RICHTER GERHARD

(H/B) PATTERNS
Divided, mirrored, repeated:?a limitless sequence created by Gerhard Richter from an original oil painting. The result of 221 patterns is published on 246 double-page images. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PANORAMA
Gerhard Richter: Panorama is the first and most complete overview of Richter's whole career. Where previous monographs have focused on a single aspect of his work, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half-century of activity. It includes his photo-paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, colour charts, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs, providing the definitive account of Richter's colossal artistic achievements. Alongside his celeb...
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(P/B) WALTER BENJAMIN AND THE CORPUS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Although Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is considered one of the most significant writers and theorists in twentieth-century Western culture, his enigmatic sense of the political has eluded definition. His later work in particular stages a perpetual but little understood confrontation with German fascism. Gerhard Richter shows that Benjamin's engagement with the political cannot be understood in terms of unified concepts and fully deducible theses that can be easily verified or refuted. Rather than explaining his sense of the political, Benja...
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(H/B) GERHARD RICHTER
The ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters at work in the world today. Includes 733 full page, multi-panel, colour images. Gerhard Richter is the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern until 8 Jan 2012. Right from the beginning, Gerhard Richter closely linked his artistic work, his painting as well as other visual works, with the collection of their original models. These are largely - photographic "images" of various kinds which, along with other visual notes such as sketches and collages, have been e...
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(H/B) DECEMBER
In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. In stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from meteorology, Kluge toys as readily with time and space as he does with his characters. In the narrative entry for December 1931, Adolf Hitler avoids a car ...
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(P/B) GERHARD RICHTER: DAILY PRACTICE OF PAINTING 0500278369