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Anselm Kiefer : the heavenly palaces, Merkabah / edited by Peter Nisbet ; with essays by Klaus Gallwitz, Lisa Saltzman, and Laura Muir.

Contributor(s): Series: Harvard University Art Museums seriesPublication details: Cambridge : Harvard University Art Museums ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003.Description: 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 37 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300101228
  • 9780300101225
  • 1891771302
  • 9781891771309
Other title:
  • Heavenly palaces, Merkabah
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.2 22
LOC classification:
  • N7433.4.K475 H43 2003
Other classification:
  • 21.42
Online resources:
Contents:
Editor's preface / Peter Nisbet -- " ... in honor of Arend Oetker" / Timotheus R. Pohl -- Earthly and heavenly palaces: memories of the brickworks in Höpfingen / Klaus Gallwitz -- Reading Anselm Kiefer's book. Die Himmelspaläste: Merkaba / Lisa Saltzman -- Surface tension: Anselm Kiefer and the photograph / Laura Muir -- Anselm Kiefer's The heavenly palaces: Merkabah -- Exhibition and publication history.
Review: "While most major museums in the United States and abroad hold examples of the German artist Anselm Kiefer's work, the nature and extent of his achievement are the subject of intense debate. This volume reproduces in full The Heavenly Palaces, Merkabah, an important large-scale artist's book created by Kiefer in 1990. Featuring images reproduced here in full color, this work is accompanied by three essays by experts who approach the book from various perspectives, explicating its many layers of meaning to an unprecedented degree." "The first essay deals impressionistically with the motifs and iconography of The Heavenly Palaces Merkabah. The next treats its themes and meaning, concentrating especially on Jewish references and resonances, an especially challenging aspect of this German artist's oeuvre. In the final essay, the importance of the medium of photography is addressed by surveying its use by Kiefer since the beginning of his career."--Jacket.
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Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt Fine Arts (LOWER Level) N 7433.4 .K475 H43 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 80630

Includes bibliographical references.

Editor's preface / Peter Nisbet -- " ... in honor of Arend Oetker" / Timotheus R. Pohl -- Earthly and heavenly palaces: memories of the brickworks in Höpfingen / Klaus Gallwitz -- Reading Anselm Kiefer's book. Die Himmelspaläste: Merkaba / Lisa Saltzman -- Surface tension: Anselm Kiefer and the photograph / Laura Muir -- Anselm Kiefer's The heavenly palaces: Merkabah -- Exhibition and publication history.

"While most major museums in the United States and abroad hold examples of the German artist Anselm Kiefer's work, the nature and extent of his achievement are the subject of intense debate. This volume reproduces in full The Heavenly Palaces, Merkabah, an important large-scale artist's book created by Kiefer in 1990. Featuring images reproduced here in full color, this work is accompanied by three essays by experts who approach the book from various perspectives, explicating its many layers of meaning to an unprecedented degree." "The first essay deals impressionistically with the motifs and iconography of The Heavenly Palaces Merkabah. The next treats its themes and meaning, concentrating especially on Jewish references and resonances, an especially challenging aspect of this German artist's oeuvre. In the final essay, the importance of the medium of photography is addressed by surveying its use by Kiefer since the beginning of his career."--Jacket.

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