Für Chlebnikow

This work is one of several that Kiefer dedicated to the Russian Cubo-Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922), a utopian and a pacifist. Kiefer was attracted to the poet's invention of "a huge system, with numbers, about history and battles and wars. It was complete nonsense, like Dada," the great anti-art movement of the early twentieth century.




(detail)

Big Iron Fist, Germany
"Grosse Eisenfaust Deutschland"
ca. 1980-81. Gouache and acrylic on photograph
33 x 23 1/4 in. (83.8 x 59.1 cm)
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
1995.14.37


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