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Neo Rauch Hardcover – Download: Adobe Reader, January 30, 2013

French Edition by Hans Werner Holzwarth (Editor), Wolfgang Buscher (Author), Harald Kunde (Author),
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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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Wolfgang Büscher has written several books, among them the bestsellers Berlin–Moskau: Eine Reise zu Fuß (2003), Asian Absences (2008), and Hartland (2011).

Harald Kunde is director of the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, having previously been director of the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen and the Kunsthaus Dresden. He has worked on numerous exhibitions and publications with contemporary artists, including Atelier van Lieshout, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Franz Gertsch, Barbara Kruger, Dan Perjovschi, Neo Rauch, Roman Signer, and Erwin Wurm.

Gary Tinterow is the newly named director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. During his 27-year tenure at the Metropolitan Museum in New York he organized dozens of exhibitions on European painters of the last two centuries, from Ingres and Gericault to Picasso and Matisse. In 2007 he organized Neo Rauch: Para.

Hans Werner Holzwarth is a book designer and editor based in Berlin, with numerous publications mainly on contemporary art and photography. For TASCHEN he has edited, among other titles, Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool, Albert Oehlen and Neo Rauch.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Taschen America Llc; Multilingual edition (January 30, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ German, English, French
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 462 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3836535637
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3836535632
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10 x 2 x 13.5 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars he was unknown to me but liked the work
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2014
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Skimmed this book at an artist's studio, he was unknown to me but liked the work. Order this book. Feel I am getting very good introduction. Color seems well saturated to my eye. Three translations, German, French, English. Yes, heavy and cumbersome but how to get around that for a 600 page hardback book? The text by three authors, one better than other two. Covers breadth of Rauch's work. Discussion of what drives his work over time, able to consider periods I like best. This artist has an idiosyncratic view such that once you are familiar with his art you can easily identify it. Some clear explanations around how some of this developed. Like the book a lot and would order again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great big crazy book
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2014
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I'm very glad I bought this. Some of the reviews for this book made me uncertain. But the images are very good quality (not all washed out) and they are plentiful. The text shares translation in three languages: English, German, and French.

I might wish for a few more examples from the early years. I don't understand why they reversed the image on the cover. But it's a thorough view over several periods of the artist's career, along with some biography.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I thought it would be.
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2013
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I gave this book as a gift to an artist who had requesteda book by Rausch. Unfortunately it is mostly in German. That was not clear in the description. He kept the book because there was no other option. The pictures are very nice but I wish I had known this particular book didn't have an English option.
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Lixa
5.0 out of 5 stars Neo Rauch Book Is Excellent!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013
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Great book -good info and tons of pictures-Quality of book is nice as well; just heavy what with all that! Love it, glad I purchased it through the Amazon.
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blankysmith
3.0 out of 5 stars ALL bleached out prints!
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2014
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Your perspective of Neo Rauch would be so wrong if this is your only book of him. All the painting's reproductions are bad qualities, bleached out and low contrast. I have this one and 'Neo Rauch paintings' of Hatje Cantz side by side to compare.
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Lost in Translation
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection
Reviewed in India on November 2, 2014
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Neo Rauch, or rather his mind, is amazing. Singlehandedly revived surrealism, figurative, narrative based, architectural, landscape, human drama, political, historical , psychological aspects in painting.... More than anyone has done in a long time.... Sometime when the Wall fell and Dali died...something happened....and we have Rauch...

This is wonderful tome... Writing is analytical.... Biography, style, colors, how his vision evolved , ....everything captured very well.... Images are pretty big, well laid out.... Great thing is there's close ups .... Very rare ! Although only a few images... We can get to see the brush strokes...artist studio throws light... Sketches are even more illuminating...
Great book ... Buy it !
But why 4 stars .... It can be better Other book on Rauch by Hatje Cantz ...is smaller more lyrical essays... And image quality is very superior... Greater contrast...brighter....
But if the Taschen edition is signed and sold by Rauch... And color corrections are passed by him ...I wouldn't complain.... Living far away ...I've not seen it in original.... Then I'll decide on the last star
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Joe Becker
1.0 out of 5 stars Horrendous reproductions
Reviewed in Canada on January 27, 2013
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I am an avid Neo Rauch and Taschen fan, I was looking forward to this monograph since they released the oversized one in 2010, the collection of images is fantastic, however the reproductions are absolutely horrendous. They are all far too dark, I regret getting this book. Wait until a second printing and hopefully they correct this otherwise you are wasting your money.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Neo Rauch, ein erstklassiger Künstler !!
Reviewed in Germany on January 21, 2014
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Ich mag den Künstler sehr, das Buch ist klasse. Preis/ Leistungsverhältnis kann nicht besser sein!!! Kann ich nur weiterempfehlen !
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5.0 out of 5 stars Neo Rauch.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2013
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This huge volume is Taschen publishing at its best, providing what must be the current standard monograph on this important figurative painter.

Rauch is in his early 50`s and trained in Leipzig, East Germany; his work is a highly imaginative, enigmatic blending of Surrealist and Socialist Realism genres depicting deliberately anachronistic elements and figures juxtaposed within suburban or vaguely agricultural settings; his work is like a highly personal, symbolic form of history painting rendered with a flat, almost dead-pan detachment.
This volume is copiously illustrated with fine, large colour plates, many close-up details, gallery installation shots and documentation on the artist. The multilingual texts add considerably to the bulk, but you`ll buy this first and foremost for the extensive overview of Rauch`s work; he's a prolific artist and seemingly endless in his powers of invention.

A superb reference work on Rauch and an absolute "must have" for anyone interested in serious contemporary figurative painting.
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アマゾンカスタマー
5.0 out of 5 stars 作家の画集では１、２を争う出来　必携！
Reviewed in Japan on March 6, 2015
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図版の量や印刷、紙などの質が充実、大きさもあり見やすい、拡大画像も多く満足している。
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