Erotik im Fernen Osten Oder: Transition from cool to warm

Kiefer, Anselm (author); Jurgen Harten (preface)

ISBN 10: 0807615749 / ISBN 13: 9780807615744

Edité par George Braziller Inc. / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2006

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First edition, second printing, with the alternative dust jacket, as pictured. Illustrated boards, beige and color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 84 (4) pp. Color illustrations. This is a series of delicately executed watercolors - landscapes and a surprising sequence of female nudes. In 1974 Kiefer traveled to the coast of Norway; three years later, using photographs he had taken during his trip as an aide-memoire, he painted Erotik im Fernen, a work that incorporates his deepest aesthetic and philosophical concerns. In these seascapes and landscapes there are icebergs and frigid skies of Norwegian winters. The sequence gives way to female nudes. There is a virtual explosion of color and form that evokes seasonal changes. The spontaneity and simplicity of these images are expressions of Kiefer's warning against intellectual, as opposed to visceral, understanding. -Fine in a fine Jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Erotik im Fernen Osten Oder: Transition from cool to warm
• Éditeur: George Braziller Inc. / Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0807615749
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780807615744
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 2nd Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
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Synopsis

Anselm Kiefer is best known for his brooding forests and somber fields encrusted with debris, and for his haunted monuments reeking of the Nazi past. This series of delicately executed watercolorslandscapes and a surprising sequence of erotic nudesreveals a wholly different side to the artist.

In 1974 Kiefer traveled to the coast of Norway. Three years later, using photographs he had taken during his trip as an aide-memoire, he painted Erotik im Fernen Osten oder: Transition from cool to warm, a work that incorporates his deepest aesthetic and philosophical concerns. In these lyrically expressive seascapes and landscapes, the icebergs and frigid skies of Norwegian winters are rendered in deep blue, violet, and purple tones. As the sequence gives way to lush female nudes, the palette grows brighter, and there is a virtual explosion of color and form that evokes seasonal changes. The spontaneity and simplicity of these images are expressions of Kiefer's warning against intellectual, as opposed to visceral, understanding.

With splendid reproductions of each of the series' sixty-five watercolors, as well as images from two other books by the artist, this publication demonstrates Kiefer's brilliant use of the book form as a means of artistic expression. 95 color illustrations.