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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.3
EAN: 9781891024375
ISBN: 189102437X
Label: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: February 02, 2002
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Release Date: February 02, 2002
Studio: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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The beautiful catalog Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting accompanies the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of this prolific and important German artist. Richter's many artistic achievements vacillate between pure abstraction and a kind of realism. His realistic paintings, based primarily on personal photographs and images from newspapers, range in subject matter from the banal, like rolls of toilet paper, to the extremely potent, such as famous Nazi "doctor" Werner Hyde. The paintings have in common an emotional remove; the re-creating of photographic images points us toward our own possible emotional detachment to the influx of images in the world. A blurred chair, Jackie Kennedy, burning candles, family portraits--Richter lays them all out before us as if to say, Here, they are all the same. The insightful text by MoMA curator Robert Storr provides an in-depth look at Richter's life in postwar Germany, tracing the influences and environment that made his work possible. The book includes a revealing interview with the artist and a detailed chronology of his life and work, plus 138 color illustrations and 165 duotones. --J.P. Cohen
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Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the "natural" evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. In every level of his varied output--from his austere photo-based realism of the early 60s, to his brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 80s, to his startling cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group--Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting should be. The result has been among the most convincing renewal of painting's vitality to be found in late 20th- and early 21st-century art. With an extensive and insightful critical essay by curator Robert Storr, a recent interview with the artist, a chronology, an exhibition history, and nearly 300 color and duotone reproductions, "Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting" marks a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary art in general, and Gerhard Richter in particular.
By Robert Storr.
10 x 11.25 in.
138 color, 87 duotone illustrations
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Unbelievable book. Wonderful reproductions of the brilliant Gerhard Richter's work and wonderful words by the brilliant Robert Storr. The interview in the back between the two is my favorite. This is the definitive book on Gerhard Richter. I would recommend it to anyone. This book generally retails in museum stores for $85, by the way.
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Great book.
If you like Richter you will love this book.
Well written and the images are fantastic.
Must have for any art library.
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Richter's work is presently on display at the High Museum in Atlanta. My husband and I enjoyed the pieces displayed there and through the museum located this book. The representations are accurate. The work itself is arresting and the colors are magnificent. In the book the artist discusses his technique and educates the reader. The book is now a permanent addition to our book shelf as both a tool for my artist husband and as a book of gorgeous, stunning paintings for both of us to enjoy.
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A lot of words been written lately about the ýunexpected revival of paintingý fueled by the current Gerhardt Richter painting retrospective captured in this book. It seems, according to some influential art scribes writing in the trail of this traveling exhibition, that the much heralded demise of painting, much like Mark Twainýs death, has been greatly exaggerated. Showcasing about 120 works over a 40-year period, this book is one of the most comprehensive retrospectives ever mounted about a ... Read More
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Gerhard Richter is one of the finest Pop artists of the 20th century. ("Pop" because he is highly non-ideological, even depicting ideological subjects in a completely neutral fashion. His works are plain-old nice to look at.) This book is a beautiful representation of his work, chock-full of his painting, from his earliest works to his most recent, printed nicely in full color. It is specifically the catalog for the exhibit of his works at MOMA in early 2002 (which this reviewer attended, with great ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 759.3
EAN: 9781891024375
ISBN: 189102437X
Label: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Manufacturer: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: February 02, 2002
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Release Date: February 02, 2002
Studio: The Museum of Modern Art, New York