Sigmar Polke : Girlfriends / Stefan Gronert.

Main entry:

Gronert, Stefan, author.

Title & Author:

Sigmar Polke : Girlfriends / Stefan Gronert.

Publication:

London : Afterall Books, 2017.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Description:

1 online resource (78 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Series:

One Work

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 71-78).
Distances and Attitudes -- Who and How -- The Friend -- Several Girlfriends -- The Image of Women? -- A Late Early Work -- Dot and Raster -- Various Rasters -- Blow-Up -- In Conclusion: Presentation as Interpretation.

Summary:

With Freundinnen (Girlfriends, 1965/66), Sigmar Polke took found imagery of two women and offered a compelling statement about the use, production and social function of pictures. Adopting the raster dots found in mass-media reproductions, Polke's Girlfriends foregrounds a prolific body of work crossing a broad range of media -- photography, painting, print-making, sculpture and film -- and styles varying from Abstract Expressionism to Pop. In this book, Stefan Gronert approaches Girlfriends through its technical detail and historical context, analysing Polke's relationship to his tutors, peers and friends -- especially Gerhard Richter. Considering such topics as the use of photographed material, the raster technique and the feminist discourse of Polke's work, including some material that has not previously been translated into English.

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ISBN:

9781846381850 (electronic bk.)
1846381851 (electronic bk.)
9781846381843 (e-book)
1846381843
9781846381829
1846381827

Subject:

Polke, Sigmar.
Polke, Sigmar, 1941- Critique et interprétation.

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

One work.

Girlfriends

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