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Simmel, Goerg; Baselitz, Georg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1880154471 ISBN 13: 9781880154472

Publisher: Gagosian Gallery, 2001

Synopsis

In this new body of work, Georg Baselitz continues to explore canine imagery, a theme that has run from his earliest animal paintings to his recent work.The majority of these paintings were completed in Imperia, Italy, during the summer of 2000. Whilst there, Baselitz acquired a large-scale 16th-century Italian frame, which inspired him to carve, sculpt, and paint frames for this series.

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About the Author

David McCooey is an award-winning, and widely published, poet and critic. His first collection of poetry, Blister Pack, won the Mary Gilmore Award and was short-listed for four other major Australian literary awards. He is the Deputy General Editor of the award-winning Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (published internationally as The Literature of Australia). He is associate professor at Deakin University in Victoria.

Review

In David McCooey's latest collection, a chapbook honouring filmmaker Stanley Kubrick, and memoir-poems from his own childhood, there is a line, "the primitive violence of eating." That's the kind of killer line McCooey always nails. The gentle folk of polite society may make a dinner party the most civilised of events, but it's just primitive violence when you look at someone chewing. McCooey in a few words evokes the whole awful spectacle. He reminds us that everything, even beauty, is the sum of a whole lot of little violences. His gift--to get a detail in one shot, one brief line, not a word out of kilter--is the hallmark of his imagery.I would rather read his poetry than that of anyone else of his generation.--Craig Sherborne The poems in Graphic take strength and originality from the way they combine opposites. On the one hand, studies of Kubrick films and animal slaughter, they are straightforwardly fierce; but they achieve their effects in a manner remarkably controlled and subtle. They work with short lines and understatement, yet they are forever surprising you with brilliant images and perceptions. In fact, they recall Raymond Carver in the way their tone is intimate, but their effect uncanny.--Lisa Gorton

Edition details

• Publisher: Gagosian Gallery
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1880154471
• ISBN 13: 9781880154472
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 71
• Editor: Ratibor Stefan