Book Description
In May 2002, Gerhard Richter photographed 216 details of his abstract painting no. 648-2, from 1987. Working on a long table over a period of several weeks, Richter combined these 10 x 15 cm details with 165 texts on the Iraq war, published in the German FAZ newspaper on March 20 and 21. War Cut follows an ever denser rhythm in which texts and gaps take up the same amount of space as the pictures, creating a strictly composed work of open and closed layouts and their mirror images, a conceptual and, simultaneously, very sensual artist's book. Hardcover, 9.75 x 8.25 in./380 pgs / 216 color.
Gerhard Richter: War Cut FROM THE PUBLISHER
In May 2002, Gerhard Richter photographed 216 details of his abstract painting no. 648-2, from 1987. Working on a long table over a period of several weeks, Richter combined these 10 x 15 cm details with 165 texts on the Iraq war, published in the German FAZ newspaper on March 20 and 21. War Cut follows an ever denser rhythm in which texts and gaps take up the same amount of space as the pictures, creating a strictly composed work of open and closed layouts and their mirror images, a conceptual and, simultaneously, very sensual artist's book.
ACCREDITATION
Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Since the early 60s he has emerged as one of the essential painters of the postwar period, pioneering photorealism with paintings made from found photographs (amateur snapshots, 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, and was recently the subject of an acclaimed retrospective that opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and traveled around the United States.
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