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Obrist  Cover Image Book Book

Obrist / Gerhard Richter.

Richter, Gerhard, 1932- (Author). Obrist, Hans-Ulrich. (Added Author).

Summary:

Gerhard Richter and Hans-Ulrich Obrist have known each other since 1985. Their collaboration began seven years later when the 24-year-old Obrist curated his first Richter exhibition. The following year he published a collection of his writings. Now Gerhard Richter has dedicated an artist's book to this long-standing relationship. The texts in the book have been created by rearranging interviews by Hans-Ulrich Obrist using a random generator. These are set in blocks without defined passages or paragraphs. The color plates are made up of photographs, both portraits and mementos, of Obrist from the past 15 years and close-ups of Richter's paintings, which Richter has then painted over using brushes and scrapers. Richter has arranged the image, text and interleaf pages. Upside down pages appear time and again, meaning that the book, which has two different sleeves, can be viewed from both sides. Both of the original sleeve designs (Obrist and O'Brist), are embossed, with the motif standing out from the background.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9783865606921
  • ISBN: 386560692X
  • Physical Description: [184] p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Text proceeds from both "front" and "back" of volume and has been arranged by a random generator from interviews of Richter by Obrist; title pages are tête-bêche.
Subject: Obrist, Hans-Ulrich.
Richter, Gerhard, 1932-
Artists > Interviews.
Artists' books.
Words in art.
Genre: Artists' books.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Emily Carr University of Art + Design R534 O27 (Text) 30223121 Artists' Book (ask at Reference Desk) Volume hold Available -


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