1st Edition
Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany
By Luke Smythe
Copyright 2023
202 Pages
20 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
20 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
20 Color & 50 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 1. Deficits of Belonging 2. Legacies of Displacement 3. The Classical and the Informel 4. The Living Method 5. Elective Affiliation
Biography
Luke Smythe is Senior Lecturer in Art History & Theory at Monash University.
