{"product_id":"neo-rauch-9781848222939","title":"Neo Rauch","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis comprehensive monograph offers a detailed examination of the paintings of the acclaimed German painter Neo Rauch (b.1960). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRauch's paintings deftly blend the iconography of Socialist Realism from his upbringing and art-school training in GDR-era Leipzig with the stylistic mannerisms of the Baroque and Romantic past, conjuring heavily populated sites of great commotion and complexity, remarkably without recourse to preliminary drawing. His compositions and their enigmatic figures are rich with reference and allusion, but the stories they tell are indistinct and somehow out of time. They have an ancient modernity - or the freshness of renewed antiquity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Glover discloses Rauch's working methods, revealing how the artist approaches the making of his work, how his images come into being, and the importance of words and their etymology to the creation or disruption of an artwork. These are works that interrogate the very meaning of the artistic impulse; ruminations in the guise of history painting that in fact question what a painter could and should be creating at this particular historical moment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Glover\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and the visual arts critic and senior feature writer for the \u003ci\u003eIndependent. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is also the poetry editor of the \u003ci\u003eTablet.\u003c\/i\u003e As an arts journalist, he has been a regular contributor to\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFinancial \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e a London correspondent for \u003ci\u003eArtNews\u003c\/i\u003e, New York. Recent publications include \u003ci\u003eGreat Works: Encounters with Art\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePlaying Out in the Wireless Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHypothetical May Morning\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMessages to Federico\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51243439358226,"sku":"9781848222939","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ac2f0339-78c2-4ba5-8d58-ac2a1eb09ba4.jpg?v=1745862951","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/neo-rauch-9781848222939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}