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OverviewGerhard Richter's oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné is being re-leased on the occasion of the artist's eightieth birthday in Febru-ary 2012. The first volume encompasses the works Gerhard Richter assi-gned numbers 1 to 198, covering the years 1962 to 1968. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dietmar ElgerPublisher: Hatje Cantz Imprint: Hatje Cantz Dimensions: Width: 26.60cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 30.80cm Weight: 3.440kg ISBN: 9783775719780ISBN 10: 3775719784 Pages: 512 Publication Date: 07 October 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsThe first of a projected five volumes cataloguing the painted work of the prominent German artist Gerhard Richter, this volume revises and continues catalogues that the artist himself had carefully begun earlier in his career This publication marks the important collaboration of the Gerhard Richter Archiv and the Staaliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, thus providing important new documentary and visual information about the works Good color images appear throughout; source material for individual paintings is also illustrated. This book and its successors will be indispensable research tools for future writing on this artist Highly recommended.--J. T. Paoletti Choice (04/01/2012) The first of a projected five volumes cataloguing the painted work of the prominent German artist Gerhard Richter, this volume revises and continues catalogues that the artist himself had carefully begun earlier in his career...This publication marks the important collaboration of the Gerhard Richter Archiv and the Staaliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, thus providing important new documentary and visual information about the works...Good color images appear throughout; source material for individual paintings is also illustrated. This book and its successors will be indispensable research tools for future writing on this artist...Highly recommended.--J. T. Paoletti Choice Author InformationDietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years resear-ching and preparing this publication. The five-volume catalogue raisonné of all of Richter's paintings and sculptures will be pu-blished over the next seven years. Aside from the richly colored illustrations, many of them full-page, it includes full technical details, information about the artist's handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography, and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes, and comparison images. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |