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Artist and designer Sabine Schellhorn's most comprehensive art project, "Seals," is featured in this contemporary exploration. Each day of the year, in addition to special commissioned works and exhibitions, Schellhorn creates a new seal--a geometrical art design that can take varying forms and mediums. Beginning with linocuts in the mid 1990s, the seals have been created in everything from salt poured onto a floor to woven textiles and cut paper, and their presentation has also been as unpredictably unique--the seals may be on the ground, suspended from ceilings, indoors or out, or some mix of the above. Displaying these plentiful and playful artworks, the book is an accessible addition to the examination of contemporary art and the movement of artwork into a tactile experience. Schellhorn's haptic drawing and her engagement with the surrounding environment are fascinating subjects for study in this book that reflects the relevance of this modern type of art in the 21st century.

Gunther Gerlach s works are expansive, abstract, but also entirely committed to form. He is fascinated by process and has the courage to experiment. Gerlach works towards a truly three-dimensional form where his works have aspects of equal interest no matter from which perspective they are viewed. Many are slender columnar figures of varying height that can evoke human form. Several are painted and thus the white objects appear to be of stone, and the blue hint that they are made of metal. The meaning of the individual items is retained in his installations as a part of the experience, their position relative to each other and the space between them extending an invitation to move among them. Essays by Arie Hartog and Yvette Deseyve."

Enigmatic magic, erotic sensuality and dark dreamworlds all characterise Symbolism, which evolved as an art current from the 1880s on - with Brussels advancing to become a centre of activity in the development of European art. The tendency towards the morbid and the decadent was most pronounced in Belgian Symbolism. Many of the impulses for this avant-garde came from Belgian artists, such as the disreputable Félicien Rops, the subtle Fernand Khnopff, the occult Jean Delville and the eccentrics Léon Spilliaert and James Ensor.

This study focuses on the life and work of Heinrich Waderé, a sculptor, professor and influential artist personality during the era of the prince regent in Munich.