{"title":"Books by Gerhard Richter","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781644231111","title":"Gerhard Richter 100 Abstract Pictures","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new artist’s book, created by Gerhard Richter, that explores abstraction and chance in art and writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The \u003ci\u003e100 Abstract Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e shown here originated about five years ago, when I poured enamel paints on a fifty-by-fifty centimeter glass plate. The paints then flowed into one another without completely mixing. Thus they produced countless ephemeral abstract pictures, which I captured in photographs. These pictures are juxtaposed in the book with text formations that were generated at random.” —Gerhard Richter, 2023\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWith a career spanning more than sixty years, the renowned painter Gerhard Richter is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Debuting alongside Richter's first exhibition at David Zwirner, featuring new abstract works created between 2016 and 2022, this book celebrates his continued dedication to experimentation and innovation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAn artwork of its own, this intimate volume inspires both close looking and a beautiful interpretation of abstraction.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43172885495986,"sku":"9781644231111","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644231111_410c2ff6-77f4-4c8e-b914-fba44406d95d.jpg?v=1786024386"},{"product_id":"9783775732307","title":"Gerhard Richter","description":"The second installment in Dietmar Elger's ambitious six-volume Gerhard Richter publishing projectThe oeuvre of Gerhard Richter (born 1932) embraces in excess of 3,000 individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. Dietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years researching and preparing the six-volume catalogue raisonn' that will be published through 2020. This second volume encompasses the works that Richter assigned numbers 199 to 388, covering the years 1968 to 1976. A total of over 500 paintings and sculptures are listed.   Aside from the richly colored illustrations (many of them full-page), it includes full technical details, information about the artist's handwritten notes and the provenance, bibliography and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes and comparison images.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310993060213,"sku":"9783775732307","price":225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783775732307_4979390e-161a-41dc-91f2-4fe86f8825d6.jpg?v=1786031987"},{"product_id":"9781644231364","title":"Foricano","description":"\u003cb\u003eGerhard Richter’s newest facsimile-like artist’s book is focused on a single work comprising twenty-six drawings in graphite and pencil\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Richter’s drawings] are of stringent individuality and recognizably by Richter’s hand, not based on their signature style but rather because they make their theme the act of drawing itself, gauging the conditions of drawing.” —Dieter Schwarz\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this new work, Richter combines various elements from a limited set of forms and techniques—including meandering lines, broad tonal planes applied with angled strokes of graphite, and passages of smudging, hatching, and erasure—thereby uniting choice and chance in an infinitely generative process. The suite of works on paper serve as condensed expressions, encapsulating and refining the fundamental principles that have consistently defined Richter’s artistic journey. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eReproduced at actual size, the drawings encourage in-depth observation and inspire compelling reimagining of abstraction","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312715018613,"sku":"9781644231364","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781644231364_9c62ff47-81d1-48e9-a339-7ebe0b8d8835.jpg?v=1786024401"},{"product_id":"the-darkness-of-the-lived-moment","title":"The Darkness of the Lived Moment","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis study examines the concept of \"the darkness of the lived moment,\" as Ernst Bloch, the great philosopher of hope, names it. As Gerhard Richter reveals, what appears in the immediacy of our experience of this particular darkness is, upon closer scrutiny, far removed from our actual understanding. Yet, engaging with this darkness also can help us to learn how to relate to the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross a series of incisive chapters, Richter stages encounters with a wide network of seminal thinkers and writers, as well as a broad, yet interconnected, constellation of concerns. The book engages texts from Heraclitus to Schelling, from Nietzsche to Freud, and from Heidegger to Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Paul Celan, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and beyond. Ultimately, Richter wagers that the darkness of the lived moment is not merely a predicament to be overcome—a temporary aberration from the otherwise illuminating course of enlightenment—but rather possesses its own dignity and its own modes of generating sustained insight. Even if we may not finally know what is to be done, we can be certain that in working through—rather than exclusively against—the darkness of the lived moment, we have, borrowing one of Marx's most moving phrases, a world to gain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682884624757,"sku":"9781503649644","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57555365101941,"sku":"9781503649460","price":112.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781503649644_cc9523a8-740c-4b96-959a-c3237e519a19.jpg?v=1792511704"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-gerhard-richter.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}