Concerned with the relationship between painting and the technologically mediated image of photography, Gerhard Richter is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest living artists. With a brush that deftly and romantically captures abstract details and blurred newspaper images alike, he has transf[...]
Wie entstand und was war die Gruppe 47?Hans Werner Richter, Gründer und geistiger Vater der bedeutenden Schriftstellergemeinschaft erinnert sich an den dreißigjährigen Werdegang der Gruppe, seine Begegnungen mit den Autoren und ihre legendären Treffen. Mit persönlichen Briefen, Texten und Widmu[...]
Located somewhere between Pop Art and Realism, Gerhard Richter's abstract works are the subject of this unique book that brings together 80 works from collections worldwide. Trained in the 1950s as a realistic painter, by the mid-1970s Gerhard Richter began to evolve into a more abstract artist. His[...]
This volume appears in honor of Gerhard Richter's 80th birthday. His world-renowned oeuvre consists in large part of photorealistic paintings. The book contains 21 works by American artist and photographer Louise Lawler, who examines how Gerhard Richter's paintings are handled within the context of [...]
Gerhard Richter's (born 1932) 2014 series Abstrakte Bilder 937/1-4, known as the Auschwitz Cycle, are based on four photographs that prisoners took of an execution in Birkenau concentration camp in 1944. These images have preoccupied Richter for years, and making photos of details of works that are [...]
Die Cage Bilder German edition. Gerhard Richters rigorous exploration of the medium of painting makes him one of the most important artists of our time. The Cage Paintings, a cycle of six, large-format paintings from 2006, are named after the composer John Cage. They were exhibited for the first tim[...]
As an exponent of holism and experiment, Buckminster Fuller was an exemplary figure to many artists in his lifetime, and his relevance has only gained. This volume looks at his influence upon such artists as Jose Davila, Olafur Eliasson, Simon Dybbroe Moller, David Maljkovic, Hermann Maier Neustadt,[...]
Peter-Cornell Richter demonstrates how one can acquire deep insight from nature--especially from water--in reading significance in its forms. The artist's first volume Photography appeared ten years ago. Its motifs are primarily black and white photographs of nature. Generally, they show strange, un[...]