Abstract Painting 825-II: 69 Details

by Gerhard Richter

Brand new(never opened)!!/No dust jacket as issued -ships immediately

152 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sister gave this to me. A small small book, shows the painting on the first page, and then each page after that is an up-close photograph of every single little square of the total painting. As though you put your face right up to one square of the painting, and then moved around it. Seemed to me to result in an even better work -- because so often I just really enjoy one particular portion of an "abstract" artwork; can imagine cropping just one area, etc. So this book does that for real. And what's cooler is that Richter's abstract paintings, when viewed ultra-close, look a lot like paused video tape moments. They look like film or video, because of the grain and layers and depth. Which is the overall appeal of his abstract paintings: wondering what order things (colors) must've gone down in.