Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz "I think in pictures. They are like buoys in the sea. Poems help me with this. In between, without them, I am lost. I swim to them, from one to the…
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Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
"I think in pictures. They are like buoys in the sea. Poems help me with this.
In between, without them, I am lost. I swim to them, from one to the other. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse."--Anselm KieferThe only visual artist to have won the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, Anselm Kiefer is a profoundly literary painter.
In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes.Kiefer describes how the central materials of his art--lead, sand, water, fire, ashes, plants, clothing, oil paint, watercolor, and ink--influence the act of creation. No less decisive are his intellectual and artistic touchstones: the sixteenth-century Jewish mystic Isaac Luria, the German Romantic poet