Gerhard Richter: Atlas: The Reader
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Gerhard Richter: Atlas: The Reader Details
Gerhard Richter’s ongoing, encyclopedic Atlas project began in 1964, and now comprises more than 5,000 gridded photographs, diagrams, drawings and sketches. As an image archive, work tool and artist’s book, Atlas sits at the very heart of Richter’s practice, offering a massive summation of his masterful explorations of the tensions between photography and painting, history and memory, perception and representation. As a publication, Atlas has gone through numerous editions, each new volume expanding on the previous with elaborations of persistent themes. This book provides a critical tool for navigating Atlas, bringing together Richter’s own writings alongside commentaries by the art historians and curators Armin Zweite, Jean-François Chevrier, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Lynne Cooke and Helmut Friedel. Originally published in 2003 to coincide with the Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition Gerhard Richter: Atlas, this updated edition also includes a review of the exhibition by Adrian Searle.
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Reviews
The product arrived quickly and in perfect shape, but it is a book of essays about Atlas. I thought I was purchasing a book containing images. There are NO images at all, except those on the book cover. Inside is text only, a discussion of the work with no illustrations at all. I like reading about the work, but not if I can't see the work simultaneously. The book is also rather pricey for a short , text only, small paperback.
