like no other artist of his generation. At the centre of this volume are about sixty of Bacon's disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death. Texts by a range of experts on the artist offer new insights into these radical and often discomfiting images, so brilliantly reproduced on the pages of this book.

English summary: Picasso was one of the most prolific artists of the 20th Century, including in the decorative art of book design. Between 1905 and 1973, he designed more than 150 books, the most important of which are shown in a superb exhibition at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich. The focus of the exhibition lies on Picasso's experimentation with techniques and expressive possibilities in this fascinating medium. This catalog and the exhibition present the artist's book by Picasso as a complex object, not as a commercial art. The universal artist scratched, cut, stabbed or drew illustrations, but he also wrote poems, dedications and political texts. Page sequences, layout and typography inspired him as much as book covers and slipcases. He used almost every previously known printing technique and drove new technologies to their limits. The earliest illustrations were created at the request of his friend, the author Max Jacob. They were followed in the coming decades by projects with Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, and many others. Picasso also responded to the invitations of major publishers such as Pierre Andre Benoit, Iliazd and Georges Hugnet, and with them he created some of the most beautiful art books of the 20th Century. The catalog Pablo Picasso: Kunst am Buch traces the stimulus that books exerted on Picasso and his friends. Pictures of side tracks, covers and slipcases clearly highlight the diversity of the medium. In-depth articles explain the collaboration with various authors and publishers and provide insight into some of the most exciting artist books. German text. German description: Picasso war einer der produktivsten Kuenstler des 20. Jahrhunderts, auch auf dem Gebiet des Kuenstlerbuchs. Zwischen 1905 und 1973 gestaltete er mehr als 150 Buecher, von denen die bedeutendsten in einer auaergewohnlichen Ausstellung im Museum Brandhorst in Muenchen gezeigt werden. Im Mittelpunkt steht Picassos Experimentierfreude mit den Techniken und Ausdrucksmoglichkeiten dieses fesselnden Mediums. Katalog und Ausstellung prasentieren das Kuenstlerbuch Picassos erstmals als komplexes Objekt, nicht als Gebrauchsgraphik. Der Universalkuenstler ritzte, schnitt, stach oder zeichnete Illustrationen, er verfasste aber auch selbst Gedichte, Widmungen und politische Texte. Seitenabfolge, Layout, Typographie inspirierten ihn ebenso wie Bucheinbande und Schuber. Er benutzte fast jede bis dahin bekannte Drucktechnik und trieb neue Techniken an ihre Grenzen. Die ersten Illustrationen schuf Picasso auf Bitten seines Freundes, des Autors Max Jacob. Es folgten in kommenden Jahrzehnten Projekte mit Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy und anderen. Picasso reagierte zudem auf die Einladungen bedeutender Verleger wie Pierre Andre Benoit, Iliazd und Georges Hugnet und schuf mit ihnen einige der schonsten Kuenstlerbuecher des 20. Jahrhunderts. Den entstandenen Buchkunstwerken merkt man die Freude ihrer Schopfer an jedem Detail an, sie kitzeln beim Durchblattern alle Sinne. Der Katalog "Pablo Picasso. Kunst am Buch" spuert dem Reiz nach, den Buecher auf Picasso und seine Freunde ausgeuebt haben. Aufnahmen von Seitenstrecken, Einbanden und Schubern machen die Vielfalt des Mediums anschaulich. Vertiefende Texte erlautern die Zusammenarbeit mit einzelnen Autoren und Verlegern und geben Einblick in einige der spannendsten Kuenstlerbuecher.