{"product_id":"neo-rauch-hardcover","title":"Neo Rauch - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Glover\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive monograph offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch (b. 1960). Rauch's paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism from his upbringing and art-school training in GDR-era Leipzig with the stylistic mannerisms of the Baroque and Romantic past, conjuring heavily populated sites of great commotion and complexity, remarkably without recourse to preliminary drawing. His compositions and their enigmatic figures are rich with reference and allusion, but the stories they tell are indistinct and somehow out of time. They have an ancient modernity--or the freshness of renewed antiquity. Michael Glover discloses Rauch's working methods, revealing how the artist approaches the making of his work, how his images come into being, and the importance of words and their etymology to the creation or disruption of an artwork. These are works that interrogate the very meaning of the artistic impulse; ruminations in the guise of history painting that in fact question what a painter could and should be creating at this particular historical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Glover\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and the visual arts critic and senior feature writer for the \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e. As an arts journalist, he has been a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand a London correspondent for \u003ci\u003eArtNews, New York\u003c\/i\u003e. Recent publications include \u003ci\u003eGreat Works: Encounters with Art, Playing Out in the Wireless Days, Hypothetical May Morning, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMessages to Federico\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 11.2 x 9.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722118205503,"sku":"9781848222939","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/2e961b6667480ee4d470bde345519a91.webp?v=1765094670","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/neo-rauch-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}