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"This new edition is a newly conceptualized publication authorized by Gerhard RICHTER, containing the 'Atlas' work until 2005, including particularly plates of the War Cut cycle.
The 'Atlas' is a continuous, encyclopedic work containing c. 4.000 photographs, sketches and collages arranged on more than 700 panels. As a complete work RICHTER's 'Atlas' is an organism that continues to develop and change.
Begun in 1962, many of the ideas preceding RICHTER's painterly works find their expression in the photographs, sketches, plans and collages of the 'Atlas'." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2011)
"This monumental and comprehensive publication, 'Atlas', maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of our time.
Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard RICHTER himself, 'Atlas' cuts straight to the heart of the artist's thinking, collecting more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962.
Year by year, the images closely parallel the subjects of RICHTER's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis that has been so central to his art.
Offering invaluable insight into RICHTER's working process, this encyclopedic new edition, which completely revises and updates the rare, out-of-print 1997 edition and includes 147 additional plates, features 780 multi-image panels, each reproduced full page and in full color.
Gerhard RICHTER redefined the terms of contemporary painting as he looked to photography for a way to release painting from the political and symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism.
From pictures of family and friends to images from the mass media, RICHTER's photographs - sometimes found, sometimes original - have provided the basis for many of his paintings, often re-emerging in a luminous, monochromatic palette, and falling ambiguously between documentary and historical painting." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2007)
The 'Atlas' is a continuous, encyclopedic work containing c. 4.000 photographs, sketches and collages arranged on more than 700 panels. As a complete work RICHTER's 'Atlas' is an organism that continues to develop and change.
Begun in 1962, many of the ideas preceding RICHTER's painterly works find their expression in the photographs, sketches, plans and collages of the 'Atlas'." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2011)
"This monumental and comprehensive publication, 'Atlas', maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of our time.
Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard RICHTER himself, 'Atlas' cuts straight to the heart of the artist's thinking, collecting more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962.
Year by year, the images closely parallel the subjects of RICHTER's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis that has been so central to his art.
Offering invaluable insight into RICHTER's working process, this encyclopedic new edition, which completely revises and updates the rare, out-of-print 1997 edition and includes 147 additional plates, features 780 multi-image panels, each reproduced full page and in full color.
Gerhard RICHTER redefined the terms of contemporary painting as he looked to photography for a way to release painting from the political and symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism.
From pictures of family and friends to images from the mass media, RICHTER's photographs - sometimes found, sometimes original - have provided the basis for many of his paintings, often re-emerging in a luminous, monochromatic palette, and falling ambiguously between documentary and historical painting." (publisher's note, © Koenig, 2007)
- Format
- English ed., 2nd print run! Linen bound HC, 17 x 23 x 6 cm., 862 pp., highly color illustrated, text language: English