Hardcover, no dust jacket (as issued – printed directly on boards)

Size: approx. 24 x 29 cm (9.5 x 11.4 inches)

320 pages with 324 color illustrations

Weight: heavy (around 2–2.5 kg / 4.5–5.5 lbs) – shipping calculated accordingly

This is the comprehensive exhibition catalog from the 2010 show at Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris (May 19–June 26, 2010), featuring 83 previously unpublished historical works from Anselm Kiefer’s early career in the late 1960s. At just 24 years old in 1969, Kiefer created a series of intimate, fragile artist’s books—often on cardboard, incorporating black-and-white photographs (many self-taken or altered), collages, drawings, watercolors, dried flowers, ink, graphite, and even attached objects like surgical instruments.

These minimalist yet deeply evocative pieces form an “intellectual biography” of the young artist, foreshadowing the monumental themes that define his later oeuvre: German history and memory, the weight of the Holocaust, post-war landscapes scarred by ideology and destruction, mythology, sterility, regeneration, and the corruption of ideals. Works highlighted include titles like “For Genet,” “The Flooding of Heidelberg,” and “Heroic Symbols”—strange, bound cardboard books that blend personal intervention with historical reckoning.