Gerhard Richter Knihy

Ústředním tématem knihy profesora německých studií a srovnávací literatury na Brownově univerzitě Gerharda Richtera je specifická figura modernity, figura následování, přežívání, nastupování či přicházení po někom nebo něčem, figura, již by bylo možné nazvat potomností. Na analýzách textů autorů jako Kafka, Heidegger, Benjamin, Brecht, Adorno, Lyotard nebo Derrida ukazuje, jakým způsobem se potomnost propisuje do zkušenosti osobní a kolektivní paměti, překladu, fotografie, naděje nebo možnosti myšlení a filozofie „po Osvětimi“. Z rozvinutí zdánlivě triviálního zjištění, že se vždy nacházíme v situaci po něčem, se tak stává pozoruhodné osvětlení Lyotardova tvrzení, že „po filozofii následuje filozofie. Tímto po však je proměněna.“

Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely-held attitudes about the importance of stylistic consistency and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. In every level of his varied output--from his austere photo-based realism of the early 60s, to his brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 80s, to his notorious cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group--Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting "should" be. The result has been one of the most convincing renewals of painting's vitality to be found in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art. With an extensive and insightful critical essay by curator Robert Storr, a recent interview with the artist, a chronology, an exhibition history and nearly 300 color and duotone reproductions, Gerhard Forty Years of Painting marks a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary art in general, and Gerhard Richter in particular.

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is one of the most highly regarded of contemporary artists, and his series of 15 paintings known as October 18, 1977, is one of the 20th century's most famous works on a political theme. It commemorates the day on which three young German radicals, members of the militant Baader-Meinhof group, were found dead in a Stuttgart prison; they were pronounced suicides, but many people suspected that they had been murdered. Richter's paintings, created 11 years after this traumatic event, are among the most challenging works of the artist's career.These hauntingly powerful images, derived from newspaper and police photography, are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and will be on view beginning in September 2000 as part of the MoMA2000 series of exhibitions. In this book, Robert Storr provides necessary political background to the series, but his approach is art historical, offering insight into the complexities of "history painting" in the modern era.

Gerhard Richter is widely seen as one of the most important painters at work in the world today. Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932, he left for the West in 1961, settling in Dusseldorf, where he held his first exhibition in 1963. He has exhibited internationally for the last five decades, including retrospectives in New York, Paris and Dusseldorf. He lives and works in Cologne. As the artist draws near to his eightieth birthday in 2012, Tate Modern in collaboration with the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, is staging a major retrospective exhibition. Exhibition: Tate Modern, London 6 October 2011 - 8 January 2012 / Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin February - April 2012 / Centre Pompidou, Paris 6 June - 24 September 2012

"An exploration of the idea of the world in art (both an image of the world that has perished, and another opened up by the artwork) as revealed through a number of seminal philosophical thinkers as well as through assorted modes of aesthetic production, including painting, film, photography, poetry and music"-- Provided by publisher

Featured here are selected pictures from Gerhard Richter's new group of works entitled Strip Paintings.Published alongside an exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (12 September - 13 October 2012), the works in this beautifully produced, representative, large-format catalogue are reprinted on full pages in 7 colour prints.In his essay, Glass Insurrection Benjamin H.D. Buchloh addresses Richter's glass pieces from 1967 to the present and in The Chance Ornament: Painting Progress Painting Loss he focuses on the new Strip Paintings group for the first time.Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932 and he lives and works in Cologne.

This text presents the work, done between November 1999 and March 2000, of Gerard Richter. He produced 100 overpainted photographs which predominantly use shots taken by Richter himself in Florence.

Mit den Werken aus der Sammlung Böckmann verfügt das Neue Museum Nürnberg nun über die drittgrößte Sammlung an Werken von Gerhard Richter weltweit und stellt die vom Künstler selbst eingerichtete Hängung in dieser Publikation erstmalig vor. Viele prominente Gemälde vereinen sich zu einem großen Panorama: Vom Waldstück, einem verwischten Fotobild aus dem Jahr 1965, und dem Farbtafelbild Sechs Farben (1966) über das Seestück (bewölkt) von 1969, das altmeisterlich anmutende Gemälde Schädel mit Kerze (1983) und eine ganze Reihe abstrakter Bilder bis hin zu Decke (1988), das als bermalung der zweiten Version des Gemäldes Erhängte zum Umfeld des großen RAF-Zyklus 18. Oktober 1977 gehört.

Looking at painters who came to prominence in the 1960s, '70s and '80s, this book shows how abstract painting has developed in the wake of postwar movements such as Art Informel.

Born in Dresden in 1931, Gerhard Richter left the former GDR in 1961 to study in Düsseldorf, later living and working in Cologne. His practice has redefined the medium of painting, combining a rigorous conceptual approach with a sumptuous yet elusive beauty. His mastery of genres spans landscapes, portraiture, still life and abstraction. Lying at the heart of his practice is an ongoing project that commenced in 1964 and continues to this day. Atlas comprises over five thousand photographs, drawings, diagrams and proposals that are the foundation of Richter's oeuvre. Sometimes used as a source for his painting, Richter's album of pictures also demonstrates the complex dialogues he explores between painting and photography, history and memory, perception and representation. This book provides a critical tool for navigating Atlas, bringing together Richter's own writings alongside commentaries by an international range of curators, critics and art historians.