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Kunstcollectie Vlaamse gemeenschap (Engels)
2024 || Hardcover || Koenraad Jonckheere e.a. || Hannibal Books
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What is quality in art?
A meditaction based on European paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries
2024 || Hardcover || Alejandro Vergara Sharp || Hannibal Books
– Antonio Muñoz Molina, El País
"This wonderful and wise book made me look at the artwork without intimidation or any confusion. It is a great pleasure to be guided by the experienced eye of Alejandro Vergara."
— Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Throughout history, human beings have excelled at creating art of the highest quality. Aristotle wrote that Homer “surpassed all others” while Pliny the Elder referred to “masterpieces that we never tire of admiring...
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Hong Kong Whispers
2024 || Hardcover || Hannibal Books
Postume release van het laatste boek waar Michael Wolf zelf aan heeft gewerkt, naar aanleiding van zijn vijfjarige overlijden
De bekroonde Duitse fotograaf Michael Wolf (1954–2019) groeide op in Canada, Europa en de Verenigde Staten. In 1994 verhuisde Wolf naar Hongkong, waar hij acht jaar lang als contractfotograaf voor Stern Magazine werkte. De kern van Wolfs werk ligt in het capteren van het leven in megasteden. Tal van zijn projecten leggen de architectuur en volkscultuur van metropolen...
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Grensverleggers (ENG)
2024 || Hardcover || Anne-Rieke Van Schaik || Hannibal Books
A fascinating immersion into the cartography and history of the Low Countries
An old map does not only represent a geographical situation; it also embodies a veritable journey of discovery through world history. In this book, historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik immerses herself in the many stories behind the fascinating maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments belonging to the Phoebus Foundation’s collection. These objects testify to glorious moments and dark interludes in the history of t...
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Jef Verheyen (ENG)
2024 || Hardcover || Hannibal Books
Major oeuvre overview of the conceptual painter Jef Verheyen
As a driving force of the international avant garde, Jef Verheyen (1932–1984) occupies an important position in the European art world. In the late 1950s the art of painting arrives at a “zero point” in part thanks to his vision.
Verheyen developed an inimitable monochrome painting technique by layering such thin layers of paint over each other that they seem to be misted onto the canvas. And so the painting became a contempla...
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Europe Trail
Encounter with a Continent
2024 || Hardcover || Hannibal Books
Today's Europe seen through the eyes of photographer Lieve Blancquaert
The fall of the Berlin Wall motivated photographer and journalist Lieve Blancquaert to set off on an epic tour of Europe in her campervan. She visited all twenty-seven member states of the European Union in search of the origins of this identity. She wanted to hear and feel what holds us together and what divides us.
Her many personal encounters reveal time and again that our own language, history, concerns, desires and dr...