Книги издательства Hatje Cantz

Andreas Gursky (*1955 in Leipzig ) has ranked for many years among the world’s leading photographic artists. Now, for the first time ever, an attempt is being made to unfurl the artist’s oeuvre in all its encyclopedic glory. Gursky has se...

Throughout his career as an artist, filmmaker, director of the Factory, band manager, magazine publisher, and television entrepreneur, Andy Warhol intentionally blurred the line between art and commerce, calling into question the very values of art b...

Following a successful career as a commercial graphic designer, in the early sixties, Andy Warhol (1928–1987) decided to move on to work as a freelance artist. His focus, however, remained on the world of consumption and mass production. This publica...

On the two-hundredth anniversary of the death of an exceptional artist: an up-to-date and comprehensive monograph of the life and works of Angelica Kauffman. In her day, Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) was a star throughout all of Europe. Roya...

Überblick über das Gesamtwerk von Giuseppe Arcimboldo, der als Schöpfer fantastischer Porträts einer der extravagantesten und zugleich rätselhaftesten Maler der Kunstgeschichte ist. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526–1593), der für seine verblüffenden Port...

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...