After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with three blockbuster exhibitions in 2017, the Fondation Beyeler is starting the year 2018 with Georg Baselitz-without a doubt one of the most influential painters and sculptors of our time-is celebrating his eightieth birthday, and the Foundation is devoting an extensive retrospective to this charming provocateur. Many of Baselitz's most important paintings and sculptures from the past six decades will be seen together for the first time. By displaying key works together, on an ...
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After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with three blockbuster exhibitions in 2017, the Fondation Beyeler is starting the year 2018 with Georg Baselitz-without a doubt one of the most influential painters and sculptors of our time-is celebrating his eightieth birthday, and the Foundation is devoting an extensive retrospective to this charming provocateur. Many of Baselitz's most important paintings and sculptures from the past six decades will be seen together for the first time. By displaying key works together, on an equal footing, it becomes easier to perceive the unique wealth of his formal and contextual innovations. Leafing through more than two hundred richly illustrated pages, the reader encounters the beautiful, the ugly, the ambiguous, and the disturbing.
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New. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first and only printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated laminated stiff wrappers with French folds (published only in wraps). Illustrated text (in English and Spanish) by Antoni Marí, Rudi Fuchs, Kay Heymer and Kevin Power. Includes a comprehensive illustrated biography (in English and Spanish), an exhibition history and a bibliography (compiled by Detlev Gretenkort). Designed by Gerardo Delgado and Mar Lissón. 164 pp., with 62 four-color plates, and numerous black and white reference illustrations, beautifully printed by La Polígrafa. 11-11/16 x 9-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1990 exhibition Georg Baselitz organized by Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, and traveling to Centre Cultural de la Fundació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona. Out of print. Scarce. New. This book provides a comprehensive look at the work of Georg Baselitz during the 1980s. The plates are divided into four sections: paintings, drawings, linocuts and sculptures. The accompanying texts are thorough and well-illustrated.