Max Beckmann, On My Painting Asia Taking photographs becomes almost secondary

Taking photographs becomes almost secondary

The subject intended to drive the work was ‘nature’

This beautifully designed collection of books combines these greats of photography with writers such as the National Poet for Scotland Liz Lochhead

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and oppressive figures

Max Beckmann, On My Painting Asia Taking photographs becomes almost secondary"One of my problems is to find the Self, which has only one form and is immortalto find it in animals and men, in the heaven and in the hell which together form the world in which we live." Compiled and edited by George Scrivani for Hanuman Books in 1988, On My Painting collects six texts from the pioneering German artist Max Beckmann, who fled Nazi Germany after his paintingsincreasingly moody and reflective of the existential terror of the timewere