Georg Baselitz: The Heroes - Hardcover
Georg Baselitz spent the formative years of his painting career in West Germany, where an early impetus behind his work was the question of the country’s still-troubled national identity and the discontinuity of the self and society. Between 1965 and 1966, Baselitz created the masterworks in his monumental Heroes and New Types series. Georg Baselitz: The Heroes reproduces the series in full-color with close readings of the paintings with regard to their artistic style and historical context.
The paintings in Georg Baselitz: The Heroes reflect a deep ambivalence toward German culture during the time in which the young artist created the series. In these now-classic scenes, military characters are portrayed as fundamentally contradictory figures, wounded and with their fatigues in tatters, their failures engraved on tormented faces. These images contrast sharply with the economic and political success of postwar West Germany. At the same time, the series served as a forceful formulation of the artist’s position in relation to society.
Reproducing the boldly outspoken series, Georg Baselitz: The Heroes collects the artist’s earliest statements on the theme of growing up against the fractured landscape of postwar Germany, a theme that has continued to be developed and refined throughout the artist’s remarkable body of work.
The paintings in Georg Baselitz: The Heroes reflect a deep ambivalence toward German culture during the time in which the young artist created the series. In these now-classic scenes, military characters are portrayed as fundamentally contradictory figures, wounded and with their fatigues in tatters, their failures engraved on tormented faces. These images contrast sharply with the economic and political success of postwar West Germany. At the same time, the series served as a forceful formulation of the artist’s position in relation to society.
Reproducing the boldly outspoken series, Georg Baselitz: The Heroes collects the artist’s earliest statements on the theme of growing up against the fractured landscape of postwar Germany, a theme that has continued to be developed and refined throughout the artist’s remarkable body of work.
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Max Hollein is director of the Schirn Kunsthalle, Städel Museum, and Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, all in Frankfurt.
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- PublisherHirmer Publishers
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 3777425680
- ISBN 13 9783777425689
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages160
- EditorHollein Max, Mongi-Vollmer Eva
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Book Description Condition: Neu. Neu -Georg Baselitz schuf 1965/66 die monumentale Serie der »Helden« und »Neuen Typen«, die er in wilder Farbigkeit und aggressiv-trotzigem Stil präsentierte. Mit der Hinwendung zur Tradition der figürlichen Malerei stand er in eklatantem Kontrast zu den vorherrschenden abstrakt-expressionistischen Tendenzen der 1960er-Jahre und beschritt einen singulären Weg. In seiner skeptischen Grundhaltung zum Nachkriegsdeutschland betont Baselitz (\* 1938) in seinen Werken die ambivalenten Aspekte seiner Gegenwart. Entsprechend widersprüchlich wirken seine »Helden« im zerschlissenen Kampfanzug, denen ihr Scheitern ebenso eingeschrieben ist wie ihre Resignation. Der Kontrast zur bundesrepublikanischen Erfolgsgeschichte des Wirtschaftswunders konnte schärfer kaum sein, doch es ging um mehr: Mit dieser Werkgruppe reflektierte der Maler seine eigene Position im Verhältnis zu dieser Gesellschaft. Es war die Selbstbehauptung und Identitätsbestimmung des Künstlers, die auf dem Spiel stand und die Baselitz mit Wucht formulierte. (Text engl.)\\nPreisänderung: 16.01.2024 VergleichspreisMax: 39,95 166 pp. Englisch. Seller Inventory # 1506862
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. In 1965/66 Georg Baselitz created the monumental series "The Heroes" and "New Types", which he presented in wild colour and with defiant style. By turning his attention towards the tradition of representational painting his work formed a striking contrast to the trends towards abstraction and Expressionism prevailing during the 1960s, thereby embarking on his own unique path. In his sceptical basic attitude towards post-war Germany Baselitz (* 1938) emphasised in his works the ambivalent aspects of the present in which he lived. His "Heroes" appear correspondingly contradictory with their military fatigues in tatters, their failure as deeply engraved as their resignation. The contrast to the success story of Western Germany's economic miracle could hardly be more sharply defined, but there is more at stake: with this group of works the artist reflected his own position in relation to society. It was the artist's self-assertion and determination of identity that were at stake and that Baselitz formulated so forcefully. In 1965/66 Georg Baselitz created the monumental series "The Heroes" and "New Types", which he presented in wild colour and with defiant style. By turning his attention towards the tradition of representational painting his work formed a striking contrast to the trends towards abstraction and Expressionism prevailing during the 1960s, thereby embarking on his own unique path. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9783777425689
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