Sigmar Polke

by Rowell, Margit

• ISBN13: 9780870700835
• ISBN10: 0870700839
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively in Dusseldorf around 1963. His earliest work 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 book was published to accopany the first American exhibition of these drawings shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999.

Author Biography

Bice Curiger is editor-in-chief of Parkett magazine and a curator at the Kunsthaus, Zurich.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	6	(2)
Margit Rowell
Sigmar Polke: Stratagems of Subversion	8	(15)
Margit Rowell
Line, Dot Screen, and ``Glass Painting'' on Paper: Notes on the Artistic Principles of Sigmar Polke the Draftsman	23	(8)
Michael Semff
Accelerated Attention	31	(7)
Bice Curiger
Catalogue of the Exhibition	38	(148)
Checklist of the Exhibition	186	(5)
Chronology	191	(1)
Selected Exhibition History and Bibliography	192	(6)
Lenders to the Exhibition	198	(1)
Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art	199