Gerhard Richter painting [videorecording DVD]

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Title:

Gerhard Richter painting [videorecording DVD]

Publication Information:

New York : distributed by Kino Lorber, Inc., c2012.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

DVD format.

Filmed during the spring and summer of 2009; feature film originally produced in 2011.

Special features include Gerhard Richter and art historian Benjamin HD Buchloh in conversation (23 min.); Fragments of a conversation: curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist meets Gerhard Richter (10 min.); Gerhard Richter prepares for the Munich exhibition "Abstract paintings" (9 min.); and the DVD-ROM-only feature of an electronic booklet.

Special DVD-ROM-only feature is an electronic booklet containing a written interview with director Corinna Belz, director's notes, and a brief biographical essay about Gerhard Richter by Dietmar Elger.

Contents:

Gerhard Richter : an introduction / text by Achim Borchardt-Hume -- Biographical data -- Director's notes -- Feature film : Gerhard Richter painting (97 min.) -- Extras: The Cologne Cathedral window, 2007 (29 min.) ; "In der Werkstatt" (In the studio) from the late 1960s (14 min.) ; Richter interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist (10 min.).

Abstract:

"German painter Gerhard Richter granted filmmaker Corinna Belz access to his studio in the spring and summer of 2009, where he was working on a series of large abstract paintings. In quiet, highly concentrated images, the documentary provides a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the very personal, tension-filled process of artistic creation. Richter is his own worst critic, destroying multiple canvases before his remarkable creative spirit takes hold, and the astonishing final compositions emerge"--Container.

Reading Level:

Not rated.

Personal Subject:

Richter, Gerhard, 1932--Video recordings.

Subject:

Artists -- Germany -- Biography -- Video recordings.

Painting, German -- 20th century -- Video recordings.

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