Книги видавництва Hatje Cantz

The first overview of Australian architecture from the fifties to the present day Since the 1950s, a unique form of modern architecture has been developing in Australia — a “progressive modernism,” which involves the dynamic combination of tradition...

Approximately 400 exquisite paintings, drawings, furniture, decorative objects, and clothing, with commentaries by leading scholars in the field. Biedermeier describes a kind of factual art that very closely corresponds to sensory perception. Its bas...

The official catalogue of the major exhibition at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main The graceful beauty of his female figures, the humanist influence, and the courtly solemnity of his painting make the works of Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445&...

177 ills., 103 in color A luxurious volume on the brillant painter's unconventional visual inventions and his life as an outsider among artists of the Baroque period.

Marc Chagall (1887–1985) befreite auf seinen Bildern die Welt von den Fesseln der Schwerkraft und entrückte sie in die Freiheit der Poesie. Dabei inspirierten ihn Folklorismen seines weißrussischen Heimatorts Wizebsk ebenso wie seine...

A look at the seminal work of this conceptual artist, who photographed her trademark performances and created dramatic narrative collages using the results. Created in 1975, A Play of Selves is a visual tale of a young woman overwhelmed by her var...

Claude Lorrain (ca. 1600/1604–1682) ist zu Recht der Vater der europäischen Landschaftsmalerei genannt worden. Der bedeutendste Landschaftsmaler des 17. Jahrhunderts schuf auf der Grundlage genau beobachteter Naturstudien vor allem der römischen Camp...

Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) is the preeminent representative of Realism and the spearhead of a style of painting committed to socially relevant issues. His lifelike portraits defy the artistic convention of idealization. The painter had another side,...

Since the late eighteenth century, numerous artists have been enthusiastic about the sublimity of nature, the purity of emotion, melancholy, and loneliness while at the same time feeling drawn to the abysses of the human condition, as is manifested i...

154 ills., 73 in color Dialogues & Attitudes is the first book in the series Concept: Photography. In cooperation with leading museums around the world, a loose series of books will explore particular key themes that follow the current discourse and...

686 color ills. Dutch photography from 1839 to today, by Eduard Isaac Asser to Inez van Lamsweerde—a fascinating, comprehensive panorama. German Photo Book Award, 2008. Inez van Lamsweerde, Rineke Dijkstra, Anton Corbijn, Ed van der Elsken, Paul Ci...

In light of the popular, “beautiful” paintings of his Impressionist phase, it is easy to lose sight of the complexity of the oeuvre of Edgar Degas (1834–1917). All his life, the artist experimented with printing techniques and drawi...

For one of the most important pioneers of Expressionism, the famous Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944), the pulsating, modern city of Copenhagen was a bridge to Europe and an occasional refuge. In his lively exchanges with Danish artist...

258 color ills. A profound portrayal of Edvard Munch’s radical and individual modernism, giving new insights into seemingly familiar work. Edvard Munch (1863–1944) was one of the pioneers of modern art. His works revolve around the ...

274 ills., 247 in color The prototypical Pre-Raphaelite artist, Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) embodied in his art the glamours of Victorian Romantic painting, harking back to an Arthurian Medieval England of chivalry, virtue, Arcadian delight and d...