Wolfgang BÃ¼scher ist zu FuÃŸ von Berlin nach Moskau gelaufen. Allein. An die drei Monate dauerte die Wanderung. Im Hochsommer hat er die Oder Ã¼berquert, an der russischen Grenze die HerbststÃ¼rme erlebt und vor Moskau den ersten Schnee. BÃ¼scher erkundet Menschen und Orte, teils entlang Napoleons Weg und ziemlich exakt and dem der Heeresgruppe Mitte. Berlin â€“ Moskau: eine einzigartige Reise, farbig, lebendig und fabelhaft erzÃ¤hlt.Dieses Buch ist Â«unvergesslich und hat gute Aussichten, einmal zu den Klassikern der Reiseliteratur zu zÃ¤hlen â€“ noch vor Bruce Chatwins BÃ¼chern.Â» (SÃ¼ddeutsche Zeitung)Â«Reiseerfahrungen, die zum Besten gehÃ¶ren, was in den letzten Jahren in deutscher Sprache erschienen ist.Â» (Der Spiegel)

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This intimate volume contains three hundred extraordinary drawings, many never before seen, from one of the most exciting artists to emerge from Europe in the past decade.Neo Rauch traverses many boundaries in his work: surrealist and realist; comic and serious; dreamlike and journalistic. Rather than condensing his work into one genre or framework, Rauch combines iconographic and visual elements from diverse worlds: comic strips, advertising, film, architecture, design, German culture, art history and history, in general. This specially designed volume presents Rauch's drawings, which reflect the archetypal and mythical nature of his work. An interview with the artist and an introductory essay by Wolfgang Buscher provide depth and background to these selected works that hail from every period of Rauch's career.

Neo Rauch

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Prestel

A retrospective of Rauch's delirious painting Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Neo Rauch.
Rife with anachronisms, peopled with seemingly random figures busy doing rather surreal things, and painted in a wide range of muted hues, Neo Rauch's paintings look like Soviet-era illustrations that have shifted into a Lynchian parallel dimension. Set in a variety of industrial locations such as power plants, factories, military buildings, 1950s apartment blocks, and construction sites, the paintings evoke societal ideals somehow gone wrong; the hard-working subjects never seem to be doing anything practical or useful and the disjointed narratives are mind-boggling in their dramatic incoherence. Looking at a Neo Rauch painting, one has the intense urge to psychoanalyze it as if it were one's own bewildering dream. Born and raised behind the Iron Curtain in Leipzig, Germany, Neo Rauch became fascinated with the late-1970s "Neue Wilde" anti-establishment movement in painting and used it as a departure point for his own work, which soon evolved into his unmistakably unique style. His first solo shows came at about the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall 1989; though it wasn't until 2000 that he began to show outside Germany, international success came quickly and many major solo exhibitions followed. Now that Rauch's work is highly sought after and commands great sums, it is only natural that it should be the subject of a serious and large-scale volume. This massive tome features Rauch's best work so far, with approximately 200 large-scale reproductions, analytical texts by Harald Kunde, a personal portrait by Wolfgang Büscher, and a look at the painter from an international perspective by Gary Tinterow.

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Human alter-reality: The essential overview of Neo Rauch’s art Bursting with radiant and unsettling juxtapositions, Neo Rauch’s paintings are wormholes into worlds of startling psychological power and cultural collisions. His scenes involve the viewer in a history that is at once mythic, intimate, and present. Through a deep consideration of philosophy, art history, literature, and his own dreamscape, Rauch’s paintings depict the precipices of progress and the struggles of communication. Electrified by their rich palettes, Rauch’s fragmented landscapes and timeless characters dance between pop and baroque, social and psychological, graphic and painterly. Born in Leipzig in 1960, Rauch learned his trade behind the Iron Curtain. His influences and interests were shaped by personal hardship and the tumultuous changes of East Germany after the Wall fell. In the late 1980s, having finished his studies at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Arno Rink and Bernhard Heisig, he explored diverse approaches to painting in dialogue with works he encountered by Francis Bacon, the New Wild painters, and the pre-Renaissance painters he saw during his travels in Italy. By 1993, he had arrived at the unique style of intertwining figuration and abstraction that characterizes his oeuvre and has brought him international attention and respect. This monograph is the most inclusive collection of Rauch’s work to date. It offers a generous range of his writings that illuminate the personal, symbolic, and formal complexities of the artist’s world. Wolfgang Büscher’s open and sensitive account of a walk through Rauch’s neighborhood reveals the painter’s compassion and modesty. Harald Kunde tracks Rauch’s stylistic development through its main semantic threads and historical influences. Gary Tinterow draws from his work on Rauch’s exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum to offer the reader a guide to the symbols that form the painter’s extensive mythology. These essays complement Rauch’s work with nuanced insights while allowing the images room to speak on their own. Within this atlas, readers will discover the rich density and enigmatic openness of Rauch’s paintings. This is the standard TASCHEN edition based on the limited first edition. Text in English, French, and German

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