This comprehensive monograph offers a detailed examination of the
paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch (b.1960).
Rauch's paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism
from his upbringing and art-school training in GDR-era Leipzig with
the stylistic mannerisms of the Baroque and Romantic past,
conjuring heavily populated sites of great commotion and
complexity, remarkably without recourse to preliminary drawing. His
compositions and their enigmatic figures are rich with reference
and allusion, but the stories they tell are indistinct and somehow
out of time. They have an ancient modernity - or the freshness of
renewed antiquity. Michael Glover discloses Rauch's working
methods, revealing how the artist approaches the making of his
work, how his images come into being, and the importance of words
and their etymology to the creation or disruption of an artwork.
These are works that interrogate the very meaning of the artistic
impulse; ruminations in the guise of history painting that in fact
question what a painter could and should be creating at this
particular historical moment.
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