Sigmar Polke - The three lies of painting

Exhibition catalogue, 1997, 376 pages, 25.5 x 28.7 cm | The publication is dedicated to the entire work of Sigmar Polke (1941-2010), an artist who eludes stylistic classifications, who exposes clichés in an ironic treatment of pictorial content, materials and (reproduction) techniques, satirizes hollowness, reverses viewing and thinking habits and developed his unmistakable visual language with great craftsmanship and the desire to experiment. This extensive publication was largely conceived by the artist himself. With knowledgeable texts by renowned scientists and over 250 carefully reproduced works from all creative periods from 1962 to previously unpublished images, this is a standard work on Sigmar Polke's oeuvre. Published by Cantz Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition "The Three Lies of Painting" in the Art and Exhibition Hall, Bonn and in the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.