“I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like
buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In
between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where
something masses together in the infinite expanse.”—Anselm
Kiefer The only visual artist to have won the Peace Prize of the
German Book Trade, Anselm Kiefer is a profoundly literary painter.
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. 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
German List |
| Release date: |
December 2018 |
| Authors: |
Anselm Kiefer
• Klaus Dermutz
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| Translators: |
Tess Lewis
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 182mm (L x W x H) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
272 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-85742-603-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
0-85742-603-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780857426031 |
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