Sigmar Polke

by Rowell, Margit

• ISBN13: 9780870700828
• ISBN10: 0870700820
• Edition: Illus.
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively around 1963 in Dsseldorf. His earliest expressive idiom was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar politics, and classic artistic conventions. Few of Polke's works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and eclectic creative process than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches of the 1960s and early 70s. More than 300 works are illustrated, including small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and still others stamped with a dot screen process, as well as pages from over a dozen small sketchbooks and several monumental works on paper. This books was published to accopany the first American exhibiton of these drawings shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 6
Sigmar Polke: Stratagems of Subversion	p. 8
Line, Dot Screen, and "Glass Painting" on Paper: Notes on the Artistic Principles of Sigmar Polke the Draftsman	p. 23
Accelerated Attention	p. 31
Catalogue of the Exhibition	p. 38
Checklist of the Exhibition	p. 186
Chronology	p. 191
Selected Exhibition History and Bibliography	p. 192
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 198
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art	p. 199
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