Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Bell, Kirsty
2. Artega, Agustin
3. Sieburgh, Jan Willem, 1950-
4. Ruf, Beatrix
5. Delahunty, Gavin
6. Le Feuvre, Lisa
7. Saletnik, Jeffrey
8. Gillick, Liam, 1964-
9. Fox, Martin, 1974-
10. Förg, Günther, 1952-2013
11. Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, publisher, organizer, host institution.
12. Dallas Museum of Art, publisher, organizer, host institution.

Description

1. 245 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color); 27 cm

Summary

1. Gunther Förg (1952-2013) was a German painter, sculptor, and photographer with an irreverent approach to abstraction. Förg's project tackled the latent instability between image and reality. His painterly surfaces may appear exquisitely sensitive, his installations elegantly precise, but these are mastered and executed with a cold detachment. His deft manipulations of the languages of abstraction obscured a darker message. This publication, the most comprehensive to date, offers an important new understanding of this extraordinary and complex artist. Three years in the making, it reinterprets Förg's oeuvre to reveal an artistic project that raises important questions about the traditional role of an object as a conveyor of fixed meaning. The book's subtitle-"A Fragile Beauty"-is an indication of how Förg successfully manipulated what is behind and beyond an object's appearance.

Alternative title

1. Fragile beauty.

Subject

1. Förg, Günther, 1952-2013 > Exhibitions
2. Förg, Günther, 1952-2013
3. Painting, German > Exhibitions
4. Painting, German

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Förg in the Stedelijk / Beatrix Ruf -- Günther Förg : Apparitions of modernism / Gavin Delahunty -- Hall of mirrors / Megan R. Luke -- "I am not a sculptor" : This unsatisfactory sculpture of Günther Förg / Lisa le Feuvre -- A classicist at heart : Günther Förg and the modernist tradition / Jeffrey Saletnik -- Elusive rationality / Liam Gillick and Matthew S. Witkovsky in conversation, with reflections from the interviews of Günther Förg -- Günther Förg and the edges of the visual field / Kirsty Bell -- Chronology / Lauren Richman.

Call number

1. JQF 18-1430

Note

1. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26th May-14th October, 2018 and Dallas Museum of Art, USA, 21st October, 2018--27th January. 2019.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (page 244).

Exhibitions (note)

1. Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26th May-14th October, 2018.
2. Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Dallas Museum of Art, USA, 21st October, 2018--27th January. 2019.

Title

1. Günther Förg : a fragile beauty / with contributions by Kirsty Bell, Gavin Delahunty, Lisa Le Feuvre, Liam Gillick, Megan R. Luke, Lauren Richman, Beatrix Ruf, Jeffrey Saletnik, Matthew S. Witkovsky.

Publisher

1. Dallas, Texas : Dallas Museum of Art ; Amsterdam : Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / [2018]

Distributor

1. New Haven : Yale University Press

Copyright date

1. ©2018.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (page 244).

Exhibitions

1. Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26th May-14th October, 2018.
2. Exhibited: Günther Förg: "A Fragile Beauty", Dallas Museum of Art, USA, 21st October, 2018--27th January. 2019.

Added author

1. Bell, Kirsty, author.
2. Artega, Agustin, writer of foreword.
3. Sieburgh, Jan Willem, 1950- writer of foreword.
4. Ruf, Beatrix, author.
5. Delahunty, Gavin, author.
6. Le Feuvre, Lisa, author.
7. Saletnik, Jeffrey, author.
8. Gillick, Liam, 1964- author.
9. Fox, Martin, 1974- editor.
10. Förg, Günther, 1952-2013, author.
11. Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, publisher, organizer, host institution.
12. Dallas Museum of Art, publisher, organizer, host institution.

ISBN

1. 9780300229226 (hardcover)
2. 0300229224 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JQF 18-1430