Sigmar Polke: Works On Paper 1963 - 1974 | The Museum of Modern Art New York

Sigmar Polke: Works On Paper 1963 - 1974 | The Museum of Modern Art New York

Edited by Margit Rowell.

Essays by Bice Curiger, Michael Semff and Margit Rowell.

Hard cover with dust jacket - both in good condition. Re pricing - most of the copies on Abebooks are soft cover, not hard covers, and most are later reprints. This is an unusual hard cover first edition.

This catalogue accompanies the first American museum exhibition devoted to Polke's drawings of the 1960 and early 1970s. More than 300 works are illustrated, including small sketches in pen, larger watercolors and gouaches, dot-screen, and sketchbooks - 326 illustrations 299 in color. 9780870700828

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

1999

200 pages 

One of the most significant artists of his generation, Sigmar Polke came of age creatively around 1963 in Dsseldorf. His earliest expressive idiom was crude and humorous, its images outrageous, and its content seemingly trivial, but embedded in these works were subversive and parodic commentaries on consumer society, German postwar politics, and classic artistic conventions.

Few of Polke's works demonstrate more vividly his imagination, sardonic wit, and eclectic creative process than the drawings, watercolors, and gouaches of the 1960s and early 70s. More than 300 works are illustrated, including small sketches in ballpoint and felt-tipped pen, larger sheets in watercolor and gouache, and still others stamped with a dot screen process, as well as pages from over a dozen small sketchbooks and several monumental works on paper. This books was published to accompany the first American exhibiton of these drawings shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1999.