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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Kerber |
Year | 2011 |
Cover | Softcover |
Language | German |
ISBN | 978-3-86678-530-4 |
Pages | 168 |
Weight | 1038 g |
Illustrations | with 186 col. & 5 b/w ills |
More | |
Contributors | Ute Holl, Andres Pardey, Laurence Sillars et al. |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Basel |
Article ID | art-11321 |
In unusual independence from the art world, Robert Breer (1926-2011) has created a diverse and individual oeuvre since the 1950s. He has examined central human themes in dynamic abstractions, filmed collages and poetic meditations. His high-speed films and super-SloMo sculptures stand at odds with the art landscape of their time and often go beyond both technical and aesthetic borders of their medium and of contemporary taste. It only from the viewpoint of today that their true explosive force can be recognised.
This catalogue presents for the first time a retrospective of the extraordinary work of Robert Breer, aiming to contribute to the rediscovery of this major “artists’ artist”.