Gerhard Richter - Forty Years of Painting - by Robert Storr

Description: Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting by Robert Storr Large hardcover book in very good condition "Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential painters working today. Beginning in the early 1960s, his work in many mediums has garnered serious attention & international accolades. His paintings - subtly modulated photo-based works, thought provoking monochrome abstractions, & heavily painted, highly colored gestural canvases - are the subject of this lavishly illustrated monograph, published to accompany an exhibition opening at The Museum of Modern Art in February 2002, & subsequently traveling to Chicago, San Francisco, & Washington, D.C. This important book accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of the paintings of the seventy-year-old German artist to appear in New York & includes beautiful color plates of nearly two hundred works in a broad representation of his forty years of painting. The texts, by Robert Storr, include a well-illustrated insightful essay & a recent interview with the artist. Storr is also the author of the much-acclaimed volume Gerhard Richter. October 18, 1977, published by The Museum of Modern Art in 2000. Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely-held attitudes about the importance of stylistic consistency 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 notorious 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 one of the most convincing renewals of painting's vitality to be found in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art."

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