1st Edition

The Artwork of Gerhard Richter Painting, Critical Theory and Cultural Transformation

258 Pages 81 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

258 Pages 81 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

By uniquely treating Gerhard Richter’s entire oeuvre as a single subject, Darryn Ansted combines research into Richter’s first art career as a socialist realist with study of his subsequent decisions as a significant contemporary artist. Analysis of Richter’s East German murals, early work, lesser known paintings, and destroyed and unfinished pieces buttress this major re-evaluation of Richter’s... Read more

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Socialist Realism: Painting, utopia and ideology

Chapter 2 Informel: Crafting the dialectical image

Chapter 3 Contemporary Art: Conceptual clarity and the artifice of style

Chapter 4 Painting after contemporary art

Chapter 5 Painting as text, phenomena and context

Chapter 6 An oeuvre structured like a language

Chapter 7 Political and aesthetic dissent

Chapter 8 Unpaintable: Critical theory and the ethical image

Chapter 9 Autonomy: The image of lost freedom