Gerhard Richter: Sources and Readings

Books

Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting. New York: MoMA Press, 2002.

Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings and Interviews 1962-1993. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.

Web Sources

• Artist's Official Website
• Arthur Danto, Brief Richter Bio and Review
• Wikipedia: Richter Bio
• Victor M. Cassidy, "Kunst Fest," Artnet, 8/7/02. [Richter in context of post-War German art.]
• Michael Kimmelman, "Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms," The New York Times, 1/27/02.
• Charlie Finch, "Goodnight, MoMA," Artnet, 2/21/02. [Review of MoMA Richter show.]
• David Galloway, "Quick-Change Master," ARTnews, March 2002. [Review of Richter show at MOMA]
• Kelly Devine Thomas, "The Ten Most Expensive Living Artists," ARTnews, May 2004. [Richter as one of the most expensive artists.]
• Jerry Saltz, "Scaling Richter," Artnet, 2/27/02. [also the Village Voice review]
• Jed Perl, "Saint Gerhard of the Sorrows of Painting," New Republic, 4/1/02.
• Artforum Discussion on the "death of painting" controversy, "The Mourning After," Artforum, March, 2003. [Important context for Richter's work since the early 1980s. See Thierry de Duve's summary of theory shifts for painting.] [May require free registrartion]

Images

• Images and Info from Art Encyclopedia
• Images in the Artchive
• Images of Atlas, Dia Center (Richter's photo collection for paintings)
• Richter's Works available in commercial galleries (Artnet)

Martin Irvine, 2004-2009