Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting - Softcover

Robert Storr

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870703579 ISBN 13: 9780870703577

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub the Date: April. 2002 Pages: 340 in Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential painters working today. Since the early 1960s. his work has received much attention and a many international accolades. Richter.'s diverse body of work calls into question such widely held assumptions as the importance of stylistic consistency. individual artistic sensibility. spontaneous creativity. and the impact of technology and media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many artists today. he has explored these issues mainly through the medium of painting. challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. His varied output ranges from austere photo-based figurative realism of the early 1960s to ightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 1980s and encompasses such startling works as his il...

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Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential painters working today. Beginning in the 1960s, his work in many mediums has garnered serious attention and international accolades. His paintings - subtly modulated photo-based works, monochrome abstractions, and heavily painted, highly coloured, gestural canvases - are the subject of this lavishly illustrated monography by Robert Storr, a Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The book accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of the German artist to be presented in New York. This important exhibition, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, will be seen there from 21 February to 21 May 2002, and subsequently will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, and the High Museum, Atlanta.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0870703579
• ISBN 13: 9780870703577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340