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 highly evocative images, reproduced here in full colour, this work is accompanied by three essays by experts - Klaus Gallwitz, Laura Muir and Lisa Saltzman - who approach the book from various ...
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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 highly evocative images, reproduced here in full colour, this work is accompanied by three essays by experts - Klaus Gallwitz, Laura Muir and Lisa Saltzman - who approach the book from various perspectives, explicating its many layers of meaning. 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.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Good+ (Slight edge wear to dj and boards; private-ownership stamp on ffep; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) Gray paper boards, gray pictorial dust jacket, 23 pp. of text, color plates. Reproduces in full 'The Heavenly Palaces: Merkabah, " an important large-scale artist's book created by German painter Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) in 1990. "Featuring highly evocative images beautifully reproduced here in full color, this work is accompanied by three penetrating essays by experts [Timotheus R. Pohl, Klaus Gallwitz, Lisa Saltzman, and Laura Muir] who approach the book from various perspectives, explicating its many layers of meaning to an unprecedented degree." (dj).
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Very good. Very hardcover with jacket. no marks. clean text. good binding. very light wear. ISBN matches listing FAST SHIPPING W/ CONFIRMATION. NO PRIORITY OR INTERNATIONAL ORDERS OVER 4LBs.
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Good. Yale University Press. 2003 oversize hardcover in dust jacket. One page has underlining in a quote from Kiefer's interview with Peter Winter in Art International. Trace of light wear to jacket at corners. Otherwise almost like new.
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New. 0300101228. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--56 pp. With 20 ills. (15 col. ). 37 x 27 cm. --with a bonus offer--
