Georg Baselitz - ILLUSTRATED Author:Diane Waldman The artist Georg Baselitz has been acclaimed as one of Europe's leading artists for his bold, gestural canvases - with their upside-down figures - and has also received recognition in the United States. This volume, published on the occasion of a full retrospective exhibition organized by the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and travelling to Washin... more »gton, Los Angeles and Berlin, documents every phase of the artist's career. It provides an account of Baselitz's development as a painter and sculptor, together with biographical information and detailed analyses of the major works. New translations of the artist's own writings provide additional insight into his art, and into his radical use of the figure in painting. The reproductions of his works vividly convey the raw power and dynamism which Baselitz exerts over his audiences.« less