mianoti:

Anselm Kiefer * [+]

Zweistromland / Land of Two Rivers

installation, mixed media, 1985-1989

[…] Throughout his career Kiefer was a maker of books, one-of-a-kind works like medieval manuscripts. His most monumental expression of this interest is “The High Priestess/Zweistromland/Land of Two Rivers”. This sculpture consists of two bookcases (labeled after the rivers Tigris and Euphrates) containing about two hundred lead books, all on a superhuman scale. Some of the books were blank; others contained such things as obscure photographs of clouds or dried peas. It was a many layered work dealing with the artifacts of knowledge. […] *

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liquidsands:

Just a little bit off the topic here…but I’m struck by the similarity of these works by two different artists in two different mediums.  The interesting thing to me is that both artists developed this idea into series of water images.

Vija Celmins

Untitled (Big Sea #1), 1969

Graphite on acrylic ground on paper

34 1/8 x 45 1/4 inches

Roni Horn

Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), 1999

Photographic Print

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ephemeraa:

Photographs from National Geographic’s new Documentary “Extraordinary Animals in the Womb”

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artnet:

Creating Klein’s FC1

Yves Klein, FC1 (Fire Color 1) (1962), sold for $36,482,500 at Christie’s New York, May 8, 2012.