Anselm Kiefer: Women Alchemists

$40.00 at The Getty Museum.

A tribute to 33 women who merged science and spirituality to healing ends, as commemorated through Kiefer's monumental painting series This volume examines the gestation and realization of one of the German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer's most conceptually innovative projects to date. Featuring 30-plus large-scale paintings, created by applying multiple layers of varnish, the series offers a poetic reflection on the role of female alchemists in the history of Western thought. Through esoteric symbols…