Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
Hatje Cantz Khalil Rabah: Falling Forward / Works (1995–2025)
Book SynopsisHow do cultural institutions and art practices respond to long-standing states of national and international emergency? It is with these questions in mind that Khalil Rabah’s artistic practice investigates the future of visual arts production under such conditions. Exploring the relationships between historically sanctioned and experimental exhibition settings, fictional and documentative narratives, and the histories of displacement, his methods not only propose but produce speculative institutions. As the artist’s first major monograph, Falling Forward / Works (1997–2025) presents a comprehensive selection of exhibition materials, previously unseen archival documents, and detailed background notes on how Rabah’s methods relate to broader themes in his work. The volume also introduces new critical writing from curators, authors, and researchers on the interrelated subjects of anticipatory aesthetics, subterfuge and fugitive acts, mimicry and performativity, knowledge production, archival technologies and, crucially, the politics of humor.
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Hatje Cantz Museums from the Inside. 60 years of CIMAM
Book SynopsisOn the occasion of its 60-year anniversary, CIMAM, the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art, its directors, and curators publish Museums from the Inside. From Suzanne Pagé and Rudi Fuchs, to David Elliott, Toshio Hara, Maria de Corral, Ken Lum to Manolo Borja-Villel and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, this publication contains more than twenty interviews giving an insider's look at the 60 years in which modern art changed to post-modern art, and the term contemporary art, in turn, began to look almost obsolete. Following a historical introduction, looking back at fierce debates and controversies, a selection of important texts written since 2005 on decolonization, on Arte Útil, and on indigenous art gives insight into more recent fields of research. Texts by: Tuula Arkio, Zdenka Badovinac, Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Saskia Bos, Tania Bruguera, Maria de Corral, David Elliott, Wesley Enoch, Patrick Flores, Rudi Fuchs, Marc and Josée Gensollen, Olle Granath, Toshio Hara, Geeta Kapur, Marysia Lewandowska, Ken Lum, Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Bartomeu Mari, Ngahiraka Mason, Ivo Mesquita, Walter Mignolo, Ahmet Ögut, Alfred Pacquement, Suzanne Pagé, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Margit Rowell, Rana Sadik, Donna de Salvo, Patricia Sloane, Slavs and Tatars, Hilke Wagner, Joan Weinstein.
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Hatje Cantz Plastic World
Book SynopsisTHE ART OF PLASTIC Plastic is everywhere. It permeates our everyday lives, is inexpensive and available worldwide. Thanks to their literally astonishing plasticity, plastics soon began to fascinate artists as well - both as a symptom and a symbol of mass culture. In the brief history of the "Plastic Age" the versatile substance transformed though: from the epitome of progress, utopian spirit, and democratization of consumerism into a threat. Plastic World offers a broad panorama of the artistic use of plastic and a position towards a matter that matters to us all. Through more than 100 objects, assemblages, installations, environments and films by some 50 international artists, this catalogue explores a spectrum ranging from the euphoria of pop culture in the 1960s and the futuristic influence of the space age, to the "trash" works of Nouveau Realisme and the ecocritical positions of today. FEATURED ARTISTS: Monira Al Qadiri, Archigram, Arman, Lynda Benglis, Cesar, Christo, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Eva Hesse, Hans Hollein, Craig Kauffman, Kiki Kogelnik, Gino Marotta, James Rosenquist, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Pinar Yolda.
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Hatje Cantz Leon Polk Smith: Going Beyond Space
Book SynopsisConstellations - On the Relationship between Color and Space From today’s perspective, Leon Polk Smith’s dynamic, geometric abstractions can be understood as a missing link in art history. His work connects the European avant-garde with the American Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s and 1950s via references to the work of Piet Mondrian. Smith’s pioneering role in the hard-edge style with its neat monochromatic fields of color as well as his shaped canvases are in turn developments that transpired from America to Europe. Departing from the rectangular canvas allowed Smith to conceive new interrelations between his sophisticated two-color compositions and the spatial context. Most notably, his unique Constellations series, created between 1967 and 1975, marks the high point of his career, and won him artistic acclaim beyond America’s borders. Alongside the early compositions from the 1940s and the multi-part shaped canvases, this book features collages, reliefs and painted objects and proposes a new reception of Smith’s decades-spanning oeuvre.
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Hatje Cantz steirischer herbst '22: Catalogue (Bilingual
Book SynopsisThe exhibition 'A War in the Distance', the central project of the 2022 edition of steirischer herbst festival, took place at Neue Galerie Graz / Universalmuseum Joanneum and invited visitors to engage with historical and contemporary works directly or indirectly about wars past and present. Confronting lesser-known 19th- and 20th-century paintings from Neue Galerie Graz’s collection with works made by artists today, it uncovered hidden stories from the uncomfortable past. This richly illustrated publication documents this exhibition as well its surrounding festival program. Throughout, Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine was ever present, like a filter, impossible to erase or forget.
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Hatje Cantz Emscherkunstweg
Book SynopsisThe Emscherkunstweg (Emscher Art Trail) currently comprises 24 works of public art on the banks of the Emscher River in the heart of the Ruhr region in western Germany. Once the most polluted river in Europe, the Emscher has been dramatically transformed from a drainage system into a natural river landscape. Between 2010 and 2016, three Emscher art exhibitions accompanied this ecological tour de force. Since 2019, the permanent works of art resulting from these exhibitions have formed the starting point for the expansion into the Emscher Art Trail. This volume is the first to offer an overview of all the works, in particular the new works by Julius von Bismarck/Marta Dyachenko, David Jablonowski, Markus Jeschaunig, Sofía Táboas and Nicole Wermers. It also addresses questions surrounding the preservation and potential of art in public space and its relationship to the region’s industrial culture. The book is an ideal travel companion and reference work for discovering art on over 100 kilometers of cycle paths.
£21.25
Hatje Cantz Ars Electronica 2023 Festival for Art,
Book SynopsisTowards a New Social Contract Ars Electronica 2023 is dedicated to the complex questions of truth and the concept of ownership in this digital age. In doing so, the festival navigates the central questions of our time. The focus is on how our perception of “authentic” and “original” is being transformed and whether truth can be owned, and how this relates to digitalization and the rapidly developing performance of artificial intelligence. How can the achievements of a tool that is so much based on the globally collective “raw material” of knowledge and creativity be made accessible to everyone and be harnessed to the benefit of all? This comprehensive volume brings together the works of artists, scientists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs and activists from around the world and delves deep into the themes of the festival, offering insights, perspectives, and thought-provoking content that reflect on the intersection of art, technology, and society.
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Hatje Cantz We is Future Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisHow do we want to live together in the future? We Is Future: Visions of New Communities revolves around the longing for an ideal community, a life in harmony with nature and with each other. Looking at 120 years of artistic visions, the six chapters within this book lead from the Life Reform movement around 1900, via the visionary architectural designs of Bruno Taut or Wenzel Hablik, through to Constant's urban utopia New Babylon, built around the of idea the playful human being. It also examines the Hippie Modernism of the 1960s and moves on to consider contemporary positions that suggest a symbiosis of all living beings in and with nature. The works presented are an expression of a striving for new ways of living in the present and the future. The artistic perspective within the publication is expanded by scientific and personal contributions and an artist interview. Its sustainable design also traces an ideal.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Sven Drühl ArtistCollectorTheorist Bilingual
Book SynopsisIn dialogue with the nineteenth century This catalogue pays tribute to the artist Sven Drühl as a collector and theorist. For more than twenty years, he has been exhibiting his conceptual landscape paintings, neons and bronzes in institutional exhibitions. Now, for the first time, the Hans Erni Museum Lucerne and the Museum Wiesbaden are showing Drühl's collection of nineteenth-century paintings alongside his works: from Eugen Bracht to Janus La Cour and Carl Spitzweg. Another key aspect is Drühls theoretical work, in which he has made a name for himself, as a guest editor of Kunstforum International and as the author of numerous articles on art history.
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Hatje Cantz Cooking Cleaning Caring Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisThe first survey volume to provide a historical perspective and analysis of artistic involvement in care work on a global scale, spanning from the 1960s to the present day. Since the 1960s, artists such as Margaret Raspé, Gabriele Voss, Tomaso Binga, Anna Daucíková, Hackney Flashers, Mako Idemitsu, Ana Victoria Jiménez, Mary Sibande and Jinran Ha have been critically examining care work on a global scale. In their art works, they address the physical strains of daily work, deconstruct the myths surrounding 'labour of love', demonstrate the conditions that structurally marginalize care workers and make visible the mechanisms by which cooking, cleaning and caring is still devalued today. With this in mind, they came up with new artistic practices in order to meet the complexities of care work in a globalized world as well as to reflect on their own role as artists and care workers. The bilingual catalog is the first overview publication on care work in art. It accompanies the exhibit
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Hatje Cantz Paul Hutchinson
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Hatje Cantz Mounira Al Solh Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisMajor monograph on this pioneer of modernityFrans Hals is one of the most important portrait painters of all time. He was the first artist in Holland to paint social outsiders and genre figures as well as the middle classes, thus giving hitherto unknown visibility to marginalized groups in society. Hals' works are characterized by an unusual liveliness and apt characterization. His sketch-like paintings, executed with loose, bold brushstrokes, had a decisive influence on modernist painting. In addition to a large selection of paintings by Hals, the comprehensive catalogue accompanying the Berlin exhibition also shows works by those around him and situates him as an exceptional figure in the context of his time. Among the 70 works illustrated and presented with concise catalog entries are around 50 of Hals' most important paintings from collections in Europe, the USA and Canadaincluding highlights such as Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa and Beatrix van der Laen from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterda
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Frans Hals
Book SynopsisFrans Hals (1582/84 1666) was born in Antwerp, the son of a cloth merchant. In 1610 he was accepted into the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. Hals created hundreds of genre paintings, individual, and group portraits and enjoyed great public prestige. Despite his fame during his lifetime, it was not until the nineteenth century that he was enthusiastically rediscovered by the Impressionists and Realists. Includes texts by Bart Cornelis, Erik Eising, Dagmar Hirschfelder, Katja Kleinert, Friso Lammertse, Justus Lange, Jaap van der Veen.
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Hatje Cantz Titus Schade Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisIn Tektonik the New Leipzig School artist juxtaposes classical landscapes with the timlesness geometric forms Titus Schade's work explores painting and its visual space. With sets that resemble backstage areas, he creates spaces that lie somewhere between models and scenography. Schade thus imagines a range of architectural forms and furnishings that take the viewer into a private world. Schade does not seek to replicate reality, but uses an array of surrogates that he reorganises in his self-contained environments. He uses baroque lighting set-ups with his forms and structures, which are usually of an architectural nature. In his work, classical landscapes coexist with geometric forms whose timelessness allows for a universal reading.
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Hatje Cantz Thoughts Play Hide and Seek
Book SynopsisAn unfolding journey into contemporary art for children and adults alikeThis catalogue is an immersive adventure through the what, how and why of a contemporary art exhibition for children and adults alike. It is a journey through the 2023 exhibition Thoughts Play Hide and Seek by Ephra in Berlin. Curated by Rebecca Raue, the catalogue features works by Paula Anke, Ilit Azoulay, Olafur Eliasson, Ethan Hayes-Chute, Jeppe Hein, Claudia Hill, Christian Jankowski, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Ali Kaaf, Wie-yi T. Lauw, Dafna Maimon, Wolfgang Karl May, Ayumi Paul, Ana Prvacki, Karin Sander, Yorgos Sapountzis, Tomás Saraceno, Nadine Schemmann, Vlado Velkov, Ulrich Vogl and Nicole Wendel.
£30.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag The Magical Langmatt Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisIncludes texts by Markus Stegmann, Stefan Bräm, Lukas Breunig-Hollinger, Josef Bürge, Christine Egerszegi-Obrist, Vivian Greven, Patrick Nöthiger, Markus Schneider, Renée Levi, Mark Wallinger a. o.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Ugo Rondinone Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisUgo Rondinone (*1964, Brunnen, Switzerland) composes searing meditations on nature and the human condition using an organic formal vocabulary that fuses a variety of sculptural and painterly traditions. His hybridized forms exude pathos and humor, cutting to the heart of today's most pressing issues.
£40.80
Hatje Cantz Verlag Soft Power Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisTextile art and political powerSoft Power celebrates the ability of textiles to store and communicate a multiplicity of (hi)stories that act as a disruptive force against dominant social and cultural narratives. The political entanglements inherent to the medium demonstrate the power of textile art to move people, things, stories, and ideas in and out of visibility. Soft Power does not focus solely on textiles as hand-crafted or industrially-fabricated objects, but understands them as being a part of systems. This includes the webs of production and trade that continue to connect textiles and people across the globe as well as the histories, cartographies, cosmologies and rituals that unfold around fabrics. With works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Caroline Achaintre, El Anatsui, Leonor Antunes, Rufina Bazlova, Edith Dekyndt, Gee's Bend Quiltmakers, William Kentridge, Joanna Louca, Rosemary Mayer, Malgorzata Mirga-Tas, Sandra Mujinga, Otobong Nkanga, Willem de Rooij, Gabriele Stötzer, Sung Tieu, Rosemarie Trockel, Johanna Unzueta, Hamid Zénati a. o.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Ars Electronica 2024 Festival for Art Technology
Book SynopsisIntersection of art, technology, and societyWe have reached a point of no return. Despite all our fears, worries, and anger, it is important to acknowledge and face current problems and disasters. Hope can emerge from this collective unease as a unifying element. It drives us both as individuals and as a society, gives us the courage to rethink, act differently and fundamentally change our behaviorin short: to turn the tide. We have long had the ideas, technologies and tools to do so. Ars Electronica 2024 will put on show people whose ideas, projects and actions give us good reason to hope that we can still turn the corner. Hope lies in the common sense of the individual and the wisdom of the masses. Let's turn the tide!
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Hatje Cantz Verlag steirischer herbst 23
Book SynopsisIncludes texts by Kira Dralle, Herwig G. Höller, Günther Holler-Schuster, Bernhard Malkmus, Julya Rabinowich.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Humans and Demons Dissecting Evil in Evil Times
Book SynopsisIncludes texts by Ilya Budraitskis, Anna Engelhardt and Mark Cinkevich, Simona Forti, Franziska Füchsl, Orit Halpern, Dana Kavelina, S. Jonathon O'Donnell, Roman Osminkin, Peter Strasser.
£21.25
Hatje Cantz Ragamala
Book SynopsisNarrative miniaturesRagamala are pictures that illustrate classical pieces of music and poetry. This book explains the origins and significance of these Indian miniature paintings which unite different genres in a unique way. It presents selected examples and makes music and poetry audible through QR codes. Music acquires a human form whose emotions are explained through tiny details: the call of birds, passing clouds, lightning, the scent of flowers, a hidden tear. This lavishly illustrated multimedia book provides a glimpse into the mysterious world of Indian music, poetry, and painting.
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Hatje Cantz Burning Down the House Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisOverview volume of contemporary art practices examining problems, beliefs and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies The family is a rare topic in contemporary art. Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family engages with the family as a tradition, idea, and lived reality. The exhibition untangles some of the crucial problems, beliefs, and contradictions that the family as an institution embodies, bringing together works by forty artistsranging from the mid 1970s to the present, as well as selected works from the collection of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallenin which notions of family, and representations of the stereotypical, bourgeois family in particular, are problematized.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Res Publica
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Hatje Cantz Margret Eicher
Book SynopsisSpectacular tapestries with a critical message For over 25 years, Margret Eicher has been creating a unique oeuvre of tapestries. With precise knowledge of the history of this genre, she revives it and gives it a surprising and convincing topicality. Where once the nobility celebrated themselves on tapestries and demonstrated their own power, Margret Eicher's tapestries feature the superstars of today. At the same time, however, she gives room to those who have had little or no power to date. The formerly affirmative character of tapestry art is thus expanded to include a critical dimension, as Margret Eicher turns it into a tool of profound media reflection. There can hardly be any other oeuvre today that presents the consequences of the digital revolution in such a clear and differentiated way.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Illusions Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisTEXTS BY Jacob Birken, Belinda Grace Gardner, Harry Lehmann, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Katharina Proksch, Ludwig Seyfarth, Julia Stellmann, Christine Tebbe, Tanja Vogel
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Contingent Agencies
Book SynopsisAlex Arteaga (*1969, Barcelona) is an artist who combines aesthetic, phenomenological and activist research practices in his work. He teaches at various universities in Europe. Nikolaus Gansterer (*1974, Vienna) is an artist who explores the interrelationships between drawing, thinking and acting in his work. He teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is internationally active with performances, exhibitions and lectures.
£34.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag Louisiana Visits Franz Gertsch Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisNew insights into an extraordinary collectionThe Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, is one of the most popular museums in Europe. It owns an outstanding collection of 20th- and 21st-century art. Fortyfive of these top works by about thirty artistspaintings, prints, drawings, and photographyare on display at the Museum Franz Gertsch in Switzerland from fall 2024. The selection focuses on works and art movements that can be linked to the life and work of the Swiss painter and graphic artist Franz Gertsch (19302022). These include international Pop Art and the American trends of Color Field and Hard-Edge Painting. In addition, individual works of contemporary and Scandinavian art from the Louisiana collection extend the dialog between the museums and artistic generations into the present.
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Hatje Cantz Verlag A Year and a Day Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisLeonore Mau (19162013) began taking photographs in Hamburg in the 1950s. From the 1960s she lived and traveled with the writer Hubert Fichte (19351986).
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Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH On View
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Richard Paul Lohse
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Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Zeppelin
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Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH 200 Years KIT
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Dance with Daemons
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Hatje Cantz Verlag Eleanor Antin Works 19652017
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Hatje Cantz Verlag The Rise of the Arab Art
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Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Rolf Walz. Blind Spot Bias
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Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Grund und Boden Land and Soil
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Hirmer Verlag HAPPY BIRTHDAY!: 20 Years of the Goetz Collection
Book SynopsisThe Goetz Collection comprises numerous works by important artists. On the occasion of its 20-year anniversary the collection is opening its archives and showing selected works by Louise Bourgeois, Anselm Kiefer, Mária Bartuszová and George Segal, amongst others, in spaces specially set up for this purpose. They include sculptures, paintings, collages, watercolours and expansive installations from the 1940s to the present day.
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Hirmer Verlag Glenkeen Garden Ireland
Book SynopsisFor gardeners, Roaring Water Bay in West Cork in Ireland i s a paradise: the Gulf Stream, long hours of sunshine and the prevailing micro ‐ climate permit unique plants, even palm trees, to grow there. During the past twenty years a true masterpiece of garden art has been created here: Glenkeen Garden. Five photogra phers show the growth and development of the garden from their own personal point of view. Glenkeen is a very remarkable place, designed with passion by Ulrike Crespo and Michael Satke. The garden enchants visitors with its luxuriant vegetation and landsca pe architecture of copses, avenues and ponds as well as the “Wild Meadows” project by star garden designer Piet Oudolf. “Gatesculptures” by unusual artists blend in harmoniously; bridges a nd garden furniture are trend ‐ setting. The “Wild Gardening” in perfe ction is captured by the photographers in atmospheric daylight and night shots, throughout the changing seasons and with countless details. A must for lovers of gardens and nature ‐ lovers, and for connoisseurs of photography and ar
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Hirmer Verlag Europe in Vienna: The Congress of Vienna 1814/15
Book SynopsisFor ten whole months, from September 1814 to June 1815, the imperial residential city of Vienna was the centre of Europe. Never before had there been a comparable meeting of sovereigns and their ambassadors: two emperors (Tsar Alexander I, Emperor Francis I[II]), five kings (Frederick I of Württemberg, Frederick VI of Denmark, Frederick William III of Prussia, Frederick August I of Saxony, Maximilian I of Bavaria), also many princes and diplomats from practically all parts of the continent converged upon th e capital for the diplomatic proceedings. The re - ordering of the European continent aimed to secure political stability at last after the Napoleonic Wars. Europe’s borders were redefined, the political balance of power re - established. These diplomatic proc eedings were accompanied by entertainments of all kinds – balls, festivities, sleigh rides and receptions, also theatre performances and musical events, the splendours of which were documented in words and pictures. Vienna blossomed as the centre of social life; the enhanced purchasing power also boosted the economy, brought foreign painters into the imperial capital, and spurred on all genres of art production on the home front. Thus the city became the political, cultural and social nucleus of Europe. Wi th numerous historical photographs, paintings and historical documents the publication will show the impact that this meeting had on the whole European continent and especially on Vienna. Several essays will draw light on the political, the cultural and th e entertainment side of this event of the century.
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Hirmer Verlag Late Harvest
Book SynopsisLate Harvest juxtaposes contemporary art made with taxidermy with historically significant wildlife paintin gs, resulting in intriguing parallels and startling aesthetic aesthetic contrasts. The publication seeks to simultaneously confirm — through historically - significant wildlife paintings — and subvert — through contemporary art and photography — viewers’ preconcepti ons of the place of animals in culture. The richly illustrated catalogue will feature artists as: Richard Ansdell, David Brooks, George Browne, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Petah Coyne, Raymond Ching, Kate Clark, Wim Delvoye, Mark Dion, Elmgreen & Dragset, Carle e Fernandez, Richard Friese, François Furet, Nicholas Galanin, George Bouverie Goddard, Damien Hirst, William Hollywood, Idiots (Afke Golsteijn and Floris Bakker), Alfred Kowalski, Robert Kuhn , Wilhelm Kuhnert, Bruno Liljefors, Polly Morgan, John Newsom, T im Noble and Sue Webster, Walter Robinson, George Rotig, Carl Rungius, Yinka Shonibare MBE, David Shrigley, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, Amy Stein, Archibald Thorburn, Mary Tsiongas, Joseph Wolf, Brigitte Zieger, Andrew Zuckerman The exhibition Late Harvest is organized by the Nevada Museum of Art in consultation with the National Museum of Wildlife Art. It is curated by JoAnne Northrup, Director of Contemporary Art Initiatives, together with consulting curator Adam Duncan Harris, Ph.D., Petersen Curator of Art & Research, National Museum of Wildlife Art.
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Hirmer Verlag The Art Collections
Book SynopsisThe Museum Wiesbaden is one of three important Hessian state museums and holds world-class collections in the fields of art and naturalhistory. this volume provides the first-ever lavishly illustrated introductionto the museum’s art collections, which span the period from the Middle ages to contemporary art with an emphasis on the art of the nineteenth and twentieth century. The year 2015 marks the centenary of the completion of the building housing the Museum Wiesbaden. The sumptuously illustrated catalogue introducing the museum and its collections celebrates this anniversary. The museum building was opened in 1915, having been designed by Theodor Fischer four years before and built starting in 1913. In addition to the natural-history collections, it houses the three departments of Old Master Art, Classic Modernism and Modern and Contemporary Art. In a chronologically arranged overview of the art collections, which range from 1200 to the present day, the curators’ texts provide a vivid introduction to the collection areas and their specific histories.
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Hirmer Verlag The Pinakothek Museums in Bavaria: Treasures and
Book SynopsisThe Bavarian State Painting Collections are world famous. Every year visitors from every corner of the globe flock to the Pinakotheken in Munich. But few of them realise that the high-quality stocks of this unique collection extend far beyond the city boundaries. This attractive volume now leads visitors for the first time through all 19 galleries of the State Painting Collections in Bavaria. Lucas Cranach resides in the electoral palace of Aschaffenburg, Hans Holbein in St Catherine’s Church in Augsburg and Peter Paul Rubens in Neuburg an der Donau. But even the locations of the galleries – ancient castles and magnificent palaces – make attractive destinations for excursions. From medieval altarpieces to media installations, from Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol, from Ansbach to Würzburg: lavishly illustrated and in the words of the people who look after them, this volume tells of famous masterpieces, reveals hidden treasures and invites you to embark upon a journey through the past history and present day of the Pinakotheken in Bavaria.
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Hirmer Verlag Kunstmuseum Bern: Masterpieces
Book SynopsisThe Kunstmuseum Bern owns one of the most important art collections in Switzerland. Since the foundation of the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Bern in 1809 and the opening of the first museum building in 1879 the collection has grown continuously and has attained world renown. Over 170 masterpieces of the collection are assembled in a single publication for the first time and made accessible to a broad public through new art-historical analyses and numerous colour illustrations. The Kunstmuseum Bern houses prestigious works of Swiss and international art from the late thirteenth century until the present day. The collection contains over 3,000 paintings and sculptures and 48,000 works on paper and videos, including, for example, masterpieces by Duccio di Buoninsegna, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí, Ferdinand Hodler, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Meret Oppenheim, Pablo Picasso and Felix Vallotton. The works assembled in this volume are presented with full-page illustrations and are re-examined by some 70 international authors. A historical survey describing the development of the museum and its collection opens and introduces the publication.
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Hirmer Verlag New Museums: Intentions, Expectations, Challenges
Book SynopsisThe past decade of both economic crises in Europe and North America as well as an extraordinary museum boom in many Asian countries has led to new questions and concepts for future museum buildings. New Museums: Intentions, Expectations, Challenges investi gates this paradigm change by presenting 20 recent and future museum projects on all continents. Among the projects discussed are the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. by Adjaye Associates, the Guggenh eim Helsinki by Moreau Kusonoki Architects , China’s Comic and Animation Museum in Hangzhou by MVRDV, the Munchmuseet in Oslo by estudio Herreros, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town by Heatherwick Studio, the Long Museum West Bund in Shanghai by Atelier Deshaus and the extension of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney by SANAA. Critical texts by leading museum and architecture writers Suzanne MacLeod, Chris Dercon, Karen van den Berg, Wolfgang Ullrich, Kali Tzortzi and Anke Gröner shed light on the relation of new museum trends and state of the art architecture
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Hirmer Verlag The KiCo Collection
Book SynopsisOver the past 20 years the KiCo Collection has become one of the most important collections of contemporary art. Having started with Colour Painting, today it includes the entire spectrum of picture-related contemporary art, from panel paintings to installations. The catalogue shows central blocks of works from the collection, including masterpieces by Marcia Hafif, Maria Lassnig, Katharina Grosse, Wolfgang Tillmans and Olafur Eliasson. The KiCo Collection has been growing continuously since the 1990s. It originally directed its focus towards Colour Painting but later moved beyond the limitations set by the picture and also integrated expansive installations into the collection. The spectrum ranges from Eliasson’s light installations to Tillman’s photographic investigations which link visual found objects with a systematic media reflexion. It is precisely these forms of boundary crossing which make the KiCo Collection so topical. It shows impressively that the arts no longer allow us to confine them to the ghetto of individual genres, but that they draw their strength from interconnections and fusions of content and media.
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Hirmer Verlag Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce and Cultural
Book SynopsisRivera, Kahlo, Tamayo, Covarrubias, Weston, Modotti, Bravo, Spratling – names which are closely linked with the internationally celebrated art, photography and design scene of the 1920s and 1930s in the United States and Mexico. This lavishly illustrated publication traces the dynamic cultural exchange which left its mark on both sides of the border. At the beginning of the 20th century a lively and profitable exchange developed between artists in the United States and Mexico. The Americans were full of enthusiasm for the Mexican synthesis of history and modernity and their social commitment, which contrasted strongly with the consumer culture in the U.S. The Mexican artists in turn found important financiers across the border. The volume shows through paintings, drawings, photographs and graphical works from the Harry Ransom Center in Austin and other important museums how this intercultural network brought forth a large number of world-famous artists.
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