The Story
This long-awaited monograph traces the development of Georg Baselitz’s unique style over the course of his sixty-year career, during which he redefined the conventions of painting by embracing the human subject at a time when abstraction was the contemporary fashion. Richard Calvocoressi’s masterful chronological narrative unpacks the artist’s work in terms of the historical upheavals Baselitz witnessed—particularly the political and cultural fallout from World War II—alongside his astonishing career.
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This long-awaited monograph traces the development of Georg Baselitz’s unique style over the course of his sixty-year career, during which he redefined the conventions of painting by embracing the human subject at a time when abstraction was the contemporary fashion. Richard Calvocoressi’s masterful chronological narrative unpacks the artist’s work in terms of the historical upheavals Baselitz witnessed—particularly the political and cultural fallout from World War II—alongside his astonishing career.
