ANSELM KIEFER SHOW BURNS WITH ARTIST'S CORROSIVE INTENSITY.(What's Happening)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: July 9, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The heavy sky in Anselm Kiefer's ``The Orders of the Night'' presses a stiff male figure lying beneath it into the ground. If, for James Joyce, history was a nightmare from which he was unable to awaken, history for Kiefer is the source of his power, the inspiration for his alchemical condensations of place, time, grace, myth, memory and murder.

``Anselm Kiefer and the Germanic Tradition'' in a fourth-floor gallery at the Seattle Art Museum gives him the central place he deserves. Much as Picasso and Matisse dominated the possibilities for painting at the century's beginning, ...

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