From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol

Highlights from the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich

Whether Old Masters or young Swiss art, whether printed or drawn: with holdings of more than 160,000 works on paper, the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, the famous university’s collection of prints and drawings, is one of the largest and finest of its kind in Switzerland and internationally. Albrecht Dürer, Maria Sibylla Merian, Rembrandt van Rijn, and Pablo Picasso are represented alongside contemporary greats such as Louise Bourgeois, Miriam Cahn, Fischli/Weiss, Urs Lüthi, and Shirana Shahbazi. Founded in 1867 as a classical academic study collection, the archive serves today as a focal point for scholars and art-lovers alike, and as the means for exchange between the university and the public.

This lavishly illustrated book takes readers on a fascinating journey across six centuries of art history, featuring some 300 of the collection’s highlights. An introductory essay on the history and evolution of the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich and brief texts on 40 selected works accompany the illustrations. The volume is rounded off by personal statements by contemporary artists and researchers from various disciplines, who testify to and comment on the significance and topicality of the collection’s holdings.

Arianna Quaglio is an art historian and junior curator at MASI Lugano. Linda Schädler is an art historian and head of the Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich.

Patrizia Keller is a Swiss-based scholar of art history and freelance curator.

Book design by Katrina Wiedner, Vienna

Hardback

204 pages

11 × 21 cm

978-3-03942-146-6 English

978-3-03942-145-9 German sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00

AUGUST 2023 (Europe)

OCTOBER 2023 (US)

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Rachel Lumsden

Igniting Penguins

A Manifesto for Painting

Through

Rachel Lumsden

A unique, personal reflection on painting as an artistic expression in the 21st century

An entertaining excursion into the art world and to the core of painting itself

British-born artist Rachel Lumsden creates primarily large-format figurative paintings characterized by intensely atmospheric, pictorial spaces. Her imagery coalesces on the canvas through a virtuoso handling of paint, evoking visual narratives that come unexpectedly close and yet cannot be entirely grasped.

In her book Igniting Penguins, Lumsden invites the reader on an entertaining excursion into the art world and to the core of painting itself. Along the way we are introduced to some of its powerful and quirky gatekeepers, we are baffled by art’s apparently unshakeable gender roles, and we discover what makes figurative painting a sexy form of quantum physics. Lumsden’s essay is both a personal manifesto and a survey of today’s art scene. Above all, it is a blazing confession to the art of painting.

Rachel Lumsden is a British-born, Swiss-based artist. She studied visual art at Nottingham Trent University and the Royal Academy Schools in London, and taught painting at HSLU School of Art and Design in Lucerne between 2007 and 2019.

Edited by Mirjam Fischer

Translated from German by Catherine Schelbert

Book

design by Martina Brassel, Zurich

Paperback

176 pages, 53 duotone illustrations

12 × 19 cm

978-3-03942-132-9 English / German sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 28.00 | $ 35.00

AVAILABLE (Europe)

OCTOBER 2023 (US)