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All Things Germany (151) Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
One of the most important artistic movements in recent years is chronicled and showcased in this dynamic work.Born in Germany in the years following the collapse of the Communist regime, the New Leipzig School started when a group of classmates at the Leipzig Academy rediscovered figurative art. Their paintings reflected the melancholy that pervaded East Germany as it struggled with capitalism, high unemployment and depopulation. Fifteen year later, paintings by the Leipzig school and its related movement, Dresden Pop, are conquering the international art market. The authors take on this important trend one painter at a time. They examine each artist's oeuvre on its own merit and consider various factors behind the movements--the onset of the digital age, social disillusionment and individual protest. Breathtaking reproductions allow readers to form their own ideas about what constitutes and drives new German painting, and understand its significance around the world. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The two essays are interesting and informative, but not always the easiest reading - perhaps because of the translation from German, but also not helped by the typography. While the pages look very pleasing visually, the English text (which runs side by side with the German in the page, a column each) is set in a small, very light face and appears against a pale yellow ground, not making it easy to see. Matters get slightly worse in the section The Artists, here the English text is actually printed in grey (The German test is in black).
The main section The Artists looks at each artist in turn providing brief information in list form on Training and Teaching, and Selected Exhibitions. There is then a brief narrative amounting to a few paragraphs about the artist's work, and shown are four or five examples of each artists' work. The latter is as far as I am concerned where this book shines, the images are fresh and clear with vibrant colours, and shown to advantage on the page, most are a good size and a few occupy a double page.
There are thirty two artists represented here, some names familiar (at least to me), Norbert Bisky, Tim Itel, Eberhard Havekost, Neo Rauch, Daniel Richter, and others who's work is familiar if not in name. The work is an exciting selection, varied and in almost all instances with a figurative (i.e. representational) foundation, even if at times far removed. (