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Anselm Kiefer's "Die Argonauten "series was inspired by a casual
dinner with friends. At the end of a meal, the artist noted the
table's resemblance to a battlefield, and this quickly led him to
delve into the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Despite the
unlikely informality of the original prompt, Kiefer's choice to
reinterpret the hero Jason's quest for the golden fleece continues
central motifs in his work of violence, chauvinism and systems of
power--derived, as ever, from the artist's assiduous study of
poetry, mythology and cultural history. The project evolved into an
installation composed of various totemic objects and weathered
remnants, left over, so it appears, from Jason's quest. The third
publication in Ivory Press' "Liber artis "series, "Anselm Kiefer:
Die Argonauten" reproduces this ambitious series for the first
time, along with a text by the artist.
“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.
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Anselm Kiefer (Hardcover)
Anselm Kiefer; Edited by Gabriella Belli, Janne Sirén; Text written by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Salvatore Settis, …
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R1,326
R1,089
Discovery Miles 10 890
Save R237 (18%)
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Gian Maria Tosatti: Now/Here
Gian Maria Tosatti; Edited by Vicente Todolí; Text written by Anselm Kiefer, Eugenio Viola
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R1,013
Discovery Miles 10 130
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Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of
short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest
daughter, with stunning artwork by Anselm Kiefer. 'Knausgaard
unearths the mysteries of the commonplace' Observer In Summer, Karl
Ove Knausgaard writes about long days full of sunlight, eating ice
cream with his children, lawn sprinklers and ladybirds. He
experiments with the beginnings of a novel and keeps a diary in
which the small events of his family's life are recorded. Against a
canvas of memories, longings, and experiences of art and
literature, he searches for the meaning of moments as they pass us
by. 'Wondrous... There are blissful glimpses of nature's mystery
and balance' Financial Times
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