Anselm Kiefer.
editions of the gaze| N° d'inventaire | 29739 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 344 p., numerous black and white and color photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2007 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782841054282 |
In this monograph, the only one devoted to date to Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse sets out to demonstrate the process of sedimentation, of re-elaboration of themes that circulate, intersect and overlap in a veritable "Kieferian labyrinth". In this monograph, the only one devoted to date to Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse sets out to demonstrate the process of sedimentation, of re-elaboration of themes that circulate, intersect and overlap in a veritable "Kieferian labyrinth".
The historical and political dimension of Kiefer's work fascinates Arasse, particularly his status as a German artist born before the end of the war. A position to which the artist devoted rare energy in order to unravel the skein of analyzing the possibilities of the act of creation after the Holocaust. For, like other German artists, but with greater awareness and obstinacy, Kiefer questioned his heritage as a painter by revealing the iconographic and mythological elements of German culture.
Arasse lifts the veil and designates the work as an instrument that transforms actions or architectures by allowing them to enter the "theater of individual and collective memory, instead of acting perniciously in the repression of their memory." Throughout the pages, Daniel Arasse examines the multiple facets of a work with universal scope, which knows how to take into account History, Germanic, Greek, Assyrian myths...
religion, women, poetry, Jewish mysticism, in paintings, sculptures, books of exceptional dimensions and materials, with a predominance of lead, whose contemporaneity is inseparable from classicism.
In this monograph, the only one devoted to date to Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse sets out to demonstrate the process of sedimentation, of re-elaboration of themes that circulate, intersect and overlap in a veritable "Kieferian labyrinth". In this monograph, the only one devoted to date to Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse sets out to demonstrate the process of sedimentation, of re-elaboration of themes that circulate, intersect and overlap in a veritable "Kieferian labyrinth".
The historical and political dimension of Kiefer's work fascinates Arasse, particularly his status as a German artist born before the end of the war. A position to which the artist devoted rare energy in order to unravel the skein of analyzing the possibilities of the act of creation after the Holocaust. For, like other German artists, but with greater awareness and obstinacy, Kiefer questioned his heritage as a painter by revealing the iconographic and mythological elements of German culture.
Arasse lifts the veil and designates the work as an instrument that transforms actions or architectures by allowing them to enter the "theater of individual and collective memory, instead of acting perniciously in the repression of their memory." Throughout the pages, Daniel Arasse examines the multiple facets of a work with universal scope, which knows how to take into account History, Germanic, Greek, Assyrian myths...
religion, women, poetry, Jewish mysticism, in paintings, sculptures, books of exceptional dimensions and materials, with a predominance of lead, whose contemporaneity is inseparable from classicism.