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The Three Lies of Painting
出版Cantz, 1997
主題Art / History / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / Individual Artists / GeneralArt / Techniques / Painting
ISBN38932292569783893229253
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TDFQAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Astonishingly diverse, eager to experiment and refreshingly provocative" - such is the press's assessment of Sigmar Polke, one of the leading German artists in the contemporary international art world. In this retrospective presentation of his creative work - the most extensive published to date - Polke displays his complete repertoire and reveals the full extent of his artistic talent. Having begun to probe and examine social realities very early in his career, Polke has consistently employed a more or less cryptic irony in efforts to represent them in art. His fascinating pictorial series dating back to the early sixties oscillate between Pop Art, Minimal Art and Informel, yet stubbornly resist all stylistic labels; for style, in Polke's view, is tantamount to rigidity, the restraint of fantasy, the end of the line. Thus in his uninhibited approach to subjects, materials and (reproduction) techniques he seeks avenues of escape from a world of ideas encrusted with dogma, exposing clichés, and seeing inside out. Vacillating between art and the world of consumer goods, between the historical and the trivial, he does not hesitate to employ elements of alchemy, advertising, politics or even belief in "higher beings" in his ceaseless quest for new pictorial forms and statements. The Three LLies of Painting, conceived for the most part by the artist himself and featuring major essays by well-known authors and Polke experts, contains more than 250 carefully reproduced works representing all creative periods and genres from 1962 to the present, including previously unpublished and unexhibited pictures completed during the past two years. It is the long awaited essential monograph on one of the most brilliant artists of our time." --