Goya

Edited by Martin Schwander

ISBN: 978-84-121550-6-8

Year: 2021

Pages: 400

Illustrations: 290

Binding: in hardcover

Size: 31 x 27.5 cm

Published by: Madrid, Beleyer Foundation and El Viso Editions

The catalogue published for the exhibition organized by the Fondation Beyeler and the Musée National del Prado brings together the most comprehensive exhibition of Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) held outside of Spain. This Spanish edition, co-published by El Viso and Hatje-Cantz, offers an in-depth analysis of Goya's artistic universe through nearly 300 illustrations and essays by leading specialists such as Manuela Mena, José Manuel Matilla, and Colm Tóibín, among others. The book highlights the painter's dual nature: the last great master of the European courtly tradition and a pioneer of a modernism marked by radical creative freedom. Paintings, drawings, and prints are presented with equal attention to the richness, diversity, and complexity of his work. This balanced approach allows the reader to understand the ambiguity and depth of Goya, a visionary artist whose output explores the boundaries between reason and delirium, reality and nightmare, beauty and horror.