Volume 39, Number 4 · February 13, 1992
The Alchemist
By Jack Flam
Anselm Kiefer
by Mark Rosenthal
Prestel Verlag, 171 pp., $55.00 (paper)
The Books of Anselm Kiefer, 1969-1990
edited by Götz Adriani, translated by Bruni Mayor
Braziller, 378 pp., $95.00
Anselm Kiefer: The High Priestess
foreword by Anne Seymour, essay by Armin Zweite
Abrams, 226 pp., $95.00
Anselm Kiefer: Lilith
essay by Doreet LeVitte Harten
Marian Goodman Gallery, 51 pp., $45.00 (paper)
Anselm Kiefer: Jason
essay by John Hutchinson
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, unpaged pp., £12.50 (paper)
Anselm Kiefer, born in Germany in 1945, has come to be recognized as one of the leading artists of his generation. He is also among its most controversial, because of his obsessive use of themes from Germanic myth and history, and especially because of his use of imagery related to Nazism.
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