TY - BOOK ID - 64867768 TI - Gerhard Richter : painting after all AU - Wagstaff, Sheena AU - Buchloh, B. H. D. AU - Fer, Briony AU - Foster, Hal AU - Geimer, Peter AU - Kumar, Brinda AU - Rottmann, André PY - 2020 SN - 1588396851 9781588396853 PB - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art DB - UniCat KW - kunst KW - schilderkunst KW - twintigste eeuw KW - eenentwintigste eeuw KW - Duitsland KW - Richter Gerhard KW - 75.071 RICHTER KW - Richter, Gerhard, KW - Richter, Gerd, KW - Rihitā, Geruharuto, KW - Lixite, Gehede, KW - ריכטר, גרהרד, KW - Exhibitions KW - Painting, Abstract KW - Portrait painting, German KW - Painting, German KW - Painting KW - Painting from photographs KW - Social aspects KW - Richter, Gerhard UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64867768 AB - A lavishly illustrated monograph that spans the entire career of one of the most celebrated contemporary artists. Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post-Second World War Germany, in both broad and very personal terms. This handsomely designed book features approximately 100 of his key canvases, from photo paintings created in the early 1960s to portraits and later large-scale abstract series, as well as select works in glass. New essays by eminent scholars address a variety of themes: Sheena Wagstaff evaluates the conceptual import of the artist's technique; Benjamin H. D. Buchloh discusses the poignant Birkenau paintings (2014); Peter Geimer explores the artist's enduring interest in photographic imagery; Briony Fer looks at Richter's family pictures against traditional painting genres and conventions; Brinda Kumar investigates the artist's engagement with landscape as a site of memory; Andre Rottmann considers the impact of randomization and chance on Richter's abstract works; and Hal Foster examines the glass and mirror works. As this book demonstrates, Richter's rich and varied oeuvre is a testament to the continued relevance of painting in contemporary art. Exhibition: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (04.03. - 05.07.2020) ER -