Bøger af Dietmar Elger

Covering early Cubism and Futurism, and Op art and Minimalism, this book encompasses various forms of non-figurative expression. It explores the diverse ways artists from the early 20th century, beginning with Kandinsky, through the 1960s used abstraction to express artistic ideas.

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized by allegories of emotion and sensation. This radical artistic adventure established new artistic means, as much as narratives. Expression became characterized by shocking juxtapositions of color, light, and line. Artists abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter's brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands. This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser-known figures who made equally significant contributions, including Antoni Tàpies, K. O. Götz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and New York launched a radical assault on the politics, social values, and cultural conformity which they regarded as complicit in the devastating conflict. Dada artists shared no distinct style but rather a common wish to upturn societal structures as much as artistic standards and to replace logic and reason with the absurd, chaotic, and unpredictable. Their practice encompassed experimental theater, games, guttural sound-making, collage, photomontage, chance-based procedures, and the "readymade," most notoriously Marcel Duchamp's urinal, Fountain (1917). Throughout, the Dadaists considered the visual appearance of their work secondary to the ideas and critiques it expressed. In this sense, Dada may be seen as a fundamental precursor to conceptual art. With a selection of key works from some of the most famous proponents of Dada such as Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray, this book introduces this urgent, subversive, and determined 20th-century movement and its lasting influence on modern art.

Abstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of conventional representational imagery and characterized by allegories of emotion and sensation. This radical artistic adventure established new artistic means, as much as narratives. Expression became characterized by shocking juxtapositions of color, light, and line. Artists abandoned the conventions of brush and easel and played with new materials and methods of artistic gesture: commercial paints and housepainter's brushes, working on unstretched and unprimed canvases, moving the canvas to the floor, and applying paint with hands. This essential introduction spans the international breadth, conceptual depth, and seismic impact of abstract art with a thorough survey not only of the big names such as Picasso, Klee, Kline, Rothko, and Pollock, but also lesser-known figures who made equally significant contributions, including Antoni Tàpies, K. O. Götz, Ad Reinhardt, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Gerhard Richter's catalogue raisonné lists more than 3,000 paintings and sculptures. Over the course of six decades, a stylistically diverse and complex oeuvre was created that attests to Richter's status as the most important living artist. The scholarly catalogue raisonné, comprising six volumes, offers extensive technical information on all works, details of the artist's handwritten notes as well as provenance, references to literature, and exhibition credits, in addition to a large number of full-page color illustrations of the works. Comments, quotations, and comparative illustrations of individual catalogue numbers supplement the information on the works. The present volume provides access to Richter's extensive oeuvre from the Cologne Cathedral window in 2007 to his last sculptures in 2019. Subscription price for complete set: EUR198.00 per volume. You will be invoiced with each delivery. GERHARD RICHTER (*1932) is one of the most influential contemporary artists. Richter studied from 1961 to 1964 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he later taught as a professor. Richter lives and works in Cologne.DIETMAR ELGER (*1958) studied at the University of Hamburg and has been director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden since 2006.

Dive into Dada, the defiant 20th-century movement that declared an all-out attack on society's politics, values, and cultural conformity. With a selection of key works from such leading Dada proponents as Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Hannah Hoech, Kurt Schwitters, Francis Picabia, and Man Ray, this book introduces this urgent, subversive...

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. This book presents a foundational portrait of this artist and his profoundly influential oeuvre.