Books by Gerhard Richter
The Daily Practice of Painting
by Gerhard Richter
He wants to hold on to the grand tradition, even as he understands that it is utterly transformed by modernist art and mass culture
Wald
by Gerhard Richter
For this book Richter produced 285 stunning details of a very dense forest near his house in Hahnwald – they are almost abstract images. As always with Richter, he has an encyclopedic desire to put them into groups. One is almost on a walk if one goes through this book, navigating through the forest and through the randomly arranged text and making one’s own connections.
Interviews where books by Gerhard Richter were recommended
The best books on Contemporary Art, recommended by Hans Ulrich Obrist
The co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, Hans Ulrich Obrist, says that to be contemporary means to come back to a present where we have never been.
The best books on Pop Art, recommended by Hal Foster
What is pop art? Why did it catch on, and what does it mean? And what about Warhol – was his work as superficial as he liked to say it was? The art professor answers all this and more
