Georg Baselitz
Deconstructing Memory
$167.99
- Hardcover
392 pages
- Release Date
13 May 2021
Summary
A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media in both painting and sculpture, over the course of a career of some sixty years. Born in 1938, Baselitz was expelled from art school in East Berlin in 1956 for ‘socio-political immaturity’, and moved to the western half of the city.
By the late 1950s, he had rejected the dominant tendencies of both sides of the country and his singular achievement was to reintroduce the figure, co…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500094150 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500094152 |
| Author: | Richard Calvocoressi |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 13 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.05kg |
| Dimensions: | 48mm x 325mm x 256mm |
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Critics Review
‘Brilliantly illustrated and documented by the fine narrative provided here by esteemed author and interlocutor Richard Calvocoressi’ - The World of Interiors
‘Beautifully written with revealing insight into the artist’s motivations at each stage, it is the most authoritative work on Baselitz to date’ - The Art Newspaper
‘Beautifully illustrated’ - The Telegraph
‘Elegantly written and splendidly illustrated, this is by far the best study of Baselitz in English’ - The Spectator
‘Meticulous … With its grasp of the relevant art-historical readings and cultural-historic issues, and its compelling readings of so many individual works, this new, definitive publication is a masterclass’ - The Times Literary Supplement
‘Sumptuously illustrated … Calvocoressi’s achievement is to blend art and biography into what will prove to be a useful first monograph in English on this major German artist’ - The Burlington Magazine
Richard Calvocoressi
Richard Calvocoressi is currently a director at Gagosian Gallery and is a former director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He has published works on Baselitz and his contemporaries A. R. Penck, Markus L
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