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Gerhard Richter's abstractions are profound and beautiful, though perplexing. After all these years, they still present a curious challenge: what, exactly, are they? RICHTER 858 explores this question by focusing on one suite of extraordinary pictures painted in 1999, soon after his return to work after a silence caused by a stroke. Both investigation and celebration, this book brings together image, music and text in a uniquely compelling way: contributors include the great guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, two sharp-eyed critics, and a baker's dozen of prominent, award-winning poets. Housed in an aluminum slipcase, this lavish, oversized volume features the largest, most sumptuous, and most accurate reproductions of any Richter work. The eight paintings of the suite are shown at more than half-scale, and also, quite untraditionally, presented unbound on heavy paper in a pocket at the back of the book--allowing readers to mix, match, and re-present the work for themselves outside the confines of the printed volume. Forty details from the paintings are also reproduced in large-format, accompanied by the poems and texts. These brilliant passages--rich in incident and intervention, and ranging from the coolly sublime to the loudly riotous--make fascinating pictures in their own right. Additionally, a double gatefold opens to show all eight paintings in panoramic view. In essence, RICHTER 858 presents an elegant, if raucous, meeting ground for our most important contemporary artist and a diverse chorus of American music, poetry, and criticism.
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Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Since the early 1960s he has emerged as one of the essential painters of the postwar period, pioneering Photorealism with paintings made from found photographs (amateur photographs, advertisements and book and magazine illustrations) and then from his own photographs. His work has also profoundly engaged with and influenced such genres as Pop Art and Abstract art. Richter is the subject of a highly-acclaimed travelling retrospective which opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in February 2002.
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- PublisherThe Shifting Foundation/SFMOMA
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0971861005
- ISBN 13 9780971861008
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages120
- EditorBreskin David
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Richter 858: Eight Abstract Pictures
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Shifting Foundation / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
(2002)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. San Francisco: The Shifting Foundation, 2002. Oblong folio. Hardcover with a metal slipcase. First edition. Smudge on the front board which is sunned where the slipcase sides end. Rear of the metal slipcase is scratched. Includes the CD and eight loose plates. Very good, noting the stain to the board. This is an over sized item and additional shipping charges may apply. Seller Inventory # 004358
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Gerard Richter 858: Eight Abstract Pictures
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: VG+. oblong grey cloth boards w/ white lettering. 8 loose color plates. 1 Compact Disc. Aluminum Slipcase. Cardboard case w/ vellum w/ black printing. A very clean, complete copy of this impressive collection of Gerhard Richter's work w/ accompany music cd & 8 color plates of the artists work. Cardboard case has shelf-wear, markings/scuffing. Seller Inventory # 175322
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Book Description Breskin, David [editor]. RICHTER 858. Eight Abstract Pictures. Text by numerous authors including Klaus Kertess and Dave Hickey; unpaginated, roughly 60 color illustrations and 8 loose plates Folio, cloth in an aluminum sleeve in corrugated box. San Francisco, Shifting Foundation/SFMOMA, 2002. This large-format volume concentrates on a suite of 8 abstract paintings Richter created in 1999 after recovering from a stroke. 2,500 copies printed. Seller Inventory # 101146
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