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Sigmar Polke - Girlfriends (Paperback)
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Sigmar Polke - Girlfriends (Paperback)
Series: Afterall Books / One Work
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An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66), one of Sigmar
Polke's important early paintings. The artist Sigmar Polke
(1941-2010) worked across a broad range of media-including
photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and film-and in
styles that varied from abstract expressionism to Pop. This volume
in Afterall's One Work series offers an illustrated exploration of
Freundinnen (Girlfriends 1965/66), one of Polke's important early
paintings. Taken from a found image of two young women, and using
the raster dots also found in mass media reproductions, Girlfriends
offers a statement about the use and social function of images.
Stefan Gronert approaches Girlfriends through its deliberate and
elusive ambiguity, providing technical detail and historical
background that allow some of the work's motivation and depth to
become clearer. Gronert analyzes Polke's relationship to his tutors
and peers, especially Gerhard Richter; describes the art historical
context in which Polke worked; and discusses some of the social and
political issues to which Girlfriends refers. Considering such
topics as the distinction between Polke and Alain Jacquet in their
use of photographed material, between Polke's use of the raster
technique and that of Roy Lichtenstein, and the feminist discourse
of the time, Gronert draws on a variety of critical interpretations
of Polke's work, including some material that has not yet been
translated into English.
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