Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other uniform titles: | Polke, Sigmar,
Polke, Sigmar. Works. Selections.
Geuna, Elena,
Tosatto, Guy,
Curiger, Bice, 1948-
Verhagen, Erik,
Elsaesser, Thomas, 1943-
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| Other authors / contributors: | Palazzo Grassi, host institution.
Marsilio editori, publisher.
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| ISBN: | 9788831723794
8831723790
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| Notes: | "Partner instituzionale, Pinault Collection"--Title page verso
Catalog of an exhibition held at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy from April 17 to November 6, 2016.
Includes bibliographical references.
Texts presented in Italian, English and French.
Statement of responsibility from title page verso.
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| Summary: | One of the main exponents of Capitalist Realism -- a current that arose in the 1970s in opposition to both the Socialist Realism widespread in the countries of Eastern Europe and Western pop art -- Sigmar Polke was a tireless experimenter of techniques, art materials, and chemical-alchemical processes. He created figurative paintings that drew on a vast iconographic repertoire often inspired by everyday life and abstract works with a powerful symbolic value sometimes created by chance through reactions between paint and other products. The book reproduces over eighty-five of his works (including photographs and sculptures, along with numerous paintings), giving a full account of Polke's reflections and studies made over his fifty-year career.
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