$250.00
Item #: GERI111
Published: Hatje Cantz, Germany 2008
Edition: First edition
Language: English
Hardcover
392 pages 10.6 x 19 inches
ISBN#: 978-3-7757-2243-2
Condition: As New.
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Gerhard Richter is justly famed for the photorealism of his early canvases, but it is less well known that he has also painted directly onto photographic prints. These pieces were reproduced in books as early as the first Atlas, but practically all of the works themselves are housed in private collections and rarely exhibited in public. Overpainted Photographs gathers this body of work, which unites the labor of the hand with the work of mechanical reproduction to produce a kind of art as conceptually rich as Richter's better-known paintings, neutralizing the expressive powers of each medium to reach an indifference to their potency.