From Library Journal
Contemporary German artist Kiefer is well known for his book art. Consisting of 95 watercolors and no text, his Erotik im Fernen Osten, oder: Transition from cool to warm is here reproduced in its entirety. Kiefer's watercolors focus on two major themesan ocean liner steaming through Nordic seascapes and a series of female nudesand their simplicity and spontaneity confirm what is stated in Theodore Stebbins and Susan Craig Ricci's introduction: that Kiefer "warns against intellectual as opposed to visceral understanding." However, the analysis that Stebbins and Ricci offer, focusing on a multi-layered iconography based on mythology and Jungian psychology, tends to preclude such understanding. Douglas G. Campbell, Warner Pacific Coll., Portland, Ore.
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