New German Painting (German and English Edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3791336665 ISBN 13: 9783791336664

Publisher: Prestel Pub, 2006

Synopsis

Born in Germany in the years following the collapse of the Communist regime, the New Leipzig School started when a group of classmates at the Leipzig Academy rediscovered figurative art. Their paintings reflected the melancholy that pervaded East Germany as it struggled with capitalism, high unemployment and depopulation. Fifteen year later, paintings by the Leipzig school and its related movement, Dresden Pop, are conquering the international art market. The authors take on this important trend one painter at a time, and also analyse the work of other contemporary German artists. They examine each artist’s oeuvre on its own merit and consider various factors behind the movements—the onset of the digital age, social disillusionment and individual protest. Breathtaking reproductions allow readers to form their own ideas about what constitutes and drives new German painting, and understand its significance around the world.

About this title

About the Author:

CHRISTOPH TANNERT is a Berlin-based art critic, exhibition curator, and director of the Kunsthaus Bethanien.

GRAHAM BADER teaches art history at Columbia University and writes about art for a number of magazines, including Artforum.

Review:

`The reader can get an overview of the new energy in German art and simultaneously examine the individual components.' -- State of Art, Winter 2006/7

About this edition

• Publisher: Prestel Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 3791336665
• ISBN 13: 9783791336664
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255
• Editor: Tannert Christoph