Anselm Kiefer

A Monograph

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A major monograph of one of the most important and controversial artists at work in the world today

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is one of the most important and controversial artists at work in the world today. Through such diverse mediums as painting, photography, artist’s books, installations and sculpture, he has interpreted the great political and cultural issues at the heart of the modern European sensibility: the connections among memory, history and mythology; war; the Holocaust; and ethnic and national identity. In this extensively illustrated volume, available again in a new, compact format, Arasse analyses Kiefer’s education, influences, philosophy and art, while demonstrating the unity and continuity of his work. Arasse takes as his starting point the 1980 Venice Biennale, a key moment in the artist’s career that marked the birth of both his international reputation and the controversy over the ‘Germanness’ of his work. Organized both chronologically and according to the artist’s recurrent motifs, the book’s approximately 250 full-colour images trace Kiefer’s creative evolution, and present his great themes in their full scope and power.

Extent: 304 pp
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 2016-01-18
Size: 31.0 x 24.5 cm
ISBN: 9780500291610
Introduction • I. Constructing and deconstructing paint • II. Painting after Auschwitz • III. Reviving the myth • IV. The work of Kiefer, daughter of Lilith • V. Celebrating Women of anger and revolt • VI. Shares Books: the Concept at Work • VII. Photographs and Film: between art and paper • VIII. Cycles and Spirals, Sediment and Palimpsests

Press Reviews

Magnificently illustrated and extremely thought-provoking … I can recommend this book as the best one I’ve read in the past year because it addresses a difficult body of work in a highly intelligent and thoughtful way
The Art Newspaper




About the Author

An art historian and critic and a lecturer at the University of Paris VIII, Dominique Baqué writes widely on art and photography. She is the author of a number of books on those subjects.

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