Erotik Im Fernen Osten Oder Transition From Cool To Warm

This is a series of delicately executed watercolors - landscapes and a surprising sequence of female nudes. In 1974 Kiefer traveled to the coast of Norway; three years later, using photographs he had taken during his trip as an aide-memoire, he painted Erotik im Fernen, a work that incorporates his deepest aesthetic and philosophical concerns. In these seascapes and landscapes there are icebergs and frigid skies of Norwegian winters. The sequence gives way to female nudes. There is a virtual explosion of color and form that evokes seasonal changes. The spontaneity and simplicity of these images are expressions of Kiefer's warning against intellectual, as opposed to visceral, understanding. -- Dust Jacket.