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Manfred Kuttner survey
Manfred Kuttner (1937-2007) entered the art-world stage together with his artist friends Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg, and Sigmar Polke. The four artists jointly organized the Demonstrative Ausstellung (Demonstrative Exhibition) of 1963 in Dsseldorf, which was conceived to convey their radical rejection of all established art venues and to simultaneously position themselves in the art scene. This exhibition saw the founding of so-called German Pop Art and the coining of the term Capitalist Realism, which would later write art history. Kuttner contributed abstract pictures and painted objects. In both cases he employed newly developed fluorescent Plaka paints in neon hues that otherwise tende...
How it all began
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Gerhard Richter
This fascinating book offers unprecedented insight into artist Gerhard Richter's life and work. From his childhood in Nazi Germany to his time in the West during the turbulent 1960s and '70s, this work presents a complete portrait of the often-reclusive Richter.
The Baal Shem of Michelstadt
Bound photocopy of a book; the original German language book is available through the LBI library.
Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany
This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and extensive output in the West attests to his greater freedom under capitalism, but also to his struggles with belonging in a highly individualised society, a problem he was far from alone in facing. The dynamic of increasing individualism has been closely examined by sociologists, but has yet to be employed as a framework for understanding broader trends in recent German art history. Rather than critique this development from a socialist perspective or experiment with new communal structures like a number of his colleagues, Richter sought and found security in traditional modes of bourgeois collectivity, like the family, religion, painting and the democratic capitalist state. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history as well as German history, culture and politics.
Gerhard Richter
Tour of the exhibition: the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 14-May 21, 2002 and others.
Gerhard Richter
New scholarship explores Gerhard Richter's often overlooked early work.
Leben mit Pop
Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke and Manfred Kuttner coined the term 'Capitalist Realism' on the occasion of their self-organised exhibitions in Düsseldorf in 1963. Although they only used the term themselves for a short period and quickly distanced themselves from their perception as a group of artists, Capitalist Realism represented a specific conception of art in post-war West Germany that has remained controversial to this day. This exhibition publication is the first fully dedicated to this important phenomenon. The main exhibitions and actions are documented in image and text and the international, art-historical and social context is illuminated from different perspectives. Both exhibition and catalogue substantiate the topicality of one of the most intense and influential tendencies of the postwar period.
Gerhard Richter: Writings
"This volume makes available a comprehensive selection of Richter texts, several published for the first time. These texts come from all periods of his career: letters and interviews; public statements about specific exhibitions; private reflections drawn from personal correspondence; answers to questions posed by critics; and excerpts from journals discussing the intentions, subjects, methods and sources of his work from various periods. Complete with a comprehensive appendix, and accompanied by over a hundred photographs of artworks, works in progress, exhibition installations, and colleagues and family, this book forms a brilliantly illuminating commentary on Richter's art, as well as providing a thought-provoking discussion on the status of art and the artist in society today."--BOOK JACKET.
