| Zürich Bookshop: Art & Artists Alberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Painting, Drawings |  Angela Schneider
ISBN: 3791338714
While best-known for his spindly, attenuated figures, Giacometti also created brilliant work in two dimensions. This book offers a scholarly assessment of his entire oeuvre and underscores the continuity between the two phases of his career: the...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Alpine Views: Swiss Landscapes by Alexandre Calame |  A Andres
ISBN: 0300121385
Probably the most influential and popular Swiss landscape painter of the 19th century, Alexandre Calame (1810-1864) is renowned for his grand Alpine views. Painted with dramatic effects of light and atmosphere, these paintings were based on sharply...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Altitude: Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design |  Nicholas Bourquin, Robert Klanten, Christian Mareis
ISBN: 3899551605
A fresh wave of intellectually rigorous and iconoclastic Swiss designers is carving its niche in a new graphic language. By combining traditional high quality Swiss Style with advanced media, they are giving rise to a progressive style of visual...(read more) | | BUY IT! | H.R. Giger: The Oeuvre Before "Alien" |  Beat Stutzer
ISBN: 3858817082
Swiss surrealist artist HR Giger was catapulted to international fame in 1979 for designing the inimitable creatures and otherworldly environments that terrified moviegoers in Ridley Scott's science fiction film" Alien," Yet before these...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Josef Muller Brockmann |  Kerry William Purcell
ISBN: 0714843490
Swiss designer Josef Muller-Brockmann established himself as one of the most important and prolific voices of twentieth century graphic design, setting up his own studio in Zurich in 1936 and working until his death in 1996 for numerous clients,...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Kunsthaus Zurich: The Masterpieces |  Kunsthaus Zurich
ISBN: 3775711457
Sorry - no summary available. | | BUY IT! | Swiss Carvings: The Art of the 'Black Forest' |  Jay Arenski, Simon Daniels, Michael Daniels
ISBN: 1851494936
For many years 'Black Forest' carvings were thought to have been produced in the Bavarian Black Forest, in Germany, but it has now been established beyond all doubt that they were the sole province of the Swiss. The wood carving industry of Switzerland...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Swiss Made: New Architecture from Switzerland |  Steven Spier, Martin Tschanz
ISBN: 0500287791
Swiss Made, now available in paperback, features work by twelve of the most celebrated Swiss architects and the most internationally influential figures in contemporary architecture. An essay by Steven Spier presents an overview of Swiss architecture...(read more) | | BUY IT! | The Art of Adolf Wolfli: St. Adolf-Giant-Creation: St.Adolf - Giant - Creation |  Gerard C. Wertkin, Elka Spoerri, Daniel Baumann, Edward M. Gomez,
ISBN: 0691114986
Despite being institutionalized for schizophrenia at age thirty-one, Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) achieved artistic greatness in his cell at Waldau Mental Asylum near his native Bern, Switzerland. He has had a profound influence on modern art ever...(read more) | | BUY IT! | Treasury of Basel Cathedral |  TB Husband
ISBN: 0300088493
The medieval Treasury of the Basel Minster miraculously survived earthquakes, wars, iconoclasm, and the Reformation, only to be dispersed in the early nineteenth century. More than half of its holdings are now in the Historisches Museum Basel, while the...(read more) | | BUY IT! |
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