Anselm Kiefer
Subtitle: a monograph
By: Dominique Baqué
Contributors: Kiefer, Anselm, 1945-; Wilson, David Henry, 1937- translator
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780500093993
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Work titles: Anselm Kiefer
Description: "The work of Anselm Kiefer begins with a crucial question: how, after the Holocaust, can one be an artist within the German tradition? Born at the end of the Second World War, Kiefers career represents a quasi-existential quest to redefine Germanness. This new monograph will examine the foundation of Kiefers work: memory and our response to it. Kiefers artistic perspective is informed in turn by great literary works, myths, tales, legends, and particularly the world of Kabbalistic mysticism. This unprecedented monograph explores his passion for alchemy, his admiration for great female figures obscured by history, and his relationship with the landscape and nature, a notable topic of his most recent works. Art historian Dominique Baqué also highlights an aspect of Kiefers work that has received little critical attention: his conceptual understanding of the book and photography. In fact, Kiefer mixes many forms and media, and Baqué expands this study with a discussion of the often-overlooked performance element of his work, starting with his first actions from the end of the 1960s"--Publisher's website.
Notes: "Translated from the French, Anselm Kiefer, entre mythe et concept by David H. Wilson"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302) and index.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: Making and unmaking: Kiefer's studio worlds; title: Painting after Auschwitz; title: Reawakening myths; title: Kiefer's oeuvre, Lilith's daughter; title: In praise of rebellious women; title: Actions and books: the concept at work; title: Photographs and films: between art And document; title: Cycles and spirals, layers And palimpsests; title: Notes; title: Awards, exhibitions and bibliography; title: Index; title: Acknowledgments; title: Picture credits.