NOTEBOOKS VOLUME I, 1998

The first volume of Notebooks spans the years 1998-1999 and traces the origins and creative process of Kiefers visual works during this period. In this volume, Kiefer returns constantly to his touchstones: sixteenth-century alchemist R. Fludd, German romantic poe t Novalis, M. Heidegger, I. Bachmann, R. Musil, and many other writers and thinkers. The entries reveal the process by which his art works are informed by his readingand vice versaand track the development of the works he created in the late 1990s. The diaries re veal Kiefers...[Read more]