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This groundbreaking monograph explores the studios of the important and controversial artist Anselm Kiefer, demonstrating the key role they play in his artistic creations. Gaining entry to an artist's atelier is a rare privilege. Beyond its obvious practical function as a production and storage space, a painter's studio is also a physical representation of the mind and memory of the artist, where living and working spaces combine. In this superbly illustrated volume, Danièle Cohn, who has worked alongside Anselm Kiefer for many years, explains the central role the artist's studios play in his creative process. She reveals how Kiefer's ateliers-their layout and organization, as well as their location-are intrinsic to his work as a painter and sculptor. Readers-by gaining rare access inside Kiefer's ateliers around the world-will discover the influence the various studio spaces have on the creation of Kiefer's works. From the attic of a former school and a disused brickyard in Germany, via an atelier in the rural south of France or the urban setting of the Marais in Paris, to his studio in Croissy-Beaubourg on the outskirts of the French capital, readers are invited inside where they can discern, in situ, how Anselm Kiefer's workspaces have left an imprint on his art.

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<i>Anselm Kiefer: Studios </i>allows us a glimpse into a series of Kiefer's workspaces...actually, its much more than a glimpse, because the photographs in this 296-page book are so well executed that they really to transport you there and put you into a closer proximity with the artist's process...Judgement of the work of art becomes besides the point, because the book allows you to simply be immersed into the process of creation, into the meditative here and now. <i>Style Zeitgeist To enter a painter's studio is a rare privilege and the stuff of dreams, as if access to this intimate place were the key to the very act of creation; we are admitted into the space and virtually participate in the artistic act by our very presence, rather than simply observing from the outside. In <i>Anselm Kiefer: Studios</i>, Daniele Cohn reveals how Anselm Kiefer's studios --and his organization and spatial distribution of them--are essential to his artistic activity as a painter and sculptor. <i>ArtDaily.org</i>

-Anselm Kiefer: Studios allows us a glimpse into a series of Kiefer's workspaces...actually, its much more than a glimpse, because the photographs in this 296-page book are so well executed that they really to transport you there and put you into a closer proximity with the artist's process...Judgement of the work of art becomes besides the point, because the book allows you to simply be immersed into the process of creation, into the meditative here and now.- Style Zeitgeist-To enter a painter's studio is a rare privilege and the stuff of dreams, as if access to this intimate place were the key to the very act of creation; we are admitted into the space and virtually participate in the artistic act by our very presence, rather than simply observing from the outside. In Anselm Kiefer: Studios, Daniele Cohn reveals how Anselm Kiefer's studios --and his organization and spatial distribution of them--are essential to his artistic activity as a painter and sculptor.- ArtDaily.org

To enter a painter's studio is a rare privilege and the stuff of dreams, as if access to this intimate place were the key to the very act of creation; we are admitted into the space and virtually participate in the artistic act by our very presence, rather than simply observing from the outside. In Anselm Kiefer: Studios , Daniele Cohn reveals how Anselm Kiefer's studios --and his organization and spatial distribution of them--are essential to his artistic activity as a painter and sculptor. ArtDaily.org

Anselm Kiefer: Studios allows us a glimpse into a series of Kiefer's workspaces...actually, its much more than a glimpse, because the photographs in this 296-page book are so well executed that they really to transport you there and put you into a closer proximity with the artist's process...Judgement of the work of art becomes besides the point, because the book allows you to simply be immersed into the process of creation, into the meditative here and now. Style Zeitgeist To enter a painter's studio is a rare privilege and the stuff of dreams, as if access to this intimate place were the key to the very act of creation; we are admitted into the space and virtually participate in the artistic act by our very presence, rather than simply observing from the outside. In Anselm Kiefer: Studios , Daniele Cohn reveals how Anselm Kiefer's studios --and his organization and spatial distribution of them--are essential to his artistic activity as a painter and sculptor. ArtDaily.org

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Danièle Cohn is a professor emeritus of visual arts and philosophy of art at the Sorbonne in Paris.

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