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Title: Georg Baselitz: Naked Masters
Author: SCHULZ-HOFFMAN CARLA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2023
Imprint: HATJE CANTZ
Price: $95.00
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
Georg Baselitz enters a dialogue with the Old Masters – invited by Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, the acclaimed German painter and sculptor engages in a visual conversation. Baselitz himself curated this selection of works, focusing exclusively on nude painting. Both the exhibition and the catalogue revolve around this elemental human state, and its fundamental role in European art.
From the beginning of his career, Baselitz’s work has been informed by a pronounced awareness of art history, above all he was inspired by Mannerism’s break with classical rules. Insights into the history of nude painting, as well into the topicality of painting itself, emerge from this encounter of Baselitz’s works with historical paintings of an idealized beauty from Kunsthistorisches Museum. The carefully chosen juxtapositions open up a space in which one can reflect and experience the essence of painting anew.
ISBN: 9783775754118
Weight: 1960g
Dimension: 300mm X 260mm
Pages: 160