Sigmar Polke : Girlfriends / Stefan Gronert.
By: Gronert, Stefan [author]
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BookSeries: One work: Publisher: London : Afterall Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 78 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846381829 (paperback); 1846381827.Other title: Girlfriends.Subject(s): Polke, Sigmar | Painting, German -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 759.3 POL | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.3 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00231463 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar Polke's important early paintings.
The artist Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) worked across a broad range of media-including photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and film-and in styles that varied from abstract expressionism to Pop. This volume in Afterall's One Work series offers an illustrated exploration of Freundinnen ( Girlfriends 1965/66), one of Polke's important early paintings. Taken from a found image of two young women, and using the raster dots also found in mass media reproductions, Girlfriends offers a statement about the use and social function of images.
Stefan Gronert approaches Girlfriends through its deliberate and elusive ambiguity, providing technical detail and historical background that allow some of the work's motivation and depth to become clearer. Gronert analyzes Polke's relationship to his tutors and peers, especially Gerhard Richter; describes the art historical context in which Polke worked; and discusses some of the social and political issues to which Girlfriends refers. Considering such topics as the distinction between Polke and Alain Jacquet in their use of photographed material, between Polke's use of the raster technique and that of Roy Lichtenstein, and the feminist discourse of the time, Gronert draws on a variety of critical interpretations of Polke's work, including some material that has not yet been translated into English.
Includes index.
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.
"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 sytles varying from Abstract Expressionism to Pop. In this book, Stefan Gronert approaches Girlfriends through its technical detail and historical context, analyising 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." - back cover.