Description: Very nice and hard to find book. Limited issue and only one printing so what exists now is all that will be available in the future. A beautiful publication of interest for Richter fans and lovers of abstract art as well as those interested in unusual edtions. The only condition issue and it is minor is on the slipcase. Book, plates and cd in immaculate condition. CD never played. See photos. Richter, Gerhard. Edited by David Breskin with Essays by Dave Hickey & Klaus Kertess. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & The Shifting Foundation, 2002. First Edition 1/3433. Oblong Folio. Cloth in Aluminum Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 120pp, 68 color illustrations. With an Audio CD. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, this lavish, oversized volume features the largest, most sumptuous, and most accurate reproductions of any Gerhard Richter work published to date. The eight abstract paintings that comprise the artist's work "858" are presented unbound on heavy paper in a pocket at the back of the book. Forty details from the paintings are also reproduced in large-format, accompanied by two essays, and poems commissioned especially for this volume by Richard Howard, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Ann Lauterbach, Dean Young, Brenda Hillman, James McManus, Michael Palmer, Connie Deanovich, David Breskin, Paul Hoover, Edward Hirsch, and W.S. Di Piero. Housed in a sliding aluminum slipcase, it includes an audio CD of original music by the Bill Frisell.
Price: 290 USD
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
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Book Title: Richter 858
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Item Length: 19.6
Original Language: English
Publisher: Shifting Foundation, T.H.E.
Inscribed: No
Edition: Limited Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 2002
Format: Cloth Book
Language: English
Item Height: 13.75
Personalized: No
Author: Gerhard Richter, David Breskin, Ann Lauterbach
Features: CD-ROM, Illustrated, metal slipcase
Genre: Art
Topic: Individual Artists / General, General
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Width: 1.75
Item Weight: 146.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 120 Pages