Main entry:

Rowell, Margit.

Title & Author:

Sigmar Polke : works on paper 1963-1974 / Margit Rowell ; with essays by Michael Semff and Bice Curiger.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, ©1999.

Description:

199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Apr. 1-June 16, 1999 and the Hamburger Kunsthalle, July 15-Oct. 17, 1999.
"Selected exhibition history and bibliography": pages 192-197.
Three Museum of Modern Art press releases from Mar. 1999 -- Introductory text with Polke biographical data / Margit Rowell -- "Stratagems of Subversion" [photocopy from exhibition catalog] / Margit Rowell -- Bio of Margit Rowell -- Exhibition checklist [photocopy from exhibition catalog] -- Exhibition brochure -- "Checklist deletions" -- MoMA magazine Mar./Apr. 1999.

Summary:

"Sigmar Polke's thirty-five-year career, during which he has produced a vast range of work in all mediums, has earned him a reputation as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Born in 1941, he began his creative output around 1963 in Dusseldorf during a time of enormous social, cultural, and artistic changes in Germany and elsewhere. Few of his works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and subversive approach than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches produced during the 1960s and early 1970s. Embedded in these images are incisive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, the postwar political scene in Germany, and classic artistic conventions." "This book is published to accompany the first American museum exhibition of Polke's drawings from this period, shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1999. More than 300 works are illustrated, virtually all of them in color. They include small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and still others stamped with a dot screen process."--Jacket.

Resources:
e-book
Exhibition history

ISBN:

0810961962
9780810961968
0870700839 (pbk.)
9780870700835 (pbk.)
0870700820
9780870700828

Subject:

Polke, Sigmar Exhibitions.
Polke, Sigmar, 1941-2010 Expositions.
Polke, Sigmar
Polke, Sigmar, (1941- ...) Catalogues d'exposition.
Ausstellung
Grafik
Tekeningen.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
New York (NY, 1999)

Added entries:

Polke, Sigmar.
Semff, Michael.
Curiger, Bice, 1948-
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Polke
Works on paper 1963-1974

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206361
Call No.: ND37.P769 R6 1999
Status: Available