Gerhard Richter’s Critical Artistic Strategies: Politics, Terrorism and War

The present paper analyzes two artistic strategies employed by Gerhard Richter to deal with painful recent cultural memory. Two works in particular reveal the relative success of Richter’s varied artistic strategies addressing contemporary political events: 18. Oktober 1977 (1988) and War Cut (2004)...

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Main Author: Van Schepen Randall K.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2017-08-01
Series:Messages, Sages and Ages
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/msas.2017.4.issue-1/msas-2017-0001/msas-2017-0001.xml?format=INT