Alibis : Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 / edited by Kathy Halbreich ; with Mark Godfrey, Lanka Tattersall, and Magnus Schaefer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Polke, Sigmar, artist.

Contributor:

Halbreich, Kathy, editor.

Godfrey, Mark (Mark Benjamin), editor.

Tattersall, Lanka, editor.

Schaefer, Magnus, editor.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution.

Museum Ludwig, host institution.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 2014

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polke, Sigmar--Exhibitions.

Polke, Sigmar.

Painting, German--20th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, German.

Painting, German--21st century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Sigmar Polke 1963-2010

Place of Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 2014.

Contents:

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry, Chris Dercon

Acknowledgments / Kathy Halbreich

Polke in context: a chronology / Kathrin Rottmann

Alibis: an introduction / Kathy Halbreich

Eight days a week / Lanka Tattersall

From Moderne Kunst to Entartete Kunst: Polke and abstraction / Mark Godfrey

Between practice and product: Polke's films / Barbara Engelbach

For hire: Polke's Girlfriends / Christophe Cherix

Higher beings send peas / Tacita Dean

Impure lineage: Cardboardology / Christian Rattemeyer

Polke's particles / Rachel Jans

Photographing in a painterly way: Polke's Bowery photographs / Stefan Gronert

Bad dad / Jutta Koether

c. 1976 / an interview with Benjamin Buchloh

Partial view: Sigmar Polke's reception in the United States in the 1980s / Magnus Schaefer

Sloppy in detail / Matthias Mühling

Making history: Watchtower II and photography / Marcelle Polednik

Hallucination machines / John Kelsey

Polke's patterns / Christine Mehring

Sins and precious stones: Polke's windows at Grossmünster / Paul Chan

Selected bibliography, 1997-2013 / Erhard Klein.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (page 301-309) and index.

ISBN:

0870708899

9780870708893

OCLC:

859305233