{"id":2002,"date":"2011-03-20T12:51:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2021-09-30T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T19:05:24","slug":"featured-gerhard-richter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/featured-gerhard-richter\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: GERHARD RICHTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Gerhard Richter<\/span> began working with artists such as Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz. Their work, and Richter&#8217;s in particular, began to have an impact in Germany, and eventually international art circles. Richter&#8217;s beliefs are credited with refreshing art and rejuvenating painting as a medium during a period when many artists chose performance and ready-made media. Together with Polke and Fischer-Lueg, Richter formed a group called the Capitalist Realists. The Capitalist Realists were satirical, often deriving subject matter from print media. Richter began to see art as something that had to be separated from art history; he believed that paintings should focus on the image rather than the reference, the visual rather than the statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound with dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the April 22, 1991 exhibition. 91 pages. Mirror Paintings, Sculpture,\u00a0 Glass panels, and Abstract paintings. Catalog, exhibition checklist, and bibliography 1965 &#8211; 1991.\u00a0 A very nice copy of a scarce Richter title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 17021<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Gerhard Richter: Mirrors <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<strong> Publisher:<\/strong> Anthony d&#8217;Offay Gallery, London<br \/>\n<strong> Publication Date:<\/strong> 1991<br \/>\n<strong>Binding:<\/strong> Hard Cover<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<br \/>\n<strong> Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerhard Richter began working with artists such as Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz. Their work, and Richter&#8217;s in particular, began to have an impact in Germany, and eventually international art circles. Richter&#8217;s beliefs are credited with refreshing art and rejuvenating painting as a medium during a period when many artists chose performance and ready-made media. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[95,102,14,110,60,92,94,93,15,61,17],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold","tag-anthony_doffay_gallery","tag-art","tag-collectible","tag-featured-items","tag-firstedition","tag-gerhard_richter","tag-german_artists","tag-painting","tag-rare","tag-sculpture","tag-very-rare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15049,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/15049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}