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Book SynopsisRichard Calvocoressi is currently a director at Gagosian Gallery, and is a former Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. He wrote the catalogue text for Baselitz's first exhibition in a commercial gallery in London, and in 1983 was author of the main catalogue essay for his first retrospective in Britain at the Whitechapel Gallery. As curator responsible for German art at Tate, Calvocoressi was instrumental in the acquisition of his works for the UK national collection.
Trade Review'Brilliantly illustrated and documented by the fine narrative provided here by esteemed author and interlocutor Richard Calvocoressi' - The World of Interiors
'Beautifully written with revealing insight into the artist’s motivations at each stage, it is the most authoritative work on Baselitz to date' - The Art Newspaper
'Beautifully illustrated' - The Telegraph
'Elegantly written and splendidly illustrated, this is by far the best study of Baselitz in English' - The Spectator
'Meticulous … With its grasp of the relevant art-historical readings and cultural-historic issues, and its compelling readings of so many individual works, this new, definitive publication is a masterclass' - The Times Literary Supplement
'Sumptuously illustrated … Calvocoressi’s achievement is to blend art and biography into what will prove to be a useful first monograph in English on this major German artist' - The Burlington Magazine
Table of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Early Years: Third Reich and East Germany 1938 – 1956 • 2. West Berlin: Finding a Voice 1957 – 1965 • 3. Rural isolation: Osthoven and Forst 1966 – 1974 • 4. Schloss Derneburg: from New York to the Venice Biennale 1975 – 1980 • 5. International recognition: from A New Spirit in Painting to the fall of the Wall 1981 – 1989 • 6. Reunification and reassessment 1990 – 2004 • 7. Remix: mortality and later work 2005 –
