Richter 858: Eight Abstract Pictures, Limited Edition (with Music CD; including glassine cover and printed outer box)
Publisher: San Francisco: The Shifting Foundation, in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0971861005
Condition: As New / No dust jacket as issued
Item #: 111395
$500.00
Specifics
First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 3433 unnumbered copies consisting of plates, book and CD. This very large format edition contains eight unbound four-color plates printed on GardaMatt Art 250 gsm paper (each of the 8 plates measures 12-1/4 x 16-1/2 inches) housed in a custom designed folder in the back of the book. Hardcover. Fine gray cloth covered boards with title stamped in black on cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued. The book is housed in a brushed aluminum slipcase. Paintings and text by Gerhard Richter. Edited by David Breskin. Essays by Dave Hickey and Klaus Kertess. Music by Bill Frisell with Jenny Scheinman, Hank Roberts and Eyvind Kant (a music CD accompanies the book, housed in slot in front of book). Opposite the illustrations are 13 poems commissioned especially for this volume by Richard Howard, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Ann Lauterbach, Dean Young, Brenda Hillman, James McManus, Michael Palmer, Connie Deanovich, David Breskin, Paul Hoover, Edward Hirsch and W.S. Di Piero. Includes 35 details from the paintings. The book includes a double gatefold opening to show the entire suite of paintings in a panoramic view measuring 66 inches long. Also includes notes on the music, a selected recent bibliography, notes on the contributors and paintings and an extensive colophon. Designed by Mark Fox/Black Dog, San Rafael, California. 120 pp., with 8 laid-in four-color plates and 68 additional four-color reproductions exquisitely printed on 200 gsm GardaMatt Art paper. The book measures 12-5/8 x 17-1/4 inches.
Condition
As New (including glassine cover and aluminum slipcase).
Description
Published on the occasion of the first American exhibition of Gerhard Richter's suite "Abstract Pictures (858)," at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. From the publisher: "Gerhard Richter's abstractions are profound and beautiful, though perplexing. After all these years, they still present a curious challenge: what, exactly, are they? RICHTER 858 explores this question by focusing on one suite of extraordinary pictures painted in 1999, soon after his return to work after a silence caused by a stroke. Both investigation and celebration, this book brings together image, music and text in a uniquely compelling way: contributors include the great guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, two sharp-eyed critics, and a baker's dozen of prominent, award-winning poets. Housed in an aluminum slipcase, this lavish, oversized volume features the largest, most sumptuous, and most accurate reproductions of any Richter work. The eight paintings of the suite are shown at more than half-scale, and also, quite untraditionally, [they are] presented unbound on heavy paper in a pocket at the back of the book -- allowing readers to mix, match, and re-present the work for themselves outside the confines of the printed volume. Forty details from the paintings are also reproduced in large-format, accompanied by the poems and texts. These brilliant passages -- rich in incident and intervention, and ranging from the coolly sublime to the loudly riotous--make fascinating pictures in their own right....In essence, RICHTER 858 presents an elegant, if raucous, meeting ground for our most important contemporary artist and a diverse chorus of American music, poetry, and criticism."
