Photo Realism

The out-of-print book 'Franz Gertsch 'The Seventies' shows the large-format key works by Swiss artist. His participation in the legendary 1972 documenta brought him international breakthrough. The photorealism paintings here date from this creative period

The out-of-print monograph 'Die Magie des Realen' by Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath on the work of Swiss photorealist painter Franz GERTSCH spans from his children's drawings when he was barely ten years old to his early watercolors and his current works

This out-of-print volume, 'Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970's', offers a snapshot of this chapter in art history, when in the late 1960's a number of young artist:s in the United States began painting images directly from photographs.