Per Kirkeby

Born in Denmark in 1938, Per Kirkeby gained renown as a leading figure in the New Painting movement of the 1980s, alongside artists such as Georg Baselitz and A.R. Penck. Kirkeby's fervent excavation of art history across a range of styles and media reflect his training as a geologist. This lavishly illustrated book, the most comprehensive volume on Kirkeby ever published in English, traces the trajectory of an artistic career that has spanned half a century. Beginning with Kirkeby's early history paintings and moving through his engagement with Pop Art, sculpture, large-scale "heroic" paintings, and his pastoral "Walden" series of the 1990s, the book contrasts his monumental works with previously unpublished small-scale watercolors of Greenland landscapes, etchings, and the blackboards on which Kirkeby mapped out his ideas. With a newly commissioned essay by Richard Shiff, an interview with the artist conducted by curator Achim Borchardt-Hume, and a selection of Kirkeby's own extensive writings, the book provides invaluable insight into the mind of an inimitable artist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185437821X
• ISBN13: 9781854378217
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 0.6" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary