Per Kirkeby |
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| Editor:
| Borchardt-Hume, Achim |
| Contribution by:
| Shiff, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-1-85437-821-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Publisher: | Tate Publishing, Limited
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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Born in Denmark in 1938, Per Kirkeby gained renown as a leading figure in the New Painting movement of the 1980s, alongside artists such as Georg Baselitz and A.R. Penck. Kirkeby’s fervent excavation of art history across a range of styles and media reflect his training as a geologist. This lavishly illustrated book, the most comprehensive volume on Kirkeby ever published in English, traces the trajectory of an artistic career that has spanned half a century....
More Description Born in Denmark in 1938, Per Kirkeby gained renown as a leading figure in the New Painting movement of the 1980s, alongside artists such as Georg Baselitz and A.R. Penck. Kirkeby’s fervent excavation of art history across a range of styles and media reflect his training as a geologist. This lavishly illustrated book, the most comprehensive volume on Kirkeby ever published in English, traces the trajectory of an artistic career that has spanned half a century.
Beginning with Kirkeby’s early history paintings and moving through his engagement with Pop Art, sculpture, large-scale "heroic” paintings, and his pastoral "Walden” series of the 1990s, the book contrasts his monumental works with previously unpublished small-scale watercolors of Greenland landscapes, etchings, and the blackboards on which Kirkeby mapped out his ideas. With a newly commissioned essay by Richard Shiff, an interview with the artist conducted by curator Achim Borchardt-Hume, and a selection of Kirkeby’s own extensive writings, the book provides invaluable insight into the mind of an inimitable artist.