Gerhard Richter Portraits Painting Appearances by Paul Moorhouse (10 results)

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in a Near Fine jacket 1st Printing. 175pp Tall 4to.

Condition: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. This is a near fine folio size hardcover first edition in a gray cloth binding that appears to have no DJ, but the previous owner has pasted the DJ inside the front and rear boards, which I thank presents better that the DJ. Photos on request. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY, extra for airmail or international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Published for the Richter exhibition, February 26 - May 31, 2009, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK. Likely First Edition with no additional printings listed. Clean and tightly bound with fine plates and contents. Very slight bumps and wear at corners, still Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. International shipping and domestic Priority Mail may require added postage charges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. National Portrait Gallery Publications, 2009. Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Large NPG hardback. Profusely illustrated.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Colour illustrations. Near Fine, without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fine in a Very Good jacket with short closed tear near top spine. 1st Printing. 175pp folio.

Hardcover. Condition: gut. 2009. Presents a major survey of Gerhard Richter's portraits. This book offers an analysis of the artist's oeuvre, revealing the true meaning behind Richter's working method, practice and style. It includes over 100 key paintings from major international public and private collections.Rebelling against the glamor and materialism of Pop Art in the 1960s Gerhard Richter created a powerful body of work rooted in the ordinary, everyday reality of the observed world. This book is the first major survey of Richter's portraits from this era to the present day and represents a major advance in the understanding and appreciation of the artist's work. By examining his portraits in unprecedented detail and scrutinizing the sophisticated ways in which he has challenged and extended the genre of portraiture, the startling range of Richter's source material is fully revealed.In the early 1960s Richter used photographs from magazines, newspapers and his own collection to eschew the abstract, painterly ethos of the preceding generation. His images depicted more recognizable subjects instead: people, family groups, individuals in newspaper stories, animals, buildings and ordinary objects, all rendered in a flat, deliberately impersonal style that alluded to the photographic origins of the imagery. These early monochrome images established a distinctive way of working: Richter's photographically derived images were manipulated to obscure or blur the definition of the original. They seem strangely removed from reality as a result, and pose questions about the nature of photography, identity and the way images of the real world are perceived and understood. As Richter himself has commented, his work engages with 'persistent uncertainty'."Gerhard Richter Portraits" maps out the artist's principal preoccupations and main lines of development via themes that include Private Images (focusing on the artist's use of personal photographs), Public Images (examining images from a range of media-derived sources), Art History (focusing on images of Richter's associations within the art world) and Personal History (in which the artist's preoccupation with his family and his own image take center stage).Published to accompany the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London 26 February - 31 May 2009 key sales points: New and accessible scholarship redefines Richter as an accomplished portraitist. A clear chronological and thematic structure invites the reader to evaluate almost half a century of the artist's work. This book features an in-depth analysis of the artist's oeuvre, revealing the true meaning behind Richter's working method, practice and style. It includes over 100 beautifully reproduced key paintings from major international public and private collections. Autor: Paul Moorhouse is Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the National Portrait Gallery. His exhibitions include Pop Art Portraits, Leon Kossoff, Michael Andrews, Bridget Riley and Anthony Caro. Recent publications include Pop Art Portraits, Richard Long - Walking the Line and John Virtue - Images of London. Content: Forewords Preface Painting Appearances: Gerhard Richter Portraits Bloody Painting The Most Perfect Picture Devotional Pictures Continual Uncertainty Private Images: Personal Portraits Gerhard Richter ist der national wie international bekannteste deutsche Maler. Die Porträts ziehen sich seit 1962 wie ein roter Faden durch sein gesamtes malerisches Werk. Dieser großformatige Bildband widmet sich ausschließlich den Menschenbildern . Was zeigen uns diese persönlichen Bildnisse und Porträts historischer Personen über Richters herausragende Malerei? Wie lauten die Geschichten hinter den Personen? Wie spiegeln diese Werke zentrale Fragen der deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte in der Kunst? Vorgestellt werden die wichtigsten Gemälde, mit Einzelerklärungen zu den dargestellten Personen und Erläuterungen, was das Porträt im Werk dieses großen Künstlers bedeutet und ebenso, was die Gattung für die Kunst heute sein kann. Seit den 1960er Jahren entsteht hier ein Werkbereich, der deutsche Geschichte in Richters Blick auf die Figur, auf die Person im Privaten, Familiären, Historischen und Politischen reflektiert. Zugleich gehören etwa seine Frauenbildnisse zu den am häufigsten reproduzierten Bildern der letzten Jahre Betty , eine verträumte Rückenansicht seiner ältesten Tochter in rotgeblümter Jacke, sei als ein Beispiel genannt. Autor: Gerhard Richter *1932 in Dresden, wo er von 1952 bis 1956 an der Kunstakademie studiert und als Meisterschüler bis 1959 arbeitet. 1962 Umzug nach Düsseldorf und Studium an der Kunstakademie, dort lernt er Sigmar Polke, Konrad Lueg und Blinky Palermo kennen. Seit 1971 Professur an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 2002 Retrospektive im Museum of Modern Art, New York. 2007 wurde das Kölner Domfenster installiert. Gerhard Richter lebt in Köln. Zusatzinfo 112 farb. Abb., Sprache deutsch Einbandart gebunden Kunst Musik Theater Kunstgeschichte Kunststile Porträt Kunstgattung Richter, Gerhard EAN : 9781855143975 ISBN: 1855143976 Zusatzinfo 100 colour illustrations Verlagsort London Sprache englisch Maße 340 x 250 mm Kunst Musik Theater ISBN-10 1-85514-397-6 / 1855143976 ISBN-13 978-1-85514-397-5 / 9781855143975 In englischer Sprache. 176 pages. 34,8 x 25,4 x 2,2 cm.

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