Baselitz
By: edited by Martin Schwander for the Fondation Beyeler ; translations, Fiona Elliot [and three others]
Contributors: Baselitz, Georg, 1938-; Elliott, Fiona, 1951- translator; Fondation Beyeler; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Hatje Cantz Verlag; Offsetdruckerei Karl Grammlich
Edition: Trade edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9783906053462; 9783775743877
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Modern Art; Exhibitions; Themes, motives; Interviews; Criticism and interpretation; German Painting
Other titles: Georg Baselitz
Description: After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with three blockbuster exhibitions in 2017, the Fondation Beyeler and is starting the year 2018 with Georg Baselitz - without a doubt one of the most influential painters and sculptors of our time - is celebrating his eightieth birthday, and the Foundation is devoting an extensive retrospective to this charming provocateur. Many of Baselitz's most important paintings and sculptures from the past six decades will be seen together for the first time. By displaying key works together, on an equal footing, it becomes easier to perceive the unique wealth of his formal and contextual innovations. Leafing through more than two hundred richly illustrated pages, the reader encounters the beautiful, the ugly, the ambiguous, and the disturbing. Exhibition: Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (21.01.-29.04.2018) / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. , USA (21.06.-16.09.2018).
Notes: Issued also in German.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Georg Baselitz" : January 21-April 29, 2018, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland.

"Georg Baselitz" : June 21-September 16, 2018, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

Text in English, translated from the German.

Exhibited: "Georg Baselitz" held at Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, January 21-April 29, 2018 and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, June 21-September 16, 2018.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Sam Keller and Melissa Chu; title: Acknowledgements --; title: Pictures in a Hall of Mirrors: An Introduction /  -- Martin Schwander; title: The Cave of Painting  -- Christian Spies; title: Baselitz and America: A Tale of Historical Reciprocity  -- Stéphane Aquin; title: "I've no idea how I could ever have become a painter in California"  -- Georg Baselitz in dialogue with Martin Schwander; title: Georg Baselitz: Choosing Directions  -- Eva Mongi-Vollmer; title: Baselitz, the Variants  -- Rudi Fuchs; title: Georg Baselitz: Ladders of Expression and the Surreal  -- Norman Rosenthal; title: Recollection, Experimentation, and Renewal as a Driving Force  -- Carla Schulz-Hoffman; title: Late Body  -- Steven Henry Madoff; title: Biography --; title: List of Exhibited Works.