Gerhard Richter is one of the foremost artists of his generation. This book provides a wider selection of Richters texts, from all periods of his career. It includes letters and interviews; private reflections from personal correspondence; and, excerpts from journals discussing the intentions, subjects, methods and sources of his works.
Central to the work of Gerhard Richter is a strong set of values and ideas which throughout his career he has expressed in notes and writings. This book presents a selection of these writings, accompanied by illustrations of pictures from both private collections and from the studio.
Konrad Fischer. Konrad Fischer is internationally regarded as one of the most important avant-garde gallerists of the post-war period. Trained at the Dsseldorf Academy, he first made a name for himself under the pseudonym Konrad Lueg, especially due to his artistic action with Gerhard Richter, Living with Pop - A Demonstration for Capitalist Realism. In 1967 Fischer founded a gallery in Dsseldorf
Wald. Gerhard Richter selected 285 photographs for this publication. They are part of a voluminous collection of photos which he took in the forest near his house in Koln-Hahn-wald, beginning in the winter of 2005/2006. As text in German only he used essays published in the trade magazine Waldung - Magazin fur Wald, Wandern, Wissen No.1/2006. All words were shuffled by means of a random ...
Traces the political, historical, and philosophical trajectories of a specifically German tradition in which thinkers take recourse to music, both as an aesthetic practice and as the object of their speculative work. This volume examines the texts of such influential writers and thinkers as Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Bloch, and others.