More than mere retrospectives, Skira's Milestones books are comprehensive excursions into the daily life and work of exceptional living artists. Each volume presents one or more intimate interviews with the artist by a curator or fellow artist, an essay by a renowned author and the artist's biography. The iconography of the book includes images and plates of key works explained by the artists themselves and an original photoshoot of the artist in their studio. This book focuses on the over 60-year career of German painter, printmaker and sculptor Georg Baselitz (born 1938), a pioneering postwar artist who rejected abstraction in favor of recognizable subject matter, deliberately employing a raw style of rendering and a heightened palette in order to convey direct emotion. Embracing the German Expressionism that had been denounced by the Nazis, Baselitz returned the human figure to a central position in painting.