Hatje Cantz - Böcker

Transboundary - Exposing the Porosity of the Concept of National Borders Reena Saini Kallat's practice evolves around the tension between the concept of barriers in a world fundamentally shaped by mobility and interaction. Exploring the divisive n...

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986) was one of the most prominent American artists of the twentieth century. Raised on a farm in Wisconsin, her pictures began drawing a good deal of attention in the New York of the 1920s. From 1929 onward, the austere la...

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Transformative Timelessness The ideal of timeless simplicity yet enduring structural quality in an overarching sense has been at the heart of the architectural practice of gmp * Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner for more than 60 years. Feat...

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Inverted Baroque, Mirrored Landscapes Oberschwaben (Upper Swabia), between the Black Forest, Lake Constance and the Allgau, offers a richness of Baroque architecture and picturesque rolling landscapes. Axel Hutte's images are not intended as portr...

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Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich-that was...

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Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage. In 1972, art was to unfold its potential as an emancipatory and creative force as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk of the XX. Olympic Games in Munich - accord...

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FINDING A FORM FOR THE TRAUMAS OF LOSS AND VIOLENCE Experiences of violence and loss take shape in the work of internationally acclaimed Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. Although her sculptures and installations are often based on concrete events, ...

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There is no post-production in Helga Fanderl's Super 8 works, her camera is hand-held, the - mostly threeminute long - films are shot in one take with the means of in-camera editing. The film artist's work is documented for the first time in this ...

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The Untold History of Immersive Art At the intersection of art, architecture and design, environments create and transform space into an immersive experience, inviting the audience to engage and interact. So far, art history has been focused on th...

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The full-fledged Russian invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call. There is no way to ignore the deep seismic waves it has spread beyond the region and throughout the world; its impact will be epoch-making and global. 'A War in the Distance', the 202...

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Willkommen in der Werkstatt der Lithografin! Schritt für Schritt lüftet sie die Geheimnisse der Kunst des Steindrucks: Einer Drucktechnik, die so verblüffen kann, dass sie fast wie Zauberei erscheint. Hier wird erklärt, wie sich Wasser und Fett ab...

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Dynamische geometrische Muster von Emilio Pucci - farbig-kecken Dessins von Fioruccio -, schillernden Trompe-l'oeil-Effekte von Roberta di Camerino - die Pop-Sensibilität von Gianni Versace oder Franco Moschino - die auffälligen Streetstyle-Drucke...

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THE FABRIC OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE Otti Berger created fabrics that fundamentally changed the understanding of what textiles could be and do. A core member of the experimental approach to textiles at the Bauhaus, she also was a female entrepreneur ...

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An intimate portrait of Picasso in never-before-seen photographs by Edward Quinn, published 50 year's after the artist's passing. "He doesn't bother me," Picasso commented of the photographer Edward Quinn, after the latter had first phot...

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Seeing the Unseen Erased de Kooning Drawing is an artwork that radically challenged the very definition of art and questioned the notion of the artist as creator. Three American artists were involved in its creation: In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg e...

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Ambitious Art in Large Formats Unlimited, Art Basel's pioneering exhibition platform for projects that transcend the classical art-show booth, has been a vital part of the most important art fair since 2000. The concept of this large exhibition is...

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An Ode to Vanishing Beauty It is estimated that, as a result of climate change, illegal trade, and habitat loss from the encroachments of technology and industrialization, as many as one in eight species of birds is heading towards extinction. Cre...

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Ted Stamm's paintings, drawings and performative works show the New York artist's constant engagement with his time and his tireless experimental way of working. He developed a minimalist visual language that often appears strictly geometric and s...

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Numerous publications and exhibitions have examined Jean-Michel Basquiat's extensive oeuvre that consists of more than 3000 works. This catalogue, however, focuses on eight paintings: In the summer of 1982, Basquiat traveled to Modena, Italy, for ...

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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 trave...

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A Geometricised World In 1980 Peter Halley painted his first "prisons," re-deploying the language of geometric abstraction in response to physical and bureaucratic environments. Radically deconstructing the language of abstraction, he re...

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The Architecture of Empathy is the title of a marble statue by John Isaacs and at the same time the basic attitude and raw material of all his works. The British artist made a name for himself as a Young British Artist around Damien Hirst in the 1...

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Since 1955, the annual World Press Photo Contest has set the standard in visual journalism. The 2023 Yearbook showcases the most striking press photographs and compelling reports from 2022, carefully selected from thousands of entries by six regio...

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A Legendary Artist Revisited Unknown to many, Niko Pirosmani is revered as a legend in his native Georgia. Conveying a sense of poignant empathy, his portraits, animal paintings, landscapes and scenes from everyday life painted around 1900 in a fl...

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This book explores the central themes and techniques of artist-made radio, emerging from over 20 years of practice by a multitude of artists in the field. It brings to the page excerpts of long-form radio works from the world's largest exhibition ...

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A Candid Portrait of the 1990s New Wave of Queer Culture 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 ...

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Beyond the Sheet It was the pioneering spirit in American Paper Art that sparked Therese Weber's interest in the material far beyond its conventional use. As an artist and researcher, she has since devoted herself to the medium and its cultural hi...

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Showing The Great Diversity of Black Masculinities Black Masculinities explores the broad spectrum and diversity of Black masculinities through the medium of contemporary photography. Seen through the lenses of 22 Black (or) People of Color (BPoC)...

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An Edifice of Ideas Architectural patronage was crucial for the thinking of Aby Warburg and his circle. In Hamburg the purpose-designed Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, completed in 1926, organized Warburg's remarkable library. From 192...

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