Markus Lüpertz
By: [texts by] Dorothy Kosinski, Richard Shiff, Evelyn C. Hankins, Peter Weibel ; directors' foreword: Melissa Chiu and Dorothy Kosinski
Contributors: Lüpertz, Markus; Phillips Collection; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Sieveking Verlag
Publisher: Sieveking Verlag
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9783944874593
Subjects: Interviews; German Art; Exhibitions; Abstract Painting
Other titles: Markus Lüpertz, threads of history.
Description: The Hirshhorn celebrated the pioneering early works of Markus Lüpertz (b. Liberec, Czech Republic, 1941), one of the most influential contemporary German artists, with an in-depth exploration of his groundbreaking paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.  Lüpertz is internationally recognized as one of the German artists who initiated a return to figurative painting during the late 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition: Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History focuses on the early years of the artist's mature practice, reflecting his unique reconsideration of painting through the lenses of Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and, more broadly, German postwar culture. Lüpertz, like many artists who came of age in the shadow of World War II, grappled with how he should engage with this recent past and, in particular, what he should paint. The artworks from this seminal period reveal how Lüpertz deftly challenged the limits of painting as he struggled to reconcile the weight of history with his desire to be what he has described as "a painter without responsibilities."
Notes: This book is published in conjunction with the exhibitions: "Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 24-September 10, 2017, and "Markus Lüpertz", The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, May 27-September 3, 2017

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Q&A  -- Markus Lüpertz; title: Greeting  -- Ambassador Peter Wittig; title: Directors' foreword  -- Melissa Chiu and Dorothy Kosinski; title: Markus Lüpertz  -- Dorothy Kosinski; title: A stone is a hill, a hill is a stone  -- Richard Shiff; title: "A painter without responsibilities" : Markus Lüpertz, 1962-1975  -- Evelyn C. Hankins; title: Painting in the manner of Markus Lüpertz; or, The dandyism of existence -- Peter Weibel-- Plates-- Plate list-- Chronology-- Sources-- Solo exhibitions-- Group exhibitions.