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PUBLISHERS AUTUMN 2021 Our Best 978-3-7774-3589-3 £39.95 / US$45.00 978-3-7774-3656-2 978-3-7774-3579-4 £39.95 / US$50.00 £45.00 / US$ 55.00 978-3-7774-3547-3 £50.00 / US$65.00 978-3-7774-3559-6 978-3-7774-3469-8 £39.95 / US$45.00 £95.00 / US$120.00 Sellers 978-3-7774-3571-8 978-3-7774-3802-3 £45.00 / US$ 60.00 £45.00 / US$60.00 978-3-7774-3633-3 £42.00 / US$50.00 978-3-7774- 3767-5 £35.00 / US$40.00 978-3-7774-3789-7 £45.00 / US$60.00 978-3-7774-3566-4 £39.95 / US£45.00 HIRMER HIGHLIGHTS Srinagar Srinagar Leh JAMMU Leh JAMMUAND KASHMIRAND KASHMIR The World Heritage Sites listing by HIMACHAL 11 HIMACHALPRADESH 11 UNESCO aims to promote the awareness PRADESH 26 and preservation of tangible and 35 26Shimla 35 Shimla 27 intangible cultural heritage around the PUNJAB UTTARAKHAND27 UTTARAKHAND world. UNESCO has inscribed 38 such PUNJAB Dehradun Dehradun sites in India, all of which are presented H A RYA N A H A RYA N A 18 in this volume, together with commen- 2818 30 28 30 tary by architects and conservationists SIKKIM UTTAR PRADESH 23 ARUNACHALItanagar PRADESH SIKKIM and stunning photographs. 21 UTTAR PRADESH Gangtok23 Itanagar 16 16 1 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 21 34 Gangtok 16 1916 36 1 26 20 Jaipur36 10 34 25 ASSAM 20 19 Lucknow 26 ASSAMDispur NAGALAND RAJASTHANJaipur 16 25 Kohima 10 Lucknow Dispur NAGALAND RAJASTHAN 16 BIHAR Shillong Kohima MEGHALAYA 16 BIHAR3 Shillong Imphal 7 16 Patna 3 MEGHALAYA Imphal Intriguing India: the 38 UNESCO World 16 22 MANIPUR 16 16 24Patna 16 22 MANIPUR 29 24 Aizawl Agartala Aizawl Heritage Sites in stunning photographs 29 JHARKHAND 4 AgartalaTRIPURA JHARKHAND WEST Gandhinagar Bhopal4 TRIPURA MIZORAM 31 Ranchi BENGALWEST 17 Gandhinagar Bhopal MIZORAM 5 MADHYA PRADESH Ranchi Kolkata GUJARAT17 31 BENGAL 5 MADHYA PRADESH Kolkata The cultural sites in India are a rich repository of the country’s long, GUJARAT INDIA 33 INDIA 33 layered history, bearing witness to the creativity and influence of multiple 38 communities, crafts and religions. They range from the earliest periods of 2 Raipur 38 2 DIU DAMAN Silvassa Raipur 32 rock art, Buddhist caves and Hindu temples, via Sultanate and Mughal (DAMAN & DIU) 9 DIU DAMAN SilvassaDADRA AND 32 BAY (DAMAN & DIU) NAGAR HAVELI ODISHABhubaneshwar DADRA AND 9 BAY forts, palaces, tombs and memorials, medieval Hindu and Islamic cities, CHHATTISGARH Bhubaneshwar NAGAR HAVELIMAHARASHTRA ODISHA CHHATTISGARH step-wells and observatories to Portuguese churches, Victorian and Art 37 6 MAHARASHTRA Mumbai37 68 OF Deco ensembles and 20th-century industrial and modern heritage sites. Mumbai 8 OF The natural and mixed sites include national parks of exceptional natural INDIA TELANGANA beauty and sites of long interaction between people and the landscape. UNESCO WORLD 38 TELANGANA BENGAL Hyderabad HERITAGE SITES 38 Hyderabad BENGAL Shikha Jain was Member Secretary of the Advisory Committee on World Heritage Matters to the Eds. Shikha Jain, Vinay Sheel 15 26 Ministry of Culture, India, from 2011-15. 7 15 13 26 The late Vinay Sheel Oberoi served as the Ambassador & Permanent Representative of India to Oberoi, Rohit Chawla (photo Panaji 7 13 UNESCO from 2010 to 2014. editor) PanajiGOA Rohit Chawla is one of India’s leading contemporary photographers. Contributions by A. Baig, GOA KARNATAKA ARABIAN ANDHRA PRADESH E. Falt, A. Galla, S. Ghosh, KARNATAKA ARABIAN ANDHRA PRADESH S. Jain, R. Jigyasu, K. Joshi, V. B. Mathur, J. P. Sharma, A N J. Sharma, V. S. Oberoi SEA A Chennai D Bengaluru N SEA 14 A D 38 Bengaluru Chennai M A 240 pages, 14 A M 38 N A 250 colour illustrations L A Port Blair PUDUCHERRY N A N 25.2 × 30.5 cm, 10 × 12 in., L PUDUCHERRY A Port Blair D K 12 A N KERALA 38 hardcover S 38 N D K 12 H I KERALA 38 C S 38 N A Kavaratti O H I C D 38 B £45.00 / US$60.00 A Kavaratti O A W D 38 B R 978-3-7774-3571-8 A E W 38 T A M I L N A D U I R S E Pub. date: E 38 L P T A M I L N A D U I S A E 38 L N UK Aug 21 / US Aug 21 P 38 A D N S Thiruvanantapuram D S Thiruvanantapuram INDIAN OCEAN INDIAN OCEAN 28 28 HIRMER HIGHLIGHTS Lying between deserts, mountain chains and seas, Iran developed a fascinating cultural landscape. 360 objects from the time of the first advanced civilisations during the 3rd millennium BC until the end of the Safavid Empire in the early 18th century illustrate the outstanding significance of Iran as the initiator and centre of intercultural exchange. Between the Mediterranean, China and India – 9 5,000 years of cultural splendour in Iran Exquisite artworks from the Sarikhani Collection in London and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin invite visitors to embark on a journey in time through the cultural heritage of Iran. The highlights include the IRAN great pre-Islamic empires of the Achaemenids and the Sasanids, FIVE MILLENNIA OF ART AND CULTURE the establishment of a Persian-Islamic culture, the masterly artistic achievements of the 9th to the 15th centuries and the Golden Age of the Eds. Ute Franke, Ina Sarikhani, Safavids. They are brought together as in a multifaceted kaleidoscope Stefan Weber Contributions by international in the copious illustrations and provide insight into the art of the courts experts and the urban elites. 400 pages, Ute Franke is the exhibition director. She was the deputy director at the Museum für Islamische 520 colour illustrations Kunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin until 2019. 24 × 29 cm / 9 ½ × 11 ½ in., Ina Sarikhani Sandmann is the director of The Sarikhani Collection, which is devoted to the arts hardcover of Iran. Stefan Weber is the director of the Museum für Islamische Kunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. £45.00 / US$60.00 978-3-7774-3806-1 Pub. date: UK Oct 21 / US Jan 22 Exhibition Museum Island Berlin, James-Simon-Galerie, Museum für Islamische Kunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the Sarikhani Collection, Berlin (DE) Oct 30, 2021 – Feb 20, 2022 HIRMER HIGHLIGHTS THE INFINITE LIVING AMONG THE STARS A journey to the ISS: the making of the Eds. Phoebe Greenberg, Marie Brassard biggest media project ever filmed in orbit Contributions by P. Greenberg, M. Brassard, F. Lajeunesse, P. Raphaël, R. Ikeda, A. Koek 144 pages, 72 colour illustrations In Summer 2021, PHI and EMMY® Award-winning digital entertainment 22.9 × 30.5 cm / 9 × 12 in., hardcover pioneers Felix & Paul Studios will launch the public into an infinite universe. A ground-breaking immersive VR exhibition will enable the £35.00 / US$40.00 audience to visit the ISS, where they encounter experiments, zero- gravity 978-3-7774- 3767-5 The Infinite documents the making of the Pub. date: living, and breathtaking spacewalks. Beautifully designed, The Infinite ground-breaking immersive VR experience UK Dec 21 / US Dec 21 features interviews with leaders in VR and contemporary art. It perfectly shot entirely aboard the International complements the exhibition’s role in rendering the innovation, collabora- Space Station. Artists and astronauts tion and humanity’s quest for the skies. joined forces to capture life in the cosmos Marie Brassard is a Canadian actress, theatrical writer and director. She is known for her work with as never before. In this oversize publica- playwright and actor Robert Lepage and later for her own French and English theatrical pieces. Exhibition tion, brand-new views of space and A cultural entrepreneur based in Montreal for more than 20 years, Phoebe Greenberg is a pioneer in the World tour starting research for new modes of art consumption. In 2007, she created the PHI Foundation for Contemporary stunning production shots reveal the summer 2021 Art (originally DHC/ART). human imagination’s limitless potential. HIRMER HIGHLIGHTS Recognising strangeness in familiar objects, the present in the past, the construed in what is authentic – the four masterly photographers show excerpts from our world in which the boundary between reality and imagination becomes blurred. From fleeting everyday scenes to mysterious happenings and historical events, they reveal a complex and multi-layered reality. Between documentation and fiction – the 13 realities of four world-famous photographers Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Andreas Gursky and Jeff Wall use the proximity to reality and the momentary nature of photography MADE REALITIES in order to create their idiosyncratic viewpoints of reality. What is real? PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS They play with the viewers’ perceptions, irritate and invite them to an DEMAND, PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA, ANDREAS individual interpretation of what is shown. This exclusive volume GURSKY, AND JEFF WALL presents the works of the stars of the contemporary international Ed. Draiflessen Collection photography scene magnificently and in clearly narrated texts. Contributions by J. Franck, J. Lüscher, O. Nein, C. Otto, G. Pavlopoulos, A. Steidele 136 pages, 107 colour illustrations 24 × 21.6 cm / 9 ½ × 8 ½ in., hardcover HIRMER PREMIUM Luxury binding with two-coloured embossing £25.00 / US$35.00 978-3-7774-3778-1 Pub. date: UK July 21 / US Jan 22 Exhibition Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen (DE) May 2 – July 25, 2021 HIRMER HIGHLIGHTS A Pina Bausch, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Eiko & Koma, R Madame Hanako, Tatsumi Hijikata, Claire Holt, Eikoh Hosoe, T Leiko Ikemura, Raden Mas Jodjana, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, I Yves Klein, Anouk Kruithof, Isamu Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Nam S T June Paik, Auguste Rodin, Ulrike Rosenbach, Uday Shankar, S Simon Starling, Pae White, Mary Wigman, Haegue Yang Which influences between the West and the Far East have shaped the history of dance? A vivid chronicle of artistic contacts between the cultures has developed, from early performances of Asian dancers at colonial exhibitions in Europe and pioneers of modern dance via first happenings of Japanese Butoh dancers to contemporary performances.