"Palaces of Heaven" is a series of sculptures—26 works in glass display cabinets and two detached works—that Kiefer installed in the late 1980s in a historic German brick factory. Made of photographs and fabric, bone, clay, paper, and wood, they directly relate to cabbalistic representations, ancient myths, Christian mysticism and Gnosticism. English/German text.
Schirmer/Mosel. Edited by Heiner Bastian. With photographs and a text by Heiner Bastian. 114 pages, 108 illustrations (14 colour plates). Size: 21.5 x 30 cm, hardcover.