"Your golden hair, Margarete…"
Marina Warner on Kiefer’s Symbolism and the Language of Fairy Tale
Friday 17 October 2014 6.30 - 7.30pm
Reynolds Room, Burlington House
£16/£7 reductions. (incl. exhibition entry)
Friends of the RA book first
Anselm Kiefer
Author Marina Warner CBE reveals how Anselm Kiefer’s imagery embraces the language of German fairy tales and folk tales.
Anselm Kiefer has returned obsessively to the forests and mountains of the Grimm Brothers’ tales and other German Romantic writings in his work. His fierce, contemplative imagination enters the darkness at the heart of this popular tradition, making his art into acts of memory and mourning.
Marina Warner explores Kiefer’s imagery and concerns in the context of 'the fairy way of writing’, which the Grimms did so much to define. A book signing of Warner’s new book, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale follows the event.
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Returns may be available to purchase on the door of the event.
A book signing and drinks reception will follow this event.