Anselm Kiefer: A Short Introduction to his Life & Art
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ANSELM KIEFER IS REGARDED as one of the most important German painters of his age. Grand themes of national identity and racial memory are depicted on an even grander scale with paintings spanning over 25 feet. These dense and complex layered paintings and sculptures have propelled Kiefer to the top of the contemporary art world elite.The artist's work is a complex examination of many themes, from alchemy and the kabbalah to his country's Nazi past and has been often controversial. His earliest works depicted the artist displaying the Nazi salute an act that was banned in post-war Germany and more recently in 2010 a protest was staged at an exhibition of his work at the Gagosian gallery in New York.Themes are often explored through such unconventional materials as lead, barbed wire, burnt books, clay as well as branches of thorns and straw attached to vast canvases of dense impasto paint and shellac. The extreme application of this mixed media have meant things often fall off, straw, sunflower seeds even chunks of concrete which have raised concerns amongst collectors about Keifer’s works devaluing. Yet this seems not to have deterred buyers. Dem unbekannten Maler (To the unknown painter) (1983) sold for $3,554,500 in New York in May 2011 at Christie’s evening sale of post-war and contemporary art.This book is designed as a lively, authoritative and accessible introduction to the life and work of Anselm Kiefer and includes a historical list of exhibitions and bibliography.Approx. 5,000 Words
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I'm not one to be unnecessarily critical, but this item actually has only about 17-18 pages of real text. It is a decent, minimal "Introduction", as titled, but I expected more. Not only is it very brief, the grammar and sentence structure are absolutely terrible. How much would it have taken for the author to have had it proof-read by an associate who has decent knowledge of writing and grammar? IMO, this is worth about 1/2 what I paid.