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OverviewIn 1988, Gerhard Richter created one of the most controversial and fascinating political painting-cycles of all time, with his Baader-Meinhof series. In 2002, he returned to the theme of media and political truth with his artist’s book War Cut. For this project, Richter photographed 216 details of his abstract painting ‘No. 648-2’ (1987), and, working on a long table over a period of several weeks, combined these 4 x 6-inch details with 165 texts on the Iraq war, published in the German Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper on the dates of the war’s outbreak (20 and 21 March 2003). ‘My method was to attach a number of texts to a number of images without having to think about whether something would be better positioned to the left or the right, above or below,’ Richter told an interviewer, for a New York Times feature on the publication. ‘I placed these images so that a connection develops in terms of colours, structures and other characteristics. . . . Some images match the cruelty and the madness described in the texts shockingly well. And others can even serve as illustrations when the texts speak of deserts and other landscapes.’ Originally published only in German in 2004, this long-awaited English version of this important artist’s book presents Richter’s powerful attempt to accommodate the extremity of war. For this edition, Richter applied the same process of text selection to The New York Times, using the same dates of the war’s outbreak. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gerhard RichterPublisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.80cm Weight: 1.480kg ISBN: 9783863350420ISBN 10: 3863350421 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 07 January 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |