Sigmar Polke works on paper 1963-1974 Margit Rowell with essays by Michael Semff and Bice Curiger
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TextPublication details: New York Museum of Modern Art Thames and Hudson c1999Description: 199 p. ill. (some col.) 28 cmISBN: - 0870700820
- 759.3 POL
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 759.3 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002000190877 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively around 1963 in Dsseldorf. His earliest expressive idiom was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar politics, and classic artistic conventions. Few of Polke's works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and eclectic creative process than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches of the 1960s and early 70s. More than 300 works are illustrated, including small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and still others stamped with a dot screen process, as well as pages from over a dozen small sketchbooks and several monumental works on paper. This books was published to accopany the first American exhibiton of these drawings shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999.
"Selected exhibition history and bibliography": p. 192-197