Anselm Kiefer
By: exhibition curators, Kathleen Soriano with Sarah Lea
Contributors: Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts, London.  Distributed in the U.S.A. by Abrams, New York.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781907533792; 9781907533808
Subjects: German Art; Exhibitions
Description: "Born in Germany in 1945, Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important artists of his generation. His works--encompassing and transcending painting, sculpture, photography, and installation--are epic in both scale and subject matter; in them, Kiefer wrestles with the darkness of German history, unearthing the taboos that underlie the collective past and interweaving them with Teutonic mythology, cosmology, and meditations on the nature of belief. This superbly designed volume, accompanying a major retrospective and including new works especially made for the exhibition, explores the themes that run through Kiefer's oeuvre, from the complex relationship between art and spirituality to the influence of German woodcuts and folklore."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Catalog of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 27-December 14, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: President's Foreword; title: Sponsor's Statement; title: Building, Dwelling, Thinking / Kathleen Soriano; title: Forests of Myth, Forests of Memory / Christian Weikop; title: 'In the beginning is the end and in the end is the beginning' / Richard Davey; title: Catalogue plates; title: Works Exhibited; title: Endnotes; title: Select Bibliography; title: Lenders to the Exhibition; title: Photographic Acknowledgements; title: Index.