Gerhard Richter and the Technological Condition of Painting
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-2521-3 (ISBN)
Aline Guillermet uncovers Gerhard Richter’s appropriation of science and technology from 1960 to the present and shows how this has shaped the artist’s well-documented engagement with the canon of Western painting.
Through a study of Richter’s portraits, history paintings, landscapes and ornamental abstractions, Guillermet reveals the artist’s role in affirming the technological condition of painting in the second half of the twentieth century: a historical situation in which the medium and its conventions have become shaped, and to some extent transformed, by technological innovations.
Aline Guillermet teaches History of Art and Visual Culture at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge and is a former Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on the impact of science and technology on artistic practices since the 1960s. She is the author of several journal articles including in Representations, Media Theory and Art History.
Introduction
Art, science and technology
Photographic objectivity: from representation to visualisation
Methodological approach and challenges
Outline of chapters
1. Scientific Realism and Portraiture
Solvent transfer in the photo-paintings: Richter and Rauschenberg
Silkscreening and blurring: Richter and Warhol
The Pop portrait
Gerhard Richter’s Ema: Nude on a Staircase
2. Photography and History Painting
Painting history from photographs
The October cycle as history painting?
The photograph as "tear-image"
3. Biological Chance and Landscape Painting
"Painting like nature": The artistic value of biological chance
From photo-paintings of landscapes to overpainted landscapes
The politics of the landscape
4. Electron Microscopy and the Ornament
The Silicate paintings
The politics and aesthetics of the ornament
The digital ornament
Coda: Towards Digital Painting
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Refractions |
| Zusatzinfo | 43 colour illustrations, 1 black and white table |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-2521-2 / 1399525212 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-2521-3 / 9781399525213 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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