Arnulf Rainer

by Arnulf Rainer, Josef Winkler, Andrea Madesta (Editor)

Celebrate the 80th birthday of the seminal Austrian Modernist and conceptual artist Arnulf Rainer with this extensive exhibition catalog, an elegant, over-sized volume that offers a representative crosssection of his work - beginning with his earliest graphite sketches from the late 1940s and spanning six decades to the present. As Rudi Fuchs points out, Rainer was one of the first post-war Austrian artists to play a significant role in international Modernism. This historic book presents high-quality, full-color reproductions of Rainer's work - his exploration of dreams, insanity and extreme emotional states with oil over-paintings, self-portraits, death masks - as well as insight into his unique abstractions by editor Andrea Madesta and Buchner Prize-winning author Josef Winkler.

168 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985