2002 Collector's Art Book "Gerhard Richter Forty Years of Painting" MoMA Exhibition Catalog by Robert Storr

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Offered is a smashing Art Book, "Gerhard Richter Forty Years of Painting", published in 2002 in conjunction with the eponymous … Read more Offered is a smashing Art Book, "Gerhard Richter Forty Years of Painting", published in 2002 in conjunction with the eponymous retrospective exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Features text from Robert Storr, MoMA's Senior Curator. The exhibition continued its tour at The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. We've sampled many of the images above - this book features of 200 images and illustrations of his body of work - it's a must have for people passionate about 20th Century art.

10ʺW × 11.5ʺD × 1.25ʺH
Weighs approximately 6 lbs
ISBN: 0870703587
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Printed in Germany
Soft-cover with fold-over

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The beautiful catalog Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting accompanies 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 See less