Are you curious what the next year has in store for you? Browse our spring program 2020 today!
Our booklist for spring 2020 makes it clear that nature and biology have taken on a major role in art and photography. A precise look at nature, whether from aesthetic, ecological, economic, or sociocultural viewpoints, offers a shared realm of experience that we all perceive through our senses, and that keeps us, as well as artists, enormously occupied. From Chinese painting to Sorolla’s Gardens, from Hopper’s Landscapes to Hundertwasser’s Future Concepts to Christiane Löhr’s fine objects.
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Doubtless, one of the highlights in this list is an extraspecial, illustrated volume. One hundred years ago Aby Warburg spent nearly two decades of his life drawing fascinating connections between pictures in his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne (memory) is the mother of the nine muses and helps the eye find access to themes and their visual narrative. We work in a very similar way today—for instance, in conceptual design, with mood boards or Internet searches for images. With this in mind, you could also say that Aby Warburg invented the image search, developed strategies for visual design, and transferred images to a screen (a panel, in his case) a century ago. This reconstruction is the first one attempted after the destruction of the original book, which occurred when Warburg fled to London. The authors Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil produced it, and we have the privilege of being able to publish this magnificent book—it is a special focal point on our booklist.
The artist Stefan Marx has published artist books for many years and he has always been interested in the question of what the best formats are for communicating his work. In this we see a link between his work and ours. We, too, are constantly looking for the cleverest ways to publish content, while thinking about what format would suit it best. We are very pleased that Stefan Marx has developed his wonderful notebooks with Hatje Cantz. They are our contribution to the “non book” genre because they open up space for the reader’s own thoughts, drawings, pictures, or words. We hope you will enjoy yourself with your own pen in hand, and good books in front of you!
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October 15, 2019
