Gerhard Richter :a life in painting

• 作者: Elger, Dietmar.
• 其他作者: Solaro, Elizabeth M.,
• 出版: Chicago ;London : The University of Chicago Press 2009.
• 稽核項: xiv, 389 pages :illustrations (come color) ;26 cm.
• 標題: Artists Germany. , Criticism and interpretation. , Richter, Gerhard, 1932- Criticism and interpretation. , Richter, Gerhard, , Artists
• ISBN: 0226203239 , 9780226203232
• 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-380) and index. Dresden -- Capitalist realism -- Dramatic personae -- Transformation -- Uncle Rudi -- Stylistic rupture as stylistic principle -- Venice biennale -- Gray -- Juno and Janus -- Sublime landscape, exceptional disaster -- Hahnwald -- First look.
• 摘要: Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and influential artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialog 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 mirro constructions, prints, sculptures, and installations. Though Richter has been known in the United States for quite some time, the highly successful retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in 2002 catapulted him to unprecedented fame. Enter noted curator Dietmar Elger, who here presents the first biography of this contemporary artist. Written with full access to Richter and his archives, this fascinating book offers unparalleled insight into his life and work. Elger explores Richter's childhood in Nazi Germany; his years as a student and mural painter in communist East Germany; his time in the West during the turbulent 1960s and '70s, when student protests, political strife, and violence tore the Federal Republic of Germany apart; and his rise to international acclaim during the 1980s and beyond. Richter has always been a difficult personality to parse, and the seemingly contradictory strands of his artistic practice have frustrated and sometimes confounded critics. But the extensive interviews on which this book is based disclose a Richter who is remarkably candid, personal, and vivid. The result is a book that will be the foundational portrait of this artist for years to come.
• 系統號: 005323573
• 資料類型: 圖書
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