品牌：Robert Storr
基本信息
·出版社：Museum of Modern Art
·页码：340 页码
·出版日：2002年
·ISBN：0870703579
·条码：9780870703577
·装帧：精装
·英语：英语
·外文书名：Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting (Hardcover)
内容简介
Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the inaturali evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. In every level of his varied output--from his austere photo-based realism of the early 60s, to his brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 80s, to his startling cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group--Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting should be. The result has been among the most convincing renewal of painting's vitality to be found in late 20th- and early 21st-century art. With an extensive and insightful critical essay by curator Robert Storr, a recent interview with the artist, a chronology, an exhibition history, and nearly 300 color and duotone reproductions, Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting marks a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary art in general, and Gerhard Richter in particular.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
作者简介
Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Since the early 1960s he has emerged as one of the essential painters of the postwar period, pioneering photorealism with paintings made from found photographs (amateur snapshots, advertisements and book and magazine illustrations) and then from his own photographs. His work has also profoundly engaged with and influenced such genres as Pop and abstract art. A retrospective of Richter's work was shown in 2001 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition was one of the largest ever organized there for a living artist, and traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The beautiful catalogGerhard Richter: Forty Years of Paintingaccompanies the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of this prolific and important German artist. Richter's many artistic achievements vacillate between pure abstraction and a kind of realism. His realistic paintings, based primarily on personal photographs and images from newspapers, range in subject matter from the banal, like rolls of toilet paper, to the extremely potent, such as famous Nazi "doctor" Werner Hyde. The paintings have in common an emotional remove; the re-creating of photographic images points us toward our own possible emotional detachment to the influx of images in the world. A blurred chair, Jackie Kennedy, burning candles, family portraits--Richter lays them all out before us as if to say, Here, they are all the same. The insightful text by MoMA curator Robert Storr provides an in-depth look at Richter's life in postwar Germany, tracing the influences and environment that made his work possible. The book includes a revealing interview with the artist and a detailed chronology of his life and work, plus 138 color illustrations and 165 duotones.--J.P. Cohen--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
专业书评
From Library Journal
With this catalog of the first major U.S. retrospective of the remarkably diverse paintings of the German-born Richter, Storr (senior curator of painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, NY; Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977) sets out to increase our understanding of Richter to parallel that of American contemporary post-abstract expressionists (among them, Jasper Johns and Robert Ryman). Storr's fascinating introductory and biographical essay frames the historical, art, and personal movements that have provoked Richter's exploration of painting's place in a world rent by World War II, photography, and abstraction. Among other insights, Storr hits on the distancing discomfort of studying Richter's photo-based paintings when he cites the painter's "calculated discretion" in dealing with catastrophic subject matter, such as aspects of the Holocaust. Over 200 color and duotone images, gorgeously reproduced, firmly document the full range of this vital artist, encompassing everything from his intense, colorful abstractions to his gray-scale photo-reproductions to his highly realistic portraits and still lifes, and more. An interview with Richter fills out the book. This will be the standard on Richter for some time to come, and it is essential for all serious art collections. Rebecca Miller, "Library Journal"
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The New York Times, February 15, 2002 – Michael Kimmelman
…one of the finest, most beautiful and strangely moving exhibitions of the work of a living painter in years.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
The Village Voice, February 25, 2002 – Jerry Saltz
Curator Robert Storr—who also wrote the catalog's penetrating 80-page essay—…. effectively streamlines the story.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
The New Yorker, February 25, 2002 -- Peter Schjeldahl
…his forty-year career comes off as a resounding hosanna of piquant, good, and great paintings, with something for everyone.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Artnet.com, February 21, 2002 – Charlie Finch
Whatever your favorite Richters, this is one exhibition, curated to perfection, which will reward repeated viewings.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Artnet.com, January 30, 2002 – Charlie Finch
Richter perfectly captures the way we look at things, hazily, momentarily, in a flash, and temporarily "preserves" it…--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Rain Taxi Review of Books, Fall 2002
"Auster's typewriter will be forever preserved in this wonderful little book..."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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