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

List of contents

Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
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
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Darryn Ansted is the Coordinator of Painting at the Curtin University School of Design and Art in Western Australia.

Summary

Ansted combines research into Richter’s first art career as a socialist realist with study of his subsequent decisions as a significant contemporary artist. Analysis of Richter’s East German work buttress this major re-evaluation of Richter’s other well known but little understood paintings.

Product details

• Authors: Darryn Ansted, Dr. Darryn Ansted
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367200213
• ISBN: 978-0-367-20021-3
• No. of pages: 244
• 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