with 69 four-color plates and numerous b/w reference illustrations
Buch
Text dt. - Published on the occasion of the 1993 exhibition at Kunsthalle Bremen. Incl. illustrated checklist. An excellent illustrated catalogue. (Antiq. Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM, 04.2005).
Erstausgabe München/ Köln: Lenbachhaus/ Oktagon Verlag 1997. - “Started in 1962 when the artist decided to assemble a series of photographs that he had either collected as potential sources for paintings or simply found engaging. ‘Atlas’ evolved into an ongoing project that currently includes some 5000 photographs organized and displayed on hundreds of panels. Its images range from political portraits to landscapes, from found journalistic pictures to photographs taken by the artist himself. The English language edition updates the original German publication (1989)‘.
“Florenz in 103 übermalten Photos - faszinierender Mix von Realität, Abstraktion, Photographie und Malerei” (Stern spezial Photographie Nr. 25, S. 92). - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 09.2001.
[Text at Schaden.com:] In May 2002 Gerhard Richter photographed 216 details of his abstract painting no. 648-2 from 1987. Working on a long table over a period of several weeks, Richter then combined these 10x15cm detailed shots with 165 texts on the Iraq war published in the FAZ (newspaper) on March 20th and 21st. The book follows an ever denser rhythm in which texts and gaps take up the same amount of space as the pictures: a strictly composed work of open to closed layout and its mirror image - a conceptual and, simultaneously, very sensual artist's book.
Verlag Fred Jahn, in association with Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München and Museum Ludwig
1989
First edition
234 p.
cb., fine grey cloth, with debossed title stamped in white on spine, with dust jacket
ill.
Buch
Text dt. - Incl. hundreds of 'panels/sheets' reproduced in duotone and four-color (in total, thousands of reproduced photographs, drawings, exhibition design sketches and other works).Published on the occasion of the 1989 exhibition Gerhard Richter: Atlas, at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München (also traveled to the Museum Ludwid, Köln). Out-of-print. Very scarce. (Antiq. Borrelli, Albuquerque, NM, 04.2005),
Text dt., fr., engl. - Other ed.: Originally published on the occasion of the 1992 exhibition Sils, curated by Hans Ulrich-Obrist, at the Nietzsche House, Sils, Switzerland, by Oktagon Verlag in 1992. This new edition includes several minor changes. - From the publisher: " Whenever Gerhard Richter goes to Sils, a small town in the Swiss Alps, he makes photographs, some of which he overpaints and adds to his Atlas. Others he treats as autonomous works, as in those presented in this intimate artist's book. In the overpainted photographs, the levels of reality evident in photography are combined with those that exist in painting. However, the paired concepts prove redundant of both the realism in photographic representation and the abstraction in nonfigurative painting. The photographs reveal a parallel between both forms of painterly practice, evidence of the simultaneous existence of contradictory bodies of work in Richter's oeuvre.
Photographs from a voyage to Greenland 1971. „Broché, dos carré sous jaquette illustrée d’une Peinture originale de l’artiste“. (Antiq. Librairie 213 Antoine de Beaupré, Paris, cat. „En Allemagne“ 2008, no. 20).