Anselm Kiefer

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ANSELM KIEFER: MEMORABILIA
Text by Beate Reifenscheid.
SILVANA EDITORIALE
ISBN: 9788836624546 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2013
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ANSELM KIEFER: LET A THOUSAND FLOWERS BLOOM
Edited by Honey Luard. Text by Alex Danchev.
WHITE CUBE
ISBN: 9781906072650 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2013
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ANSELM KIEFER: ALKAHEST
Edited by Arne Ehmann. Poem by Christoph Ransmayr.
GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC
ISBN: 9783901935459 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2012
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ANSELM KIEFER: GEHEIMNIS DER FARNE
Text by Sabine Lee. Interview by Sue Kim.
KUKJE GALLERY
ISBN: 9788992233187 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 5/31/2011
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ANSELM KIEFER: DIE ARGONAUTEN
Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster.
IVORYPRESS
ISBN: 9788493834005 | US $25.50
Pub Date: 2/28/2011
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ANSELM KIEFER: MARIA WALKS AMID THE THORN
Interview by Klaus Dermutz.
GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC SALZBURG/PARIS
ISBN: 9783901935367 | US $85.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2009
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ANSELM KIEFER: WEGE DER WELTWEISHEIT / DIE FRAUEN DER REVOLUTION
Edited by Klaus Gallwitz. Text by Hans Dickel, Janine Schmutz, Sabine Schütz.
RICHTER VERLAG
ISBN: 9783937572758 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2008
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ANSELM KIEFER: VELIMIR CHLEBNIKOV AND THE SEA
Edited by Harry Philbrick.
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM/DERNEBURG PUBLICATIONS
ISBN: 9781888332292 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 9/1/2006
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ANSELM KIEFER: MERKABA
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881585557 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 9/15/2006
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ANSELM KIEFER
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881581306 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 10/2/1997
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ANSELM KIEFER
Foreword by Herwig Guratzsch. Text by Christoph Ransmayr, Klaus Dermutz, Eva Karcher.
WALTHER KöNIG
ISBN: 9783865604538 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2009
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ANSELM KIEFER: SCULPTURE & PAINTING
Text by Mark Rosenthal, Joseph Thompson.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865604323 | US $48.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2008
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ANSELM KIEFER: MERKABA
Essay by Harold Bloom. Foreword by St. John Perse. Introduction by Ealan Wingate.
GAGOSIAN GALLERY
ISBN: 9781880154830 | US $80.00
Pub Date: 4/2/2003
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ANSELM KIEFER: THE SEVEN HEAVENLY PALACES
Essay by Markus Brüderlin.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775711258 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 2/2/2002
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Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer: Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

Edited by Honey Luard. Text by Alex Danchev.
Published by White Cube

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom gathers the eponymous series of paintings by Anselm Kiefer (born 1945), begun in 2000 and derived from photographs taken on a trip to China in 1993. The title refers to a common misquotation of a phrase of Chairman Mao’s (“Let a hundred flowers bloom”). Kiefer’s abundantly blooming landscapes illustrate this expression, and reflect on the bitterly ironic disparity between Mao’s espousal of plurality and his massive suppression of dissent. In some paintings, the figure of Mao can be seen either painted within the landscape, emerging from the flowers his hand in a beckoning salute or, in some cases, painted on a section of canvas placed either above the central panel or on one side. Published for Kiefer’s exhibition at White Cube Hong Kong, this clothbound volume reproduces these paintings and two sculptures of bicycles crushed by books.

Anselm Kiefer: Memorabilia

Text by Beate Reifenscheid.
Published by Silvana Editoriale

Presenting highlights from the breadth of Anselm Kiefer’s (born 1945) career to date, Memorabilia looks at themes of remembrance, loss, historical evocation and reference to mythology in the artist’s oeuvre. Kiefer is a modernist in his tendency to freight his paintings and bookworks with allusions that demand literacy and active explication on the viewer’s part; as author Dieter Ronte puts it, “Kiefer is both an enlightener and a poet … he requires education and the willingness to learn and experience new things with him.” Memorabilia thus goes to the emotional and intellectual heart of the artist’s work. Published for an exhibition at the Museum Ludwig (based on the collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig), this themed Kiefer overview includes 100 color reproductions.

Anselm Kiefer: Alkahest

Edited by Arne Ehmann. Poem by Christoph Ransmayr.
Published by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Among the many artists who have broached the motifs and themes of alchemy, Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) is pre-eminent in his concern with the transformation of earthly elements such as oil, straw, lead, mercury, stone, metal, rust and mud. Alkahest documents the artist’s latest series of both monumental and smaller paintings, as well as sculptures, which explore the titular alchemical term. Kiefer defines the term and his uses of it thus: “’Alkahest’ signifies that there is a solution which can dilute any substance. Dilution is of course something very important for me. I often lay pictures on the floor and pour water over them, or pour on water that has paint dissolved in it. So I’m exposing them to dilution.” Alkahest features color reproductions of the series as well as a poem by Christopher Ransmayr.

Anselm Kiefer

Text by Herfried Münkler, Sean Rainbird, et al.
Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The innovation of Anselm Kiefer's majestic art has been to combine history painting's grandeur of scale and concept with Abstract Expressionism's emphatic materiality and worked surface. This unusual combination has made for works of Wagnerian ambition, as Kiefer draws on German history, literature and mythology to attack what Herfried Münkler, writing in the Louisiana Museum's new Kiefer monograph, describes as a uniquely German bourgeois yearning for "clear patterns of behavior defined by virtues and values." The tragic dimensions of this yearning bestow upon Kiefer's post-Holocaust canvases an immense gravity, conveyed through a sober, murky palette and scrawled poetical inscriptions. Kiefer often burns materials, or adds sand, to embellish this mood of weathered decay. This new monograph surveys works from the beginning of Kiefer's career in the late 1960s (including spreads of his early book works) to 2010.

Anselm Kiefer: Geheimnis der Farne

Text by Sabine Lee. Interview by Sue Kim.
Published by Kukje Gallery

Internationally celebrated for his unsparing formal investigations into the psychology of tragedy, Anselm Kiefer's work has always been rooted fundamentally in the metaphor of rebirth, rendered through his epic-scaled vision of nature. Nowhere is this vision better illustrated than in Geheimnis der Farne (Secrets of the Fern), a monumental series of relief paintings that elaborate the motif of the world's oldest plant--the fern--amid evocations of earth and coagulated matter. This beautiful new monograph from Kukje Gallery in Seoul reproduces the series in full-color gatefolds, offering close scrutiny of this exquisite and dramatic work. Also included are reproductions of recent works on canvas that use such materials as shellac, clay and lead, and sculptures such as the sculpture of seven lead books heaped up on a rock pedestal, that was exhibited in Kiefer's acclaimed exhibition at the Louvre in 2007. Please note that only a limited quantity of this volume is available.

Anselm Kiefer: Die Argonauten

Edited by Elena Ochoa Foster.
Published by Ivorypress

Anselm Kiefer's Die Argonauten series was inspired by a casual dinner with friends. At the end of a meal, the artist noted the table's resemblance to a battlefield, and this quickly led him to delve into the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Despite the unlikely informality of the original prompt, Kiefer's choice to reinterpret the hero Jason's quest for the golden fleece continues central motifs in his work of violence, chauvinism and systems of power--derived, as ever, from the artist's assiduous study of poetry, mythology and cultural history. The project evolved into an installation composed of various totemic objects and weathered remnants, left over, so it appears, from Jason's quest. The third publication in Ivory Press' Liber artis series, Anselm Kiefer: Die Argonauten reproduces this ambitious series for the first time, along with a text by the artist.

Anselm Kiefer

Foreword by Herwig Guratzsch. Text by Christoph Ransmayr, Klaus Dermutz, Eva Karcher.
Published by Walther König

This monograph presents, for the first time, detailed examinations of 18 works by Kiefer, all culled from the renowned Grossman collection. Of special note is Kiefer's 2001 36-page lead and acrylic book dedicated to the seventeenth-century English mystic Robert Fludd. In German only.

Anselm Kiefer: Maria Walks amid the Thorn

Interview by Klaus Dermutz.
Published by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg/Paris

Published to accompany German Expressionist Anselm Kiefer's 2008 exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, this exquisitely produced volume features black-and-white documentary photographs of the artist and his fabled indoor-outdoor Paris studio, a very generous selection of color reproductions and details and an insightful interview of Kiefer by Klaus Dermutz. The work itself is a cycle of roughly 30 paintings and one sculpture from 2007 and 2008 that deal with the biblical figure of the Virgin Mary. Its title, which translates as Maria Walks amid the Thorn, refers to an old German Christmas carol that has been popular for the better part of the past century. Some of the works in this important new cycle were started in the 1970s and completed in recent months with Keifer's unique "sedimenting" method.

Anselm Kiefer: Sculpture & Painting

From the Hall Collection

Text by Mark Rosenthal, Joseph Thompson.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Anselm Kiefer creates works of art that invoke recent historical lessons in tragedy and human folly for a generation that might prefer to ignore the past. Visually overwhelming and sublime in scale, Kiefer's work sits at the juncture of historical confrontation and allegorical redemption. A collaborative endeavor between Derneberg Publications, the Hall Collection and MASS MoCA, Sculpture and Painting presents a selection of works from the Fairfield, Connecticut-based Hall Collection, and spans the past three decades of Kiefer's practice. It includes 14 individual plates, installation views of MASS MoCA's exhibition and comprehensive details of the works. A foreword by Joseph Thompson, Director of MASS MoCA, presents Kiefer's work as both passionate and cautionary, while art historian Mark Rosenthal's essay likens Kiefer's works to the labors of a war poet, simultaneously despairing and demanding.

Anselm Kiefer: Wege der Weltweisheit / Die Frauen der Revolution

Edited by Klaus Gallwitz. Text by Hans Dickel, Janine Schmutz, Sabine Schütz.
Published by Richter Verlag

Since the 1970s, Anselm Kiefer has explored existential issues in monumental canvases, woodcuts, photo sequences and lead-bound tomes. He is one of the most important and best-known post-war German painters. This volume explores two recent bodies of work, Hermann's Battle and The Women of the French Revolution.

Anselm Kiefer: Velimir Chlebnikov and the Sea

Edited by Harry Philbrick.
Published by The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum/Derneburg Publications

Born in Germany in 1945, Anselm Kiefer is one of Europe's most esteemed expressionistic painters, known for his exploration of the deep, mythological currents that guide Western history. This catalogue reproduces what is perhaps the most significant project that Kiefer has presented in the United States in 20 years. Called "magnificent," and "powerful" by London's Daily Telegraph, Velimir Chlebnikov is a monumental suite of 30 new paintings housed inside a steel pavilion designed by the artist. Made in tribute to the visionary Russian avant-garde philosopher Velimir Chlebnikov (1885-1922), the works are inspired by Chlebnikov's writings--in particular, his esoteric theories about the forces that cause human conflict. Featuring reproductions of the paintings, installation shots and an texts by Harry Philbrick of The Aldrich Museum, this publication is the definitive record of the Chlebnikov project, which is now housed in a private collection and unavailable to the public. Limited stock available.

Anselm Kiefer: Merkaba

Essays by Lia Rumma, Marco Belpoliti, Roberto Andreotti, Frederico De Melis and Fabrizio Tramontano.
Published by Charta

In the chaos of Milan's swiftly-converting industrial quarter, one massive space has been set aside for contemporary art. Merkaba documents Hangar Bicocca's first installation, the seven title towers, from the prototype stage to installation by cranes and pulleys to the spotlight. Each precarious-looking spire of cement and lead boxes has a name of its own as well. "Falling Stars," "Sternenlager," "Die Sefiroth," "Tzim-Tzum," "Shevirat Ha-Kelim," "Tiqqun" and "The Seven Heavenly Palaces." Their towering silhouettes, some as many as 50 feet high, are as mystical as their titles suggest, but they also seem to make reference to all that is changing and staying the same in the city where they stand, home both to early sacred and secular towers and contemporary skyscrapers. Kiefer, known best for his reckonings with German history, proves that he can work the same alchemy elsewhere.

Anselm Kiefer: Merkaba

Essay by Harold Bloom. Foreword by St. John Perse. Introduction by Ealan Wingate.
Published by Gagosian Gallery

According to the Kabbala, the Merkaba and Hechaloth literature deals specifically with the ascent to the seven heavenly palaces or temples, which represent the seven attainments of divine spirituality. Kiefer's spiritual architecture of the heavenly palaces bring the seas and land, heavens and earth back together. His poetry of images unites NASA's cosmological ordering of the stars with the mystical ordering of the ascent.

Anselm Kiefer: The Seven Heavenly Palaces

Essay by Markus Brüderlin.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

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 spaces climaxed 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 returned to earth. Also included are photographs by Thomas Flechtner which document the greenhouses, underground corridor systems, and installations realized by Kiefer at his studio estate in Barjac since 1993.

Anselm Kiefer

Artwork by Anselm Kiefer. Edited by Germano Celant. Contributions by Massimo Cacciari, Christian Boltanski.
Published by Charta

This monograph presents Kiefer's complete work to date, reproduced in full color.