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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Sir Norman Rosenthal is an independent curator and art historian. He was Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy, London from 1977 to 2008.
For his eightieth birthday: a new catalogue from Georg Baselitz. The star German painter has a show at the Fondation Beyeler as well as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with three blockbuster exhibitions in 2017, the Fondation Beyeler is starting the new year with Georg Baselitz. The artist, 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 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, on an equal footing, it becomes easier to perceive the unique wealth of his formal and contextual innovations. Leafing through 280 richly illustrated pages, the reader encounters the beautiful, the ugly, the ambiguous, and the disturbing.
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 266 pages. Retrospective monograph produced in conjunction an exhibition that ran January 21 through April 28, 2018 at the Fondation Beyeler and June 21 through September 16, 2018 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Text in English. Features a foreword by Sam Keller and Melissa Chiu, and texts by Martin Schwander, Christian Spies, Stephanie Aquin, Eva Mongi-Vollmer, Rudi Fuchs, Norman Rosenthal, Carla Schulz-Hoffman, and Steven Henry Madoff along with the text of Schwander's interview of Baselitz. Includes numerous illustrations, biographical information, and a checklist. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy of one of the better books on Baselitz. Please note that this is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Seller Inventory # 210536
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 268 pages. Hardcover. Texts in English. Mild and minimal shelfwear rubbing to the edges, with a bit more wear along the edges of the dustjacket (although now encased in a protective Mylar sleeve). Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Bound in printed paper covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from January 21-April 29, 2018 in Richen/Basel, and subsequently at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington from June 21-September 16, 2018. Book. Seller Inventory # 029996
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