Albert Oehlen has established himself as one of the leading figures in contemporary painting thanks to a continually evolving practice that focuses more on overcoming formal limitations & on experimentation than on the subject of the work. Music has played a central part in the artist s output, serving as a metaphor for his method of working in which fusion & rhythm, improvisation & repetition, & density & harmony of sounds are turned into pictorial gestures. This monograph maps out a route through the whole of Albert Oehlen s production, from his best-known works to less familiar ones & from the 1980s to the present day, with reproductions of paintings in the Pinault Collection & other major private collections & international museums ...

Albert is a duck-billed platypus, who has escaped from a zoo in Adelaide to look for somewhere that may, or may not, exist: Old Australia, a place where humans never venture, & animals still rule. Albert knows it's somewhere in the middle of the Outback
- not the ideal habitat for a water-loving animal
- but now he's lost & close to death.

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This is a story of the Australian Outback, a duck-billed platypus on a quest, & what it means to be a hero. Albert is a duck-billed platypus, who has escaped from a zoo in Adelaide to look for somewhere that may, or may not, exist: Old Australia, a place where humans never venture, & animals still rule. Albert knows it's somewhere in the middle of the Outback
- not the ideal habitat for a water-loving animal
- but now he's lost & close to death. He's saved, though, by Jack, a pyromaniac, sardine-loving wombat, who promptly gets him into even worse trouble taking him to a marsupial-only bar run by a kangaroo called O' Hanlin, getting him drunk & then burning the bar down. & this is just the beginning of Albert's adventure...A glorious romp of a novel, Albert of Adelaide is a story of friendship, loyalty & heroism. & marsupials. Pacy & poignant, it's completely original
- a book for people (and animals) of all ages.


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Anyone who has ever had the privilege of watching Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals knows the sound of a hit. It's the sound his bat makes when it connects with the ball. It's a sound that's been heard countless times since his 2001 rookie season. That year, he took the league by storm by posting some of the most fantastic offensive stats of any rookie ever-and he's been doing the same ever since, shattering records & helping his team win games, including the 2006 World Series, with clutch hits & amazing home runs.

This biography offers an up-close look at this superstar's life & the most memorable moments of his outstanding career to date.

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Albert Speer was Hitler's architect before the Second World War. Through Hitler's great trust in him & Speer's own genius for organisation he became, effectively from 1942 overlord of the entire war economy, making him the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. Sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Spandau Prison at the Nuremberg Trails, Speer attempted to progress from moral extinction to moral self-education. How he came to terms with his own acts & failures to act & his real culpability in Nazi war crimes are the questions at the centre of this book. The author had access to Speer, his family & friends & his private papers. ...

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Sartre, Breton, & Winnicott are just some of the great thinkers who have drawn upon the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which has continued to resonate with artists, writers, & audiences. In this book, Timothy Mathews explores the themes of fragility, trauma, space, & relationality in Giacometti's art & the texts that respond or refer to them: the novels of W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett & Cees Nooteboom, & the theories of Bertolt Brecht, which recasts the iconic L' Homme qui marche as Walter Benjamin's Angel of History. During his lifelong quest to represent the human form, & to locate the humanity at the heart of conflicting conceptions of modernity, Giacometti returned to the key notions of depth & flatness, memory & attachment, through his sculptures & writings. Both a critical study of Giacometti's life & work, & an investigation of their affective power, this book asks what encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about the history of our own time, & our ways of looking; about the nature of human attachment, & the humility of relating to art. ...

Fifty years after the passing of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), this major new monograph illuminates the fundamental aspects of his oeuvre & technique in sculpture. It is based on years of extensive research & restoration work on seventy-five plasters that came to the collection of Kunsthaus Zurich as a bequest from Bruno Giacometti, Alberto's youngest brother. For Giacometti, plaster was of great importance as a material, far more than just an intermediate stage between clay model & bronze cast. It allowed him to paint or rework his objects in a vast variety of ways. A significant number of his sculptures indeed exist just in a plaster version. Featuring masterpieces from every stage of his career, this book focuses on Giacometti's artistic approach to the material nature of his chosen media, offering an insight into the creative process of one of the 20th century's greatest artists. With the plasters as a core, the selection also comprises works in other materials, such as marble, wood & bronze. ...

Fifty years after the passing of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), this major new monograph illuminates the fundamental aspects of his oeuvre & technique in sculpture. It is based on years of extensive research & restoration work on seventy-five plasters that came to the collection of Kunsthaus Zurich as a bequest from Bruno Giacometti, Alberto's youngest brother. For Giacometti, plaster was of great importance as a material, far more than just an intermediate stage between clay model & bronze cast. It allowed him to paint or rework his objects in a vast variety of ways. A significant number of his sculptures indeed exist just in a plaster version. Featuring masterpieces from every stage of his career, this book focuses on Giacometti's artistic approach to the material nature of his chosen media, offering an insight into the creative process of one of the 20th century's greatest artists. With the plasters as a core, the selection comprises also works in other materials, such as marble, wood & bronze. ...

Alberto Giacometti, most famous for his sculptures of emaciated figures isolated in space, throughout his career also kept to drawing & watercolour. Drawing is the basis of everything, was his strong belief. This new book presents a collection of around 100 previously unpublished drawings & watercolours bequeathed to Kunsthaus Zurich by Alberto's youngest brother Bruno Giacometti (1907-2012). This well-guarded family treasure represents Alberto's entire life, from his youth in Stampa, Switzerland to his late years in Paris. The collection

Includes:: very early copies of works by old masters as well as studies of ancient Egyptian & Roman sculptures from the 1920s. It also shows how Alberto closely looked at the art of Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne & Auguste Rodin, leading to highly individual interpretations. It also comprises important portraits of some of the artist's relatives, & self-portraits, alpine landscapes from his native Val Bregaglia & masterful figure studies from the 1950s & 60s. This slim, beautiful new book presents the entire collection alongside an essay on their history & significance.

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Spectacular specimens. This is Albertus Seba's unrivaled catalog of animals, insects & plants. Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements & remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era often collected natural specimens for research purposes, Amsterdam-based pharmacist Seba (1665-1736) was unrivaled in his passion. His amazing collection of animals. plants & insects from all around the world gained international fame during his lifetime. In 1731, after decades of collecting, Seba commissioned careful & often scenic illustrations of every specimen. With these meticulous drawings. he arranged the publication of a four-volume catalog. covering the entire collection from strange & exotic plants to snakes, frogs, crocodiles, shellfish, corals, birds. & butterflies, as well as now extinct creatures. This reproduction is taken from a rare, h&-colored original. The introduction supplies background information about the fascinating tradition of natural collections to which Seba's curiosities belonged. ...