Artwork of Gerhard Richter - Painting, Critical Theory and Cultural Transformation

Informationen zum Autor Darryn Ansted is the Coordinator of Painting at the Curtin University School of Design and Art in Western Australia. Zusammenfassung By treating Gerhard Richter's entire oeuvre as a single subject, this title combines research into Richter's first art career as a socialist realist with study of his subsequent decisions as a significant contemporary artist. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsList of figuresList of tablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction Chapter 1 Socialist Realism: Painting! utopia and ideology Chapter 2 Informel: Crafting the dialectical image Chapter 3 Contemporary Art: Conceptual clarity and the artifice of style Chapter 4 Painting after contemporary art Chapter 5 Painting as text! phenomena and context Chapter 6 An oeuvre structured like a language Chapter 7 Political and aesthetic dissent Chapter 8 Unpaintable: Critical theory and the ethical image Chapter 9 Autonomy: The image of lost freedom BibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Darryn Ansted, Dr. Darryn Ansted
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2016
• EAN: 9781472409560
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-0956-0
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Painting & paintings, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting