PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The cover was designed by Kai Damian Matthiesen after several verbal and visual exchange sessions with Jacqueline Burckhardt. The technique of “aesthetic intelligence” coined by Herbert Lachmayer was used to create a wallpaper and repeat pattern. The wallpaper encompasses key figures and central ideas of her 40 year career in art. Jacqueline Burckhardt approaches art from many different angles: as a former restorer of artworks, as an art historian, as the initiator of the performance art program at the Kunsthaus Zürich, and as a co-editor of the art magazine Parkett to name a few.

The key figures featured on the cover include herself Jacqueline Burckhardt, the artist Laurie Anderson, architectural historian Kurt W. Forster, the 16th century artist Giulio Romano, artist Katharina Fritsch, writer Juri Steiner, cultural philosopher Herbert Lachmayer and artist Pipilotti Rist as well as tools from her restoration work. The figures are overlayed with agate stone details from the artist Sigmar Polke's Grossmünster windows in Zurich to illustrate the metaphysical nature of art.

BOOK INFORMATION

Trim Size: 23.5 × 17 cm

Number of Pages: 392 pages, 297 color images

Binding Method: Soft Cover with Folded Attached Dustjacket

Paper: Surbalin linea

Typefaces: CatalogueLL

CREDIT INFORMATION

Creative Director: Kai Damian Matthiesen; Herbert Lachmayer

Art Director: Jacqueline Burckhardt

Book Designer: Martina Brassel

Jacket/Cover Designer: Kai Damian Matthiesen; Herbert Lachmayer

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