| Title | : | The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1962-1993 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (343 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 026268084X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1995-12-05 |
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Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, is one of the foremost painters of his generation. A great deal has been written about the bewildering heterogeneity of his work over the past 30 years. His seemingly willful and defiant movement between abstract and figurative modes of representation and his seemingly inconsistent methods of applying paint to canvas are consistent, if nothing else, with Richter himself—the master of the paradoxical statement. Although he has emphasized that he is first a painter and has never been a theorist, he has, throughout his career issued provocative, contentious, and memorable statements.
Over seven years in preparation, this book makes available a selection of Richter's texts from all periods of his career, many translated for the first time. There are public statements about specific exhibitions, private reflections drawn from personal correspondence, answers to questions posed by critics, and excerpts from journals discussing the i
Editorial : "Now that we do not have priests and philosophers anymore, artists are the most important people in the world. Art is wretched, cynical, stupid, helpless, confusing."
—Gerhard Richter
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