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Arasse, Daniel Anselm Kiefer ISBN 13: 9780500093023

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This monograph uses a thematic and chronologial approach to explore the many facets of Anselm Kiefer's work. By examining his influences, style and recurring motifs, Daniel Arasse highlights Kiefer's rich culture and his philosophical and artistic practice, while demonstrating the unity and continuity in his work that transcends any linear concept of time. Arasse takes as his starting point the 1980 Venice Biennale, a key moment in the artist's career, as it marked the birth of both his international reputation and the controversy over the "Germanness" of his work. Through the six main chapters, the author delves into the central themes of Kiefer's paintings and their evolution. Nordic and Germanic mythologies, Jewish mysticism, the cosmos, the legends of the ancient world, links between heaven and earth, men and the gods, transmutation, the role of the human body - all of these lie at the heart of Kiefer's thought. Interspersed with the main discussion are five sub-chapters that shed a new light on the fabric and subject of Kiefer's art by examining his favourite motifs and the ways that they have mutated through time and thematic shifts.

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Daniel Arasse is currently Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales. Among his many previous publications is Vermeer: Faith in Painting.
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“Lovely. . . . Leads the reader through the dense symbolism and repeated imagery of Kiefer’s work.”
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  • PublisherThames & Hudson
  • Publication date2001
  • ISBN 10 0500093024
  • ISBN 13 9780500093023
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