Goya

Martin Schwander

Hardcover | 28.6 x 31.7 cm | 400 pp | 300 Ills.

Hatje Cantz | 2021 | 9783775746496

Francisco de Goya was one of the last great court artists and at the same time a significant trailblazer for modern art. In his more than sixty-year-long career, Goya was an astute observer of the drama of reason and irrationality, of dreams and nightmares. His pictures show things that go beyond social conventions: he depicts saints and criminals, witches and demons, breaking open the gates to realms where the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur.

This book was produced for the 2021 exhibition at Fondation Beyeler – one of the most extensive exhibitions of Goya’s work outside of Spain – which gathered more than seventy paintings, around sixty drawings, and a selection of prints that invite the viewer to an encounter with the beautiful, as well as the incomprehensible. The extensive catalogue examines Goya’s unique artistic impact in texts by renowned interpreters, and splendid photo galleries.