Known for his monumental painting and installations, the internationally celebrated artist Anselm Kiefer's works are marked by a constant questioning of history and collective memory. Born in Germany two months before the Nazi capitulation in 1945, Kiefer's reflections on postwar identity, loss, and shared experience, nourished by myths and literature, create an unparalleled breadth of imagery. The use of photography as both practice and source material is a little-known aspect of Kiefer's art that has played a central role throughout his career. In the Beginning presents over 130 works charting the artist's relationship with photography and his investigations into what images reveal.

In the Beginning: Anselm Kiefer & Photography

Arts & Photography

BASTIAN, Heiner

Weikop, Christian

Delot, Sébastien

DE LOISY, JEAN

Individual Artists

Thames&Hudson

Based on close archival research, Christian Weikop (main author and guest editor) uncovers unknown and exciting narratives, as well as artist networks, concerning this provocative 1970 exhibition, held at ECA. The author has previously considered the British press reception of SGA in an article for Tate Papers, but this Studies in Photography-EUP book publication goes far beyond that article and any other scholarship on the exhibition by taking into account (for the first time) the contributions of all 35 artists based in Düsseldorf, and incorporating testimony of individuals who were involved in this landmark exhibition, or who were later engaged in archive exhibitions or recreation projects. Weikop explores the formation of the exhibition in the context of a late 1960s culture of protests and occupations, and demonstrates that SGA was a pivotal 'Shock of the New' moment that would leave its mark on art education.

Strategy: Get Arts: 35 Artists Who Broke the Rules (Studies in Photography)

History & Criticism

Edinburgh University Press

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<li>Emil Nolde covers the complete career of one of the greatest colorists of the twentieth century, from atmospheric paintings of immense landscapes to intensely colored works dating from the Third Reich</li>
<li>Few overviews of Nolde's career in English are currently in print</li>
<li>Accompanies a traveling exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Ireland and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art </li>
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Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was one of the greatest colorists of the twentieth century. An artist passionate about his north German home near the Danish border, with its immense skies, flat, windswept landscapes and storm-tossed seas, he was equally fascinated by the demi-monde of Berlin's cafés and cabarets, the busy to and fro of tugboats in the port of Hamburg and the myriad of peoples and places he saw on his trip to the South Seas in 1914. Nolde felt strongly about what he painted, identifying with his subjects in every brushstroke he made, heightening his colors and simplifying his shapes, so that we, the viewers, can also experience his emotional response to the world about him. This is what makes Nolde one of Germany's greatest expressionist artists. 
This book, comprising five essays, has over 100 illustrations drawn from the incomparable collection of the Emil Nolde Foundation in Seebüll (the artist's former home in north Germany). It covers Nolde's complete career, from his early atmospheric paintings of his homeland right through to the intensely colored, so-called 'unpainted paintings', works done on small pieces of paper during the Third Reich when Nolde was branded a 'degenerate'.

Emil Nolde: Colour is Life

Hartley, Keith

Rainbird, Sean

Blythe, Frances

Becker, Astrid

National Galleries Of Scotland

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