the painting – with the same motif – something more like grief. That comes very close to what I intended." (Conversation with Jan Thorn-Prikker concerning the 18 October 1977, 1989, p. 229) Gerhard Richter's artistic adaptation creates a distance from the events and enables the beholder t...
1977” cycle and organized the Richter retrospective, certainly believes that Richter is among the most important contemporary artists. Storr understands that Richter’s work can be interpreted as sham or art; his 152-page book about the “October 18, 1977” cycle ...
This article explores the relationship between Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 and Don DeLillo's short story "Baader-Meinhof". Richter's depiction of the deaths of members of the Red Army Faction draws from original photographic sources. Richter blurs these imag...
Richter's cycle October 18, 1977 in the German classroom https://doi.org/10.1515/infodaf-2017-0100 Zusammenfassung: Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den Gemäldezyklus 18. Ok- tober 1977, den Gerhard Richter zwischen März und November 1988 malte, der aus fünfzehn Bildern besteht. ...
Also included are selections from Richter's larger-scale thematic works, such as Atlas, his ongoing collection of photographs and newspaper clippings, and October 18, 1977, a series of paintings commemorating the lives and deaths of members of a German left-wing terrorist group. The beautiful ...
“October 18, 1977”cycle of paintings, dealing with the Baader-Meinhof terrorist group; his Pop Art colour-chart paintings and later abstract works with richly layered surfaces, as well as the intriguing “Atlas”project.His prolific use of photography–whether as a subject for his paintings, ...
Ahead of the Contemporary Art Evening Auction at Sotheby's this week, Alastair Smart charts the rise and rise of Gerhard Richter – who holds the current record price for a work sold by a living European artist...
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