Talking to art historian Benjamin Buchloh in 1988, Gerhard Richter cited the appearances of Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana at the second Documenta in Kassel in the late 50s as decisive encounters for his then-incipient art. Just a few years later, Richter would style himself as a German "Pop" artist, but in the 80s he returned to pure abstraction for its possibilities of "bitter truth, liberation, and... a completely different and new content... expressing itself." His abstract paintings present a heavily worked surface, ...
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Talking to art historian Benjamin Buchloh in 1988, Gerhard Richter cited the appearances of Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana at the second Documenta in Kassel in the late 50s as decisive encounters for his then-incipient art. Just a few years later, Richter would style himself as a German "Pop" artist, but in the 80s he returned to pure abstraction for its possibilities of "bitter truth, liberation, and... a completely different and new content... expressing itself." His abstract paintings present a heavily worked surface, blurred and scraped to both veil and expose prior layers. In other words, they manage a tension between depth (layer) and strong horizontal activity (blur). Unlike much heavily worked abstraction, and in spite of their scale, their total effect is not heroic--Richter's almost-deadpan, process-oriented transparency cancels out such chest-beating--but the artist that responded to the direct energies of Pollock's work has clearly found a way, some decades later, to conjure both zest and detachment simultaneously. Abstraction has made up a dominant portion of Richter's output since the 80s, inaugurating a fruitful dialectic with figuration, and Large Abstracts collects works produced between 1986 and 2006. For this volume, Buchloh (once described by former Museum of Modern Art, New York, curator and current Dean of the Yale School of Art Robert Storr as, "the artist's longtime sparring partner") returns to the fray, and, along with Beate S???ntgen and Gregor Stemmrich, offers critical insight on this iconic oeuvre.
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Collectable-Very Good Condition in Very Good jacket. 9783775722490. Paintings. VG-/VG 1st ed 2009 Hatje Cantz hardback, unclipped DJ, corners a little bumped and light edge-rubbing to jacket, VG bright and unmarked. Size: 10.24 x 0.79 x 13.78 inches. 160 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Paintings; ISBN: 3775722491. ISBN/EAN: 9783775722490. Dewey Code: 759.3092. The book is available to view in-person at our Cambridge hub. The photos provided are of the actual book for sale, further condition-specific photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 093314.
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Very good. Die Malerei ihre Prinzipien, Grenzen und Möglichkeiten ist das zentrale Thema im umfangreichen Werk von Gerhard Richter (*1932 in Dresden), das seit seinen Anfängen durch stilistische Gegensätze gekennzeichnet ist. Der elegante, durchgehend farbig bebilderte Band mit profunden Textbeiträgen von Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Beate Söntgen und Gregor Stemmrich lenkt den Blick auf die abstrakten Bilder des Künstlers, die seit den 1980er-Jahren eine dominierende Werkgruppe darstellen. Dabei wird keine formal-inhaltliche Entwicklung nachgezeichnet, vielmehr konzentriert sich die Werkauswahl auf Gemälde, die thematisch einen homogenen Schaffenskomplex bilden. Ausgangspunkt ist die Feststellung, dass die abstrakten Bilder Ergebnisse malerischer Prozesse sind, die nicht durch eine inhaltliche Vorgabe in eine bestimmte Richtung gelenkt werden. Die gezeigten Gemälde sind zwischen 1986 und 2006 entstanden und stellen großformatige Bilder, die von einer ungeheuren malerischen Dichte geprägt sind, in den Vordergrund. Im repräsentativen Großformat – mit zahlreichen 1: 1-Details aus den abstrakten Bildern des großen deutschen Künstlers Gerhard Richter. Painting—its principles, boundaries, and possibilities—is the central theme of the extensive body of work by Gerhard Richter (*1932 in Dresden), an oeuvre has been characterized by stylistic contrasts since the very beginning. This elegant volume of color plates featuring profound essays by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Beate Söntgen, and Gregor Stemmrich focuses on the artist's abstract paintings, which have comprised a dominant portion of his collective works since the eighties. The book does not trace the development of form and content in the paintings, but concentrates instead on the paintings that thematically comprise a homogenous body of work. It is based on the assertion that Richter's abstract paintings are the results of various painterly processes that are not guided in a particular direction by a content-related precept. The featured paintings were produced between 1986 and 2006 and place emphasis on large-format paintings characterized by a prodigious painterly density. (German edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2248-3 Exhibition schedule: Museum Ludwig, Cologne, October 18, 2008–February 1, 2009 · Haus der Kunst, Munich, February 27–May 17, 2009 · Further venues planned Autor: Dr. Ulrich Wilmes ist Hauptkurator am Haus der Kunst, München. Zusatzinfo 137 Abb., davon 136 farbig Sprache englisch Maße 265 x 350 mm Einbandart gebunden Kunst Musik Theater Kunstgeschichte Kunststile abstract art abstrakte Kunst contemporary Art Sachbücher Künste Literatur Bildende Kunst Haus der Kunst München Sachbücher Künstler Literatur Bildende Kunst Köln Cologne Museen München Museen Museum Ludwig Köln Richter, Gerhard Richter, Gerhard Ausstellungskataloge Zeitgenössische Kunst ISBN-10 3-7757-2249-1 / 3775722491 ISBN-13 978-3-7757-2249-0 / 9783775722490.
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Collectable-Very Good Condition in Near Fine jacket. 9783775722490. Paintings. ~~Comes with Richter 'Strip' artwork sheet inside front cover~~Near Fine/Near Fine 1st ed 2009 Hatje Cantz hardback, unclipped DJ, corners a little pushed, near fine bright and unmarked. Size: 10.24 x 0.79 x 13.78 inches. 160 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Paintings; ISBN: 3775722491. ISBN/EAN: 9783775722490. Dewey Code: 759.3092. The book is available to view in-person at our Cambridge hub. The photos provided are of the actual book for sale, further condition-specific photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 085149.
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