Hatje Cantz

Charting Picasso’s journey from the bohemians of the Blue Period to the Rose Period’s acrobats and ingenues, this book celebrates some of the 20th century’s most beloved masterpiecesPublished for the most ambitious exhibition ever staged by the Fondation Beyeler, this book is devoted to the (...)

Fernand Léger (1881-1955) is one of the few Modernist artists that can be said to have anticipated both American Abstraction and American Pop, and to have made a deliberate relationship with American culture: He visited the U.S. several times, and during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, he (...)

Berlin-based artist Julius von Bismarck’s (born 1983) latest works explore the destructive beauty of natural forces -lightning strikes, tornadoes and forest fires- and catastrophes caused by humans. A student of Ólafur Elíasson, von Bismarck explores the relationship between nature and human (...)

Gerhard Richter‘s œuvre contains more than three thousand individual works of art. Over a period of six decades he has created a stylistically diverse and complex body of work, which confirms Richter’s rank as the most important artist alive today. The six-volume scholarly catalogue raisonné of all (...)

A fresh look at Hopper's iconic vision of the American landscape?its gas stations, diners and highwaysEdward Hopper's world-famous, instantly recognizable paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life, unfolding in a world of lonely lighthouses, gas stations, movie theaters, bars and (...)

The Japanese Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura (born 1951) first caused a stir in the early 1980s with expressive and confrontational paintings that associated her with the Neue Wilde. In the late 1980s Ikemura developed a novel visual vocabulary that ultimately led her to a fusion of body and landscape (...)

Francisco de Goya was one of the last great court artists and a significant trailblazer for modern art?and now, the Fondation Beyeler, in collaboration with the Museo Nacional del Prado, has mounted one of the most extensive exhibitions of his work outside of Spain, a major event commemorated with (...)

Gerhard Richter's oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the (...)

Some 40 carefully chosen juxtapositions of masterpieces by both artists trace a dialogue that ranks among the most fascinating in art history. This publication brings Pablo Picasso's (1881-1973) encounter with the Cretan-born old master Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco (...)