Anselm Kiefer in conversation with Klaus Dermutz

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• Anselm Kiefer

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• 272 Seiten
• 10 Lesestunden

• Kunst & Kultur

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"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost." Anselm Kiefer, the only visual artist to win the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, is a deeply literary painter. In ten conversations with writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz, Kiefer explores the core elements of his art, aesthetics, and creative processes. He reflects on how the materials he uses—lead, sand, water, fire, ashes, plants, clothing, oil paint, watercolor, and ink—shape his artistic expression. Kiefer also discusses his intellectual influences, including the sixteenth-century Jewish mystic Isaac Luria, German Romantic poet Novalis, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Martin Heidegger, Marcel Proust, Adalbert Stifter, Richard Wagner's operas, the Catholic liturgy, and theater director Tadeusz Kantor. The conversations delve into Kiefer's controversial status, marked by his exploration of German history, themes of guilt, suffering, communal memory, and the allure of destruction, which have garnered both criticism and acclaim. This collection provides a rare glimpse into the mind of a gifted creator, appealing to artists, critics, art historians, cultural journalists, and those interested in the visual arts and twentieth-century literature and history.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019