GERHARD RICHTER by Stephan Berg, Martin Germann ( 9783777428949 )

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Title:

GERHARD RICHTER
ABOUT PAINTING / EARLY WORKS

By:

Stephan Berg, Martin Germann

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Paperback

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3777428949

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9783777428949

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Publisher:

HIRMER VERLAG

Pub. date:

5 October, 2017

Pages:

128

Synopsis:

Gerhard Richter (*1932) is an exceptional personality - not because his pictures are world famous, but because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His art masterfully moves between abstraction and representation, sensuousness and denial - ambiv alent attitudes which he demonstrated even in his early work. Gerhard Richter's oeuvre overcomes the division between abstract and representational art. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colours and forms nor do they deliver an intact p icture of reality. Richter is a sceptical artist who questions the reality of his art even when the prime subject of his paintings is the tangible. This applies in particular to his door, curtain and window pictures of the 1960s, which form the central foc us of this volume. They stage a playful examination of the illusory nature of art, which always questions what painting shows or conceals. This lavishly appointed volume is published to mark the artist's 85th birthday.

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Germany

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Hirmer Verlag

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