Georg Baselitz - A Life in Print
Georg Baselitz - A Life in Print
The first comprehensive survey of Baselitzās printmakingĀ
Celebrating six decades of print making, A Life In Print is the first comprehensive book on an important part of Georg Baselitzā artistic practice.
Considered to be one of the greatest painters alive and credited to have revived Figuration in a time when Abstraction ruled the art world, the German artist started to explore different print techniques beginning in 1964, and never stopped to see them as an integral part of his work. While his contemporaries used new offset and screen-print techniques to create what amounted to reproductions in often high editions, Baselitz rejected the Zeitgeist and explored century old techniques like dry point etchings, aquatinta, wood and linocuts, while tirelessly pushing his own artistic limits.
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Georg Baselitz - A Life in Print
The first comprehensive survey of Baselitzās printmakingĀ
Celebrating six decades of print making, A Life In Print is the first comprehensive book on an important part of Georg Baselitzā artistic practice.
Considered to be one of the greatest painters alive and credited to have revived Figuration in a time when Abstraction ruled the art world, the German artist started to explore different print techniques beginning in 1964, and never stopped to see them as an integral part of his work. While his contemporaries used new offset and screen-print techniques to create what amounted to reproductions in often high editions, Baselitz rejected the Zeitgeist and explored century old techniques like dry point etchings, aquatinta, wood and linocuts, while tirelessly pushing his own artistic limits.
