Photography and Painting in the Work of Gerhard Richter - B. H.D. Buchloh
Four Essays on Atlas
KORTE INHOUD
"This publication brings together four texts which analyse from different perspectives a common theme: the complex and at the same time determining role of the photographic image in the pictorial work of Gerhard Richter (Dresden, 1932), in particular with regard to the relationship between this corpus and the archive or compendium of images - for the most part photographic - which, under the name Atlas, the German artist has been building up since 1962. The Atlas, which at present comprises more than five thousand images, constitutes an ordered collection of personal visual memories from which Richter draws the themes and motifs for his ongoing exploration of the possibilities of painting."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
