Overview

A layered and lyrical collaboration between two great artists—Anselm Kiefer and Alexander Kluge—that explores what it means to remain faithful amid the shifting forces of power, love, truth, and money. What holds us together in times of uncertainty? For decades, artist Anselm Kiefer and filmmaker-writer Alexander Kluge have explored this question—both as friends and collaborators. This latest volume is a bold and poetic exchange of images and texts in which they delve into the idea of reliability and its relationship to the four great forces that shape our lives: power, love, truth, and money. Moving across history, myth, and the present day, Kiefer and Kluge ask: What is time? In a world of endless change, how do we hold on to what endures? Inspired by Hölderlin's call ""to remain faithful under shifting circumstances,"" they use art to keep memory alive, invite the past into the present, and welcome the future before it arrives. Layered, provocative, and profoundly human, this new collaboration is a powerful meditation on what connects us—and what makes us endure.

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Author:   Alexander Kluge ,  Anselm Kiefer ,  Alexander Booth
Publisher:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint:   Seagull Books London Ltd
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781803096001

ISBN 10:   1803096004
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   05 April 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword STATION 1: Tractate on Money, Love, Power and Truth / Four Currencies that Rule Our Lifespans STATION 2: The House of Whispers / Anselm Kiefer’s Paintings Accompany Maurice Genevoix into the Panthéon, the Memorial of the Immortals / ‘Dedicated to Paul Celan’ STATION 3: Two Very Young Arts: Photography and Film STATION 4: Stories of Exodus STATION 5: Finnegans Wake and the Construction Site of Words STATION 6: 30 Films for Anselm Kiefer STATION 7: ‘Something that wants to be born already lives amongst us’ / Stories on the Occasion of Anselm Kiefer’s Block of Work / ‘The unborn. Les non-nès’ STATION 8: A as in Antaeus / D as in Daphne / ‘I’m going to paint someone from Altdorf’ / ‘Superstrings’ STATION 9: Hortus philosophorum / Dr Robert Fludd, Oxford STATION 10: ‘Building a house of trust’ / Hölderlin’s Pindar Fragments / ‘Time tumbles down from the stars’ Acknowledgements Image Credits

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Alexander Kluge is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. Anselm Kiefer, born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, studied law and Romance languages before turning to painting. A student of Horst Antes and Joseph Beuys, he is known for major works such as Parsifal, Zweistromland, and Mohn und Gedächtnis. In 2015, the Centre Pompidou in Paris dedicated a major retrospective to his work. Alexander Booth is a poet and translator based in Berlin.

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