Anselm Kiefer: The Seven Heavenly Palaces; Author: Essay by Bruderlin, Markus; Performer: Flechtner, Thomas; Hardback; Book

Author: Essay by Bruderlin, Markus; Performer: Flechtner, Thomas
Hardback; Book; 60 Illustrations and Photographs
111 pages
Published: November 2001
Hatje Cantz
ISBN: 3775711252
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Born in the final weeks of World War II -- in what Germans who wished to erase it from collective memory called Year Zero -- Anselm Kiefer has long sought to come to grips with his country's Nazi past. This monograph traces his development as an artist through four blocks of work which reflect the most important currents in his complex oeuvre. Moving chronologically from microcosm to macrocosm, from the intimate spaces of Attic Images in the 70s through the vaster Stone Halls of the early 80s and the archaic-looking clay architectures he created in the 90s, Kiefer's pictorial spacesclimaxed in the endless universes of Images of the Cosmos and Constellations, painted at the close of the century. With the monumental Sunflower Paintings, the progression was complete and he returnedThe essays document Kiefer's development from microcosm to macrocosm with a return to earth with the Sunflower Paintings. The text ends with a section of photographs and an essay which focuses on the architecture and design of Kiefer's studio estate in Barjac.