Sigmar Polke : the three lies of painting / curator, Martin Hentschel.

By: Polke, Sigmar .

Contributor(s): Hentschel, Martin [curator] | Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland | Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst .

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BookPublisher: Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany : Cantz ; [1997]Description: 375 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3893229256.Other title: Three lies of painting [Portion of title].Subject(s): Polke, Sigmar -- Exhibitions

DDC classification: 759.3 POL

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	759.3 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00066208

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Featuring more than 250 works from 1962 to 1997, this is the first full scale monograph to be devoted to the work of the iconoclastic German painter, Sigmar Polke. With contributions by an international team of distinguised scholars and curators, this publication offers a thorough examination of the artist's work, life, iconography, and influences.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition entitled, Sigmar Polke: die drei Lügen der Malerie, presented from June 7 to October 12, 1997 at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn, and from October 30, 1997 to February 15, 1998 at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-375).

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Library Journal Review

This catalog to the largest Polke retrospective ever undertaken, regrettably not traveling outside Germany, reproduces more than 250 works spanning 35 years of output in many media. The format is typical of a major, career-spanning study; chronologically arranged blocks of illustrations are interspersed with essays that examine the artist's work, life, iconography, and influences. One of the five leading German and American scholars and curators who contributed pieces, Charles W. Haxthausen offers an especially insightful analysis of Polke's engagement with questions of reproducibility ever since his discovery of Pop Art in the 1960s. Concluding the book are extensive endmatter sufficient to satisfy any researcher. In short, this is the most exhaustive work we are likely to see for at least another decade on one of Europe's leading contemporary figures. Essential for all serious art collections in academic and medium and large public libraries.Eric Bryant, "Library Journal" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.