Sigmar Polke: Works On Paper

ne of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively around 1963 in Dsseldorf. His earliest expressive idiom was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar politics, and classic artistic conventions. Few of Polke's works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and eclectic creative process than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches of the 1960s and early 70s. More than 300 works are illustrated, including small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and still others stamped with a dot screen process, as well as pages from over a dozen small sketchbooks and several monumental works on paper. This books was published to accopany the first American exhibiton of these drawings shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999.

Arts & Photography

Curiger, Bice

Rowell, Margit

Polke, Sigmar

Individual Artists

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

amazing high-end catalogue. bound in hand-made paper. the paintings in this exhibition could be viewed from front or back so the reproductions in this catalogue are on translucent vellum.

Sigmar Polke: 1 April to 29 April 1989

Mary Boone Gallery

This publication marks the first British retrospective of the German artist Sigmar Polke, widely acknowledged as one of the leading painters working today. Using a full arsenal of materials, Polke conjures with the lies and illusions of painting, in works of wit, beauty and power.Sean Rainbird contributes a survey of Polke's paintings from the early sixties to the present day, and Judith Nesbitt provides an insight into Polke as 'potatologist'.Thomas McEvilley argues that, despite appearances, there is in Polke's various styles a true, consistent sensibility - an ironic and intense critique of the art of painting.

Sigmar Polke: Join the Dots

MCEVILLEY, Thomas

Rainbird, Sean

Nesbitt, Judith

Tate Gallery Pubn

Moca. Bumps on two corners are all that mar this book. Pages and illustrations are beautiful, unmarked and book is tightly bound. All proceeds benefit the Oro Valley Public Library.

Sigmar Polke: Photoworks : When Pictures Vanish

SCHIMMEL, PAUL

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Corcoran Gallery of Art

HAMBOURG, Maria Morris

Farmer, John Alan

Site Santa Fe (Gallery)

Henger, Sue

Photography & Video

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Sigmar Polke: Druckfehler, 1996-98

Michael Werner

Sigmar Polke (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Carré d'art/Musée d'art contemporain

Die Editionen 1963 - 2000.

Hentschel, Martin

Becker, Jürgen

Osten, Claus von der

Hatje Cantz Verlag

Artwork by Sigmar Polke. Edited by Claus von der Osten, Martin Hentschel. Text by Jurgen Becker.

Sigmar Polke: The Editioned Works 1963-2000

History & Criticism

Hatje Cantz Publishers

This German-only publication documents the seminal joint exhibition of Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) and Gerhard Richter (born 1932) at the Gallery H in Hannover in 1966, as well as the seminal artist's book that Polke and Richter designed together.

Polke/Richter: Richter/Polke

RICHTER, Gerhard

Walther König, Köln

For more than 30 years, the artist Sigmar Polke not only painted and photographed, but also filmed many scenes of his everyday life: work, travel, meeting friends.Only very few of these films were shown in public and authorised by him during his lifetime.Here the question as to which new insights this thus far barely accessible work group opens up on the reception of Polke's oeuvre is pursued.English and German text

Sigmar Polke: Film and Art

Walther Konig

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