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Item Details
| Title:
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SIGMAR POLKE
AXIAL AGE |
| By: |
Chrissie Iles |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£148.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3865604765 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783865604767 |
| Publisher: |
BUCHHANDLUNG WALTHER KONIG GMBH & CO. KG. ABT. VERLAG |
| Pub. date: |
18 December, 2008 |
| Pages: |
252 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Synopsis: |
Axial Age is the title of a series of seven paintings completed by the influential German artist Sigmar Polke between 2005 and 2007. With his camera, Polke created a fascinating photo documentary of the painting process, including 187 images specially selected by the artist to be featured in this book. Each image is reproduced as a high-quality, full-page color plate. By revealing the materiality and structural complexity of the works from a variety of perspectives and under different lighting conditions, Polke provides the reader with analogies to his oeuvre that are as explicit as they are unique. The title Axial Age is a reference to the term coined by Karl Jaspers to describe the period between 800 BC and 200 BC, during which the world was reinvented based on the principle of transcendence--a concept that finds full expression in this series of paintings. Polke makes use of a broad range of materials in his work, including varnishes and pigments, photographic chemicals, gold and silver, lapis lazuli and malachite--all references to alchemistic processes of transformation. Indeed, with these extensions of painterly techniques, the artist undermines the picture itself, for any shift in perspective or lighting is accompanied by a change in the painting's appearance. |
| Illustrations: |
196 colour illustrations |
| Publication: |
Germany |
| Imprint: |
Buchhandlung Walther Konig GmbH & Co. KG. Abt. Verlag |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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