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art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
Deutzer Freiheit 107
50679 Köln
Germany
Opening hours (office and showroom):
Monday to Friday 8 – 17
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Phone: +49 221 800 80 80
Fax: +49 221 800 80 82
About us
art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Facing the World
| Publisher | Snoeck |
| Year | 2016 |
| Cover | Paperback with flaps |
| Language | French |
| ISBN | 978-3-86442-139-6 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Weight | 1650 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Imogen Gibbon, James Hall, Pia Müller-Tamm et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Scottish National Galleries Edinburgh |
| Article ID | art-82056 |
The self-portrait is a genuinely European species of Fine Art, and an extremely topical genre: whether late medieval portrait in the mirror, proud self-representation during the Baroque period, or portrayal of the sentimental self in Romanticism – the separate identity within the image opens up a whole scope of themes that reaches as far as the phenomenon of today's Selfie, shared millionfold on the web.
Exhibition and catalogue were designed in an international collaboration of museums in Karlsruhe, Lyon and Edinburgh. A collection of more than 100 works from their collections (paintings, drawings, prints and videos) is dedicated to the many motifs of human self-questioning and self-expression.
