Parsifal Kontainer GWB_2023 The artist’s book Idiot is

The artist’s book Idiot is a handwritten copy of the literary classic of the same title by Fyodor Dostoevsky

During prehistoric times

Editor(s): Michel Blancsubé

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung König

For KÖNIG SOUVENIR

Parsifal Kontainer GWB_2023 The artist’s book Idiot isAbout Parsifals motivic world ranges from Wolfram von Eschenbachs epic of chivalry to Richard Wagners opera: from the knight as fool to the fool as saviour. The drawings by Georg Baselitz are studies for a production of Parsifal at the Munich State Opera (2018). They show how the artist zeroes in on his motifs and elaborates a character visually. In this collaborative book, Alexander Kluge responds to Baselitzs drawings with stories in which he