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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Richter Verlag |
Year | 2010 |
Cover | Cloth with dust jacket |
Language | German, English |
ISBN | 978-3-941263-12-3 |
Pages | 144 |
Weight | 1057 g |
Illustrations | with 85 ills |
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Author(s) | Heinz Liesbrock, Uwe Wieczorek |
Type of book | Exhib'publication |
Museum / Place | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein |
Article ID | art-11884 |
The paintings of Gotthard Graubner (born 1930 in Vogtland) evolve entirely from his organization of the paint as a substance and a color and exploration of its inherent order.
Graubner does without any kind of perspectival or mimetic figuration as well as any metaphoric allusions, so that color alone is the determining factor of the theme, the form, the space and the movement of light in the painting. The Farbraumkörper (color-space bodies), so-called by the artist, come about by underlaying the picture plane with absorbent material, thus enabling an unhindered absorption of paint and the unfolding of the inherent qualities of its color. The specific impact of color is what makes up the nature of his painting: an impact that is cultivated in the consciousness and the eye of the beholder.
The works reproduced in this book – paintings, drawings and works on paper – make it possible for the reader to follow the development of Graubner’s distinct position in the art world.