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It's spring.

And away from the collections, museums and galleries, a world of images has been sprouting up for centuries that does not care about art historical categorisation. On the fringes of public attention, there is an image production that does not primarily want to be art, but rather follows a broad spectrum of impulses: from graphic self-assurance to the unconcerned handling of pictorial material to images that fulfil a practical purpose and make themselves useful.

With my selection of books, I would like to focus on this "marginalised" aspect.

In these books you can see a whole bouquet of expressions that vibrate between the serious and the silly, the sacred and the profane, the frightening and the entertaining, the difficult and the supposedly simple.

For the "Hidden Treasures" exhibition series, publications from the HGB Library 's otherwise inaccessible stacks are presented. Often, only a subtly placed colour-coded bookmark or a coloured underlay indicates that this is an exhibition exhibit.