num_pages: 96
description: The painter-king with the five skins 	 		 	 		"His trump card is his art, the creator of of natural harmony, peace and joy. The extra-lucid power of his analytical sensitivity makes him the perfect decoder of global culture and its guided information. He reveals the prodigious quality resources of naturist empiricism against the abusive uniformity of rationalist totalitarianism, against the tyranny of ugliness and the iron rule of its straight line." Pierre Restany, The Painter-King with the five The Power of Art				 Friedensreich Hundertwasser constantly rebelled against the omnipresent might of rational and pragmatic thought patterns and became a symbolic figure for a non-conformist way of life and an ambassador for a self-determined alternative existence. Hundertwasser’s world of images awakens the longing for universal harmony, for an existence in accord with nature.With emphasis on Hundertwasser’s ecological, civilization- and architecture-critical approaches, Pierre Restany examines the phases of his multifaceted work. Restany creates a comprehensive portrayal of an artist of visionary power, of his artistic development, from the architectural boycott and the naked addresses at the end of the sixties, through the worldwide architecture projects, to his alternative blueprints for society. 	 		 	 		 About the 		Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series 
language: English
title: Hundertwasser
titlecomplete: Hundertwasser
genres: History, Biography, Reference, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 103
publisher: TASCHEN