Georg Baselitz
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 2007, a brilliant retrospective exhibition of the work of Georg Baselitz opened at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. It was curated by Norman Rosenthal, who had first exhibited paintings by Baselitz in the early 1970’s. Baselitz traveled to London to lecture at the Academy and revisits his exhibition together with Rosenthal. They discuss the work, paintings and sculptures, and the artist’s beginnings and progress. In the course...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Narrated by critic Donald Kuspit, A NEW SPIRIT IN PAINTING: 6 PAINTERS OF THE 1980's explores the creative paths being forged by a collection of modern artists. Through observations of their pieces and intimate discussions ignited by the meaning behind the work, we gain a rare insight into the minds behind the rousing new wave of painting. Often times dark and daring in their aesthetic, the artists have recovered myth, history, symbols and eroticism...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
During the Cold War (1949-89) in both Germanys, the creation of art, its reception, and its theorization were closely linked to their respective political systems: the Western liberal democracy of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the Eastern communist dictatorship of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In reaction against the legacy of Nazism, both Germanys revived pre-World War II German artistic traditions. This exhibition examines the...
