"This tome is an essential read that offers a rare access into a mind of a great artist an artist that transcends confines, labels and defies classifications and one anyone remotely interested in visual arts and the aftermath of the twentieth century would benefit from." * Scene Point Blank *
Anselm Kiefer is a painter, sculptor, and installation artist living and working in France. His works have been exhibited at MoMA, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, and the Louvre, among many others. Klaus Dermutz, born in Judenburg, Austria, in 1960, studied theology, philosophy, and sociology in Graz and Berlin, and is the author of numerous books. Tess Lewiss numerous translations from French and German include works by Peter Handke, Jean-Luc Benoziglio, Klaus Merz, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and Pascal Bruckner.
Foreword Paint in Order to Understand, Understand in Order to Paint Boredom in ChildhoodThats What is Most Valuable Later An Opening onto Vastness: Onto the Steppe and the Firmament Fire on Branches, Wings and Stones Snow over Barjac I Make Matter Secretive Again by Exposing It Remnants Fascinated Me from Very Early On Oedipus Is Transformed from a Figure of Guilt into a Figure of Light I Call on Nature for Assistance Art Just Barely Survives Biography