Anselm Kiefer - Brossura

Arasse, Daniel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0500291616 ISBN 13: 9780500291610

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2014

Riassunto

Anselm Kiefer, born in 1945, is one of the most important and controversial artists at work in the world today. Through such diverse mediums as painting, photography, artists’ books, installations, and sculpture, he has interpreted the great political and cultural issues at the heart of the modern European sensibility: the connections between memory, history, and mythology; war; the Holocaust; and ethnic and national identity. In this extensively illustrated, thoughtful survey of his work, available again in a new and compact format, author Daniel Arasse analyzes 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 Kiefer’s career that marked the birth of both his international reputation and the controversy over the strong focus on German civilization that characterized much of his work.Equal parts eloquent tribute and respected monograph, Anselm Kiefer is organized both chronologically and to reflect the artist’s recurrent motifs, including Nordic and Germanic mythologies, Jewish mysticism, the cosmos, the legends of the ancient world, and many more. Approximately 250 full-color images reproduce his art at the highest possible quality, to trace Kiefer’s creative evolution and reveal as fully as possible his works’ scope and power.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Daniel Arasse is currently Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales. Among his many previous publications is Vermeer: Faith in Painting.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

In this extensively illustrated volume, available again in a new, compact format, Arasse analyses Kiefers 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 artists 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 artists recurrent motifs, the books approximately 250 full-colour images trace Kiefers creative evolution, and present his great themes in their full scope and power.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500291616
• ISBN 13: 9780500291610
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 343