{"title":"Gerhard Richter","description":"\u003cp\u003eGerhard Richter's works invite readers into a rich exploration of visual and conceptual art, blending the boundaries between abstraction and representation. His books offer intimate access to his creative process, featuring both striking abstract paintings and delicate, contemplative drawings that reveal moments of calm and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom detailed collections of his renowned abstract pictures to evocative dispatches and graphic studies, this selection captures the diverse facets of Richter's artistic vision. Ideal for enthusiasts of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGeneral Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, these titles provide a thoughtful engagement with contemporary art and its emotional resonance.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dispatches-from-moments-of-calm-by-alexander-kluge-9780857427021","title":"Dispatches from Moments of Calm","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper \u003ci\u003eDie Welt\u003c\/i\u003e published its daily issue — but things looked... different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat calm was the work of Gerhard Richter, who had been granted control over \u003ci\u003eDie Welt\u003c\/i\u003e for that single day, taking over and imprinting all 30 pages of the newspaper with his personal stamp: images from quiet moments amid unquiet times, the demotion of politics from its primary position, the privileging of the private and personal over the public, and, above all, artful, moving contrasts between sharpness and softness. He had created an unprecedented work of mass art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the many people to praise the work was writer Alexander Kluge, who instantly began writing stories to accompany Richter's images. This book, the second collaboration between Kluge and Richter, brings their stories and images together, along with new words and artworks created specifically for this volume. The result, \u003ci\u003eDispatches from Moments of Calm\u003c\/i\u003e, is a beautiful, meditative interval in the otherwise unremitting press of everyday life, a masterpiece by two acclaimed artists working at the height of their powers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46711306748140,"sku":"9780857427021","price":23.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7195743482493.jpg?v=1754208230"},{"product_id":"gerhard-richter-100-abstract-pictures-by-gerhard-richter-9781644231111","title":"Gerhard Richter: 100 Abstract Pictures","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a career spanning more than sixty years, the renowned painter Gerhard Richter is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book celebrates the artist's continued dedication to experimentation and innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Abstract Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e were created when Richter, a few years ago, poured coloured enamel paints onto a glass plate and allowed them to flow into one another to take shapes. He then captured these ephemeral moments with his camera and selected 100 of these \u003ci\u003epictures\u003c\/i\u003e for inclusion in the book alongside equally abstract texts formed by randomly generated letter combinations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn artwork of its own, this intimate volume inspires both close looking and a beautiful interpretation of abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46833048322284,"sku":"9781644231111","price":100.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11215443482773.jpg?v=1758432368"},{"product_id":"dispatches-from-moments-of-calm-by-alexander-kluge-9780857423283","title":"Dispatches from Moments of Calm","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper \u003ci\u003eDie Welt\u003c\/i\u003e published its daily issue—but things looked... different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they’re read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat calm was the work of Gerhard Richter, who had been granted control over \u003ci\u003eDie Welt\u003c\/i\u003e for that single day, taking over and imprinting all thirty pages of the newspaper with his personal stamp: images from quiet moments amid unquiet times, the demotion of politics from its primary position, the privileging of the private and personal over the public, and, above all, artful, moving contrasts between sharpness and softness. He had created an unprecedented work of mass art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmong the many people to praise the work was writer Alexander Kluge, who instantly began writing stories to accompany Richter’s images. 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In the narrative entry for December 1931, Adolf Hitler avoids a car crash by inches. In another, we relive Greek financial crises. There are stories where time accelerates and others in which it seems to slow to the pace of falling snow. In Kluge's work, power seems only to erode and decay, never grow, and circumstances always seem to elude human control. When a German commander outside Moscow in December of 1941 remarks, \"We don't need weapons to fight the Russians but a weapon to fight the weather,\" the futility of his struggle is painfully present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by the ghostly and wintry forest scenes captured in Gerhard Richter's photographs, these stories have an alarming density, one that gives way at unexpected moments to open vistas and narrative clarity. Within these pages, the lessons are perhaps not as comforting as in the old calendar stories, but the subversive moralities are always instructive and perfectly executed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDecember\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e(translated by Martin Chalmers) revives a related tradition: the calendar as history, or the 'chronicle.' Kluge's texts - one for each day of the month - appear opposite images of winter wastescapes by Richter, together forming a stark, disconcerting record of a Germany frozen if not temporally then spiritually.\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eHarper's Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDecember\u003c\/i\u003e physically ferries the reader back and forth between word and image, prompting a search for equivalents, as well as for those lost elements that have no equivalents. The space that December inhabits—a winter at once ominous and intimate, the last breath of the year in anticipation of its end and rebirth—is not unlike the space of translation.\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003ci\u003eQuarterly Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOftentimes, the writing feels like stage direction or filmic dialogue, a fact attributable to Kluge's cinematic background. 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The resulting works on paper serve as condensed expressions, encapsulating and refining the fundamental principles that have consistently defined Richter's artistic journey. 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