JU-NEO RAUCH - Couverture rigide

Buscher, Wolfgang; Kunde, Harald; Tinterow, Gary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3836535637 ISBN 13 : 9783836535632

Editeur : TASCHEN, 2012

Synopsis

Human alter-reality: The essential overview of Neo Rauch’s art

 

Bursting with radiant and unsettling juxtapositions, Neo Rauch’s paintings are wormholes into worlds of startling psychological power and cultural collisions. His scenes involve the viewer in a history that is at once mythic, intimate, and present. Through a deep consideration of philosophy, art history, literature, and his own dreamscape, Rauch’s paintings depict the precipices of progress and the struggles of communication. Electrified by their rich palettes, Rauch’s fragmented landscapes and timeless characters dance between pop and baroque, social and psychological, graphic and painterly.

Born in Leipzig in 1960, Rauch learned his trade behind the Iron Curtain. His influences and interests were shaped by personal hardship and the tumultuous changes of East Germany after the Wall fell. In the late 1980s, having finished his studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Arno Rink and Bernhard Heisig, he explored diverse approaches to painting in dialogue with works he encountered by Francis Bacon, the New Wild painters, and the pre-Renaissance painters he saw during his travels in Italy. By 1993, he had arrived at the unique style of intertwining figuration and abstraction that characterizes his oeuvre and has brought him international attention and respect.

This monograph is the most inclusive collection of Rauch’s work to date. It offers a generous range of his writings that illuminate the personal, symbolic, and formal complexities of the artist’s world. Wolfgang Büscher’s open and sensitive account of a walk through Rauch’s neighborhood reveals the painter’s compassion and modesty. Harald Kunde tracks Rauch’s stylistic development through its main semantic threads and historical influences. Gary Tinterow draws from his work on Rauch’s exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum to offer the reader a guide to the symbols that form the painter’s extensive mythology. These essays complement Rauch’s work with nuanced insights while allowing the images room to speak on their own. Within this atlas, readers will discover the rich density and enigmatic openness of Rauch’s paintings.

This is the standard TASCHEN edition based on the limited first edition.

 

Text in English, French, and German

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Wolfgang Büscher a écrit plusieurs ouvrages et travaille actuellement comme rédacteur dans la section "Dossier" du journal Die Zeit. Ses publications les plus récentes sont les best-sellers: Berlin Moscou, un voyage à pied et Allemagne, un voyage.

Harald Kunde est directeur du Forum d'Art International Ludwig d'Aix-la-Chapelle. Il s'occupe de nombreux projets d'exposition et de publications sur l'art contemporain (dont Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Tacita Dean, Franz Gertsch, Barbara Kruger, Neo Rauch, Roman Signer, Andreas Slominski, Erwin Wurm).

Gary Tinterow est Conservateur en charge du département de l'art du dix-neuvième siècle, de l'art moderne et de l'art contemporain au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York et a, à ce titre, édité de nombreux ouvrages, dont les plus récents sont: Gustave Courbet, Neo Rauch: Para et Cai Guo-Quiang: Monument Transparent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: TASCHEN
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3836535637
• ISBN 13: 9783836535632
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 462
• Éditeur: Holzwarth Hans Werner
• Coordonnées du fabricant: TASCHEN GmbH; contact@taschen.com; ; Hohenzollernring 53. D; K�ln; 50672; Allemagne