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Product Identifiers
PublisherVerlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König
ISBN-103863355083
ISBN-139783863355081
eBay Product ID (ePID)201672027
Product Key Features
Number of Pages140 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameGerd Richter: Comic Strip 1962 : Gerhard Richter Archiv, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Vol 13
SubjectIndividual Artists / General, Individual Artists / Monographs
Publication Year2014
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt
AuthorGerhard Richter
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight9.6 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width4.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Reviewsin its technical virtuosity, Comic Strip looks forward to the dynamic abstract pencil drawings and paintings this fecund artist would produce in the late 1990s, a decade after the end of the cold war., Comic Strip [is] a sparely beautiful book-object that, like Krazy Kat or Little Orphan Annie, has a central character or rather an expressive motif., [is] a sparely beautiful book-object that, like Krazy Kat or Little Orphan Annie, has a central character or rather an expressive motif.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal709.2
SynopsisReproducing a recently found 1962 notebook, this small, beautifully clothbound volume reveals a never-before-seen dimension of Gerhard Richter's art. Comic Strip 1962 contains a series of cartoon-like drawings, done in the style of American greats such as Saul Steinberg (hence the artist's cartoonist-style abbreviation of his name to "Gerd" here). The black-and-white drawings generally feature one or many hatted silhouette figures, floating in the air, against bare backdrops or atop planets, with occasional handwritten text (in German, and mostly illegible) interspersed around them. These works, printed at their original size, and made at the outset of Richter's career, greatly expand our picture of the influences and factors at play in his early years as part of the Capitalist Realist movement.
LC Classification NumberN6888
