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Scorching Memoir of a Red Guard
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Red Azalea By Anchee Min. Pantheon. $22.
Anchee Min's Red Azalea, a Chicago writer's powerful memoir of
her youth in China in the 1970s, lays bare the human wreckage wrought
by the calculated chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
Mao Zedong wanted his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution,
which began in 1966 and ended with his death a decade later, to
refresh the Communist revolution he had led to success more than a
decade before, and to provide a revolutionary experience to young
people. Min, however, struggled to adulthood separated from her
family, without access to love or hope, "a rice ...
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Visual Art: Georg Baselitz Gagosian Gallery London - His too, too solid frames make Baselitz's dippy dogs more Baroque than barking
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...and now that I just don't get Georg Baselitz. Which is a vast shame, because...its frame pins it down. Nailing Baselitz's myth- world to the wall makes...Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Georg Baselitz - `Outside': Gagosian Gallery...
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Georg Baselitz. (Reviews: New York).
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...have long been the mainstays of Georg Baselitz's art, as this exhibition of...works made during the '60s, when Baselitz was in headlong rebellion against...pandemonium," to refer to the title of Baselitz's 1961 manifesto, was not only...
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Georg is great - if you ignore his last 27 years; This way up ... Baselitz's 1999 oil painting, Armenian Carpet (Aslamazyan), is a typical upside-down creation.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; Byline: Philip Hensher Georg Baselitz Royal Academy, London until December 9 *** The German artist Georg Baselitz is famous for one thing: producing paintingswhich...
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Bad boy Baselitz: to mark the opening at White Cube in London of a show of his new work, Georg Baselitz talks to Martin Gayford about Germany, politics and YBAS.(ARTIST IN VIEW)(London, England; young british artists)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...grins and laughs. At 71, Georg Baselitz is a walking monument of art...intervene.' On the other hand, Baselitz's description of Stalin...almost British understatement. Baselitz was born Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, a...
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Georg Baselitz and the instinct for destruction Contemporary Art
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...Media Group International Herald Tribune 11-24-2007 Georg Baselitz and the instinct for destruction Contemporary Art Byline...opportunities, the latest of which is a show devoted to Georg Baselitz at the Royal Academy of Arts on view until Dec. 9...
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Thorn in the flesh Baselitz in London: in his restrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy Georg Baselitz emerges as an artist who provocatively brings bold techniques to bear on a few deeply felt themes, writes Corinna Lotz. Above all, he has said, 'what I could never escape was Germany and being German'.(EXHIBITIONS)
Magazine article from: Apollo
; ...Whaddya got?' he drawls. Georg Baselitz shares this need to be a contrarian...century. Indeed, the paean to Baselitz that the exhibition's curator...boldest techniques on a huge scale. Baselitz, like others of his generation...
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Goth to dance. (interview with artist Georg Baselitz)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; ...IT SEEMS TO ME, THAT TITLE WOULD BE CLAIMED BY GEORG BASELITZ. Baselitz has the Gothic temperament's "dark, excessive...of existence) through the power of dancing form. Baselitz risks everything on this painterly dance, full of...
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Georg Baselitz
Magazine article from: Artforum
; Georg Baselitz LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, COPENHAGEN "GEORG BASELITZ: PAINTER," a brilliantly installed exhibition at the Louisiana Museum...
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Art Review: Georg Baselitz: Don't mention the war... Baselitz has already done it for you
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday
; GEORG BASELITZ Royal Academy, London ALL artists have their defining moment, the...s meeting with Cimabue or van Gogh's quarrel with Gauguin. With Georg Baselitz it was rather more cataclysmic. Baselitz's art, which is currently...
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Georg Baselitz: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen.
Magazine article from: Artforum International
; "GEORG BASELITZ: PAINTER," a brilliantly installed...brings to light the cyclical nature of Baselitz's working process, one that doubles...constitute the first large series of work Baselitz produced. The tortured appendages isolated...
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