Main entry:

Storr, Robert.

Title & Author:

Gerhard Richter : forty years of painting / Robert Storr.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

Description:

340 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Tour of the exhibition: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 14-May 21, 2002 and others.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 14-May 21, 2002, the Art Institute of Chicago, June 22-Sept. 15, 2002, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 11, 2002-Jan. 14, 2003, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Feb. 20-May 18, 2003.
Includes statements by and interview with Gerhard Richter.
Covers extend to form additional leaves.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-330).

Summary:

"Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential painters working today. Since the early 1960s, his work has received much attention and 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 brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 1980s and encompasses such startling works as his brilliant cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group, thought-provoking monochrome abstractions and banal Pop images, delicate landscapes and intimate portraits. As an artist, Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting should be; and the result has been a vital renewal of painting itself." "This book accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of the seventy-year-old German artist's paintings ever to appear in New York and includes beautiful color plates and duotones of some two hundred canvases in a broad representation of his forty years of painting. In addition, this volume contains a substantial recent interview with Richter, a chronology, selected bibliography, and comprehensive exhibition history. The retrospective this book accompanies was organized by Robert Storr, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. After its showing in New York, this extraordinary exhibition will be seen in Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0870703579
9780870703577
1891024396 (paperbound D.A.P.)
9781891024399 (paperbound D.A.P.)
0870703587 (clothbound MoMA, T & H)
9780870703584 (clothbound MoMA, T & H)
189102437X (D.A.P)
9781891024375 (D.A.P)
(clothbound D.A.P.)
189102337X
9781891023378
1891023373

Subject:

Richter, Gerhard, 1932- Exhibitions.
Richter, Gerhard, 1932- Expositions.
Richter, Gerhard, 1932-
Richter, Gerhard, (1932- ...) Catalogues d'exposition.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Schilderijen.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
Quotations (texts)
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Richter, Gerhard, 1932-
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222512
Call No.: ND37.R535 G4 2002
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available