RICHTER 858 (INCLUDING HIGHLYDETAILED PRINTS AT 60% SIZE). 2002.

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & The Shifting Foundation, 2002
35 x 58 x 5cm approx aluminium box content of a 34.8 x 57.8. 120pp artist’s book with cloth covered boards.  First edition of this monograph (Edited by David Breskin) which has elements of artist’s book incorporated into it. Essays by Dave Hickey & Klaus Kertess and 68 full sheet colour illustrations including high quality and colour matched reproductions of the 8 major abstract oil paintings created by Richter for the SF exhibition, namely the suite “858” which are presented at approx 60% of full size and produced on conservation paper in a pocket at the back of the book as individual sheets. 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. This ornate publication also includes an audio CD of original music by Bill Frisell. Mint in publisher’s printed shipping box, as issued.

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