Gerhard Richter
Painting After the Subject of History
$72.64
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2022
Summary
The first full-scale monograph in English on the German painter Gerhard Richter. In this book, distinguished art historian Benjamin H. D. Buchloh maps the unfolding of Richter’s ever more complex and contradictory lifework. A painter in an age that disdains painting, a German confronting the impossibility of representing the historical trauma inflicted by his country upon the world between 1933 and 1945, a European artist in dialogue with his American counterparts, Richter (b. 1932) is shown …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543538 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262543532 |
| Author: | Benjamin H.D. Buchloh |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 229mm |
| Series: | October Books |
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Critics Review
“[Buchloh’s] stamina of his thought is exactly proportionate to the depth of his love for his subject.” – New Yorker
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh
Benjamin H.D. Buchloh is an art historian and critic. He is the Andrew W. Mellon Research Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at Harvard University.
He is the author of:
- Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975
- Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art
In 2007, Buchloh received the Golden Lion for Contemporary Art History and Criticism at the Venice Biennale.
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