Books in the BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER series

A fascinating look at one of photography's most controversial and beloved icons

Takes readers on a romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in Western art - ranging from chaste tenderness to overwhelming frenzies of the senses, and from Classical allusion to sexual fantasy.

When life (in a global pandemic) imitates art . . .

This stunning volume illuminates the current moment of artists' engagement with books, presenting artists' books as an essential medium in contemporary art.

Drawing from Getty Research Institute's Harald Szeemann Archive and Library, this heavily illustrated volume examines the groundbreaking career of the Swiss Curator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005), widely regarded as one of the most influential curators of the twentieth century.

An informative, lavishly illustrated survey of one hundred years of fashion photography, including more than three hundred photographs by the genre's most famous practitioners.

The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. This book takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on a tour through the history of color in art. It aims to uncover the origins and science of colour. It is illustrated in full colour throughout with 166 major works of art.

With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history - even the emergence of the modern category of fine art - was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.

Eliot Porter was a pioneer in use of colour photography. His work also became a powerful visual argument for environmental conservation. Possessing a gift for close observation, Porter explored new ways of depicting nature, building blinds in trees so he could study his avian subjects at closer vantage.