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Product Identifiers

PublisherKerber Verlag

ISBN-103735600115

ISBN-139783735600110

eBay Product ID (ePID)208643264

Product Key Features

Book TitleImi Knoebel: Works 1966-2014

Number of Pages332 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicIndividual Artists / Monographs, European

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorImi Knoebel

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight75.3 Oz

Item Length12.4 in

Item Width9.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal709.2

SynopsisThis substantial and long-needed volume surveys the five-decade career of the popular German Minimalist painter and sculptor Imi Knoebel (born 1940). It features material from Knoebel's archive and reproductions of key works by the artist, from his early Line Pictures to his recent work. A pioneering and much-loved figure of 1960s abstraction, Knoebel continues to find fresh ways to experiment with form and color. Also included in this volume are essays by curator David Moos, art historian Marie-Am lie zu Salm-Salm and Knoebel's contemporaries Johannes St ttgen and Max Wechsler. An in-depth descriptive catalogue of works further affirms this volume as an essential standard reference. It is published to accompany Knoebel's career retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, on the occasion of his 75th birthday., This publication tracks Imi Knoebel's artistic development over five decades, and documents the exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg with numerous installation photographs. The latter encompass key works and groups of works, from the Line Pictures to his current oeuvre.Essays and statements by renowned experts and companions pay tribute to the extraordinary role played by Knoebel in the art of the second half of the twentieth century up to the present day.Illustrations of all the exhibits as well as an in-depth descriptive catalogue of his works, with material from the archive of the artist, make this publication a standard reference.Published to accompany the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 26 October 2014 - 15 February 2015., This substantial and long-needed volume surveys the five-decade career of the popular German Minimalist painter and sculptor Imi Knoebel (born 1940). It features material from Knoebel's archive and reproductions of key works by the artist, from his early Line Pictures to his recent work. A pioneering and much-loved figure of 1960s abstraction, Knoebel continues to find fresh ways to experiment with form and color. Also included in this volume are essays by curator David Moos, art historian Marie-Amélie zu Salm-Salm and Knoebel's contemporaries Johannes Stüttgen and Max Wechsler. An in-depth descriptive catalogue of works further affirms this volume as an essential standard reference. It is published to accompany Knoebel's career retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.

Text bySchulz, Martin, Stüttgen, Johannes, Moos, David, Salm-Salm, Marie-Amélie