Neo Rauch (English and French Edition) - Softcover

Lussier, Real

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2551229138 ISBN 13: 9782551229130

Publisher: Musee D'Art Contemporain De, 2006

Synopsis

First North American publication on the young German artist who has swept through Europe with his exhuberant, disturbing depictions of post-Soviet men and women caught up in oblique world of productivity without purpose.

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From the Back Cover

Trained at the Leipzig Academy in the Socialist Realist aesthetic of communist East Germany, Rauch was still in his twenties when the Soviet Union collapsed and Germany reunited. While never fully abandoning his formalist training, he has developed a unique painterly œuvre that incorporates comic strip motifs and advertising imagery. Heroic workmen and sturdy women are depicted in harsh industrial colours with an almost cartoonish realism. Here is an obliquely-coded world of productivity without purpose. The fact that Rauch continues to live and work in Leipzig provides compelling insight into the artist’s intent. Two essays look at recent works, magnificently illustrated in full-page colour plates. In English and French.

From the Inside Flap

Trained at the Leipzig Academy in the Socialist Realist aesthetic of communist East Germany, Rauch was still in his twenties when the Soviet Union collapsed and Germany reunited. While never fully abandoning his formalist training, he has developed a unique painterly uvre that incorporates comic strip motifs and advertising imagery. Heroic workmen and sturdy women are depicted in harsh industrial colours with an almost cartoonish realism. Here is an obliquely-coded world of productivity without purpose. The fact that Rauch continues to live and work in Leipzig provides compelling insight into the artist s intent. Two essays look at recent works, magnificently illustrated in full-page colour plates. In English and French.

Edition details

• Publisher: Musee D'Art Contemporain De
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2551229138
• ISBN 13: 9782551229130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52