ANSELM KIEFER IN CONVERSATION WITH KLAUS DERMUTZ

In the ten conversations with the writer and theologian Klaus Dermutz collected here, Kiefer returns to the essential elements of his art, his aesthetics, and his creative processes. Kiefer describes how the central materials of his artlead, sand, water, fire, ashes, plants, clothing, oil paint, watercolor, and inkinfluence the act of creation. No less decisive are his intellectual and artistic touchstones: the sixteenth-century Jewish mystic Isaac Luria, the German Romantic poet Novalis, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Martin Heidegge...[Leer más]