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Günther Förg : a fragile beauty / with contributions by Kirsty Bell, Gavin Delahunty, Lisa Le Feuvre, Liam Gillick, Megan R. Luke, Lauren Richman, Beatrix Ruf, Jeffrey Saletnik, Matthew S. Witkovsky.
Fine Arts Library N6888.F62 A4 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bell, Kirsty, author.
- Delahunty, Gavin, author.
- Le Feuvre, Lisa, author.
- Gillick, Liam, 1964- author.
- Luke, Megan R., 1977- author.
- Richman, Lauren, author.
- Ruf, Beatrix, author.
- Saletnik, Jeffrey, author.
- Witkovsky, Matthew S., 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Förg, Günther, 1952-2013--Exhibitions.
- Förg, Günther.
- Förg, Günther, 1952-2013--Criticism and interpretation.
- Förg, Günther, 1952-2013--Themes, motives.
- Förg, Günther, 1952-2013.
- Art, Abstract--Germany--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, Abstract.
- Art, Abstract--Germany--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, German--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Painting, German.
- Painting, German--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Sculpture, German--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Sculpture, German.
- Sculpture, German--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Photography, Artistic--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Themes, motives.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Essays.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 27 cm
- Distribution:
- New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press.
- Manufacture:
- [Bruges, Belgium] : Die Keure.
- Other Title:
- Fragile beauty
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas, Texas : Dallas Museum of Art ; Amsterdam, Netherlands : Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / [2018]
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- Gunther Förg (1952-2013) was a German painter, sculptor, and photographer with an irreverent approach to abstraction. Förg's project tackled the latent instability between image and reality. His painterly surfaces may appear exquisitely sensitive, his installations elegantly precise, but these are mastered and executed with a cold detachment. His deft manipulations of the languages of abstraction obscured a darker message. This publication, the most comprehensive to date, offers an important new understanding of this extraordinary and complex artist. Three years in the making, it reinterprets Förg's oeuvre to reveal an artistic project that raises important questions about the traditional role of an object as a conveyor of fixed meaning. The book's subtitle-"A Fragile Beauty"-is an indication of how Förg successfully manipulated what is behind and beyond an object's appearance.
- Contents:
- Förg in the Stedelijk / Beatrix Ruf
- Günther Förg : Apparitions of modernism / Gavin Delahunty
- Hall of mirrors / Megan R. Luke
- "I am not a sculptor" : This unsatisfactory sculpture of Günther Förg / Lisa le Feuvre
- A classicist at heart : Günther Förg and the modernist tradition / Jeffrey Saletnik
- Elusive rationality / Liam Gillick and Matthew S. Witkovsky in conversation, with reflections from the interviews of Günther Förg
- Günther Förg and the edges of the visual field / Kirsty Bell
- Chronology / Lauren Richman.
- Notes:
- Published to accompany an exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26th May-14th October, 2018, and Dallas Museum of Art, USA, 21st October, 2018--27th January. 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 244).
- " Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty" : May 26-October 14, 2018, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- " Günther Förg: A Fragile Beauty" : October 21, 2018-January 27, 2019, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, United States.
- Local Notes:
- Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26th May-14th October, 2018.
- Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Dallas Museum of Art, USA, 21st October, 2018--27th January. 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9780300229226
- 0300229224
- OCLC:
- 1021034595
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