Per Kirkeby by Klaus Ottmann
Per Kirkeby (b 1938) is Scandinavia's most highly acclaimed artist since August Strindberg and Asger Jorn. His early training as a geologist is evident in his canvases, which are structured like geological strata, constantly in flux, expressing movement and change. This book gives an introduction to the work of this contemporary artist.
“This well-wrought introduction to the Danish painter and sculptor affords sound passage into Kirkeby’s stirring but often oblique world”—Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *
“Wild energy is unshackled in Per Kirkeby’s paintings: earthquakes, infernos, uprooted trees. . . . his paintings suggest a geological layering of time, of ancient unseen forces at work. . . . and his sculptures look yanked from the earth’s core.”—Dana Jennings, New York Times
-- Dana Jennings * The New York TImes *
“Wild energy is unshackled in Per Kirkeby’s paintings: earthquakes, infernos, uprooted trees. . . . his paintings suggest a geological layering of time, of ancient unseen forces at work. . . . and his sculptures look yanked from the earth’s core.”—Dana Jennings, New York Times
-- Dana Jennings * The New York TImes *
Dorothy Kosinski is director of The Phillips Collection. Klaus Ottmann is director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and curator at large at The Phillips Collection.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300181227 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300181221 |
| Title | Per Kirkeby |
| Author | Klaus Ottmann |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2012-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
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