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Gerhard Richter
Dietmar Elger
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Description for Gerhard Richter
Hardcover. Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. This book presents a foundational portrait of this artist and his profoundly influential oeuvre. Translator(s): Solaro, Elizabeth M. Num Pages: 468 pages, 78 colour plates, 103 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXJ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 265 x 188 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1354.
Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized for the photo-paintings he made during the 1960s that rely on images culled from mass media and pop culture. Always fascinated with the limits and uncertainties of representation, he has since then produced landscapes, abstractions, glass and mirror constructions, prints, sculptures, and installations. Though Richter has been known in the United States for quite some time, the highly successful retrospective ... Read more
Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized for the photo-paintings he made during the 1960s that rely on images culled from mass media and pop culture. Always fascinated with the limits and uncertainties of representation, he has since then produced landscapes, abstractions, glass and mirror constructions, prints, sculptures, and installations. Though Richter has been known in the United States for quite some time, the highly successful retrospective ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
468
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
1363g
Number of Pages
468
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226203232
SKU
V9780226203232
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About Dietmar Elger
Dietmar Elger is director of the Gerhard Richter Archive and chief curator at the Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. He is former curator for painting and sculpture at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover. Between 1984 and 1985 he was the secretary in Gerhard Richter's studio. He has organized numerous exhibitions on modern and contemporary art and has written and ... Read more
Reviews for Gerhard Richter
At a time when art is full of doubt, Richter is the most self-critical of artists, putting painting to the most extravagant tests and taking nothing for granted. In the process, he makes disturbing and often utterly beautiful art.... His work asks people to think freshly and not romantically about control versus freedom, austerity versus exuberance, faith versus skepticism: about ... Read more