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| Named Person: | Gerhard Richter; Gerhard Richter; Gerhard Richter; Gerhard Richter |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gerhard Richter; Hans-Ulrich Obrist |
| ISBN: | 026268084X 9780262680844 |
| OCLC Number: | 32131927 |
| Description: | 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface / Hans-Ulrich Obrist -- Notes, 1962 -- Letter to a newsreel company, 29 April 1963 -- Programme and Report: the exhibition Leben mit Pop - eine Demonstration fur den Kapitalistischen Realismus, Dusseldorf, 11 October 1963 -- Notes, 1964 -- Poster text for the exhibition Klasen und Richter, Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem, Munich, 1964 -- Interview between John Anthony Thwaites and Gerhard Richter, written by Sigmar Polke, October 1964 -- Letter to Heiner Friedrich, 23 November 1964 -- Notes, 1964-1965 -- Text for exhibition catalogue, Galerie h, Hanover, 1966, written jointly with Sigmar Polke -- Interview with Dieter Hulsmanns and Fridolin Reske, 1966 -- Notes, 1966 -- Interview with Rolf Gunther Dienst, 1970 -- Note, 1971 -- Interview with Peter Sager, 1972 -- Interview with Rolf Schon, 1972 -- Letters to Wulf Herzogenrath, 1972 -- Notes, 1973 -- Letter to Jean-Christophe Ammann, February 1973. |
| Other Titles: | Text., Writings and interviews, 1962-1993 |
| Responsibility: | Gerhard Richter ; edited by Hans-Ulrich Obrist ; translated from the German by David Britt. |
Abstract:
Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, is one of the foremost painters of his generation. A great deal has been written about the bewildering heterogeneity of his work over the past 30 years, his seemingly willful and defiant movement between abstract and figurative modes of representation and his use of a variety of methods of applying paint to canvas. And Richter himself is the master of the paradoxical statement. Although he has emphasized that he is foremost a painter and has never been a theorist, throughout his career he has issued provocative and memorable statements.
Over seven years in preparation, this book makes available a selection of Richter's texts, many translated for the first time. These texts come from all periods of his career, beginning with a letter he wrote to a film company promoting the first group show of German Pop Art in 1963, in which he was a participant. There are public statements about specific exhibitions, private reflections drawn from personal correspondence, answers to questions posed by critics, and excerpts from journals discussing the intentions, subjects, methods, and sources of his works from various periods. The writings are accompanied by 87 biographical illustrations from the artist's personal collection.
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