Waffenruhe

Edition : First / Berlin / DIrk Nishen Verlag / 1987 / Hardcover. / VG+
4to. 84pp. Printed wrappers. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in German.

“Schmidt’s theme is not German art, or German mythology, German guilt and German reconciliation. The metaphors might be there, but much more pertinently, so is the stuff of life. Not, let it be said, ‘reality’, but life, experience, caught on the wing, or rather, on the ground and moulded into a cogent, poetic entity. Working with familiar themes – decaying nature and ruinous man – and decidedly unexotic material, Michael Schmidt has created a fetid poetry and an introspective gloom.” Gerry Badger in ’87. It’s his masterpiece.

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