Gerhard Richter

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (Harvard University), Gerhard Richter, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (Harvard University) , Gertrud Koch

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Massachusetts Inst of Tec
28 August 2009

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: October Files

The first collection of essays on Gerhard Richter, who has been called ""the greatest modern painter.""The contemporary painter Gerhard Richter (born in 1932) has been heralded both as modernity's last painter and as painting's modern savior, seen to represent both the end of painting and its resurrection. Richter works in a dizzying variety of styles, from abstraction to a German cool pop that combines painterly technique and appropriation; his work includes photo paintings, large abstract canvases, and stained glass windows. This collection features writing by prominent critics, including Hal Foster, Gertrud Koch, and Thomas Crow; an essay by Rachel Haidu on Richter's family pictures that is published here for the first time; and an essay and two interviews with the artist by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Richter's ""longtime sparring partner"" (as the curator Robert Storr has called him). These writings examine Richter's work as a whole, from October 18, 1977, his dreamlike series of paintings depicting the dead Baader-Meinhof gang, to his abstract trio Abstract Paintings; from his unsettling portrait of ""Uncle Rudi"" in Nazi garb to his late series of portraits of his wife and young child. This addition to the October Files series will be an essential handbook to one of the most enigmatic figures in contemporary artContents Gerhard Richter and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Interview (1986) Gertrud Koch The Richter-Scale of Blur (1992) Thomas Crow Hand-Made Photographs and Homeless Representation (1992) Birgit Pelzer The Tragic Desire (1993) Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Divided Memory and Post-Traditional Identity- Gerhard Richter's Work of Mourning (1996) Peter Osborne Abstract Images- Sign, Image, and Aesthetic in Gerhard Richter's Painting (1998) Hal Foster Semblance According to Gerhard Richter (2003) Johannes Meinhardt Illusionism in Painting and the Punctum of Photography (2005) Rachel Haidu Arrogant Texts- Gerhard Richter's Family Pictures (2007) Gerhard Richter and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Interview (2004)

Contributions by: Gerhard Richter, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (Harvard University), Gertrud Koch, Thomas Crow (Director, Getty Research Institute)
Edited by: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh (Harvard University)
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 8
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 386g
ISBN: 9780262513128
ISBN 10: 0262513129
Series: October Files
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 28 August 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University. He is the author of Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (MIT Press, 2001)) and an editor of October.