In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus
Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of
his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. The only
visual artist to have won the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade,
Anselm Kiefer is a profoundly literary painter. In these
conversations, Kiefer describes how the central materials of his
art-lead, sand, water, fire, ashes, plants, clothing, oil paint,
watercolor, and ink-influence the act of creation. No less decisive
are his intellectual and artistic touchstones: the
sixteenth-century Jewish mystic Isaac Luria, the German Romantic
poet Novalis, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Martin Heidegger,
Marcel Proust, Adalbert Stifter, the operas of Richard Wagner, the
Catholic liturgy, and the innovative theater director and artist
Tadeusz Kantor. Kiefer and Dermutz discuss all of these influential
thinkers, as well as Kiefer's own status as a controversial figure.
His relentless examination of German history, the themes of guilt,
suffering, communal memory, and the seductions of destruction have
earned him equal amounts of criticism and praise. The conversations
in this book offer a rare insight into the mind of a gifted
creator, appealing to artists, critics, art historians, cultural
journalists, and anyone interested in the visual arts and the
literature and history of the twentieth century.
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