Authors: Robert Storr. Gerhard Richter.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Publication Date: 2002-02-15


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    Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the inaturali evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous component of creativity, and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. In every level of his varied output--from his austere photo-based realism of the early 60s, to his brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 80s, to his startling cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group--Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting should be. The result has been among the most convincing renewal of painting's vitality to be found in late 20th- and early 21st-century art. With an extensive and insightful critical essay by curator Robert Storr, a recent interview with the artist, a chronology, an exhibition history, and nearly 300 color and duotone reproductions, Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting marks a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary art in general, and Gerhard Richter in particular....

    The beautiful catalog Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting accompanies the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of this prolific and important German artist. Richter's many artistic achievements vacillate between pure abstraction and a kind of realism. His realistic paintings, based primarily on personal photographs and images from newspapers, range in subject matter from the banal, like rolls of toilet paper, to the extremely potent, such as famous Nazi "doctor" Werner Hyde. The paintings have in common an emotional remove; the re-creating of photographic images points us toward our own possible emotional detachment to the influx of images in the world. A blurred chair, Jackie Kennedy, burning candles, family portraits--Richter lays them all out before us as if to say, Here, they are all the same. The insightful text by MoMA curator Robert Storr provides an in-depth look at Richter's life in postwar Germany, tracing the influences and environment that made his work possible. The book includes a revealing interview with the artist and a detailed chronology of his life and work, plus 138 color illustrations and 165 duotones. --J.P. Cohen ...

Authors: Charles M. Russell.
Paperback, 211 pages
Publisher: Bison Books
Publication Date: 1996-07-28


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    'Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys...[He] lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his brush to prove his place as a sound interpreter of a stirring period and a fascinating country' - "New York Times". 'Russell was the greatest painter who ever painted a range man, a range cow, a range horse, or a Plains Indian. He savvied the cow, the grass, the blizzard, the drought, the wolf, the young puncher in love with his own shadow, the old waddie remembering rides and thirsts of far away and long ago. He was a wonderful storyteller...His subjects were warm with life, whether awake or asleep, at a particular instant, under particular conditions."Trails Plowed Under", prodigally illustrated, is a collection of yarns and ancedotes saturated with humor and humanity' - J. Frank Dobie, "Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest". Brian W.Dippie is a professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of "Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage" (Nebraska 1990)....

Authors: Gerhard Richter.
Hardcover, 816 pages
Publisher: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Publication Date: 2007-01-01


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    At 864 pages, this monumental and comprehensive publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of the late twentieth century. Conceived and closely edited by Gerhard Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist's work, collecting more than 5,000 photographs, drawings and sketches that he has compiled or created since the moment of his creative breakthrough in 1962. The images closely parallel, year by year, the subjects of Richter's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis that has been so central to his art. Offering invaluable insight into Richter's working process, this encyclopedic new edition, which completely revises and updates the rare, out-of-print 1997 edition and includes 147 additional plates, features 780 multi-image panels, each reproduced full page and in full color. Having left East Germany in 1961, where he had already established a reputation as a Realist Painter, Gerhard Richter went on to attend the Dusseldorf Academy, striking out on radical new path and changing the history of painting as he looked to photography for a way to release painting from the political and symbolic burdens of Socialist Realism and Abstract Expressionism. From pictures of family and friends to images from the mass media, Richter's photographs-sometimes found, sometimes original-have provided the basis for many of his paintings, often re-emerging in a luminous, monochromatic palette, and falling ambiguously between documentary and historical painting....

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Hardcover, 348 pages
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Date: 2007-10-30


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    Charles M. Russell is our most beloved artist of the American West. Through his paintings, sketches, sculpture, illustrated letters, and storytelling, he left an unequalled legacy of images and memories of the Old West. This beautiful volume, accompanied by a DVD, is the first comprehensive description and documentation of Russell's works.

Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white reproductions of Russell's greatest works, the book features essays by Russell experts and scholars who address important aspects of the artist's life and career. The DVD contains a complete catalogue of the several thousand works Russell created and signed during his lifetime. Montana's Cowboy Artist was as prolific as he was talented, and the catalogue entries provide detailed descriptions of each work's size, medium, date, provenance, and publication and exhibition history. An essential reference for museums, collectors, and scholars, this state-of-the-art DVD offers extensive options for browsing, searching, and sorting the catalogue entries.

The result of more than a decade of research and scholarship, Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné is published in cooperation with the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and by the C. M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana....

Authors: John Piper.
Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Crossway Books
Publication Date: 2008-06-30
Edition: Stg

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This group-member study guide reinforces John Piper’s DVD presentations on what it means to behold and delight in Jesus above all things.

In 2 Corinthians, the apostle Paul described one of the central problems facing humanity in every age: people fail to see Christ for who he is. Even those who have caught a glimpse of him do not see perfectly, says best-selling author John Piper. But it is important that we not only learn to see him but delight in him and the truth of the gospel.

This study guide—a companion to the Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ DVD—explores the meaning and significance of these ideas in an eight-session, guided group study. With its opportunities for reflection, penetrating questions, and five daily assignments per week, this full-length guide walks group members through Piper’s compelling DVD presentation, in addition to supplementing Piper’s book by the same name.

Combining the Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ Study Guide with the DVD will enable churches, small groups, schools, and families to learn to behold and delight in Jesus more than anything this world has to offer.

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Authors: Man Ray.
Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication Date: 1980-01-01


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Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: "Harry N. Abrams, Inc."
Publication Date: 2006-04-01


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    Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a self-taught artist with a unique style, exemplified in his visionary jungle scenes. These dream-like tableaux, for which he drew heavily on visits to Paris' Botanical Gardens, captivate with the lushness of their plant and animal life, while unsettling the viewer with their heady combination of exoticism and romanticism.

This sumptuously illustrated book provides not only a comprehensive overview of Rousseau's career, but also penetrating insights into his inspiration. With large, color reproductions of his paintings, many previously unpublished illustrations of his sources and influences, and a wealth of new research on his life and work (including the only interview conducted with the artist), Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris

is poised to become the definitive volume on this remarkable painter. ...

Authors: Stephen Schloesser.
Paperback, 300 pages
Publisher: Mcmullen Museum Of Art, Boston College
Publication Date: 2008-09-15


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Authors: Jacopo Carucci Pontoromo.
Paperback, pages
Publisher: Borden Pub Co
Publication Date: 1989-12
Edition: 1st

Authors: Michael Corris.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publication Date: 2008-03-15


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