Gerhard Richter and the technological condition of painting /
Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits, history paintings, landscapes and orna...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Refractions.
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| Summary: | Aline Guillermet uncovers Richter's appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist's well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting. Through a study of Richter's portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet reveals the artist's role in affirming the technological condition of painting in the second half of the twentieth century: a historical situation in which the medium and its conventions have become shaped, and to some extent transformed, by technological innovations. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 238 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781399525213 1399525212 |