Georg Baselitz: Collected Writings and Interviews

by Georg Baselitz (Artist), Detlev Gretenkort (Editor), Frédérique Goerig-Hergott (Preface by)

Overview

An updated and expanded edition of the painter's writings and conversations

This expanded edition of the 2010 Ridinghouse anthology brings together more than 30 writings by, and interviews with, the German painter Georg Baselitz (born 1938), spanning from 1961 to today.
Known for his rebellious approach to Abstract Expressionism, here Baselitz discusses the impression his paintings convey, the act of painting, his biography and much more.
The texts shift between these personal pieces--some of which have never been published before in English--to interviews with Baselitz and a variety of critics and art historians. These conversations present a different voice as he responds to careful and critical questions about his work.
This updated anthology boasts a redesign, a new introduction and plate section, as well as over 10 new texts and interviews from 2010 to 2020, including "Notes from the Field," "About Bateke," "Avignon," "Academy Rousseau" and "For Elke," as well as conversations with Cornelius Tittel and Hartwig Fischer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909932616
Publisher:	Ridinghouse
Publication date:	11/08/2022
Pages:	424
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Jill Lloyd 9

Pandemonic Manifesto I Second version, 1961 22

Dear Mr. W.! 24

Why the Painting The Great Friends is a Good Picture! 26

Georg Baselitz in conversation Evelyn Weiss 28

Four Wails and Skylight or Rather No Picture on the Wall at All 35

The Upside-Down Object 40

Georg Baselitz in conversation Jean-Louis Froment Jean-Marc Poinsot 41

Georg Baselitz in conversation Walter Grasskamp 61

Georg Baselitz in conversation Henry Geldzahler 69

Additional Analysis Georg Baselitz in conversation Rainer Michael Mason 82

The Painter's Equipment 91

Georg Baselitz on Die Nacht, in conversation Dieter Koepplin 96

The Picture Behind the Canvas Is Not a Utopia Georg Baselitz in conversation Mariana Hanstein Lothar Schmidt-Mühlisch 107

Eugène Leroy 118

Georg Baselitz in conversation Heinz Peter Schwerfel 119

Drawing 164

Somersaults Are Also Movement, and They're Fun Too 165

Questioning Myself 180

Goth to Dance Georg Baselitz in conversation Donald Kuspit 181

Elke Georg Baselitz in conversation Michael Auping 192

What it is 195

Lodestars, Heroes 196

I always find myself in places that no one else has been to Georg Baselitz in conversation Peter Iden 197

Italy 206

Chaïm Soutine 207

Painting was never dead, it was prohibited Georg Baselitz in conversation Thomas Wagner 208

A Backwards Look Forwards Georg Baselitz in conversation Florian Illies 213

Zeitgeist 224

About Painting Technique Georg Baselitz in conversation Erich Cantzert-Castrillo 228

Nazi Architecture Is Not Necessarily Bad for Art Georg Baselitz in conversation Cornelius Tittel 240

Back Then, In Between, and Today 243

Background Stories Georg Baselitz in conversation Hartwig Fischer 249

On Batéké 272

Avignon 273

Georg Baselitz in conversation Frédérique Goerig-Hergott 275

Rousseau's Academy 290

For Elke 293

Plates 295

Illustrated Works Georg Baselitz 391

Illustrated Works by Other Artists 398

Index 399

Text Credits 411

Photographic Credits 412