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By Stephanie Barron, Sabine Eckmann, Eckhart Gillen

In a divided Germany, artists in both East and West reacted to the war’s political legacies by revisiting abstraction and realism in new national and international contexts, creating a wide range of powerful artworks. This profusely illustrated book, with seventeen major essays by art historians and cultural critics, is the first comprehensive look at the full extent of postwar German art.

Substantial and profusely illustrated, this book includes sixteen important essays by major art historians and cultural critics and is the first comprehensive look at the full extent of postwar German art. It includes work by Georg Baselitz, Willi Baumeister, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Hermann Glöckner, Hannah Höch, Jörg Immendorf, Anselm Kiefer, Blinky Palermo, A. R. Penck, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel, Werner Tübke, Wolf Vostell, and many others.

This book is the catalogue for the groundbreaking international exhibition that reveals for the first time the contribution of both Germanys to the development of contemporary art.

- Available in hardboard cover with taped spine (special LACMA edition) and softcover
- 460 pages, 12 x 9 x 1 1/2 inches
- 330 color and 200 b&w illustrations