Yes To All: Die Schenkung Paul Maenz Gerd Vries

For the second time, former Cologne gallery owners Paul Maenz and Gerd de Vries made a magnificent gift to the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett: 900 works on paper-drawings, sketches, prints, collages, letters, and postcards by over 90 renowned international artists. This catalog features approximately 200 works from the donation, a selection that testifies to the diversity of the collection: from conceptual art of the 1960s to the Italian Transavangarde of the 1970s, to the Neue Wilde artists of the 1980s, and to contemporary works. With a cover by Sylvie Fleury (the title, Yes to All, is also borrowed from her work), essays, and a conversation with Maenz and de Vries, the book illustrates a multifaceted and contrasting web of postmodern Western art.