Screen LibraryAlibis : Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 /
"Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and experimental artists of the postwar generation. Working across such diverse mediums as painting, photography, film, drawing, and sculpture, he sought to contaminate reputedly pure artistic conventions. His works act...
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Museum of Modern Art,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and experimental artists of the postwar generation. Working across such diverse mediums as painting, photography, film, drawing, and sculpture, he sought to contaminate reputedly pure artistic conventions. His works act like alibis, making it impossible to circumscribe the artist's methods and meanings--a strategy Polke also used to confront the evasions of responsibility so common in Nazi Germany. Containing over 500 illustrations and published in conjunction with the first comprehensive Polke retrospective (organized by MoMA with the Tate Modern), this catalogue examines the full range of his exceptionally inventive oeuvre. Four essays trace its broad themes and twelve others focus on single works or motifs." -- Publisher's description Some essays translated from the German. |
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Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 19-August 3, 2014, the Tate Modern, London, England, October 1, 2014-February 8, 2015, and at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, March 14-July 5, 2015. "Published to accompany the first comprehensive retrospective of Polke's work, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, with Tate Modern, London, and begun with the artist before his death, in 2010"--Accompanying sheet. |
| Carrier Form: | 319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm + 1 sheet |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-309) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780870708893 0870708899 |
| Index Number: | N6888 |
| CLC: | J205.516-28 |
| Call Number: | J205.516-28/P769 |
| Contents: |
Polke in context: a chronology / Alibis: an introduction / Eight days a week / From Moderne Kunst to Entartete Kunst: Polke and abstraction / Between practice and product: Polke's films / For hire: Polke's Girlfriends / Higher beings send peas / Impure lineage: Cardboardology / Polke's particles / Photographing in a painterly way: Polke's Bowery photographs / Bad dad / c. 1976 / Partial view: Sigmar Polke's reception in the United States in the 1980s / Sloppy in detail / Making history: Watchtower II and photography / Hallucination machines / Polke's patterns / Sins and precious stones: Polke's windows at Grossmünster / |