Книги видавництва Hatje Cantz

Windmills, Foxtrot and Yves Saint-Laurent Pivotal in modern art’s move towards abstraction, Piet Mondrian’s oeuvre is extraordinarily versatile and complex. Not only did he paint and draw, he also wrote extensively about his thoughts a...

A Revolution of Light and Color Occasionally, when something seems very familiar you lose sight of what makes it so special: Flemish Masters. From van Eyck to Bruegel sets out to counteract this effect and opens our eyes once again to th...

At the Tipping Point Taking a deliberately kaleidoscopic approach, the exhibition 1.5 Degrees and the accompanying catalogue encourage us to address the climate crisis in a curious, innovative, participatory, and active way. More than 30...

The Beauty of Machines With the technological and digital revolution, an entire universe of machines and computers has developed alongside the human world. These machines tell the story of what it is to be human: our needs and desires, our hopes a...

Before the rise of Pop Art proper, Alex Katz developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s ―  influenced by film, television, and billboard advertising. Seemingly detached and incredibly stylish, he created portraits of the...

Following on the widely read The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, which explored how museums are changing through conversations with today’s generation of museum directors, New York-based author and cultural strategy advisor Andrá...

The Lost Landscapes of England Anthony Amies’ paintings assert a classical conception of painting. From the mid 1970s, the British artis pursued a radical counter-concept to the art of his time with a stylistically peculiar landscape paintin...

The Show that never Was Numerous publications and exhibitions have examined Jean-Michel Basquiat's extensive oeuvre that consists of more than 3000 works, this catalogue though focuses on eight paintings only: In the summer of 1982, Basquiat t...

Venturing New Ways Strict non-violence, the renunciation of possession and universal tolerance are the guiding principles of Jainism – a religious community that is found around the world, yet which is hardly known outside India. Combining m...

Against the Grain Since its beginnings in Paris in the mid-19th century, the idea of bohemia, an urban community of artists and intellectuals living outside bourgeois norms, has been a potent trope of artistic identity. It was here that the notion...

In the 1990s, queer youth, outcasts and artists, flocked to San Francisco to find one another and to experiment with art, self-expression, style, and gender. Rent was affordable, paving the way for queer bars, clubs, tattoo shops, galleries, cafes, b...

Inspiring Role Models for a Younger Generation of Women Architects Making women in architecture visible — that is the goal of Diversity in Architecture e. V. (DIVIA). Celebrating its debut in 2023, its international award for women architect...

El Greco and Nordic Modernism At the birth of modernism in the late 19th century, artists across Europe rediscovered the almost three centuries old artwork of the Greek painter known as El Greco (1541–1614). In the Nordic countries as well, ...

Focussing on the potentials of creative and artistic thinking in scientific research as well as industrial production, this exhibition shows how collaborations between art and science can substantially support the creation of innovative, sustainable,...

Europe is often defined in either strictly political terms or through rather vague cultural notions. But where do these definitions come from? Were they ever true? And do they make sense in today’s globalized world? Exploring Europe through var...