Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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... Kiefer's work is the fruit of that process . In some respects its " look " even resembles Beuys - he loves the same materials , the rusty iron fittings , the lead , the bathtubs , the magical body of a victimized world . But Kiefer's ...
... Kiefer's work is the fruit of that process . In some respects its " look " even resembles Beuys - he loves the same materials , the rusty iron fittings , the lead , the bathtubs , the magical body of a victimized world . But Kiefer's ...
Page 332
... Kiefer's most humanly poignant cluster of images was provoked by " Death Fugue , " a poem written in a German concentration camp by Paul Celan , which runs in part : death is a master from Germany his eye is blue be strikes you with ...
... Kiefer's most humanly poignant cluster of images was provoked by " Death Fugue , " a poem written in a German concentration camp by Paul Celan , which runs in part : death is a master from Germany his eye is blue be strikes you with ...
Page 333
... Kiefer conflates him with awkward portraits of all manner of later Ger- man " descendants , " including Gebhardt von Blücher , who fought against Napoleon , and Alfred von Schlieffen , whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe ...
... Kiefer conflates him with awkward portraits of all manner of later Ger- man " descendants , " including Gebhardt von Blücher , who fought against Napoleon , and Alfred von Schlieffen , whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe ...
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