Details

Subject(s)

• Richter, Gerhard 1932-—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Richter, Gerhard 1932-—Catalogues raisonnés [Browse]

Related name

• Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München [Browse]
• Friedel, Helmut [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Catalogues raisonnés [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• catalogues raisonnés [Browse]

Summary note

"This monumental publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of the late twentieth century. Having left East Germany in 1961, where he had already established a reputation as a Realist painter, Gerhard Richter went on to attend the Dusseldorf Academy, striking out on a radical new path and changing the history of painting as he looked to photography for a way to release painting from the political and symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism." "Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist's work, presenting the photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962. From pictures of family and friends to images from the mass media, Richter's photographs - sometimes found, sometimes original - have provided the basis for many of his paintings, often re-emerging in a luminous, monochromatic palette, and falling ambiguously between documentary and historical painting. The images closely parallel, year by year, the subjects of Richter's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis that has been so central to his art. Offering invaluable insight into Richter's working process, this monumental new edition, which completely revises and updates the rare, out-of-print 1997 edition, features 783 multi-image sheets, each reproduced full page and in full color."--Jacket.

Notes

Courtesy Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Other title(s)

Gerhard Richter, atlas

ISBN

• 1933045477
• 9781933045474

LCCN

2010450650

OCLC

85856072

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